Friday, December 11, 2015
Influencer Marketing
Nowadays,
influence marketing is very powerful method to promoting the brand products and
services. It will have to raise brand awareness as well since everyone has a
smartphone or tablet. The firm has a chance to stay in touch and come closer to
the potential customers. But it depends on who is the influence because each of
them has a power inside their network and what target segmentation you want to target.
Influencer marketing is not only successful in hospitality, but also in other categories. The more like and share you have, the more
people talk about your brand products and services. There are many ways to reach the influencer,
but first we need to identify who is the most fit able to your target audience.
Friday, December 4, 2015
INFLUENCER MARKETING
INFLUENCER MARKETING
Influencers
are trusted by others, and they tend to be early adopters in markets.
Influencers
are celebrities, media outlet, blog or just a popular person on Facebook, on
YouTube, even on instargram. Influencers have large followers on the social
network. They have multiple and diverse interests.
The
influencers helps to increase the awareness of the brand within the influencer
community, also increase the market awareness of the brand amongst the target
markets. It is just like “words of
mouth” that spreading through people decision easier and faster. The more followers they have, the more
important to the firm.
For
the hotel industry, working with the influencers are a big opportunity of
hotels in order to engage customers because the influencers will speak to the
right audience and creative collaborations to eyes catching from the audience.
Influencer
marketing is a powerful way to connect with larger audiences, and they will
drive awareness and action of followers to actually book a hotel room, table on
the restaurant or a reservation for spa services. There are many hotels that
successful by applying Influencer Marketing to get a better hotel ‘s
performance.
First,
the hotel needs to identify which influencers are best to target and if he or
she is the long – term or short-term relationship with the hotel. Also, figure
out what social media channel will be engage with the larger audience. The
hotel will provide influencers with complimentary stays and services, so the
influencers can experience the hotel and come up with idea and creative to
attract the customers in order to driving bookings.
On
the other hand, because of no payment exchanges, so the hotel has no control
over the content or the number of posts received from the customers. Therefore,
if the hotel wants to have greater control of the message, content and quantity
of influencer posts can consider paying for it.
For
example, the Refinery Hotel in New York, which offered up a free night and
complimentary meals to the writers of Taste the Style.
Nowadays,
most of the people are using smartphone, and social media is very strong method
than traditional marketing. Followers seem like more trustful to their
influencers.
If
there is a positive relationship between the success of the influencer
marketing and the long –term trends in hotel’s performance.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Class Exercise
Moxy Hotel
The
beginning comes with all new feeling, the model that is not famous in movie,
advertising, but she got a lot of follower in Instagram, Marriott hired her to represent,
to promote the Moxy brand hotel. She is young, with the background more
familiar with people. Customers might
think there is a lot of fun is waiting for them.
From
the environment, experience, customer first, not hotel first, show the hotel
cares about the customers more than the hotel it’s self. Gets free Wi-Fi, put
value delivered to the customer, friends ship, having fun. In totally different
from the traditional website which is more formal, flat. Its show exciting ,
colorful, social media, not boring as the traditional one.
Hotel Daniel Vienna
From
the website, I can see that the hotel website is very simple, but truly unique,
not putting too much information on it.
It shows the hotel is using Bio (green product and good for customer health)
Product
from hotel’s garden. This shows customers that the hotel is concerning the
customer’s health, and so offering something special fresh from the house,
which makes customer more exciting. The rooms are very nice and special that nowhere
else could be the same style. Also,
little character cartoon is very cute and fun, shows informal booking. This is
very interesting with this new style of hotel.
City Hub Amsterdam
This
is hostels hotel with privacy cabin. Have double bed, Wi-Fi, app-controlled
lighting and a personal audio streaming system. It’s very comfy. In central
place of Amsterdam “the most hot and happening places in Amsterdam” The purpose
of the hotel is bringing the guest the experience of the city as much as
possible and discover the beauty of the city. Comfortable, fun, hanging out
with people, drink . It’s about all you can do in the heart of the city.
Class Exercise
This is Food & Drink criteria in 2 different countries
are in the U.S and Japan.
The digital touchpoints are showed differently in these two
countries. In the U.S, people seem to
influence more from Organic search which means listing on search engine results
pages that appear and relevance to the research terms. Furthermore, social are very popular research method as well. After the email and Brand paid search will be more influence by reaching the customer decision. Following is the Display click before the customer finally decided to book or to buy in Food & Drink criteria.
In Japan, customers will mostly influence by Display click , after take a long to connect to the Social and Organic Searching . They are more likely to ask their friends, family, other people who recommend them which is Referral , Generic Paid Search, and they search for Brand Paid Search. Not only that, but they also attracted by email sending then they make their decision. They are more likely to follow steps by steps, and make the decision more carefully and taking time than the American.
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