analytics

Marketing initiatives: are they really worth it?

Tom Bacon shares marketing lessons from Choice Hotels, and taps his own personal experience to find that marketing spend is more complicated than you think How do you assess the […]

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How to Ensure Your Booking Engine Tracks Correctly in Google Analytics

If you are like most hoteliers, you have a website that links to a booking engine which sits on a domain other than your own. Having more than one domain […]

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How Google Plans to Kill ‘Last Click Attribution’

Google says it wants to rid marketers of their obsession with the last click before consumers buy things. Instead it aims to provide insights about how earlier ad dollars perform […]

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Comparing CPC vs CPA Cost Models

Over the past four years, we have had the pleasure of working with a broad range of advertisers. While the size, budget and campaign objectives vary between brands, there are […]

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Does my hotel social media help improve my SEO?

SEO, three little letters that are immensely important to the success of your hotel. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves maximizing the number of visitors to your website by ensuring it […]

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Devil in Data Detail: Are your Distribution Agreements working?

There’s arguably no other four-lettered word that has made quicker-and more impactful-moves in the hospitality industry than “data” has. With the ascension of the Internet igniting a brisk evolution of […]

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Everything Your Hotel Needs To Know About Attribution Modelling

There’s a lot of talk in the industry right now about attribution modelling and that scares the daylights out of a lot of people because it’s super-complicated. Well, your friends […]

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Last Click Attribution is Killing Your Hotel Marketing Campaigns

Marketing success today can be measured using many diverse metrics. Analytics programs let you measure everything from who and where your website visitors come from to what content they are […]

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Comparing Attribution Models: Which is Right for Your Hotel?

In our last blog article about attribution models and the user journey, we discussed the different types of attribution models and their main characteristics. We also dipped our toes on […]

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Audience Segmentation – Propensity & Behavioral Scoring

Propensity score modeling, also known as behavioral scoring, is a popular method of descriptive analytics which aims to calculate the likelihood of a user taking a particular action. In my […]

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