Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2017

Sometimes you can make the most impact not by campaigns or contests, but by managing your community the right way. With all the drama surrounding airlines these days, we have to give it to Delta. From ice cream to airlines, that wraps up a few of our summer campaign favorites. Delta’s Positive Publicity Train.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 28, 2012

Recently I needed to change a flight with United Airlines. So I grabbed my iPhone , dialed United, and heard this recorded message: Thanks for calling United Airlines. We all know waiting on hold for-EV-ver on the phone, or standing in a l–o–n–g line, are a few of life’s most unpleasant, time sucking experiences.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 28, 2012

Recently I needed to change a flight with United Airlines. So I grabbed my iPhone , dialed United, and heard this recorded message: Thanks for calling United Airlines. We all know waiting on hold for-EV-ver on the phone, or standing in a l–o–n–g line, are a few of life’s most unpleasant, time sucking experiences.

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Buffer Social

MARCH 19, 2020

In times like these, people look to each other, and to their communities to figure out how to respond. Social media is such an important communication tool in 2020, and we know as we all try to navigate unexpected and unprecedented challenges, many of your customers and teammates will turn to social media for some form of support.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 25, 2019

To get your creative juices flowing, we’ve rounded up more than 20 ideas across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat— and even TikTok. Check out our Facebook and Instagram contest ideas for suggestions and guidelines. You can also share the post in Facebook or Instagram Stories to better spread the word.

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Talkwalker SM

MAY 26, 2016

Images and videos play an ever increasing role in the way people interact on social media, as attested by the rise of visual-oriented platforms such as Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat, and the increasing visual focus of giants such as Twitter and Facebook. Do you want to see what these influencers are posting about your brand?

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Pixlee

JUNE 14, 2021

Yet even though Facebook has restricted content reach, you can still get exposure with the right strategy. Delta Airlines reposts travel photos from its customers to inspire the brand account’s followers looking forward to visiting their dream destinations. This shift saw an immediate reduction in the reach of content.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

ProBlogger Training Day event speakers Craig Makepeace and Caz Makepeace are travel bloggers who landed a corporate sponsorship deal with a major airline, to cover a high profile international sporting event. You’ve built a community. Your community is highly engaged. How do you know if your niche is profitable?

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Airline staff greet me by name and not just because I’ve left my conference name tag on my jacket. Not perhaps a very important fact but it explains why I have a number of FNQ friends on Facebook. Because I am nosey – an asset in online community management – I decided to investigate further online.

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Twist Image

MARCH 2, 2017

Everything from the technology used within the organization to how they market and communicate to their consumer base. Then, they call their travel agent, discuss flight options for an upcoming conference, write them a cheque and their airline ticket arrives via courier several days later. The same happened with Instagram.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

At the time, I was working for an organization headquartered in New York, so I traveled there frequently; as a result, I had a ton of reward points on Amtrak and various hotels. Image: Lorenz Seidler via Flickr , Creative Commons I was distraught when I got a Facebook IM from one of my friends in Mumbai, telling me of the first bomb blast.

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When best friends Michael Watson and Pablo Segarra, both of Puerto Rican descent, were growing up together in the Bronx, New York, they never envisioned spearheading an organization helping Latino Gen X and Gen Z professionals establish closer ties with each other…and their origins through travel, tech, music and other cultural platforms.

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Sprout Social

JULY 18, 2023

New generations of consumers choose social as their communication channel of choice, and turn to their favorite networks to plan everything from their next restaurant reservation to a complete travel itinerary. Tabbey describes standing out in the “slopes of sameness” a challenge a lot of travel-based hospitality companies face.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Donating real money, uplifting marginalized voices, volunteering and attending marches and rallies are all ways to genuinely show up for your community. Instagram ads and IG influencer posts also rank high, while Facebook and Twitter ads are less likely to convince Gen Z women to hand over that sweet sweet cash. Source: Statista.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Stories feature implemented by social networks like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram represents a great communication channel for businesses, particularly suited to those which already post high-quality images and videos across their social media channels. Bottom Line. Infographic via 99firms.com.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Read this (with a British accent) from JetBlue Corporate Commercialization Officer Robin Hayes: “I think it’s fair to say we were gobsmacked with the success of All You Can Jet,&# says Robin Hayes, the airline’s chief commercial officer. “I would describe that as a nonstop party. Too bad they don’t fly to Hawai?i…

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Akamai Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2012

I was reliant exclusively on Twitter (mostly), Facebook and my car radio to get updates for the tsunami. If a community-based hashtag already exists as is the case with #hitsunami, then consider using that hashtag. And those same people maybe wondering what just happened to their travel plans ( flying out tonight, anyone? ).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

regarding us as "individuals with needs" while we function "inter-dependently within communities. I suspect our efforts to converse together, generate content, share resources, etc -- will appear in hindsight to be in the same league with early automobiles and passenger airlines. Posted by: Tom Haskins | April 24, 2008 at 07:40 AM.

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Bare Feet Studios

JUNE 7, 2009

The additional collaborators (hotels, Hawaiian Airlines , Avis & the bloggers) all gave from their pockets to support Hawaii tourism – of which they are a vital part. I personally logged over 200 hours of my time producing the event – 100% volunteer for this community service.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2018

Virgin Australia Airline features blog content for in-flight entertainment. Join our Facebook group. We have done many podcast in the past on how to grow traffic to your blog using online methods, but someone actually asked in our Facebook group in the last week or so, in other ways to do this in an offline setting.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6 million followers, and it becomes a national incident in minutes.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 28, 2012

I could have spent time commenting on other blogs, trying to harness Twitter or Facebook, tried to grow an audience on Youtube and so on. The difference is that it may be a lot harder, and take a while longer, to find those 5,000 people and introduce them to your community. Would you see anything about the industry on a magazine stand.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. Personally, I had a problem with an airline recently. We can now associate a tremendous amount of data to individuals.

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Bare Feet Studios

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Airlines, hotels, and rental car agencies charge a lot more for weekdays than weekends, as they have a captive customer for one and they know that companies are theoretically making money off of their use of said services. Traditionally, people charge businesses more because there is a profit-making agenda on the table.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Globally, more than 500,000 Halloween events were planned on Facebook in 2017. Facebook found that planning for the holidays starts as early as November 1st. You could use Facebook Ads’ Brand Awareness and Video Views objectives to create demand for your product before promoting it again in December with an eye on making sales.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 11, 2020

For example, travel writer Claudia Laroye ( @thetravellingmom ) includes the keyphrase “travel writer” in her Instagram name, upping the chance she’ll be discovered by those looking for travel content in general and travel writers in particular. And that won’t help you build a meaningful, engaged community on Instagram.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Today, I’ve fortunately been upgraded to first class, which happens infrequently because I travel enough to make it exhausting, but not enough to make it rewarding. Air travel has devolved to the point that it’s essentially a shared national joke, like Trump’s hair or Paris Hilton’s vacuousness.

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Akamai Marketing

JULY 2, 2012

But, if you’re a travel blogger, then your frequent flier status probably is significant to your influence. Now, if the airline I fly on most started caring about my Kred, I might care more.but I still think frequent flier status is a lame measurement of over all influence. .” Not so much.

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