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Why Resort Marketing is the 51st Shade of Grey

Written by Jessika Lakes | Nov 6, 2014 12:30:00 PM

 

One of the most important things for your business is to make sure your website is on trend. You may think you're trending like Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey but your online marketing could be a dud. No one is going to want to read your copy if what you think is an erotic romance is anything but. Here's some suggestions to keep the thrill in your marketing efforts.

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Identify Tastes

When you are trying to get people to come out to your hotel or destination, you really need to keep up with the public's ever-changing taste. Right now, marketing is all the rage, and like the rebranded McDonald's, whose burnt coffee, hipster resident customers, and free WiFi could allow it to be easily confused for Starbucks, your destination should be on top of what's trending.

Utilize Inbound Marketing

Resort marketing is all about making your property stand out among the competitors. If all the properties on your strip have the same oceanfront views and the same spacious accommodations, what sets your property apart from everyone else's? This is one of the things which can be done with inbound marketing efforts. Your goal is to attract new visitors, convert them into leads, close the deal with them, and delight them as customers; this will start a cycle in which present customers bring in new customers!

Dominate Web Searches

Through an effective inbound marketing strategy, you will find your name showing up in more and more internet searches. Your potential clients will find images of your facilities more frequently. They'll stumble upon amazing articles which are all talking about your property. They'll even find your destinations name showing up again and again in searches for your destination.

Utilize Your Website

Make your website the hub of information for your location. A great marketing effort will help your site be the go-to spot for anyone with questions or desires to travel nearby. 

Set Yourself Apart From Your Competition

If your hotel is along the strip in Las Vegas or the French Riviera and you can drive traffic to your property via all these fantastic resources you are providing for every traveler, the chances of them coming to your hotel is greatly increased. This happens through a comprehensive website development program - all a part of a successful resort marketing campaign. Of course you want everyone to stay at your property but if you can have all eyes on your destination,  the chances of greatly increasing your sales are quite high!

Reinvent Your Online Presence

As the world changes, so too does the Internet. As your marketing partners will tell you, just because you have one successful resort marketing effort, this does not mean that all of your work is done. Any successful long term marketing campaign will show you that you need to keep reinventing yourself over and over and keep having new people come out and find your website.

Develop Brand Recognition

It's no mistake that the best brands who have been around for hundreds of years keep making changes. The fact is that even the best information today won't necessarily still be the same information in several years. Even if the facts are the same ("breathe in, breathe out"), the mechanism for delivery needs to keep up with the changing times.

Keep Up With Today's Marketing

Information happens in a heartbeat in the modern world and your newest marketing efforts could fall flat in a matter of days or weeks. If you have a resort marketing partner on your side who is helping to keep your site present and relevant and updated, then you are far more likely to keep eyes on you and your property.