HOTEL DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES
Our focus is marketing for branded hotels.
We identify the gap in where brand marketing stops and hotel marketing begins. No market, hotel, brand or team is the same. Our defined processes ensure the best positioning for your hotel against the comp set and against other hotels of the same brand.
Hotel Marketing Support Services
WHY COGWHEEL MARKETING?
Passionate
We are hoteliers and understand how they work. We focus on sharing our passion, so you understand too.
Comprehensive Execution
We maximize hotel brand systems first, then compliment with other tools to drive your total online exposure.
Promote Your Hotel
Every hotel is different. Every market is different. Every team is different. Treat them different.
Our Processes
We have tried and true processes defined per brand based on years of experience
Link the “Cogs” Together
Digital marketing flows into Operations, Sales and Revenue Management. Understand how the “cogs” fit.
Not Your Typical Agency
We know what we do well, and what we don’t. If we are not the right fit, we will recommend someone who is.
FROM THE BLOG
Map Advertisements: Should You Be Using Them?
Capturing last-minute demand aka walk-ins is still relevant. In fact, it may be more relevant now than it was pre-pandemic. I know we all love and adore our highway signage from the local department of transportation and advertising billboards, but for a hotel that is struggling to ramp back up post-covid, why not put a little funding into something that is “with the times?” I am talking about Map Ads.
Podcast: Branded Hotel Marketing Demystified: What Is It and What Hoteliers Should Know
What is demystified hotel marketing? Cogwheel Marketing’s Stephanie Smith and Cory Falter from the InnSync Show discuss the importance of maximizing your brand’s marketing efforts.
Podcast: The Marriage of Revenue Management and Marketing
Revenue Management + Marketing = The Perfect Match. Cogwheel Marketing’s Stephanie Smith and Topline Revenue’s Connor Vanderholm sit down with Revenue Hub to discuss how marketing and revenue management beautifully collaborate, providing excellent expertise.
Developing a Social Media Plan for your Hotel
Whether you are tasking your in-house team or outsourcing to an agency, resources must be determined to dedicate to social media. This includes resources of both time and money. The size of your hotel and competing market can help you determine how to compete.
Who Should be Responsible for your Hotel Social Media?
Defining and executing a social media plan is not for the faint of heart. Currently, hoteliers are short staffed in every department and sometimes social media is a last priority. But, if we have learned anything through the pandemic, it is not to forget or devalue our transient guests.
Podcast: How to Approach your Hotel’s Marketing Strategy in Extremely Fluid Times
Stephanie Smith joins Susan Barry of Top Floor Podcast to talk all things metasearch, OTA effectiveness, and more. Podcast Highlights Stephanie Smith combined her love of hotels, her coder brain, and her knowledge of what was missing in the marketplace to create an...