Social Media Is No Fad - Is Your Hotel Ready?

Just saw this brilliant video(thanks Kevin May at Tnooz) on how social media has grown over past few years - and I think everyone into social media or not should see this to get some perspective.  For Ex: Facebook added 200 million users in just one year - and if it were a country, it'd be the third largest after China and India! See for yourself...



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Learn SEO From Matt Cutts & Google Team (Video)

What's the best way to learn SEO? Online, of course! And, what better than search specialists from Google - Matt Cuts, Tiffany Lane, Greg Grothaus and Vanessa Fox (ex-Googler) - explaining it to you with Live website reviews. Learn and take notes from this 1-hour video from Google I/O. 

Happy learning :)

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How Would Be Your Hotel Marketing In 2010?

If you're into hotel marketing - read further and take this 'Hotel Marketing Survey 2009'. This is an effort to understand how hotels are using the online marketing channels in different regions in 2009 - and importantly what's working, and what doesn't for 2010 - as experienced by hoteliers worldwide. All the stats are aggregate - and the survey doesn't ask/share any personally identifiable data.


The results of this survey would be available free of cost to all participants who choose to receive it by entering their email on the last step. Here's your chance to benchmark your online marketing efforts with your peers across the globe.   So, what're you waiting for? Get going...

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Twitter Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army! See Screenshots!

My Twitter profiles were not loading today for past one hour. So I tried to use the normal Twitter.com home url to go in through there. But guess what, the homepage of Twitter was gone! Also, just noticed my Twitter widget on the blog's right column has gone blank today >>

Some 'Iranian Cyber Army' has hacked Twitter and has completely taken control of the twitter homepage - with a flag to boot. Kick them out fast, twitter! I need to start tweeting again :)

Just an afterthought - spare a few millions from the funding to beef up your security.

Here's the screenshot of twitter homepage as I see it right now:

Twitter Killed My Blog - But Now I'm Back!

Hi folks, sorry for disappearing for past 10 months. I got so addicted to Twitter that this 'blogging at length' seemed to be too stupid at that time. But hey, I'm back now - 140 characters are fun but there's more to life than that!

Expect more frequent posts on online hotel marketing, search & social media marketing. Not to forget mobile marketing which is getting my increasing attention for past few months.

For my Twitter followers, the tweet updates continue as usual.

Cheers :)