{"id":1148,"date":"2013-01-31T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonhartley.com\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:02:45","slug":"social-media-for-hotels-5-great-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/social-media-for-hotels-5-great-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media for hotels : 5 great blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don\u2019t pretend to know everything about anything. Thankfully I don\u2019t have to. I have the internet to fill in the gaps.<\/p>\n

This is the first of a series of blog posts designed primarily to point you in the direction of great sources of information I have found.<\/p>\n

Some weeks ago I wrote a \u2018Social media for X\u2019<\/a> article on \u2018Social Media for hotels\u2019 at \u2018Room service: the social media friendly hotel\u2019<\/a> where I made suggestions on the kind of social media content hotels might use to attract guests and provide good service.<\/p>\n

Since writing I have been looking at several other blogs on the same subject and here are just five of them that contain great ideas for hoteliers throwing themselves wholeheartedly online.<\/p>\n

Top 10 social media marketing tips for hotels<\/a> \u00a0includes the suggestion that you \u2018Invite guests to join your FaceBook page (upload their emails), and ask them to post pictures of the hotel and their trip.’<\/p>\n

The blog\u00a0 Hotels That Rock at Social Media\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0mentions that\u00a0\u2018The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas\u00a0is known for providing social-media-lites good rates and VIP treatment.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rewarding social media nuts! What better way could there be for getting your name in all the right places in all the right ways?<\/p>\n

Among other things the blog post Social media for hotels: whats the problem?<\/a> cautions that social media marketing, if it is going to be sustained (it\u2019s a long haul business), should be\u00a0\u2018Basic and simple enough to be doable by hotel staff on an ongoing basis\u2019<\/p>\n

Correcto!<\/p>\n

The slide show How hotels can use social media to attract event planners<\/a> reminds us that social media can be (and should be) targeted at specific audiences.<\/p>\n

I especially liked the slide \u2018Use video to display venue capabilities\u2019 though I might have used the term \u2018facilities\u2019 instead of \u2018capabilities\u2019.<\/p>\n

And finally a blog post that ends \u00a0with a neat list of successful social media campaigns\u00a0When Social Media for Hotels works<\/a><\/p>\n

If there are any social media for hotel ideas you want to share below in comments then please, do disturb!<\/p>\n

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  I don\u2019t pretend to know everything about anything. Thankfully I don\u2019t have to. I have the internet to fill in the gaps. This is the first of a series of blog posts designed primarily to point you in the direction of great sources of information I have found. Some\u2026<\/p>\n

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