web marketing
Are You Driving Social Media Traffic To Your Website? How UTM Parameters Can Help Track It
Is your social media strategy driving traffic to your website? And how much of this traffic is converting into direct bookings? UTM parameters are a great tool for tracking both these things, and uncovering what content is working for you.
How to Leverage User Generated Content to Persuade Travel Shoppers
User Generated Content (UGC) helps build trust and authenticity with travel shoppers. In this article, we explore why UGC is such a powerful tool for hotel marketers, how hotels are using it, and how to integrate it into your website to drive more engagement.
Webinar Recap: How to Build a Winning Social Media Strategy
In our latest webinar, we were joined by Greg Bodenair, Area Marketing Manager for Kimpton Hotels of Boston & Cambridge, to get the scoop on how to build a winning social media strategy with trackable ROI.
What Are Long Tail Keywords & How Can They Drive Bookings?
Driving organic traffic to your hotel website is important, but driving quality traffic should also be a priority. By tweaking your SEO strategy to focus on long tail keywords, you’ll be able to drive more quality website traffic that is more likely to convert.
How TripAdvisor’s Algorithm Works & How to Rank Higher
TripAdvisor reviews are an important part of the travel shopping journey. So what can you do to ensure your property listing gets seen by more people? In this article we outline how TripAdvisor’s Popularity Ranking algorithm works and what you can do to improve your ranking.
Webinar Recap: The Science Behind a High-Performing Hotel Website
A high-performing hotel website is based on science, not guesswork. It leads travel shoppers down a logical path to the booking engine. In our recent webinar, we dissected the critical elements of successful hotel website – one that turns lookers into bookers. We've recapped the highlights here.
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.
Marketing, Digitally Speaking
Darlene Rondeau recaps the emerging trends facing hotel marketers discussed at the HSMAI Digital Marketing Council's Fall 2016 Planning Conference.
Your Hotel’s Restaurant – An Untapped Amenity That Can Drive More Direct Bookings and Revenue
Just because your restaurant is physically located in your hotel doesn’t mean it shouldn't have its own website. In order to maximize revenue, a dedicated restaurant website could be warranted. Learn from other hotels already jumping on this trend.
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 [...]