Maximizing Your Membership
10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Membership
Membership with Visit Phoenix is a valuable tool for marketing your business. Like any tool, it must be used effectively.
Read and respond to correspondence from Visit Phoenix
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This includes leads, publication updates and service requests.
Keep us up-to-date
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Keep staff apprised of new developments and changes in your business.
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Be sure to share account and contact changes with the membership department.
Refresh your marketing message on VisitPhoenix.com quarterly
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There 1.8 million reasons to keep your message fresh—that’s how many visits we had to our site this past fiscal year.
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Helps ensure prime search engine optimization.
Get involved in opportunities to meet clients and travel writers
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Participate in trade shows and sales mission opportunities, buyer education trips, site inspections, and media hosting opportunities.
Utilize Visit Phoenix publications
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Provide our complimentary publications to your customers.
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Use the Destination Planning Guide or the Travel Guide in your sales efforts.
Build relationship with fellow members
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Visit Phoenix members are a valuable referral source.
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People refer business to people they know, like and trust.
Educate Visit Phoenix staff about your product or service
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Determine the markets you would like us to help you access and how you’d like to market your product or service. Then set up a meeting with the staff focused on those markets.
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Stop into our Visitor Center and educate the center’s staff on your product or service. Click here for directions to the center in downtown.
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Participate in our Member Showcase, held semi-annually.
Post packages, special offers and events VisitPhoenix.com
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Enjoy the added exposure you’ll receive at no additional cost.
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Visit Phoenix actively drives traffic to these pages.
Provide promotional brochures to the Visitor Information Center
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Assist Visitor Center staff in informing visitors of your product or service.
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Big referral source! The Visitor Center provided more than 40,000 referrals last year.
Learn the need of meeting planners and tour operators
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Visit sites like mpiweb.org, ismp-assoc.org, ntaonline.com or ustoa.com to gain insight.
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Do the homework needed to understand their challenges and concerns.