11 Useful Twitter Tools for Hotels (Plus: Hotel Twitter Buttons)

Josiah Mackenzie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:56:17 +0000

More and more hotels are seeing Twitter provide actual sales, and as we move from “ain’t it cool” to power users, it’s time we had a toolbox to match.

Here are the best tools for anyone using Twitter…and then at the end are custom Twitter buttons we made just for you.

HootSuite

A “professional Twitter client,” HootSuite is a web-based tool with powerful publishing and monitoring features. The ability to manage multiple accounts simultaneously make this the tool of choice for many social media managers. The “future tweet” scheduling tool is something I use extensively because of my international audience in different time zones. Since HootSuite includes many of the features from the tools below, I use this tool exclusively for all my Twitter activity.

Twitter Search

I debated putting this in, since it’s on the Twitter website and not 3rd-party software. But it’s very simple & effective in producing sales…if you know how.

TweetDeck

This is the preferred Twitter management tool for many ( just look around you at your next conference). Clean, simple, and intuitive.

Seesmic Desktop

Seesmic

Good power features – you can manage multiple accounts as well as Facebook, and the ability to group users into lists is handy. I find Seesmic especially helpful on my dual-monitor desk computer: you can stretch it out and monitor lots of information.

SocialOomph

Formerly TweetLater, this service now provides a big list of automation tools (autofollow, autodiscover, etc)…if you’re into that sort of thing.

TweetMeme

This site allows people to tweet hot stories from a Digg-style interface. The real power for most bloggers is putting a “retweet” button on their pages. (It’s my #1 source of social media traffic)

Twitter for WordPress

A good WordPress plugin for displaying your tweets on your blog.

Twittermail

Send an email to your special address, and they will convert it into a tweet.

Twitpic

Share photos on Twitter.

Trendistic

Quickly view and compare popularity trends on Twitter. It’s like Google Trends.

Twellow

“The Twitter Yellow Pages” – a directory of Twitter users.

And the bonus we created for you today….

“Follow our Hotel” Twitter Buttons

Feel free to use these on your blog or website to promote your Twitter account. (As always, we’re very grateful for any links back to this hotel marketing blog…)

Let me know: Which Twitter tools do you use?

Blog for Guests’ Hotel Blog List (150 Examples of Hotel Blogging)

Josiah Mackenzie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:06:54 +0000

Some of the best learning comes from observing how other people do things. For a recent project, I wanted to look at other hotel blogs, but realized there is no complete list of hotels that blog. That’s why I put together this list of over 150 hotels that blog:

Hotel Blog Mega-List on BlogforGuests

Enjoy!

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