The past year has been quite the ride for me as managing director of Gradigio. My team and I have had the chance to work with some amazing people around the world; many of whom found us through this blog. As a way of giving back to you, my loyal readers, I’m proud to announce our…
Hotel Marketing Makeover Contest
We’re going to be giving one lucky winner a complete internet marketing makeover…for free. The total market value of these services will exceed $25,000US.
What’s included
Everything. At least, everything I know your hotel needs to be successful online.
Through one-on-one planning sessions, group strategy brainstorming, and some hard work on our part, we’ll help the winner:
- Understand the current market situation for their hotel
- Perform an in-depth analysis of their website and overall web presence
- Oversee website changes (as agreed)
- Initiate a complete organic search optimization campaign (strategy planning & implementation)
- Initiate a complete paid search (PPC) campaign: planning, setup & 3 months’ management
- Collaborate on publishing a rock-solid content network that attracts visitors
- Plan and launch a blog marketing campaign
- Build a powerful presence in social networking sites
- Plan and oversee a systematic social media outreach effort
- Plan and oversee a video marketing strategy
- Evaluate mobile distribution options
- Build a localized web presence in important foreign markets (as needed)
- …and anything else we think of along the way that will help you reach more people
This will take place over a period of several months, and the winner will emerge with a powerful web presence that helps them increase direct bookings and overall sales.
The 4 ways to enter this contest
- Upload a video to YouTube or Google Video explaining why you want to improve your hotel marketing. Title it “Gradigio Hotel Marketing Makeover.”
- Upload a set of your hotel photos to Flickr, and name the set “Gradigio Hotel Marketing Makeover”
- Write a post on your hotel blog announcing this contest (or) linking to this blog’s homepage & letting people know about it
- Email 5 friends in the hotel industry a simple invitation to this blog (ex: “Hey, I thought you might find this blog helpful: hotelmarketingstrategies.com…”)
Whichever method you choose, just let me know of your entry by sending a quick email to enter@hotelmarketingmakeover.com that includes:
- Your name (& email)
- Your hotel’s name
- A link to your entry (video, photos, etc)
How the winner will be chosen
The winner will be selected randomly from all valid entries sent to the address above, and will be announced exclusively in the August 2009 issue of our Hotel Marketing Ideas newsletter.
If you enter this contest, I highly recommend you signup for the newsletter 
Important dates
We will accept entries starting now (July 1) until the end of this month (July 31).
Enter now
The contest entry details are pretty simple, and described above.
To re-read this on the official contest website, please visit:
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