brand awareness
HSMAI and Curacity Release White Paper on Commercial Strategy for Upper Funnel Marketing
HSMAI | September 4, 2024
McLean, VA (Sept. 4, 2024) – The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) and Curacity have jointly released a comprehensive white paper on the importance of upper-funnel marketing in the hospitality industry. The white paper, titled, “From Last-Click to First Look: A Commercial Strategy Makeover Story for Upper Funnel Marketing,” marks a pivotal shift in the industry’s approach to brand awareness, offering a roadmap for long-term growth and profitability. After years of prioritizing last-click attribution, the hospitality sector is beginning to recognize the critical role of upper-funnel marketing st...
Turning Social Media Posts Into Hotel Bookings With Custom Landing Pages
Lodging Interactive | June 10, 2024
Hotels looking to increase booking conversions and customer conversations should consider using custom landing pages in combination with their social media marketing efforts. A custom landing page (defined by Adobe) is a web page that is created specifically for a particular marketing campaign or offer. It is designed to capture the attention of visitors and encourage them to take a specific action, such as booking a hotel room. When used in conjunction with social media marketing, custom landing pages can be a powerful tool for driving traffic to a hotel's website and increasing conversions. Here are a few benefits of using custom land...
How to Pull Off a PR Stunt & Create Brand WOW
Melissa DiGianfilippo | November 8, 2019
By Melissa DiGianfilippo Bill Gates once said, "If I was down to my last dollar, I'd spend it on public relations." Smart man. Public relations can be less expensive and far more effective than you might think. Still, the most significant obstacle aside from budget is tickling the fancy of media outlets and your target audience. Without the media, your story is less likely to reach the public. A well-planned and executed PR stunt can generate incredible amounts of interest and elevate your hotel, motel, B&B, or resort to a new level in the minds and hearts of the media, and more importantly, potential guests. First, you might be won...
To Buy or Not to Buy… That Is the Question
JLNPR Inc. | October 10, 2019
2 Tips to Boost Your Company’s Brand Awareness & Close More Sales By Jennifer Nagy Small businesses, especially those in the startup phase, spend a lot of time focusing on how to increase sales. (I mean, rightfully so; after sinking thousands of dollars into developing a brand-spanking new technology solution, who wouldn’t want to start making some of that cash back ASAP?!) Because of that mindset, most entrepreneurs launch their business with a complete sales strategy established, a team hired to do the legwork and incentive structures established to incentivize their sales staff – which is great; however, in many cases, h...
Five Strategic Directions to Take Your Hotel
Larry Mogelonsky | May 8, 2019
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) Value adds always become expectations. Such is the course for hospitality and if you aren't constantly evolving your brand then it will become stale. And in an overstuffed hotel marketplace, you need bold new directions to differentiate your product and drive rate. So, how do hotels adapt so that guests don't lose interest in any of these ostensibly great properties in favor of the 'next big thing'? How do you innovate a boutique property so that its repeat revenue figures will always be a healthy contributor to the bottom line? Broader still, how do lifestyle hotels continue to rei...
How to Get Your Resort & Travel Brochure PDFs to Google’s Position Zero by Lodging Interactive
Lodging Interactive | March 11, 2019
Plenty of hotels, resorts, and other businesses in the hospitality industry have brochures and guides for guests conveniently packaged into one hyper-valuable PDF. They list everything from resort amenities and pricing to events happening at the hotel to what to do in the area, and so much more. Now, there's a chance to have those PDFs featured prominently on Google in a way that can help you increase brand awareness and connect with new guests. Google has just announced that they'll be pulling content from online PDFs to use in their featured snippets section of position zero. This presents an enormous opportunity for hotels and resort...
Three Ways to Shorten Your B2B Company’s Sales Cycle
JLNPR Inc. | October 19, 2015
By Jennifer Nagy, President of JLNPR Inc. Every company's ultimate goal is financial success (a.k.a. profitability) but many find it difficult to maintain, especially when their business model is based on one-off purchases. Another difficulty in consistently achieving financial profitability is the length of a company's sales cycle. If a company has an average sales cycle that lasts months or even years, it can create long earning gaps in between clients. As such, a company with a shorter sales cycle is more likely to achieve financial success and be able to maintain it consistently over the long-term. So how can a B2B business shorten ...
