Right from the start I was impressed and thought I would relay a very important passage regarding professional content vs. content generated by the actual business owner.
Jones writes:
"Quality Content Books More Hotel Rooms for Holiday Inn
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)-an international hotel company with seven brands including InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Crown Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites--conducted a content experiment with remarkable results. IHG wanted to know whether professional-quality content about their hotel properties would perform better than the regular content, which was created by property owners. In other words, would professional photos and descriptions of a hotel influence customers to book it better than the owner-generated photos and descriptions?
IHG created high-quality photos and text for a sample of Holiday Inn hotels. Then, they diverted a segment of holidayinn.com visitors to that sample of hotels. Finally, IHG conducted extensive analysis to compare booking for the sample hotels and the hotels with owner-generated content.
The results were stunning. Hotel properties with the high-quality photos and text outperformed owner-generated photos and text by a statistically significant margin. While IHG cannot release the exact number, the results were so impressive that executives kicked off a long-term project to revamp the photos and descriptions for all Holiday Inn hotels.
'We were amazed at the impact that better quality content had on online hotel bookings. Our goal is to connect guests with great hotels. We believe that professional photos and descriptions help guests more easily decide whether a property is right for them,''says John Muehlebauer, Director of Product Strategy and Planning."
Comment: Jones' analysis of the ongoing debate regarding Professional vs. Homegrown content is spot on and finishes with the statement "…these elements are not easy or cheap, but they're achievable and necessary if you want results." Wow, that's a powerful statement and underscores what industry professionals, like Robert Scoble, have been saying for years: There are too many lousy websites out there!
I highly recommend you pick up Colleen Jones' book "Clout" and dive right in! If you've already read it, what did you think?
Preston Ehrler, Webvantix ‘Sales and Marketing’ Book Review
Recently I started reading the book Clout, The Art and Science of Influential Web Content by Colleen Jones. While most small business owners are, understandably, too busy to read a book about website content, I could not resist taking a closer look.
Right from the start I was impressed and thought I would relay a very important passage regarding professional content vs. content generated by the actual business owner.
Jones writes:
"Quality Content Books More Hotel Rooms for Holiday Inn
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)-an international hotel company with seven brands including InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Crown Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites--conducted a content experiment with remarkable results. IHG wanted to know whether professional-quality content about their hotel properties would perform better than the regular content, which was created by property owners. In other words, would professional photos and descriptions of a hotel influence customers to book it better than the owner-generated photos and descriptions?
IHG created high-quality photos and text for a sample of Holiday Inn hotels. Then, they diverted a segment of holidayinn.com visitors to that sample of hotels. Finally, IHG conducted extensive analysis to compare booking for the sample hotels and the hotels with owner-generated content.
The results were stunning. Hotel properties with the high-quality photos and text outperformed owner-generated photos and text by a statistically significant margin. While IHG cannot release the exact number, the results were so impressive that executives kicked off a long-term project to revamp the photos and descriptions for all Holiday Inn hotels.
'We were amazed at the impact that better quality content had on online hotel bookings. Our goal is to connect guests with great hotels. We believe that professional photos and descriptions help guests more easily decide whether a property is right for them,''says John Muehlebauer, Director of Product Strategy and Planning."
Comment: Jones' analysis of the ongoing debate regarding Professional vs. Homegrown content is spot on and finishes with the statement "…these elements are not easy or cheap, but they're achievable and necessary if you want results." Wow, that's a powerful statement and underscores what industry professionals, like Robert Scoble, have been saying for years: There are too many lousy websites out there!
I highly recommend you pick up Colleen Jones' book "Clout" and dive right in! If you've already read it, what did you think?
Preston Ehrler, Webvantix
Right from the start I was impressed and thought I would relay a very important passage regarding professional content vs. content generated by the actual business owner.
Jones writes:
"Quality Content Books More Hotel Rooms for Holiday Inn
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)-an international hotel company with seven brands including InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Crown Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites--conducted a content experiment with remarkable results. IHG wanted to know whether professional-quality content about their hotel properties would perform better than the regular content, which was created by property owners. In other words, would professional photos and descriptions of a hotel influence customers to book it better than the owner-generated photos and descriptions?
IHG created high-quality photos and text for a sample of Holiday Inn hotels. Then, they diverted a segment of holidayinn.com visitors to that sample of hotels. Finally, IHG conducted extensive analysis to compare booking for the sample hotels and the hotels with owner-generated content.
The results were stunning. Hotel properties with the high-quality photos and text outperformed owner-generated photos and text by a statistically significant margin. While IHG cannot release the exact number, the results were so impressive that executives kicked off a long-term project to revamp the photos and descriptions for all Holiday Inn hotels.
'We were amazed at the impact that better quality content had on online hotel bookings. Our goal is to connect guests with great hotels. We believe that professional photos and descriptions help guests more easily decide whether a property is right for them,''says John Muehlebauer, Director of Product Strategy and Planning."
Comment: Jones' analysis of the ongoing debate regarding Professional vs. Homegrown content is spot on and finishes with the statement "…these elements are not easy or cheap, but they're achievable and necessary if you want results." Wow, that's a powerful statement and underscores what industry professionals, like Robert Scoble, have been saying for years: There are too many lousy websites out there!
I highly recommend you pick up Colleen Jones' book "Clout" and dive right in! If you've already read it, what did you think?
Preston Ehrler, Webvantix Buy Ultram Without Prescription, Here are a few thoughts on Social Media Marketing and books by Gary Vaynerchuk (Crush It!) and Tamar Weinberg (The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web). These are two great books that will enlighten any business when preparing to kick off a social media marketing campaign, and as they are very different, both should be required reading.
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I highly recommend Tom Hopkins' How to Master the Art of Selling, but use it wisely and learn the skill of listening to your prospects and working with them to find the best solution to their problems...
Next time let's discuss proper listening.
I hope you've enjoyed the review; please let me know what you think, I'm interested in all opinions.
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