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Branded Hotel Opening: How to Build Awareness with Paid Search

By leveraging Paid Search prospecting strategies, hotels can target potential guests based on their interests in the destination, attractions, and Features

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Developing a Social Media Plan For Your Hotel

Whether you are tasking your in-house team or outsourcing to an agency, resources must be determined to dedicate to social media

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How to Optimize for Marriott SEO

Making the most of Marriott SEO is a differentiating technique when reviewing where brand marketing stops and individual hotel marketing begins

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A Hotel Marketer’s Bold Blueprint for Unified Commercial Strategy

No offense to sales and revenue management counterparts, but it’s time for marketing to claim its rightful place at the commercial strategy table

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Evolving Past ROAS as the Primary Marketing KPI

There is growing recognition of ROAS limitations as a solitary measure of success. This metric often falls short of capturing the full impact of marketing initiatives

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Create Your Digital Marketing Strategy Before Jumping Into Tactics

As a leadership team, you should go through a 30-point checklist audit to try to find your gaps to help lead your hotel’s digital marketing strategy

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25 Ways to Setup Your Hotel Online Presence for Greater Exposure

Once you identify where your needs are, you can begin planning a tactical strategy and implementation to increase your hotel’s total online presence

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To Drive Top Line Revenue, Hotel Sales Must Think Like Marketing

With continual change In traveller behaviour, it is more imperative than ever that hotel sales and marketing are aligned around transient and group business

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Hotel Bookings: Transform Digital Marketing Failure Into Success

By addressing initial challenges, analyzing data, and implementing repetitious improvements, they achieved remarkable success in driving bookings

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How Hotels Can Use Big Data for Better Digital Marketing Action Plans

Many hotel companies spend far too much time aggregating data and not enough time creating digital marketing action plans from the analysis

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