Top 30 Irish Hotel Pages on Facebook #Top30IEHotels

October 18th, 2010

Our ‘Top 30 Irish Hotels on Facebook’ list this week has seen 1 hotel move up the table and 2 new entries

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Tags: Facebook · Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Top 30 Hotels on Facebook

2011 Internet Marketing Budget Planning: A Hotelier’s Guide

October 15th, 2010

With a rising increase of hotel bookings being made online this year, the effectiveness of your hotel website and Internet marketing campaigns in generating bookings will play a big part in determining the overall success of your hotel in 2011.

Overall, last year, we noticed that hoteliers shifted their budgets from offline to online and focused most of their budgets on proven, ROI-generating Internet marketing initiatives such as website design, paid search marketing, and SEO.

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

Top 30 Irish Hotels on Twitter #Top30IEHotels

October 15th, 2010

It’s time for this week’s Top 30 Irish Hotels on Twitter. There were no new entries this week and just 1 hotel has moved up the table .

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Tags: Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Top 30 Hotels on Twitter · Twitter

Deep Discounting Doesn’t Do Much – Maintain Your Rates!

October 14th, 2010

That message was delivered by Cornell professor Cathy Enz during the Cornell Hospitality Research Summit. In her study she found those hotels that priced above their competition saw lower occupancy, but that drop-off was more than made up by bigger revenue per available room gains.

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing

Small Companies Ask Questions On Social Media

October 13th, 2010

There are a lot of buzz words on the social web these days: group buying, location-based services, SEO, just to name a few. Sorting through the information to figure out what’s just hype and what your business can actually work with can be a daunting task — it uses up resources, including time and money, and sometimes leads you and your social media strategy in the wrong direction.

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

Facebook and Twitter. The Difference?

October 12th, 2010

Twitter and Facebook -What exactly is the difference? And is there one?
These two forms of Social Media can in fact be classified into two separate branches The Social Network (Facebook) and The Informative Network (Twitter)
Ben Parr a Social Analyst attempts to explain the relationship between Facebook and Twitter, and why he believes that they are not destined for a clash of the titans. Instead he believes they represent two different sides of the same coin.

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Tags: Facebook · Hotel Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Twitter

Top 30 UK Hotels on Twitter #Top30UKHotels

October 12th, 2010

This week, our Top UK Hotels on Twitter has seen 1 new entry and 4 hotels have moved their way up the table!

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

The 2011 Hotel Sales Office

October 11th, 2010

Those hotels that are waiting for the recovery to make phones ring with inquiries will not be the market leaders in this economic recover. Best practices have not only changed for hotel sales offices but sales processes in general. Internet Prospecting and Social Media are now making an appearance in many sales offices across the country…

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

Top 30 Irish Hotel Pages on Facebook #Top30IEHotels

October 11th, 2010

Our ‘Top 30 Irish Hotels on Facebook’ list this week has seen 4 hotels move up the table and 2 new entries

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