Social Networking and Blog Resources for Hotels
Here are some of the resources that I have tested out and that I recommend.
Disclosure: You will find products here that I am affiliated with. All these products I have tested out, and are using on my own blog. I stand behind this products because of the value they provide. The notes here is my opinion and experience with these products.
Where should you host your Hotel Blog?
I like their service because of the great value you receive for the price they offer. And their customer service has been really great. I enjoy the option of talking to a customer service rep through their Chat channel. All my issues has been resolved in a timely and professional manner.
Hey You! What’s Powering Your Website?
Headway is a feature-rich, flexible and user-friendly WordPress theme which nearly eliminates the need for coding, and empowers average WordPress users to create unique, great looking WordPress sites.
How To Optimize Your Blog?
Online Visibility Secrets is a 26-week training program from my friend Denise Wakeman. Denise has designed one of the best hands-on training programs that will help your blog get more visibility.
Blog Masters Club is a comprehensive 6-month training program detailing out all the nuts & bolts of blogging from my friend David Risley. David is a professional blogger, and on this training David really provides great value.
The Ultimate Blog Post Promotion Guide from my friend Kristi Hines. Kristi is a SEO Master that will help you boost your blog beyond your imagination.
Serving your Hotel email campaigns
Aweber provides a real solid and robust email marketing service. You can use among over 100 predesigned templates, or if you are savvy you can upload your own design. I love their service because of the flexibility, and their ability to always apply new features in relationship to what their customers want and needs.
Can You Have More Sales, Too?
Helping over 90,000 businesses like yours raise profits and build customer relationships using AWeber’s opt-in email marketing software for over 10 years.
SEO Made Simple for my blog
Scribe SEO is one of my most valuable plugins. This plugin is developed by Brian Clark. I just love how this plugin really help me optimize my articles for SEO. This is such a time saver for me. I have put my SEO on auto pilot. This plugin checks my content, keyword and provide link building info.
Slide Technology that improve blog visibility
SlideDeck is a really great plugin that allows you to provide professional presentation.
And each of the slides is optimized for search engines.
This slider comes with tons of features.
How I Use Social Networking to get more qualified leads
With LinkedInfluence Lewis Howes share some powerful proven strategies that will power up your Social Networking skills.
Plugins I recommend
Akismet control and prevents spams.
Google XML Sitemaps helps your blog get indexed on major search engines.
ShareThis encourage your visitors to share your content on various Social Networks.
Tweetmeme allows for retweet of your articles. Provides also statistic information. Supports both Tweetmeme and Twitter button.
WordPress.com Stats is a simple and powerful plugin that shows you some valuable blog statistics.
WP-DBManager manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. This is also a recommended plugin from my friends at GoDaddy.com.
WP Super Cache helps you speed up your blog. This is real valuable plugin that will help you run your blog smoothly.
Disqus is a robust and powerful comment management plugin.
Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARRP) provide links to articles in archive that is related to new articles you post.
cforms is a powerful and feature rich contact form.
Images
iStockphoto have an unique selection of quality and professional photos that you can use on your blog. I have purchased a large selection of photos for my blog from iStockphoto.
If you are looking for professional images for your Hotel Blog, I highly recommend checking iStockphoto out.
Social CRM (Customer Relation Management)
I use SocialOomp to improve my Social Media Productivity. This help me preschedule Tweets and Blog articles for upcoming events. It is also functions great as a Social Media Listening Outpost.
