A Mobile Compatible Website – A necessity!

January 27th, 2012

Making your site user friendly on a computer is one thing – making sure your site is available from a mobile platform is another. Currently only around 5% of online businesses have a mobile compatible website.

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Tags: Internet Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Mobile Passes Print in Time-Spent Among US Adults

December 14th, 2011

US adults now spend more time on mobile devices each day than they do with print media, according to a new forecast by eMarketer. Time spent with the internet and mobile phones is up 7.7% and 30%, respectively

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing

Strategies to stay ahead in Online Travel Marketing

December 1st, 2011

Even though digital marketing has increased tremendously this year – with some hotels having increased their digital media budgets by more than 500% – it’s time to go harder. Digital marketing in travel holds the key to gaining market share, increasing customer value and increasing incremental revenue.

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Tags: Online Advertising · Travel Marketing · e-commerce

How Social Media can help your Brand

November 23rd, 2011

5 easy steps to show you how Social Media can help your Brand

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Tags: Loyalty · Social Media · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Sharable Content and Search have the greatest Impact Online

October 28th, 2011

Marketers who create highly sharable online content — video, audio and photos consumers want to share with friends and colleagues — significantly boost their brand’s online presence and are more likely to increase sales, according to a new survey of social consumers.

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Tags: Search Engine Optimisation · Social Media · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · e-commerce

Google extends Hotel Finder beyond the USA

October 21st, 2011

Google’s experiment with its Hotel Finder tool for US destinations must be paying off as the search giant has quietly opened it up to include European cities.

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Tags: Google · Travel Marketing · e-commerce

Older Facebook Users Click Ads, Younger Users ‘Like’

September 7th, 2011

While Facebook gives advertisers the tools to reach highly specific audiences, it doesn’t tell them much about how each of those audiences prefers to interact with advertisers. A new study from Socialcode, a Washington, DC-based agency that specializes in Facebook advertising, shows that age and gender play a significant role.

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Tags: Facebook · Online Advertising · Social Media

TripAdvisor Under Investigation Over Fake Reviews

September 5th, 2011

TripAdvisor, the leading online travel reviews site in the world, is now under investigation by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over concerns reviews from travelers may be illegitimate.

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Travel Reviews · tripadvisor

Paid Search Advertising is Delivering Positive Results For Hoteliers

August 23rd, 2011

Paid search advertising is becoming more and more popular in hotel marketing as many hotel marketers find it to be a cost-effective, high-yielding e-marketing tool helping to drive consumers to their respective website booking engines.

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · trends in the hospitality industry