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O’ROURKE HOSPITALITY MARKETING HIRES VICE PRESIDENT OF DIGITAL STRATEGY, BRIAN FITZGERALD

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

JANUARY 23, 2012 | NEWBURYPORT, MAO’Rourke Hospitality Marketing, LLC is pleased to announce the hiring of Brian Fitzgerald in the role of Vice President of Digital Strategy. Mr. Fitzgerald is responsible for strategy and performance of all company and client digital marketing efforts, including, website development, paid search, search engine optimization, social media and digital media.

Prior to joining O’Rourke, Mr. Fitzgerald resided in Washington D.C and spent the last 4 years working at TIG Global in a variety of positions, most recently as Vice President of Web Strategy.

At TIG Global Brian was responsible for strategy and analysis of all digital marketing efforts. This includes PPC, SEO, social media, digital media and measurement and analysis. He managed a team of eight and drove more than $22 million in revenue for his clients each month.

In addition to his work at TIG Global, Mr. Fitzgerald also worked for 8 years with Marriott International’s e-Commerce department. At Marriott, Brian played a role in developing and implementing corporate and property-level strategies.

“Brian’s strong background in digital strategy for hotels, restaurants and destinations makes him a perfect fit for the strategic direction of our agency,” says O’Rourke President & CEO, Tom O’Rourke.

Mr. Fitzgerald obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Babson College in 2000. More recently, Brian obtained an MBA from The George Washington University.

About O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing

Founded in 2001, O’Rourke is an award-winning hospitality marketing firm headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Serving national and international clients, O’Rourke provides hotels with a complete range of services including Internet marketing, hotel website design and development, and creative services. For more information, see the O’Rourke website: http://www.orourkehospitality.com/.

O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing to Introduce ‘Smartstay’ at HITEC 2010 – Visitors can Enter to Win an Apple iPad

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

(June 2, 2010) O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing will be at HITEC 2010, June 21-24, Orlando, Fla., where they will introduce their one-of-a-kind iPhone app for hotels called Smartstay. Visitors to the O’Rourke Booth (#1234) can also enter to win an Apple iPad.

Smartstay is a new ‘white label’ iPhone app that hotels can customize to represent their own brand. Hotels can easily enter their hotel information, images, videos, and news updates with an easy to use content management system that they can access online. (more…)

Facebook Ads – O’Rourke Interview With Brian Boland

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Brian Boland, Facebook Performance Solutions Manager, spoke with Tom O’Rourke, Founder/CEO of O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing, about how hotels can benefit from using Facebook Ads. Brian explained that if your target audience has seen your hotel ads on Facebook they are more likely to conduct searches on your hotel or click on your hotel listing when it appears in the search engine results pages. He also explained that your hotel can create ads that are highly targeted to very specific audiences and you can specify different age groups, genders, interests, and more. Facebook ads are also effective because of the social component. For example if a guest is a fan of your Facebook page you can also send very targeted ads to their friends.

20 Secrets of Top-Converting Websites and How They can Boost Your Hotel Bookings

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Re-cap of Bryan Eisenberg’s presentation at SES Chicago

 

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If the average conversion rate for a website is around 3 percent, why do some websites achieve a 10 percent conversion rate? What do they do that the others don’t? This is the question that Bryan Eisenberg set out to answer in his presentation ‘20 Secrets of Top-Converting Websites’ at the SES Chicago conference this December. Bryan revealed 20 of his most valuable tips that will help you increase your hotel website conversion rate. Bryan is a New York Times bestselling author and a recognized authority in improving conversion rates, persuasion architecture and persona marketing.

First of all, what is a conversion? A conversion is when someone takes a desired action on your website i.e. they purchase a product, download a whitepaper, or in the case of the hotel industry, they make a reservation. You may attract a lot of traffic to your website but this means nothing if your site isn’t designed to facilitate conversions. (more…)

New Email Marketing Tactics for Hotels to Use in 2010

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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With the growth of email marketing bombarding inboxes, it’s time to get smarter and more creative as to how you use this marketing method. Here are a couple of ideas to think about coming into 2010 that will help you generate some other ways to look at this medium.

Promote Guest Reviews:

Travelers today are placing more value on user-generated content than ever before. This means they are spending more time on review sites like TripAdvisor to see what other people are saying about your property, and using this intelligence as the basis for making a reservation or not making a reservation at your property. As hotel email marketers, maybe it’s time to ask your guests what they thought after their stay, and use these results to build more targeted messaging as well as increase brand loyalty. (more…)