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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Over the past couple years, one of the most common questions from business owners has been, “Do I need to be on Facebook and/or Twitter?&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. Tourism/Travel/Hospitality.

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I know that travel consumers booking via my hotel website i.e. direct customers are more loyal, bring more revenue and tend to travel more often. In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% companies use Facebook and 45% Twitter.

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Search Engine Statistics:: Google's share dips

The Marketing Blog

Sector wise trends : If we look at vertical searches, all is not lost for Google as they continue to rise in Automotive, Shopping and travel verticals. Google’s percentage of upstream traffic grew for the Automotive, Shopping and Travel categories. However, I still review some Web 2.0

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Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals

Buzz Marketing for Technology

LEARNING PROFESSIONALS ON TWITTER. 2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0 College 2.0 : Online Learning and Web 2.0 College 2.0: (Facebook group, Eduardo Peirano ). 2.0 : Instructional Designers, developers, instructors and. application of Web 2.0 travelling go hand in hand.

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

You can also find me on Twitter before during and after. This post was mentioned on Twitter by prblogs, twitips MV. twitips MV said: Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st: There are regular chats on Twitter, and then there’s hashtagsocialmedia.com… [link] [.] More about this blog here. Thanks for dropping by.

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Customer Service: The Cultural & Geographical Differences b/w India & Western World

The Marketing Blog

Be it Online Chat, Email, Twitter, Facebook or Phone, we used all of them. Finally, we received a reply from their India director that he was in-charge of key issues and was himself traveling out of India. Filed under: Customer , customer service , Web 2.0 Lastly, a couple of our customer portals went down.

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Strategic Initiatives to Engage in Social Media Within the.

Mindjumpers

By engaging in social media and the possibilities that are available through Web 2.0, Platforms such as Foursquare , Facebook , or Twitter could be applied creatively to setup various forms of competitions. A fact that is no less true for travelers. And that goes for hotels as well.

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