
Hello everyone and welcome to Hospitality Marketing the podcast, I am your host Loren Gray and this is episode #228 where each week we spend around 20 to 30 minutes sharing the most interesting tools, news, and techniques being used in marketing for the hospitality industry. We also do a quick recap of our weekly Live Video show “This Week in Hospitality Marketing” which also airs every Friday at 11:30 am Eastern US Time.. SO let's get started
Our tool for review this week is Social Insider
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Our Technique this week is how to map out your Compost on social platforms using SocialInsider
- Determian Who you are competing with in market socially.
- Find their account names on each platform they are on that you are competing for the same looks for.
- Create a comps set folder and load all of them into that folder.
- Review each for things you would have done. List what you should have done and see how they faired.
- Apply lessons to you event calendar posting and re-flavor the messaging for next time.
- Look for;
- Platform of choice for what type of message
- Frequency
- Engagement (likes / shares / comments)
- Type of posts got what level of engagement
- Timing of the post to what it was in reference too
- Variations of content associate to what persona's
News and Show Review
CoHosts
Kat Mohammad
Lily Mockerman
Robert Cole
Stuart Butler
Tim Peter
Edward StOnge
Show Notes
00:02 — ‘5-Star Promise’: Hotel industry pledge to improve worker safety gains momentum
00:16 — The Once and Future History of Distribution in 5 Parts
01:00 — Where Airbnb Goes, Hotels Will Follow
01:06 — Brand USA gets refunded and how does that look for other DMO’s
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Hospitality Marketing
Dedicated to all things hospitality. We focus on the tools, techniques, and news that can effect your hospitality business each week.
Podcast & Live Video Show Host / Keynote Speaker / Published Author / Columnist / Educator-- Award-winning Consultant (both international and domestic) for all things digital marketing in the hospitality industry.
Practical hands on knowledge includes; SEO / SEM / Paid Service Platforms / Social Media / Content Marketing / Email / Web Design / PMS & POS interfaces / Account & Client Services
Strategic, hands on multi-year experience with the following;
Market Strategy both forensic and forecasted
Re-branding
Channel Managment
Distribution Management (OTA's)
Opening due diligence
Multi-property single destination Multi- outlet
Acquisitions
Divesting
Asset management and assessment
Soft branding
Market assessment
Revenue Managment
Forecasting
Budgeting
Service vetting
Best of breed connections
Market Product awareness
IT knowledge / CRM Interface integration
Multi-unit - multi-outlet strategy integration