How to promote hotel trough Facebook?

Discussion in 'Facebook' started by clash, Mar 2, 2012.

  1. #1
    I wanted to create a facebook fun page for hotel where I work.
    Do you think is it better to do a fan page or a profile?
    Plan is to get as many fans as possible mainly from 2 targeted countries.

    I had idea to do a game every week where one of fans can get free trip fo and 7 days staying in a hotel for 2 people(all expenses covered).
    So, to get in a competition, they have to become fans and send invitation to the group to all their friends.

    How to technicaly do this good? Is there a way to know for sure did they invite their friends to join the group?

    This way looks expensive, but I think it is a good way to get targeted fans. And my boos already does this game with coupons. I just want to move to facebook.

    So, any ideas? Thanks for help!
     
    clash, Mar 2, 2012 IP
  2. ThePassiveIncomeBlog

    ThePassiveIncomeBlog Active Member

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    #2
    Create a Facebook fan page and create some facebook applications. this will do .
     
    ThePassiveIncomeBlog, Mar 2, 2012 IP
  3. BrittoJerish

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    Share your like page in all groups and put regular updates
     
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  4. clash

    clash Active Member

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    I have to say I expected more then this... This is just a way to get more posts :)
     
    clash, Mar 3, 2012 IP
  5. chetannotexist

    chetannotexist Peon

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    ya, its cool idea. If your hotel have restaurant then Write a not below it " join us facebook and get an chance to win exciting prizes" or other attractive lines ..
     
    chetannotexist, Mar 4, 2012 IP
  6. GeolinStella

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    Create a page, suggest your friends to share that page... Give regular updates...
     
    GeolinStella, Mar 4, 2012 IP
  7. tevag

    tevag Peon

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    You have to create the Fan page as everybody mentions, update it very often, like other pages...maybe create a campaign with facebook ads to your target countries...
     
    tevag, Mar 5, 2012 IP
  8. trudent

    trudent Peon

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    #8
    You should create Face Book Fan Page than promote your business.
     
    trudent, Mar 5, 2012 IP
  9. Inteli

    Inteli Greenhorn

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    Create a fan page and showcase all the details about the hotel on the page. Submit your fan page URL to social media exchange platform (free) to get more exposure. :)
     
    Inteli, Mar 6, 2012 IP
  10. RAVI63

    RAVI63 Peon

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    make fan page & get targetted fns from your city & tell them about your special dishs & offers ,, sure you will get some customers :)
     
    RAVI63, Mar 7, 2012 IP
  11. sumeetmbi

    sumeetmbi Greenhorn

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    Its great Idea mate, to start with Facebook campaigning. New facebook timeline features will definately help you in visual branding and hence it would help you in getting few more likes. But again you need to make this page visible in digital media throgh different channels. You can also put your hotel video on landing page, so that users/viewers can have look at hotel's amenities. cheers!
     
    sumeetmbi, Mar 7, 2012 IP
  12. imeldaperreira

    imeldaperreira Peon

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    #12
    Fan Page is the way to go. Facebook profile is more for personal usage, interacting with your friends, colleagues and family members etc. With Facebook Fanpage, you can build more fans but this will take time. Frequent updates is a must and don't forget to upload lots of photos pertaining to activities and hotel's amenities. It's just something about the Facebook community that people just love to browse through pictures. You might want to create a good welcome page for your Fanpage as well.

    Don't forget to promote your Fanpage to your friends within your personal Facebook network. This will help in terms of getting your Fanpage to go viral. One more thing. I think Facebook recently came out with a new application called "Branchout". It's a good application to reach out to more people. It's something like creating your network (more to career network) and if you have lots of friends, you can invite them to this network of yours and your friends can add their friends to your network, giving you more exposure. From here, you can share activities or whatsoever and always try to direct those people within this network of yours to your Fanpage when you're updating certain activities within it.

    By then, you'll be building up lots of fans in no time.
     
    imeldaperreira, Mar 7, 2012 IP
  13. Hoppus

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    #13
    create a page, probably do advertising for it (on facebook). probably see if there are any hotel\motel topic groups on facebook, maybe they'll let you advertise.
     
    Hoppus, Mar 7, 2012 IP
  14. gurdeep1117

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    Create a facebook page and sharing on all your friend and you should have a huge numbers of good friends who willl like and sharing your page ...........
     
    gurdeep1117, Mar 7, 2012 IP
  15. zickwilliam@gmail.com

    zickwilliam@gmail.com Peon

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    Dear bijaybd,

    Create a facebook page
    Ad an app with Facebook Gate*
    Run a contest or a campaign Offer free discount coupons i.e. share your experience in your hotel and win 10% discount or free dine in for a couple.
    Buy Facebook Ads
    Media Buy - use getsocialapps, globalfacebookfans etc to purchase likes and fans.

    *Facebook Gate - allow non-fans to click like first to get into page. Design excite users to click like first to see exciting prizes, contest details, services, price list etc. So there will be 2 designs appear before eyes of user "before like design" and "after like design"


    TO INCREASE LIKES
    The best way to increase facebook likes is to start contest, a campaign that rewards (reward could be tangible or intangible).
    OR
    through Media Buy
    There are services that provide facebook fans and likes in economical costs like getsocialapps, globalfacebookfans etc.

    Email marketing, daily posts and facebook ads can be very helpful too.


    TO ADD AN APP IN YOUR FAN PAGE FOR FREE
    There are free online services available on the web that help you to select different templates from the catalogue and help in setting facebook fan gate for your page, so that you can ask users to click like first to get into page within few clicks.

    Best service i experienced yet is TABPRESS. Just search it in google and you will find it.

    For those who are looking for a third party solution should look at *all* the reputable solutions available right now, including (but not limited to): Lujure, Wildfire, ShortStack and TabPress. Lujure's developer, Nathan Latka is a proven developer in the community. Likewise, Tim Ware, the developer of TabPress is known throughout the Facebook development community as a trusted source for all things related to Facebook development and design. TabPress is my personal favorite for the moment, and I have referred a few developer friends that way. They have not been disappointed.
     
    zickwilliam@gmail.com, Mar 8, 2012 IP
  16. socialman

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    I love facebook fanpage.I love creating a fanpage and promoting it through fb ads that give me instant and good result for getting Like
     
    socialman, Mar 8, 2012 IP
  17. madmanbean

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    Amazed that the advice above does not suggest promting facebook checkins as a way to attract people to their facebook page. All they need is a few checkin stickers boght from someone like mediastickers (dot) com
     
    madmanbean, Aug 10, 2013 IP
  18. Lokahi

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    A Facebook fan page is useful for a travel related site even a hotel as it will allow you a lot of flexibility for advertising. For instance, you could feature articles about your local area, along with photos and videos submitted by users of your hotel. Each week, you might put up video clips of hotel staff members or guests or take a video tour of the hotel. Coupons or prizes are good, especially when linked to specific busy holidays. Think of a fun gimmick or promotion that would tie in well with Facebook. Just a few ideas for using a Facebook fan page for your hotel.
     
    Lokahi, Sep 18, 2013 IP
  19. NureA

    NureA Greenhorn

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    For me what is good if your gruop is closed, and they have to add friends to like their pic in order to win ;)
     
    NureA, Sep 21, 2013 IP
  20. chuckgs

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    People like to see pics, upload as many as possible. You can ask guests to write a review about their experiences.
     
    chuckgs, Sep 25, 2013 IP