Social media has transformed the face of customer service for good. Disgruntled consumers now have more options than ever when it comes to letting you -and everyone else - know their gripes with your service. The increasing demand for real-time responses to customer...
Social Media Archive
Bing Incorporates 5x More Facebook Data into its Search Results
Just a few days after Facebook unveiled Graph Search, its new Bing-powered product which uses ‘Likes’ to create a personalised social search experience, Bing announced that it willnow incorporate 5x more social content from Facebook into its own search...
Why Facebook Graph Search is Unique
As we’ve discussed in recent blogs, Facebook has recently launched Graph Search, a move that suggests the world’s favourite social network is at last getting serious about search. However, although it may look like Facebook is finally stepping up to...
5 Tips Your Hotel Needs for Getting the Most Out of Facebook Graph Search
Facebook Graph Search, as we covered in a recent blog, is the latest development in social search. Unlike a traditional search engine such as Google, which traverses vast search archives to find relevant information on topics, Graph Search allows Facebook users to...
Facebook Introduces Graph Search
Facebook has recently unveiled Facebook Graph Search, a new feature which demonstrates that the social network is finally getting serious about search. Facebook Graph Search uses “Likes” and other data to provide personally relevant search results for...
PPC Ads and Facebook
Facebook has recently launched Sponsored Results; its own version of pay per click search ads. The new feature allows businesses to promote their brands by paying to display ads in search results alongside related Apps, Pages and Places. Advertisers who take advantage...
50% of Facebook Users Value Brand Pages Over Official Websites
If you’re ever in doubt about the power of social media as a marketing tool for your hotel, here’s yet more proof. Marketing research company Lab24 recently conducted a survey which asked 1000 social network users to reflect on the way they interact with brands on...
What to do with your Social Media?
Social Media is really a bit of a buzz at the moment. There are a number of clients who have asked eTourism to setup Facebook and Twitter accounts on their websites for them only to ask the question ‘What Now?” Firstly be under no impression that you...
New Custom URLs for your Google Plus Hotel Page
If you struggle to memorise that long string of random numbers that makes up your hotel’s Google + business page, you’ll be pleased to hear that Google is in the process of rolling out shorter, more professional custom URLs to thousands of its...