Customer Stories
Driving Direct: How Hoteliers Can Identify and Target Travelers
Programmatic advertising is changing the PPC game. With programmatic, you target the individual traveler, not the website. Chris Blaine from Sojern explains how programmatic advertising can help hotels drive more relevant traffic to their website and increase direct bookings.
Traveling & Sharing the Experience: A Recap From Our Digital Marketing Summit
The travel shopping journey doesn't end once a booking is made. Social sharing and guest reviews are critical in influencing future bookings. We recap Ed St. Onge and Charlie Osmond's insights from our Digital Marketing Summit. Part 4 of our 4-part series.
Winning the Hotel Booking: A Recap From Our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers
Winning the direct booking all comes down to having a strong online presence and a high-converting website. View the highlights from our recent Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, featuring Joey Egan (Leonardo) and David Chestler (SiteMinder). Part 3 of our 4-part series.
Travel Research, Planning and Validation: A Recap From Our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers
In the "Mid-Funnel" phase of the Travel Shopping Journey, 65% of travel shoppers are considering multiple properties. This is a hotel's chance to influence and persuade. We recap Ellis Connolly (TrustYou) & Charlie Osmond's (Triptease) insights from our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers. Part 2 of our 4-part series.
Inspiring Travelers: A Recap From Our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers
Missed our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers? Here's a quick recap from Chris Blaine (Sojern) and Ed St. Onge (Flip.to) from our first presentation on Travel Inspiration. Learn why inspiring travelers at the start of their travel shopping journey can help increase direct bookings. Part 1 of our 4-part series.
Hotels We Love: 7 Hotels Using our Best Practice Tips to Drive Direct Bookings
According to a BLLA survey, hoteliers at boutique hotels spend 58% of their time on sales and marketing activities. But are you seeing results, in the form of direct bookings, from these efforts? See our 5 best practices for a high-performing hotel website - one that converts, and how these 7 hotels exemplify them.
Webinar Recap: 5 Best Practice Tips to Drive Direct Bookings
Based on the research, hotels of all sizes and star ratings are spending a LOT of time on sales and marketing activities – but they aren’t seeing the results they need from their property website. It’s clear that hotels need to find unique ways to differentiate themselves from the competition, so they can drive more direct [...]
More Creative Ways Hotels are Generating Ancillary Revenue Online
Every hotel is unique and so are its revenue generation opportunities. Get inspired by these hotels generating ancillary revenue on-property and via their hotel website.
The Science Behind Website Design: Where to Position Your Book Now Button to Boost Clicks
We examine two concepts, the F-Pattern and Z-Pattern, to understand the most valuable on-screen real estate of your homepage, and where you should position your call-to-actions.
Why a Mobile Website is Essential: The Stats Every Hotelier Needs to See
Mobility is significantly changing the way people research and book travel. Furthermore, hotels with a mobile-friendly website will now move higher up in Google search results than hotels that don’t. So if you don’t have a mobile website yet, it’s most certainly impacting your bottom line. The stats no hotelier can ignore.