Entries from December 2010

8 Social Media Trends Impacting Businesses

December 3rd, 2010

A new study by Smart Bried reveals what’s changing with social media. As businesses continue to integrate social media and become more confident and comfortable with social media tools and platforms, we’re starting to see a change in social media usage.

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Top 30 Irish Hotels on Twitter #Top30IEHotels

December 3rd, 2010

It’s time for this week’s Top 30 Irish Hotels on Twitter. There was 0 new entries this week and 5 hotels have moved up the table .

Has your hotel made the list?

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Top 30 Hotels on Twitter · Twitter

Beyond Viral: 3 Ways Successful Marketers Can Embrace the Social Web

December 2nd, 2010

Marketers who take advantage of the Internet unique capabilities have the potential to build increasingly engaged customer communities. Here’s a look at three major trends.

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Tags: Facebook · Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Twitter · foursquare

3 Reasons Why Facebook Is Growing so Fast

December 2nd, 2010

On 19th November it was reported by Hitwise that Facebook received 25% of all page views in the US. That’s 5 times the page views that Google received. Hitwise also logged Facebook as receiving 3% more web visits than the search giant. And this all excludes mobile traffic.

In September 23% of all US online display ads appeared on Facebook, That’s nearly 9 times Google’s share of only 2.7 percent of online ad displays.

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Tags: Facebook · Google · Internet Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Facebook Messages: 10 Things Email Marketers Need to Know

December 2nd, 2010

As you have probably read already, Facebook has announced a complete revamp of its messaging service, Facebook Messages. With a host of new features, many email marketers are likely to be wondering what effect this new service has on the work they do.

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Tags: Facebook · Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

2010 is The Year Mobile Hotel Bookings Took Off

December 1st, 2010

Whether 2010 finally shapes up to be the year for mobile, it already has a huge head start in one sector: travel. While mobile search overall has increased four-fold in the past year, according to Google, searches for travel-related terms have jumped 12 times and hotel-specific terms are up 30 times in the same period.

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing