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AHC Panel :: Marketing and Distribution panelNic Ray :: 23.11.10
Some online marketing trends affecting
hotels
Destination marketing through Google Earth and
Google Maps
Hotel Groups
Location Location Location
Branded utilities / apps / widgets
Video and image search is increasingly how your
customers are going to find you
Image search
Promote Your Video
Whenever an ad is displayed, a free companion
banner may also be shown.
Mobile search is how your customers will
increasingly find and compare you
Mobile Search is growing as fast as Apps
Source: Morgan Stanley
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Source: Mobile World Congress, 2010
Source: Google Internal June 2010
Top 1,000 commercial mobile queries
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What is my mobile Strategy?
Be Found Be Ready Be Smarter
Be ClearDefine your Mobile campaign goals?
Create a site that follows
mobile best practice
Consistently track & report,
and optimise accordingly
Build optimised
campaigns for mobile
Be ready: Mobile optimised landing pagesare the key to conversions
Good Better
HTML Site on
iPhone
Optimize Mobile
Landing Page
iPhone App
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1. Keep site layout simple
2. Keep the site code minimalistic and clean
3. Keep images scarce
4. Optimise navigation – big buttons
5. Limit scrolling to one direction – run on rails
6. Make the site content useful, mirror the
desktop site content, but keep it practical
7. Give the user the option to navigate to the
desktop site
8. Track & measure with analytics package
9. Avoid pop-ups
10. Avoid flash and java script
11. Avoid redirects
When building a mobile site, remember to…
Thanks!
Nic Ray
Quirk eMarketing MD, Quirk eMarketing UKE: [email protected]: www.quirk.biz
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