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3 Marketing Tactics to Persuade Travelers to Book Direct

A common challenge that many independent hotels continually face is capturing direct bookings and preventing OTAs from not only taking away that potential revenue but also that relationship with the […]

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Can Direct Booking Campaigns End Up With Both Sides Declaring Victory?

Shifting hotel bookings to their own websites is clearly a positive for the large hotel chains, but online travel agencies could actually come out ahead, as well. For the online […]

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What can hoteliers do to reduce website reservation abandonments?

NB: This is an article from HeBSdigital While hoteliers invest time and money into digital marketing campaigns to drive traffic to the hotel website, a staggering 98% and more of […]

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Winning the Hotel Booking: Digital Marketing Summit Recap

In this article, we recap the third presentation from our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, “Winning the Hotel Booking.” The Booking phase is perhaps the most important phase of the […]

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Google Travel Business Is Already Twice the Size of Expedia’s

When is Google finally going to tie all of its travel products together and become an online travel agency to rival Expedia, the Priceline Group and, increasingly, Ctrip? Not anytime […]

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Marketing Strategies for a Competitive Advantage in 2017

According to Geoffrey Moore in his book Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet, stock price is a measure of future potential […]

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The “Connected Guest” – What Do They Really Want?

Guests are embracing new technologies and apps on a daily basis, and hotel companies are trying their best to also get into the fray by developing their own guest facing […]

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How influencers and advocates could be the new marketing trick or treat

It’s Halloween today and soon it will be Christmas. In the search for fresh new ideas maybe it’s time to turn to the rising stars of digital marketing – influencers […]

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5 things about your hotel’s website that will scare guests away

October is always full of fright, and you might be incorporating ghosts, ghouls and goblins into your hotel decor this month. And while you can certainly spook things up at […]

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Can marketing automation raise your online review scores?

NB: This is an article from Ryan Solutions I think you’d be hard pressed to find a hospitality brand that doesn’t want to see their online review score jump a […]

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