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Max Starkov is Chief eBusiness Strategist, Mariana Mechoso Safer is Senior Director, Marketing and Evan Rosenblum is Senior Director, Analytics & Online Media at Hospitality eBusiness Strategies (HeBS), the industry’s leading full-service hotel Internet marketing and direct online channel strategy firm based in New York City (www.HospitalityeBusiness.com).
HeBS has pioneered many of the “best practices” in hotel Internet marketing and direct online distribution. The firm specializes in helping hoteliers build their direct Internet marketing and distribution strategy, boost the hotel’s Internet marketing presence, establish interactive relationships with their customers, and significantly increase direct online bookings and ROIs.
A diverse client portfolio of over 500 top tier major hotel brands, luxury and boutique hotel brands, resorts and casinos, hotel management companies, franchisees and independents, and CVBs has sought and successfully taken advantage of the firm hospitality Internet marketing expertise offered at HeBS. Contact HeBS consultants at (212)752-8186 or [email protected].
The property website continues to be the hotelier’s most important distribution and marketing channel. The main goal of any hotel website is to turn lookers into bookers. A number of factors ...
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With 87% of online users reporting that Social Media recommendations impact hotel choice, it is no secret that social media influences the travel planning process. With the launch of Facebook Graph Search, ...
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Mobile is an important travel planning and hotel distribution channel; a channel that hoteliers must embrace to be successful in 2013. One of the most notable developments this year is that the ...
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Over the past few years hoteliers have been advised repeatedly to embrace the mobile channel. Industry experts have projected staggering growth rates in leisure and unmanaged business travel bookings via the ...
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Marketers love exclaiming "SEO is dead!" and heralding the next big thing that will save your website – social media, retargeting, mobile, tablets, you name it. However, regardless of what some in ...
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In an ever-increasing world of user reviews, TripAdvisor has become a mainstay in the research phase of travel purchases. With over 54 million monthly visitors and more than 75 million reviews, it ...
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Interview with Max Starkov, President & CEO, HeBS Digital, on the hot topic of the hotel community manager and the emergence of this new role as a rapidly growing profession.Masha ...
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Having just passed the mid-year mark, now is a good time to reflect on how events in 2012 have made a significant impact on hoteliers and how they should plan their digital ...
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Earlier this month I presented at EyeForTravel’s Online Marketing Strategies for Travel 2012 Conference in Miami. The session, titled "Best Practices for Mobile Strategies in 2012 and Beyond," focused on the expanding ...
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Pinterest is a niche social network based on virtual pin boards. By January 2012, the site received 11.5 million unique visitors. With Pinterest rapidly becoming one of the most popular social media ...
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In 2012, a time focused on new distribution channels, social, local, mobile, and the ever-changing digital marketplace, hoteliers must still remember that the tried and trusted search engines are still the key ...
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In 2012, hoteliers face more challenges than ever. From resolving to concentrate on "SoLoMo" (social, local, mobile marketing), to navigating "new" distribution channels, to implementing a Google+ strategy, to improving local search ...
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Last year the economy remained in "recovery mode," allowing the industry to focus its efforts more on marketing to the travel consumer and less on scaling back budgets for the first time ...
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With the rapid growth of the mobile channel, SMS marketing is becoming a vital component of a well-rounded digital marketing strategy. Unfamiliar with Best Practices for leveraging this channel, many hoteliers are ...
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Every year, Google makes more than 500 updates to its search algorithm. The most significant update in 2011 was the Google Panda Update, now in version 2.5, which made most hotel websites ...
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Everyone knows that having a successful search engine optimization strategy is crucial to your site’s overall success. But how do you know if your strategy is successful? The 2011 Google Panda Update ...
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2012 is quickly approaching and budget-planning season is upon us. Whether you are just starting to think about where you are going to allocate your dollars, or are moving towards finalizing your ...
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The mobile Web has already become an important travel planning and transaction channel in the U.S. and worldwide. Hotel guests and travel consumers in general are already mobile-ready, and hoteliers and travel ...
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The results of the industry’s 5th Annual Benchmark Survey on Hotel Digital Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices are in! Now is the perfect time for hoteliers to re-assess their digital marketing ...
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Today’s hotelier is faced with a big challenge: to capture and retain the attention of consumers who are constantly on-the-go and becoming increasingly aware of their control over the way they receive ...
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In December 2010, TripAdvisor customer reviews disappeared from Google Places listings, causing a stir among hoteliers. Whereas a previous Google search for "hotels in West Hollywood" would have populated Google Places listings ...
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As we welcome 2011, it is safe to say that a presence on Facebook and Twitter with a well-developed social media strategy in place can no longer be ignored. With the beginning ...
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While 2010 was not quite the tough year the industry feared it would be, hoteliers still grappled with a number of challenging issues: a slowly recovering economy, the ever-changing world of social ...
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Emerging as a result of the recession, members-only, flash sale and group buying sites have gained traction and paramount growth over the past three years. Although originally associated with limited, discounted, higher-end ...
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Hoteliers, we are already in that time of year again: marketing budget planning season. In this environment of uncertainty and mixed economic news, many hotel owners and operators are finding themselves in ...
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Back in December 2003, Smith Travel Research published a much discussed article titled, “The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits.” In this article the ...
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Today’s travel consumer is tweeting, texting, emailing, communicating with friends via Facebook, and commenting, often in real-time, on restaurants and hotels via review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. How will you reach ...
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The Internet distribution channel has undoubtedly become the most important distribution channel in hospitality. Last year, 54.2% of overall CRS bookings for the top 30 hotel brands came from the Internet channel, ...
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Many hoteliers do not realize how important it is to address the significant change in travel consumer behavior over the past several years, namely the emergence of a new breed of hyper-interactive ...
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A commentary on the recent news about Facebook surpassing Google as the most popular website in the U.S.The BuzzOn March 15th, Experian Hitwise reported that Facebook.com has surpassed Google.com ...
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Duplicate Web content is when two web pages with different URLs contain “largely identical content.” These two pages may reside on the same website (internal duplication) or on two different sites with ...
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Hospitality is an information intensive business. Hotel managers are exposed to numerous reports that touch upon practically every aspect of running a hotel. In addition to reports dealing with hotel operations, today’s ...
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With 2009 over and hoteliers feeling more optimistic, HeBS sees two very different approaches to hotel Internet marketing in 2010: on one side, some hoteliers are still extremely cautious when spending marketing ...
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Looking back, HeBS believes that 2009 was a year not only of challenges, but also successes for the industry. While no hotelier is sad to see the end of 2009, HeBS believes ...
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This Just InI have just heard through the industry grapevine that Expedia has cut off negotiations with Choice Hotels and has removed Choice properties from its sites, which include Expedia.com and ...
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Back in September 2001, HeBS presented an article titled “Wireless in Travel and Hospitality: Hype or Necessity?” Today, just as in 2001, the media hype on anything mobile has not eased ...
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In the tough year that 2009 is turning out to be for hoteliers, it is crucial to know where every marketing dollar is being spent. When reevaluating marketing plans – as most ...
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The Travel Industry Association’s (TIA) latest survey predicts a drop of at least 1.3% in overall leisure travel in 2009. Corporate travel is already down as a result of massive layoffs and ...
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1. The Internet: The Ultimate Survival Tool for Hoteliers in 2009The Travel Industry Association’s (TIA) latest survey predicts a drop of at least 1.3% in overall leisure travel in 2009. Corporate ...
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Hoteliers often ask HeBS how they can monitor the Internet chatter surrounding their hotels and whether or not they should pay for services that offer this type of monitoring. What hotel review ...
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The current economic environment is forcing hoteliers to rethink their marketing strategies. It is more important than ever to take on a ROI-centric marketing approach. This is the time to stick to ...
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Free vs. Paid Website AnalyticsMarketing is all about results. Unlike offline marketing, we can track and analyze ROIs from our online marketing campaign results quickly and accurately over the Internet. ...
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In the increasingly dynamic online travel industry, hoteliers are challenged with keeping up with changes while also keeping an eye on the fundamentals. What are hoteliers doing to reach their customers on ...
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Web 2.0 continues to generate much attention in the online travel industry. Inquiring hoteliers want to understand the status and future of search engine marketing and other Internet marketing formats in this ...
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Important considerations before hiring an Internet marketing company in hospitality:The Internet has become the main distribution channel in hospitality—over 2/3 of all hotel bookings in the US will be directly ...
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What will happen to traditional and online distribution channels in hospitality in the next few years? How will the direct web channel outpace competitors and third-party intermediaries? With online travel growing, how ...
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A Best Practices Guide to Aid in Developing the 2007 Hotel Online Marketing Budget. As many hotels enter the 2007 budget planning season, this article aims to help hoteliers construct ...
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A Mid-Year 2007 Review as Hoteliers Enter into Budget Planning SeasonMidway through 2007, hoteliers are already planning their marketing budgets for 2008. In the past few months, HeBS has been ...
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