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Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’

Southwest Airlines Leverages Social Media Tools

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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“Southwest Airlines is riding the blogosphere like a wild horse,” says the program description of Paula Berg’s talk at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston.

Berg opens her presentation by talking about the Southwest Airline TV show where the camera followed passengers and crews around behind the scenes of the Airport. With the show they were able to reach a totally different demographics than before, which was basically males involved in business with an interest in sports. The show was aired on a Monday night and then on Tuesday two interesting things would happen; one the revenue would go up 9%, and two, they would receive a lot of job applications. (more…)

Tip Three: Write a Blog

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Our Internet Marketing Tip this month focuses on the benefits of blogging. We had the pleasure of speaking to Juli Lederhaus, General Manager of the Historic Hawthorne Hotel in Salem Massachusetts. Juli is a pioneer in blogging and has written a post every day since 1995.

Juli shares with us what inspired her to start blogging, “Ever since the internet came around I always wanted to have a way to talk to our guests directly. The whole HTML thing was so complicated so I was looking for a way to do that and I went to a seminar and thought this is exactly what I need. So I came back to the hotel that day and I set up our blog and I’ve been blogging every single day – haven’t missed a day in over 4 years!”
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