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5 Pinterest Marketing Tips for Your Hotel

Pinterest Marketing Tips for your Hotel
You’ve worked hard to make your hotel beautiful… to make it into a dream getaway… or a businessperson’s paradise. Your hotel’s amenities, architecture, location and landscaping are important commodities.

But are you making the most of all your hard work when it comes to your marketing? How can you ensure your marketing efforts are worthwhile?

The answer: marketing your hotel on Pinterest.

Now, I know what some of you may be thinking — that Pinterest is not a serious marketing tool. But consider this:

According to a guest blogger on social media expert, Mari Smith’s, website:

69% of Pinterest users have discovered at least one item they’ve found on Pinterest that they’ve wanted to buy
pins with price tags included get 36% more Likes than those that don’t

Pinterest can help your marketing efforts work harder and your marketing dollar go farther.

First things first…

The first thing you need to do is set up a Pinterest business page. Fortunately, Pinterest makes this easy—it will take you just minutes.

Next, complete your Pinterest profile. Then, with a little thought and planning, you can begin to create and populate your Pinterest boards.

Don’t think you have to complete your boards all at once. You can pin some initial photos and descriptions, and then build gradually as you have more material.

With a business account, you can also take advantage of a ‘Pin count tool’ and free analytics to track how your boards are doing.

5 tips to get you started

1. Use great photos!

This one is, perhaps, obvious, but I’m gonna say it anyway. Pinterest is just made for gorgeous photos. This is the time to let your hotel shine!

hotel guest picture, Pinterest marketingYou can use your own photographer and photos, but another great idea is to solicit photos from your customers. As long as they are good ones, photos from past and current customers will allow your hotel to look more real, more authentic. It’s a client testimonial, but in pictures.

2. Include the URL back to your website.

This is a must for driving traffic back to your site and, in fact, driving traffic is the whole purpose of social media. It’s a great pinning opportunity from not only your Pinterest page, but from your website as well.

If your site photos are beautiful and intriguing, people will pin them to their own Pinterest boards, thus doing your advertising for you. (Be sure to have the Pinterest ‘Pin It’ button available on your site, front and center, to make pinning easy.)

3. Create buzz with a contest.

Having a contest will create a lot of interest quickly. Everyone loves free stuff, and most travelers love to get deals. Be creative about your giveaway — the sky is the limit! The most obvious may be a free night or weekend at your hotel. Whatever giveaway you decide upon, make it worth their while to enter your contest, and be sure to take them back to your website to enter!

Follow these Pinterest guidelines and you won’t have any problems with violations.

4.Use hashtags

Are you annoyed by all those hashtags on social media? Don’t be! They can be your best friends if you use them wisely.

With each pin, consider using one or more of the following:
#travel
#hotel
#(your brand name here)
#vacation
#deals

You’ll be surprised, but pinners are searching hashtags for what you have to offer.

5. Provide value.

Think about what you would like to see as a consumer when pinning photos and material to your Pinterest boards. Provide something of value to your audience.

For instance, could you supply travel tips, with photos for each tip? How could you inspire, inform, engage?

Again, be creative according to your amenities, your location and the surrounding restaurants and businesses. With a little creativity and persistence, you can create a great Pinterest marketing campaign that will do your hotel justice, making it one that consumers will love to discover… and pin over and over again!

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About the Author
Known as The Insightful Copywriter, Gloria Grace Rand is also an inspirational speaker, author and host of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast. Prior to launching her SEO Copywriting business in 2009, Gloria spent nearly two decades in television, most notably as writer and producer for the award-winning PBS financial news program, “Nightly Business Report.”

Gloria turned to writing as a way to communicate, since growing up with an alcoholic father and abusive mother taught her that it was safer to be seen and not heard. But not speaking her truth caused Gloria problems such as overeating, control issues, and an inability to fully trust people. After investing in coaching & personal development programs, and studying spiritual books like “A Course in Miracles,” Gloria healed her emotional wounds. Today, she helps entrepreneurs develop clarity, confidence and connection to the truth of who you are, so you can create a business that has more impact, influence and income!

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