Clientes em Destaque – Hotel Maitei – Arraial D’Ajuda, BA, Brasil Esse post vem falar um pouco sobre o belíssimo hotel boutique, Maitei Hotel, em Arraial D’Ajuda, BA, Brasil e o sistema de marketing digital para hotéis buuteeq. O hotel que é um projeto do arquiteto Luciano Soares é sofisticado e minimalista, visando proporcionar um ambiente tranquilo a beira mar, mas ...
Top 5 Hotel SEO Mistakes
Google’s search wizard Matt Cutts released a short video explaining the 5 most frequent SEO mistakes made by website owners and SEOs. Here they are, in order: 1) Failure to have a website, or making it invisible to Google robots. Some hoteliers have told me that having a directory listing, or a micro-site on a ...
Must-read Monday: News You May Have Missed
Each week, the buuteeq team scours the web for the latest news and trends in hospitality, marketing, and tech that hoteliers need to know about to be successful. Here are the must-read articles you may have missed last week: 1) Snickers Catches Bad Spellers With Smart Google Ads 2) buuteeq Teams Up with Choice Hotel...
Short Interview with CEO Forest Key
In this short video by Concur Technologies, buuteeq CEO and founder Forest Key explains the value of buuteeq. Learn exactly what Forest set out to do when he founded buuteeq–to change and improve the user experience of travel, while simultaneously giving hoteliers back their direct bookings. Forest starts at abou...
buuteeq in the News!
Last night we were featured in Seattle’s local King 5 news, as a finalist in GeekWire’s 2013 awards for ‘Perk of the Year’. See the coverage below. Trotamundo is the name of the employee perk we give to encourage travel and talk with hoteliers. buuteeq will help pay for an employee’s vaca...
Free Whitepaper – Customer Acquisition Channels for Hotels
There was once a time when hotel marketing focused on brochures, newspaper listings, magazine ads, banners, and lots of printed paper. Things have changed, and print media is less effective at driving new bookings as it once was. Today, it can be hard for hoteliers to learn how to acquire new guests aside from turning ...
buuteeq Teams Up with Choice Hotels International
Today we announced a new teaming up between buuteeq and Choice Hotels! We are now bringing property level websites and direct bookings to Choice franchisees across the United States. Choice’s wide-scale support of our platform confirms our mission to enable properties around the globe to connect directly with their ...
July, 2012
HTML5 y la muerte de Flash
En buuteeq hemos predicado el mensaje de HTML5 de salvación a la condena eterna de los sitios web hechos en Flash por casi ya dos años. No solo es que seamos parciales (y Steve Jobs lo era), es que la tecnología ha evolucionado, y mientras Flash era una tecnología admirable a finales de los 90 y a principios de 2000, ...
Intern Travels – Erika in Rio de Janeiro
buuteeq intern Erika travels to Rio de Janeiro to explore the local scenery, culture and people. Here is her story, with photos!
HTML5 and the Death of Flash
For nearly two years now, we at buuteeq have been preaching the web salvation message of HTML5 over the certain eternal doom of Flash-based websites. It’s not just that we are (and Steve Jobs was) biased. It’s that technology has evolved, and while Flash was an admirable technology in the late 90s and early 00s, it, like the typewriter, has simply ...
Just Another Day in Woodstock!
She looked up the street at an approaching rickshaw, a two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a human runner, and there to her amazement, swinging in the ‘hemp hammock’ seat was Woody Harrelson. Just another day in Woodstock. Welcome to The Wild Rose Inn, and meet Marti Ladd! Her roots in the hospitality industry go back to Russia in the1800‘s making her a fifth generation innkeeper. After ...
Resumen: Explosión Móvil
buuteeq tiene algunas noticias emocionantes que pronto daremos a conocer a nuestros clientes. Quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para compartir unas estadísticas recientes sobre el crecimiento acelerado del uso de Internet en dispositivos móviles, esto corrobora la conclusión de buuteeq, de que en pocos años las reservas de hoteles a través de dispositivos móviles serán la forma predominante de hace...
Mobile Explosion Recap
buuteeq has some exciting mobile news in store for our clients that we will get into shortly. I want to take this opportunity to share some recent stats on the exploding growth of mobile Internet use that support buuteeq’s conclusion that mobile hotel bookings will be the dominant form of online bookings in just a few short years. The following is ...
Kevin Johansen dio serenata a Luz Prieto de buuteeq
Luz Prieto, nuestra Global Customer Success Manager, tuvo una visita inesperada el jueves pasado mientras viajaba de Chile a Buenos Aires. Pensó que viajaba para ir a un concierto, pero nunca se imaginó que el artista iba en el avión. En medio del vuelo, la llamaron por el altoparlante y Kevin Johansen apareció para darle una serenata ¡35 millas sobre el nivel ...
Trotamundo – Andrew & Amy’s Adventures
Working at buuteeq can involve a lot of travel. I spend much of my time travelling across the country to attend tourism conventions and association meetings where I discuss important topics like Google+, Facebook, and SEO with hoteliers and innkeepers. This particular trip was very different though. It was done using one of my favorite perks of being a buuteeq ...
Kevin Johansen Serenades buuteeq’s Luz Prieto
Our very own Luz Prieto had a bit of an unexpected visit last Saturday while she was flying from Chile to Buenos Aires. She thought she was flying to see a concert, but little did she know that the star was on her plane. Mid-flight, they called her name over the intercom and Kevin Johansen appeared to serenade her, 35 ...
