At last, Google has finally gained a page preview feature. Called “Instant Previews,” this is a way for you to see what’s on a page that’s listed in Google’s search results By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing; Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.

[ Read more → ]

Everyone likes getting a good deal, but it’s not always easy to find the right one at the moment you could use one.
Facebook has recently announced Facebook Deals which enables local businesses to now use their Places page to push out deals for existing customers and hopefully more by finally incentivizing check-ins.

[ Read more → ]

Twitter has started inviting a select group of users to test a new analytics product.. Such a product has been rumored for some time, and a Twitter executive said earlier this year that Analytics would debut by the end of 2010. This will allows users to see a plethora of data about their account; for example, information about which tweets are most successful, which tweets caused people to unfollow, and who the most influential users are that reply and retweet their messages.

[ Read more → ]

Social media is an increasingly popular area of marketing and communications for businesses of all sizes. Hotels and industries of all types are interested in learning about the basics of building and implementing a social media strategy.
One area of social media which can be discussed with relative consensus is how to define roles within your social media team.

[ Read more → ]

This week, our Top UK Hotels on Twitter has seen 2 new entries and 2 hotels have moved up the table!

Has your hotel made the list?

[ Read more → ]

It has emerged that Online Reputation was a significant topic at this years World Travel Market which took place in London last week.
VP of the Hotel Marketing Association has said that “Word of mouth is now both global and immediate, which presents a major challenge for anyone working anywhere in hospitality,”

[ Read more → ]

According to Hitwise, Facebook is continuing to increase and has even managed to push out Google as the top visited website. Here are a few tips on how to improve your Facebook search results through Facebook SEO.

[ Read more → ]

Our ‘Top 30 Irish Hotels on Facebook’ list this week has seen 4 hotels move up the table and 0 new entries.

Has your hotel made the list?

[ Read more → ]

Are location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla just a short-lived fad – or have they simply not yet reached their potential? A new report indicates, that despite an over abundance of online media coverage, only 4 percent of online adults use such services to check in, and only 1 percent of Internet consumers check in on any given day.

[ Read more → ]