9 Tips for Location-Based Marketing

March 18th, 2010

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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Tags: Internet Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing

Protect your Twitter Accounts & Protect your Hotel’s Brand

February 25th, 2010

Over the last couple of days I’ve gotten a few direct message from people and businesses that just didn’t look right, with links attached. I obviously didn’t click on them for this reason however since then I notice a few more so let it might be help to make a posting on the matter.
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Tags: Building a Community / Tribe · Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Search Engine Optimisation · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Twitter is growing! New Stats released…..

February 24th, 2010

Despite perception to the contary Twitter is growing. New stats released show 50 million tweets a day from users.
New stats released yesterday by Twitter revealed that users now send out more than 50 million tweets per day. That means every second, 600 tweets fly through Twitter’s network. If you’ve ever followed a trending topic ex. [...]

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Tags: Building a Community / Tribe · Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Mobile / Location Based Marketing · Search Engine Optimisation · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Social Graph Optimisation (SGO) Explained

February 18th, 2010

For a number of years, many digital marketing campaigns have been focussing heavily on SEO (search engine optimisation). Searches have been (and are likely to continue to be for some time yet) the main way to drive traffic to your website. Now the new kid on the block, social media, is starting to drive traffic. Therefore should we be treating it the same as SEO by using SGO (social graph optimisation)?

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Search Engine Optimisation · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

How to Improve Your Hotel Ranking on Tripadvisor

February 17th, 2010

As the fallout surrounding Tripadvisor’s ‘dirtiest hotels’ list starts to settle, hoteliers are looking for ways to improve their customer reviews more than ever. Daniel Edward Craig (not to be confused with secret agent 007 Daniel Craig) has been trying to get to the bottom of how to get your hotel to the top of the fabled Tripadvisor top hotels list!

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