Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

Tell your Story, Attract More Hotel Guests

Storytelling can help businesses of all types attract more customers, but hotels have a definite advantage. From celebrating weddings, to closing business deals, to enjoying a much deserved vacation, guests are experiencing your hotel and creating their stories day in and day out. Smart hotel marketers leverage these stories to engage and attract new guests. [...]

[Infographic] Visual Storytelling: Drive Social Media Engagement

Because visuals are the best way to communicate a message, we created an infographic that breaks down how visual storytelling drives engagement on social media. Some key points are: -Videos are shared on Facebook 12x more than links and text posts combined (Hubspot) – Over 60 hours of videos are uploaded each minute on YouTube.com [...]

Best Practice Bootcamp, Session 2:

Shape Up & Shine on Social Pinterest and Instagram, to name a couple, ushered in visual marketing as the breakout trend in 2012. When we look back, not that long ago…..blogs were one of our earliest forms of social networking where people were writing 1000 words, according to Dr. William Ward, Social Media professor at [...]

New Beginnings for Hotel Marketing in 2012

Every January marks a new beginning, a time to set new goals and commitments in your personal or professional life. In the fast-paced marketing sector the New Year is the perfect time to re-evaluate marketing strategies. Milestone Internet Marketing hosted a Webinar last week about hotel marketing resolutions for 2012.  Keeping your online content fresh, [...]

Channel Spotlight: TubeMogul

TubeMogul is a video advertising and analytics platform that connects advertisers with highly targeted audiences. It allows video content to be distributed to top video sites and it is part of VFM Leonardo’s VNetwork™ – which means you benefit from having your videos on more video sites with no extra effort!

Do you recommend hotels post videos on YouTube? I find that YouTube distracts the customer too much. They can easily click off on a tangent and forget why/ how they got there to begin with.

For small hotels, is it better to have the video in its own site or link it to YouTube? Could the 2nd option generate more traffic?

Would you recommend establishing a YouTube Channel?