Chinese travelers are now the top international tourism spenders, shelling out a record $102 billion in 2012 on global tourism according to ...
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 ...
Guides & How-tos
The Google+ Handbook for Hotels
We’re happy to announce our latest eBook, The Google+ Handbook for Hotels. There’s a lot of confusion out there about Google+, a...
How to Create a Google+ Local Business Page for Your Hotel
This is a continuation from yesterday’s post, Google+ Local and Google Places for Hotels, which aimed to explain Google’s differen...
Google+ Local and Google Places for Hotels – The Ultimate Guide
This guide is split into two sections. This section explains Google’s offerings for businesses and how hotels can take advantage of them...
So Your Content is Live. What’s Next?
There are four steps to this guide. Read from the beginning or navigate to the section that suits you. Part 1: SEO Content Creation Part 2: S...
How to Plan a Trip – The Five Stages of Travel
Google released a neat interactive infographic that explains the five satges of travel guests take when planning a trip. Click on each stage t...
Maintaining Brand Consistency during the Switch to the buuteeq DMS
As a Concierge for buuteeq, there are many things that I see in my job every day that I think would be useful for people to see as they start ...
What is Web 2.0 and How your Hotel can Conquer it Naturally
As a Concierge at buuteeq, I see dozens of websites a day with outdated features and layouts that no longer serve the interests of the modern ...
How to Best Communicate with Guests – Four Simple Design Principles
Effective and beautiful web design starts with rich visuals and ends with concise wording. Visually appealing graphic design has four simple p...
buuteeq Webinar – The buuteeq Booking Engine
buuteeq Booking Engine I had the pleasure of speaking at the webinar about the buuteeq’s booking engine. It was my first webinar, and a...
