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Magazine Article Keyword: Marketing Online

Facebook Marketing

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Ah, Facebook! Like the platform or not, Facebook is definitely a powerful tool and their reach is bloody huge.

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Kat Luper
Facebook, Marketing Online, Social Media Marketing

MAX Hostels: Where Quality Meets Consistency

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Hostels are a lot of things, but overwhelming should not be one of them. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case, whether you are the traveler or the host. 
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Courtney Loechl
hostel chain, Marketing Online, membership

*Participants needed!* Upcoming Online Panel Discussion: Hostel Marketing

Webinar
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There are many important aspects to running a hostel, but without having guests, few will matter. Many hostel owners or managers find marketing to be difficult: ambiguous, overwhelming, or not realizing it's necessary until it's too late.

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Courtney Loechl
Marketing Online, Marketing Offline

Virtual Think Tank: Developing Tools and Marketing to Increase Direct Bookings

Webinar
Virtual Think Tan Developing Tools and Marketing to Increase Direct Bookings

A 'Virtual Think Tank' was held on April 11th. The live recording is below. Please note some technical difficulties while everyone introduced themselves. The actual discussion starts just before 4 minutes in, and lasts around one hour.

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Courtney Loechl
Panel Discussions, Think Tank, Marketing Online, Direct Bookings

Working with OTA’s and Moving the Industry Beyond

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Sorry I have been rather quiet the last few days since Hostelworld announced they are increasing their service fee to 12%. I know some of you have been waiting for my input.

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Darren Overby
Booking Engines (OTA's), Channel Managers, Marketing Online, Reservations

Social Media Virtual Panel Discussion

Webinar
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We have just completed today's panel discussion on Social Media Marketing for your hostel. Participants included:

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Darren Overby
Panel Discussions, Hostel Manager, Marketing Online

Panel Discussion #2 - Off Season Marketing

Webinar
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We continued our new feature of Virtual Online Panel Discussions with the topic "Taking on the Low Season".

We had a lot of technical issues this session, but were able to still somewhat edit the video.

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Courtney Loechl
Panel Discussions, Marketing Offline, Marketing Online

Even More Free Places to List Your Hostel (Part 3)

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uktrail.com

http://www.kayak.com/hotelowner

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Josh
Direct Bookings, Marketing Online

"Web 2.0" Social Media Tools and How Your Hostel Staff Could Use Them

Industry News
social-media-marketing

Here are some social media tools with ideas on how your staff could use them to increase your exposure on the Web. This list was written for hostels, but it could apply to any business that wants to get involved with social media.

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Josh
Marketing Online, Industry Trends

10 Web Design Tips for Hostels

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Here are 10 tips for hostel websites:

Don't use HTML frames

HTML "frames" is an older technique that was often for building websites. Search engines don't like HTML frames. Google says:

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Josh
Hostel Website, Internet and Technology, Marketing Online

Cuil.com - Ex-Google Engineers Release New Search Engine

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Former Google engineers have launched a new search engine called Cuil.com ("cool").

Cuil.com claims to index more of the Web than any other search engine:

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Josh
SEO, Internet and Technology, Marketing Online

3 Free Tools for Competitor Analysis

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There are many ways to analyze a competitor's website. Here are three simple and free methods for getting some interesting data on another website:

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Josh
Website Analytics, SEO, Internet and Technology, Marketing Online

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