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The Importance of Attracting and Managing Hotel and Hospitality Customer Reviews
Jessica Kaiser | November 21, 2019
By Jessica Kaiser Good, bad, and unusual, managing your online reviews can seem daunting, but with the right knowledge of what customers and critics online respond to, it doesn’t have to be. Getting reviews by encouraging customers to share their experiences has some clear-cut benefits. If someone had a positive experience and shares it online, your brand gets a public-facing declaration of a content customer. There are also some other benefits that may even seem like a negative at first glance, such as your hotel receiving a bad online review (more on this below!). From Facebook to TripAdvisor –anywhere your organization can receive r...
How Hotel Marketing Teams Are Winning with Video Content
Jessica Kaiser | October 30, 2019
By Jessica Kaiser If you’re looking at your phone or computer, it’s increasingly likely that you’re watching video. Facebook executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, have repeatedly stated over the last few years that by the end of the decade, video will make up the vast majority of what we see in the News Feed. As large a slice of our time that video takes up today – whether it reaches us through paid spots, email, websites, or social – that number will only tick up, across all demographics. Simply put, hotels that aren’t investing (or considering investing) in video content risk having their messaging slowly drowned out over...
