Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry announced the launch of it's fully managed Social Media Marketing Service for hotels. The new service helps hotels leverage the immense reach of Twitter, Facebook and other sites by providing a cost-effective Social Media Marketing Service. The fully managed service provides a pro-active social media communications service and an ongoing monitoring of consumer User Generated Content (UGC). The service is designed to encourage online communities, engage consumers in interactive conversations, manage the hotel's online reputation, build brand awareness and generate sales from numerous marketing channels directly.

"Our fully managed Social Media Marketing Service combines our existing HuBBubTM and Chatter GuardTM Social Media services with pro-active blog management for the hotel's Twitter and Facebook content distribution. TheSocial Media Marketing Service is a natural extension to our core business, by not only enabling a strong social media presence, but interrelating social media with its benefits to organic search rankings.Hotels can now outsource their entire Social Media Marketing efforts to Internet marketing professionals," said DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive's Founder & President.

Lodging Interactive's fully managed Social Media Marketing Service provides hotels with the complete solution to build customer connections via Web 2.0 technologies and services. The service include:

  • Customized hosted blog to match the look & feel of hotel website
  • Hosted vanity URL for easy linking hotel website to the blog
  • RSS & email sign up feeds
  • Hotel logins for direct blog postings
  • Weekly blog posting services performed by Lodging Interactive
  • Fully managed Spam and blog comment oversight
  • RSS content push to hotel's Twitter account
  • RSS content push to hotel's Facebook account
  • Monthly statistical reporting
  • Ongoing Social Media Monitoring of hotel consumer reviews via Chatter Guard
  • Consumer comment scoring based on service attribute
  • Online management dashboard
  • Monthly reporting delivered via email to up to 10 people

"Until now, hoteliers haven't had a clear, professional and cost-effective manner in which to reach out to the millions of consumers on the Social Media Networks. Our proprietary technologies combined with Social Media Marketing in-house experts delivers the ultimate solution to our clients," stated Mr. Vallauri.

For additional information visit http://www.lodginginteractive.com/social-media-marketing.htm . To see how Lodging Interactive's fully managed Social Media Marketing Services can benefit your hotel, please contact Richard Walsh, Vice President, Business Development at [email protected] or phone Richard at 877-291-4411.

About Lodging Interactive | Lodging Interactive is a leading provider of Internet Marketing Services to the hospitality, spa and restaurant industries. The company provides a portfolio of effective Internet Marketing Services to hundreds of hotels, resorts, timeshares, spas and restaurants. Clients included branded hotels from nearly every major brand as well as prestigious, landmark independent hotels.

The Company offers a number of effective online tools and services: ChatterGuard.com, an online social media monitoring and reputation management system, HuBBub, a fully managed Travel 2.0 Distribution & Marketing service, HotelWebShows, an economical video montage and YouTube distribution service, CommentCards.com, a full-service business-2-consumer comment card service, eProposalSystem.com, an online RFP response system hotel Sales Managers, RFPLink.com, a group RFP lead generation, HotelDirectBook.com, a consumer hotel portal, link2brand.com, personalized URl's for hotels, DiningClick.com, Internet Marketing Services for the restaurant industry, and Spa Interactive, Internet Marketing Services for the health spa industry.

Lodging Interactive is a proud member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), The California Hotel Association, the Day Spa Association, and a supporter of the Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI). For more information contact Richard Walsh, Vice President of Business Development at [email protected] or at 877-291-4411. The company's website is located at .

Richard Walsh
Vice President, Business Development
877-291-4411