Case Study – Social Media – Bear Hotel August Accommodation Offer Campaign

We received this from Leigh Forman of the Bear Hotel in Cowbridge near Cardiff.
Leigh came on a number of short Internet Marketing Workshops with Web Adept this year and it’s great to see the results attendees are getting if they put the ideas into motion. Thanks Leigh for passing on this great case study.

2 hours work – 9 booking = £775.50
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Our Reception Manager Aimee highlighted 2 key dates in
August that had low occupancy due to local weddings not requiring rooms.
Clare, our Sales & Marketing Manager put together an offer,
highlighting what events were on offer over these 2 weekends and we decided to
try it with an on-line offer.
I gave the campaign a unique code so that we could track the
business that came from it.
http://www.bearhotel.com/grab-a-last-minute-august-offer/
This
last minute offer is available on Friday 19^th August and Saturday 27^th
August only (Quote WB-AUG11)
Enjoy a
night’s stay with Dinner in our Cellars Restaurant, wake up to enjoy a full
Welsh breakfast the following morning, all for the crazy price of
£99.00
per couple
Cowbridge
is the perfect location for people to stay if they want to visit the
sights of South Wales, with numerous interesting places to visit. Whether you take
a drive along our beautiful Glamorgan Heritage Coastline, stroll through the
delightful market town of Cowbridge or shop until you drop in Cardiff’s St
David’s Centre you’ll always find plenty to do.
This
August, enjoy the Family Fun Weekend on 20^th & 21^st at
the nearby Dyffryn
Gardens or the Cardiff
Harbour Festival on 27^th – 29^th
August. Come rain or shine there is always something exhilarating about a
visit to the coast and countryside of the Vale of Glamorgan.
Contact
our Reception Team to make a booking on 01446 774814 option 1
or Email: enquiries@bearhotel.com
We look
forward to welcoming you!
Aimee emailed it to 100 addresses from her database. I put
it on our Website, Facebook & Twitter:
Stats:

It took around 2 hours to put the advert together and the
time to upload it to the website. Having
a specific campaign helped to track the business as I could give it a unique
code.
The next campaign we do, I’ll tweet it more often,
highlighting the local attractions/events.
Very pleased to have 9 bookings from such a small campaign,
it proves to me that Social Media, used correctly can be effective. Thanks to Web Adept & Creative Rural
Tourism for the workshops I attended earlier in the year to help me understand
how to use Social Media to market the business.
We’ll be using it more for future promotions.
 
By Angus Findlay