What is your first thought when you see a headline ‘Best practice in travel blogging’? If you are like me you will have this idea that bloggers are autonomous individuals bringing the world to their readers in the same spirit as investigative reporters in the conventional news channels. With this…
I don’t pretend to know everything about anything. Thankfully I don’t 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…
Social media is an excellent means by which to provide service and build and consolidate relationships with guests and other hotel users. You ignore social media users at your peril. Here are some things you might do and your competitor hotels are already doing on social media offer discounts to…
Here’s an interesting story on Twitter success in the coffee shop business written by Erik Bratt at MarketingProf. ” The Coffee Groundz Company: Started in 2007, the Coffee Groundz is a coffee shop, bar and all-round “hang-out” joint. Twitter address: @coffeegroundz The Houston-area coffee shop was just another coffee shop—until it…
This is the third blog post in the Social media for ‘x’ series. Not a bunch of cut’n’paste fluff on the ‘7 best retweets’ or ’10 ways to max LinkedIn’ that is so typical of social media posts, but some real ideas on content for the blogs, Facebook, Twitter…