Where is this Image Coming From?!?!
Updated: May 20, 2025 Do you ever feel like you are playing a game of whack-a-mole with your images when you go through a hotel renovation? The Hotel Renovation Scenario Your hotel just went through a beautiful renovation. You hired the best brand-approved hotel photographer in the business and had your entire hotel re-shot. The […]
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.
Guide to Setup your Hotel’s Online Presence For Exposure
Your hotel’s digital presence is more than just your website. Studies show that people check between 7 and 35 sites before booking a hotel. Therefore, potential guests need to see you multiple times before your hotel is a part of their consideration set. Your hotel needs both exposure to the right target audience as well […]
Primary Local Listings Checklist for Hotels
It is imperative to tell a consistent story about your hotel across all channels. Storytelling can be told through content and images, but it is also about ensuring accurate amenities and offerings across all channels. To ensure higher guest satisfaction and higher conversion rates online, you should regularly audit your local listings as a part […]
Marketing a Dual Branded Hotel
Your dual brand hotel already offers separate public areas and room design, has separate budgets and maybe sales departments, but now you need separate addresses, phone numbers, websites and you guessed it, marketing plans.
Hotel Digital Paid Media Planning
Updated: October 2023 2024 Budget season is here! Do you feel stuck in your paid media campaigns for your hotels? Founder, Stephanie Smith, in her 2022 presentation talks about different strategies and budgets for paid media for your hotel that you can apply when focusing on your 2024 paid media planning. There […]
Where is this Image Coming From?!?!
Do you ever feel like you are playing a game of whack-a-mole with your images when you go through a hotel renovation? The Hotel Renovation Scenario Your hotel just went through a beautiful renovation. You hired the best brand-approved hotel photographer in the business and had your entire hotel re-shot. The new, high-quality images are […]
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.
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.
