Hotels
Research: How Customers Decide Whether to Buy from Your Website
Sally’s finger hovered over the “Purchase” button. After hours of online sleuthing, she was pretty sure the green chair would complete her living room. It was the style and color […]
Hotelier’s Guide: How to Optimize for Voice Search
Voice search is the latest buzz in the digital marketing community. With companies like Gartner predicting that by 2020, 30% of searches will be voice, hotel marketers are eager to […]
Listen and Do: A Mantra for Keeping Hotel Personalization Simple
Back in 2015, a guest staying at Starwood Hotels tweeted that his room was cold. A few days later, he walked into his room to find an alpaca throw, a […]
Why Human Hotel Live Chat is Better Than Chatbots
If you were to call a hotel, which would you rather get: an automated system that spent fifteen minutes and eight side menus to get through without resolving your problem, […]
What marketers need to know about WhatsApp Business
When Facebook bought the popular messaging service WhatsApp for approximately $20bn in 2014, some observers questioned how Facebook would ever make its money back, let alone profit. And for good […]
What Google’s mobile first indexing means for hotel websites
At the end of 2016, Google announced it would be experimenting with a mobile-first indexing plan. While there isn’t a fixed release date, Google webmaster trends analyst Gary Illyes expects […]
Why Expedia or Priceline Might Be Next Great Hotel Brand
What if Expedia, Priceline, and TripAdvisor had their own hotels? What if there were less need for hotel owners to rely on hotel management companies like Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, Wyndham, […]
Distribution Channel Strategy: The Path to Profitability
If attaining guests through loyalty programs, personalization and the provision of choice is the hospitality industry’s Holy Grail, then profitability is the infinite abundance it promises. NB: This is an […]
Data, Data Everywhere
Albert Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” NB: This is an article by Glenn Wirick, EVP of Sales and Marketing at […]
How Hotels Can Prepare for a Changing Facebook
If your hotel’s strategy for marketing on Facebook is sharing photos or blog posts to your page, I have some bad news. Not only has this been a low-performing strategy […]
