Hello everyone and welcome to Hospitality Digital Marketing the podcast, I am your host Loren gray and this is episode #120,  we are airing Friday September 9th 2016 were every week we spend around 20 minutes sharing the most interesting tools, news and techniques being used in digital marketing for the hospitality industry. We also do a quick recap of our weekly Live Video show “This Week in Hospitality Digital Marketing” which also aires every Friday at 10:30 am Central US Time. SO lets get started;

Designrr.io — taking websites and converting them into ebooks.

LinkedIn Updates Publisher Experience: LinkedIn rolled out “a new publishing experience” that makes it “even easier for you to reach and engage with your audience on LinkedIn.” The new and enhanced desktop publishing experience on LinkedIn includes “a sleek intuitive interface, more text and font options and a beautiful new reading view that removes distractions and noise from the page.” According to the LinkedIn Official Blog, the new desktop publishing experience is currently only available in the U.S. and “will be available to international [publishers] soon.”

Facebook Introduces New Tools and Resources for Global Businesses: Facebook introduced “new resources and solutions to help [businesses] expand across the globe, from wherever they are.” These new tools include “a new feature in the Lookalike Audiences tool to reach customers in new countries who are similar to their existing ones” and the ability to “[extend] location targeting capabilities by selecting a worldwide region or trade zone… and then optimize delivery to the countries with the greatest return.” Facebook also offers “solutions to help businesses optimize their global campaign strategy, including webinars on international marketing with Facebook and a handbook on finding the right customers in new countries.”

Twitter Rolls Out New Features for Direct Messages: Twitter announced that “Direct Messages are more dynamic than ever with read receipts, typing indicators and web link previews.” According to TechCrunch, these new features “ to make [Twitter] more competitive with mobile messaging clients, including the recently upgraded iMessage arriving in iOS 10” and Facebook Messenger. These new features are now available to all users.

Dasheroo lets you create customized dashboards to view everything from Facebook and Twitter to Google Analytics and your email marketing metrics, all in one place. It integrates with more than 27 applications like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, PayPal, SurveyMonkey, Google Analytics, and more.

Co-Host Edward St Onge

Skifts 250 article discussion https://skift.com/traveltech250/?utm_content=39441620&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook and the lack of some integrity on several ‘news’ platforms

Expedia and Marriott news article on Skift about Marriott vacations joined services with Expedia https://skift.com/2016/09/06/expedia-is-now-helping-marriott-sell-hotels-on-the-chains-website/

Makes a statement of lost opportunity during all this merging changes within companies

before you disagree with someone ask, “Why are you doing that”? when it comes to any effort

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