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Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

New Media Transformed the Obama Campaign, Can it Transform Your Hotel?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Dan Siroker Shares Lessons Learned From the Unprecedented Campaign


Dan Siroker, former deputy New Media Director of the Obama Presidential Transition, gave a keynote presentation at SES Chicago in December about how he and his team used Data to win the Obama presidential election, and the lessons they learned along the way. Your hotel can learn from these lessons and apply them in your own internet marketing campaign.

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Tip 5: Install Analytics on Your Hotel Website

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Are you tracking the return on investment from your hotel website? Do you know how many visitors your site receives every day? Are you analyzing the metrics on the pages viewed, the time spent on your site, and the exit pages? Do you know how visitors were directed to your site?

If you have analytics installed on your website then you have access to this information. However, our research this month revealed that 41.8% of New England first class and luxury hotels don’t have analytics installed on their website!


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Innovative Hotel Website Ideas for 2010 – O’Rourke Interview With Chris Brogan

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

‘In with the new – out with old!’ is a common phrase as the new year approaches. At O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing we believe this is especially true for hotel website design and the traditional ways of marketing.

We believe it is time to reinvent the standard hotel website, and we will begin with a quick comparison of a typical hotel website today, and our ideas of how a website should be for 2010.

A Typical Hotel Website Today:

• designed to promote hotel with emphasis on beautiful photos
• difficult to navigate, too many options, user gets lost
• static, no fresh content supplied
• designed from a template
• no links to social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook
• no blog
• no video
• no division between types of travelers (i.e. leisure, business)
• no calls-to-action
• no incentive for user to supply e-mail
• no reason for user to visit your site again
• no personal profiling
• no personal communication with guest
• no reviews
• not optimized for the search engines
• no analytics in place

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Sir Martin Sorrell’s Forecast for 2010, Is Your Hotel Looking Ahead?

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Sir Martin Sorrell

Sir Martin Sorrell finally appeared at Ad Tech NY this year, after turning down the invitations of the last three years. He opened Ad Tech with his keynote presentation on ‘What’s coming in 2010.’ He focused on New Markets, New Media, and Consumer Insights.

Sir Martin Sorrell is the founder of WPP, one of the world’s leading communications services groups and a member of the FTSE-100, FTSE-Eurotop 300, the MSCI and BusinessWeek’s Global 1000 companies. GroupM, JWT, Ogilvy and Mather, Young & Rubicam and Grey are all part of the WPP Group. (more…)