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Airbnb Social Media Strategy: Sharing Stories, Building Community

Keyhole.co

By blending collaborative consumption with experiential tourism and replacing impersonal hotel stays with a sense of community. Founded in 2008, Airbnb struggled to build trust in its unique business model initially. In this exponential success, social media played a significant role. billion in revenue in 2023.

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Social Media and Tourism: Let’s Talk Together

Bare Feet Studios

We have small businesses who can now leverage their time and budgets using social media to reach out beyond the local paper – they are getting up to speed on this. Remember Podcamp Hawaii 2008 ? Maui Locals as Social Media Catalysts #MauiCatalyst #SMCHI #Tourism #MauiSMUG via Liza Pierce @amauiblog.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

The quicker the response, the happier the complainer and the more impressed the social media listeners are. Give them a private way to stay in touch (so they can voice their concerns to their new friend on the inside as opposed to using social media). What’s your social currency? But not really.

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A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach

Akamai Marketing

THEN, I’m going to tell you why its relevant to social media. How does Kaizen relate to social media? have when beginning a social media program. If we’re honest with ourselves, the only reason businesses today don’t employ social media already is because they are afraid.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

Akamai Marketing

The White Rabbit was talking to her, but much of it was non-nonsensical, Alice was intrigued, so she began to follow the talking White Rabbit, until she found herself falling into an endless, cavernous rabbit hole, when she finally stopped falling, she found herself in another world.Wonderland, also known as Social Media.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

It punches a hole in the theory that social media and content creation success has to be a huge time commitment. As I’ve written several times, the people in your company responsible for email, and the people responsible for social media should be the same people.

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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

Akamai Marketing

The campaign, a road tour, dubbed the “Spirit of Aloha” includes Hawaiian travel and tourism executives, 3 dancers & 2 musicians on loan from the Polynesian Cultural Center as well as Maui’s Camile Velasco of American Idol fame. The entire program generated much interest in tourism circles. What’s your social currency?

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