TIL Gossip

If you have any gossip about what is happening at TIL, just let me know. I will publish it on this blog. Some of the executives have been having too much fun!

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Facebook Promotions For Your Hotel

Many hotels are struggling with making their Facebook presence more effective.   Running a contest or promotion on your hotel’s Facebook Page is a great idea for hotel marketers who are looking to improve the effectiveness of their Facebook marketing results.

Contests can help you:

1. Garner a larger fan base.
2. Improve the interaction you have with you current fans.
3. Give you a golden opportunity to collect emails and mailing addresses of your fans.

The problem that  a contest may pose is that it can attract unqualified Likes… people entering your contest just to win  may not have any intention of becoming a customer.

In order to mitigate this problem (if you think it is a problem), consider the following:

1. How you promote your contest. Are you promoting it to the general public or are you promoting it to past guests, current fans, and potential guests?
2. What you give away. An iPad as a prize can bring out the monkeys and pornstars.  A free nights lodging or weekend spa treatment at your property will only attract people with an intention of actually staying with you.

Change of Pace

Well, it has been one full week since my last day working at Travel Internet Limited. Boy, it is great to get out of their, it was really starting to get me down. So many problems, and so much inaction. And corruption from the top down.

I had a week of vacation at Noosa and Fraser Island, and got back to the keyboard today.

Looking forward to my new venture -- it will send a rocket through the industry. More to be announced soon.

Watch this space!