Milestone Captures Silver Stevie IBA Award For Best New Software Product for its Galexi Website CMS for the Hospitality Industry
Milestone Internet Marketing is proud to announce that out of the 3,500 nominations worldwide from organizations of all sizes, it has won a Best New Product Award from the 2014 Stevie IBA Awards for its Galexi CMS 6.0 Internet marketing software for hotels. Designed for the hospitality and travel industry, this next generation SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform is designed with search engine trends, mobile, social media, and conversion in mind.
The Stevie® Awards are the world's premier business awards created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations worldwide and is one of the world's most coveted prizes. These awards serve as testaments to Milestone's dedication to providing innovative and industry leading products and services that empower its clients to maximize direct booking and increased revenues from their hotel website and internet marketing strategies.
Why Galexi CMS 6.0 for Hotel Websites
As more people continue to use tablets and smartphones to perform online search, and with Google's recent algorithm updates, including Hummingbird and Panda 4.0, it is critical for hotels to have a holistic web, mobile, and social strategy when it comes to hotel digital marketing. Galexi CMS 6.0 is Milestone's proprietary hotel website content management system (CMS) optimized with enhanced features for search, conversion, and usability. The search-friendly CMS also includes schemas for the latest search algorithms, integrates social media, and provides a single interface to manage content for adaptive responsive hotel websites that target desktop, tablet, and mobile users.
Key Galexi Hotel Website CMS 6.0 Highlights:
- Easy to use WYSIWYG hotel website content management system
- Single interface for managing your desktop, tablet, and mobile sites
- Ability to optimize your website with keyword-rich metadata
- Implement schema tagging to allow search engines to easily understand what you're offering
- Easily optimize your images for search
- Automatically update your website's sitemap
- Optimized for speed and performance
- Hotel Facebook business page content management capability
- Multi-language features
- Administrative and moderation workflow
Contact Milestone to learn more about our hotel website design and Galexi CMS 6.0 software and how Milestone can help your hotel increase direct online bookings.
Milestone client websites developed in GalexiTM CMS 6.0 are experiencing higher online performance in terms of website traffic, conversion, and direct online bookings. Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza in River North needed a well-optimized hotel website design to showcase its unique spaces and services and perform well on search engines. Milestone developed the client's hotel website on GalexiTM CMS 6.0, following the latest search and social guidelines, paired with a defined marketing strategy and using Naptune to enhance its local lsitings. The hotel website site has seen a 37% increase in visits, a 216% increase in online revenue and significant increases in traffic and conversion within just 3 months since its launch date of February 2, 2014.
Read the entire hotel internet marketing success story here.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The sixth program, the German Stevie Awards, opens for entries on 18 August. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
Milestone offers innovative internet marketing strategies for businesses and hotels around the world. Under the leadership and progressive thinking of benu Aggarwal, President and Founder, Milestone delivers cutting-edge solutions and products that help businesses create an online presence that drives traffic and revenue, and facilitates a holistic digital experience for their guests. With far-reaching knowledge of Internet marketing and experience in the hotel industry, Benu was a key player in transforming the hotel online marketing realm with four software products:
- GalexiTM CMS – content management software for hotel websites
- MediaConnect360TM – hotel social media marketing management
- eBuzz ConnectTM – best social media and online reviews monitoring tool for hotels
- NaptuneTM – local listing management software for hotel internet marketing
For more information on Milestone products and services, please explore our website at www.milestoneinternet.com or call our team at (408) 492-9055.
Check our hotel marketing strategy blog to learn more about the latest search and hospitality industry trends.
About Milestone Inc
Milestone drives online discovery and customer acquisition with our digital presence platform and performance marketing services. Over 2,000 companies in Hospitality, Retail, Financial Services and Automotive industries use Milestone to drive online growth. Our customers include global brands in hospitality, banking, retail, automotive, including Marriott, US Bank, One Nevada Credit Union, VMWare, Nissan, Motel6, Preferred Hotels, Sun Outdoors, mid-market companies, and SMBs.
Milestone platform includes Website CMS, Schema Manager, Local listings, Reviews management, FAQ Manager, and Analytics. In addition, Milestone offers Performance Marketing Services - Content, Design, SEO, Paid Marketing, and Analytics to our clients. Annually, over 300 million visitors use websites developed on Milestone CMS, 540M consumers click on content powered by Milestone Schemas, and 3.7B consumers search for businesses powered by Milestone Local. Milestone platform is amongst the highest-rated Martech platforms with awards and recognition from Forrester, G2, Adrian Awards, US Search Awards, Search Engine Land, CMS Wire and many more organizations.
Teresa Villaruz
Sr. Marketing Manager
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