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Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Ads for Hotels’

Should My Hotel Use Facebook Ads?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Our clients often ask us if they should use Facebook ads. Many hotels are skeptical about using the ads and question if they will be effective or not. We recommend that hotels do use Facebook ads, but that they do so with clear goals in mind, and that they follow best practices when it comes to designing, targeting, testing, and tracking their ads.

Before using Facebook ads, hotels should understand the advertising platform. As with any advertising medium, the objective of using Facebooks ads is to increase your business. Facebook ads have the power to do this, but as their representatives often state, their platform is primarily in demand generation rather than demand fulfillment.1

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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.