Africa Travel Week
social media

RECAP: Social Media – content, community & managing a crisis

It’s time to put the focus back on your customers instead of simply ticking boxes when it comes to social media.

This session, led by Suze Bouwer, offers insight on how to gauge sentiment and create (and repurpose) meaningful content for your social media. It also touches on the importance of having an effective process in place to manage negative reviews and comments – as well as a crisis communications strategy for when things go wrong.

Resources:

Need help creating your social media content plan? Here is a link to download Suze’s template which is jam-packed with tips and links to time-saver resources.

If you’d like a copy of the masterclass presentation, please email us at: atwconnect@reedexpoafrica.co.za

ABOUT SUZE

Suze Bouwer, owner, and creator of Redmatchstick.com is a Marketing Enabler and Content Creator.

She helps start-ups, business owners and managers embrace the necessary technologies and marketing opportunities available today to ATTRACT – ENGAGE – NURTURE and CONVERT Customers.

Suze currently coaches small business owners and managers to do marketing through practical implementation and developing essential skills along the way to succeed.

She facilitates workshops that provide a safe place for like-minded entrepreneurs to overcome procrastination, fears of tech, feelings of inadequacy, and a lack of digital marketing know-how.

Suze learned about marketing, sales and service over 25 years in executive marketing roles in the hospitality industry across Southern Africa during which time she had the privilege to be on the opening team of hotels and lodges like Cresta Lodges (Harare & Gaborone), The Commodore (V&A Waterfront), Indigo Bay, Pemba Beach and Matemo Resort, Massinga Beach Lodge in Mozambique, Grand Karavia in Lubumbashi, and Marion on Nicol in Johannesburg.

However, because of a spinal injury, Suzette had to slow down and take control of her lifestyle. With a reputation as a respected industry professional and finding herself surrounded by up and coming young millennials; it became abundantly clear that she had to learn modern marketing or become extinct.

Africa Travel Week

Africa Travel Week (ATW) focuses on inbound and outbound markets for general leisure tourism, luxury travel, LGBTQ+ travel and the MICE/business travel sector as well as travel technology. Shows include: ILTM Africa, WTM Africa, EQUAL Africa, ibtm AFRICA, Travel Forward, Sports & Events Tourism Exchange and African Tourism Investment Summit.