Brand Advocacy Presentation v1.1 (Feb 2015)

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BRAND ADVOCACY Using the power of social media to generate brand awareness and higher booking levels from a hotels own web site. It’s not who you know… it’s who your guests know”

Transcript of Brand Advocacy Presentation v1.1 (Feb 2015)

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BRAND ADVOCACY Using the power of social media to generate brand awareness

and higher booking levels from a hotels own web site.

“It’s not who you know… it’s who your guests know”

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BRAND ADVOCACY

• Proven cost effective solution

• Easy implementation to any booking engine

• Generate unique hits to hotels own website

• Generates high levels of bookings from hotels own website

• Allows hotel to build relationship with the guest

• Measurable solution

• Strategy for room bookings, weddings and conferencing

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Business Class Hotels

Chimo Ottawa Hotel

256 rooms

Complimentary room upgrade

42% guest engagement YTD, 144 room nights booked

Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel & Spa

116 rooms

Free Wi-Fi during stay

23% guest engagement YTD, 64 room nights booked

Ivy Boutique Hotel

63 rooms

Two complimentary drinks at hotel bar

23% guest engagement YTD, 49 room nights booked

Leisure Hotels

Hawk’s Cay Resort

400 rooms

15% off dining at hotel’s restaurant

19% guest engagement YTD, 160 room nights booked

Calistoga Spa Hot Springs

57 rooms

10% off spa service and products

21% guest engagement YTD, 234 room nights booked

Buena Vista Suites

1,014 rooms

Two free poolside or restaurant drinks

22% guest engagement YTD, 271 room nights booked

Top Incentives Offered by Hotels

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Metric Measure Engagement Rate 17%

Click-through Ratio 9.04 Sign-up Rate 5.7%

Avg. Connections per Advocate 226

Booking Rate 2.1%

Engagement Rate: 17% This is the percentage of people coming through the hotel’s booking engine that share their trip

on at least one of their social networks.

Click-through Ratio: 9.04

This is the ratio of people who click through the advocate’s post. For every person that shares, 9 other people will click

through to visit the hotel’s website.

Sign-up Rate: 5.7%

This is the percentage of unique visitors that will sign up for the friends and family offer after clicking through the

advocate’s social media post. This, in addition to the click-through ratio, are indicative of the strength of the hotel’s

friends and family incentive. These two numbers will be lower the less compelling the incentive is and we suggest

revising quickly to improve performance.

Average Connections per Advocate: 226

This number represents the average number of connections across all social channels for an advocate. This number will

only reflect connections on the networks to which the advocate posted the original sharing message.

Booking Rate: 2.1%

This number represents the percentage of unique visitors that actually transact with the hotel.

Social Interaction Statistics

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BRAND ADVOCACY - RECAP

Proven cost effective solution

Easy implementation to any booking engine

Generate unique hits to hotels own website

Generates high levels of bookings from hotels own website

Allows hotel to build relationship with the guest

Measurable solution

Strategy for room bookings, weddings and conferencing

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Review and sign contract

proposal.

We’ll send a welcome email and

support introduction.

Select your incentives and

integrate with your booking

engine.

Hotel live – Bookings coming in

Getting Started