marketing

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Bing gearing up for Hotel Ads general release

As metasearch marketers say goodbye to 2017 and prepare for 2018, one question on everyone’s mind is, “What is new in metasearch for 2018?” One answer to that question is […]

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Defining Your Hotel’s Online Reputation

In the session, entitled “Beyond Reviews: Defining Your Hotel’s Online Reputation,” trivago’s Industry Manager for English-speaking Markets Aly Thompson revealed the root causes of low ratings and damaging reviews, debunking […]

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Facebook for Pages is changing! What should hotels and restaurants do?

On January 12th, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckenberg announced that Facebook will change how it prioritizes content that users see in their news feeds focusing on meaningful interactions between people. Facebook explains […]

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Your Top 10 Digital Marketing New Year’s Resolutions

As we say hello to 2018, January marks a time of resolutions and new beginnings. During this month, it’s important for hoteliers to reflect on their past strategies and analyze […]

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Implications of the Rising Cost of Customer Acquisition

On a superficial level, the implications of the rising costs of customer acquisition are easily identified. Increased costs lead to a decline in profitability, which results in a loss of […]

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The real talk on hotel website conversion rates

The average hotel website conversion rate is 2.2 %, with the top 20 % of hotels having an average conversion rate of 5.6 % and the bottom 20 % having […]

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SEO trends that hotels should watch in 2018

A new year always brings new changes in the world of digital marketing, particularly for the always evolving world of search engine optimization. This year we can expect some important […]

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