Mobile apps for independent hotels are quickly becoming something every guest expects. From touch-free convenience, to additional revenue, this is why your property has to get one in 2021.
6 Reasons Why You Should Switch Your Hotel Booking Engine Right Now
We've seen it all before. Difficult to use. Incompatibility. Missing essential features. Hoteliers continue to use booking engines that miss the mark and get in the way of success. If your booking engine falls under one of these categories, your path to recovery will be far bumpier than others. We gathered some of the most [...]
The Hunter Hotelier: Driving Their Own Demand & Succeeding In Today’s Market
COVID-19 and the resulting downturn in travel is causing a fundamental shift in how hoteliers will fill rooms. In the past hotel marketers have had a relatively easy job due to the huge demand for travel resulting in strategies revolving around "harvesting intent." Now, when there's more rooms than travelers, hoteliers have to take a [...]
These 10 Things Are Probably Broken With Your Hotel Marketing
Hotel marketing is an incredibly complex web of tools, programs, sites, and third-party systems. In order for your marketing to work at it’s potential all systems must be functioning, and when you built them… they did. Unfortunately over time things break, stop working, change or are simply just forgotten. One of the oft-forgotten aspects of a great hotel marketing effort is going back and checking what you “think” is working great. When you do this, you’ll more than likely find that what you thought was a fine-tuned marketing machine is in dire need of some maintenance.
5 Marketing Psychology Hacks To Increase Direct Bookings
How well does your hotel’s current booking process incorporate marketing psychology to nudge travel shoppers through the funnel? Learn 5 simple tactics!
Great Hotel Marketing Starts At The End: Choosing the Right Booking Engine
Our job as hotel marketing experts is to help spend their marketing dollars as effectively as possible. However, sometimes even the most effective marketing can fail and not because of the marketing itself, but something deeper down the conversion funnel. Something that oft times seems not marketing related at all even though it plays the most critical part of the entire mix.
Today we ask the question, “Is your PMS and booking engine the cause of your hotel marketing woes?”
Your Booking Engine May Be Losing You Millions In Mobile Revenue – Part 2
Want to sell more rooms and make more money? Of course, you do. See how we earned clients millions more in revenue Y/Y with our NEW mobile-friendly booking engine.
Your Booking Engine May Be Losing You Millions In Mobile Revenue
Let’s be honest with ourselves: We hit the mobile tipping point back in 2014. And yet, we still see mobile bookings and mobile revenue lagging far behind. Why is that? The conventional wisdom is that mobile is “earlier in the conversion funnel.” It’s where people are getting inspired or simply researching before switching to the […]
Deconstructing the Hotel Conversion Funnel
Join our analytics team on a deep dive into the hotel conversion funnel and learn how you can improve and optimize the customer journey at every step along the way.
Everything You Need To Know About PPC Ad Testing
Are you new to PPC Ad Testing? We’ve got you covered. Check out our PPC ad testing guide for everything you need to know on what you can test, KPIs, & more.
Tips from Lyft: Let Your Brand Drive Your UX Decisions
Here we discuss the importance of your web design and brand values and why those two need to be aligned. We also provide an example of Fuel utilizing these tactics for one of our hotel clients.
Ironing Out “The Fold”
The online marketing industry is relatively new, definitely more so than traditional marketing and as a result it has inherited a lot from it’s traditional marketing predecessors. For instance, web design trends and terminology, at the inception of the field, borrowed heavily from those previously found in print and traditional media design. It’s no mystery that the trends in web design move so fast that it can be hard to keep up, but the jargon on the other hand can be a bit more sluggish.