Many hotel consumers use google maps as a tool to find places to stay. By zooming in to a specific location and searching for the word ‘hotel’, google maps will display all the listed hotels in that area. Now google is developing a pricing system whereby the user can input a date and number of nights and be supplied with a price for each hotel on the map. The project has reached the testing stage and is likely to be rolled out in the near future.

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It’s time for our updated Top 30 Irish Hotels on Facebook! This week we have 3 new entrants and 4 hotels that have moved up the table.

Has your hotel made the list?

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It’s time for our weekly top 30 Irish hotels on twitter. There have been a few changes and also a newbie has nudged their way into the top 30!

Has your hotel made the list this week?

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Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners…

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Yesterday Facebook began sending page stat emails to administrators of pages. The emails will be sent weekly and include information on the number of fans who have joined that week, the number of wall posts, comments and likes as well as the total number of visits to the page. All figures are compared to that of the stats from the previous week…

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Change can be good, or it can prove challenging. Either way, the key is to be prepared for it. And that’s exactly what marketers need to do about the impending launch of Google Caffeine.

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It’s Monday and time for our updated Top 30 Irish Hotels on Facebook!
This week there are 6 new entrants, meaning all of our top ten now have over 1,000 fans!

Has your hotel made the list?

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Last week we published our first ever ‘Top 30 Hotels on Twitter’ list. Let’s see what’s changed in a week in the twitterverse…

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You run a branded suburban hotel that caters primarily to corporate customers. You’re middle-aged. You’re understaffed. You have no marketing budget. You’ve built a Facebook page. You tweet. When is enough, enough?

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