For many independent and even big hotel chains, map marketing is a much under utilised marketing resource. Google is continually integrating its web aps with Google Maps. Many hotels fail to up-date their Google+ business page profile and worse still some fail to claim management of their Google+ profile, leaving it:
Another form of discovery by travellers is they know the brand Google Maps, go to it and start searching for hotels near their destination such as a convention centre, airport, river, mountain, lake, beach etc. Eg for me I look for accommodation near nice beaches while my wife +Suree Sribuathet looks for swimming pools from satellite photos used to make Google Earth.
Another benefit is: Google maps are easily embedded on your web pages. Eg We embedded our mapgoogle.org at the bottom of our accommodationnear.com
All our web marketing clients get a free pin on our maps for years as a bonus reward for loyalty, containing:
Last map marketing tip: If you have a land mark near your hotel and want to add it to Google maps, you can add it via www.google.com/mapmaker Then when travellers search for the landmark, they'll see your nearby hotel's Google+ profile.
If you need help with creating a Google map or need to know why or how's of marketing advice or any other type of digital marketing advice, phone our map marketer, 8 to 5 Western Australian Standard time, Monday to Friday for up-to 10 minutes of free consultation or contact me via 4webmarketing.biz/contact.htm
For a start, to get a pin on Google Maps, you'll need a phone that Google
can send an SMS to confirm you own that location. You should have your phone
on and ready to type the SMS'ed code for verification into your Google My
Business text box.
You will not need any of this if you want your $100 pin on
www.mapgoogle.org We are here to help you with your
Google My Business marketing. We
are NOT Google. You can either add your own pin on Google Maps via Google My
Business or you can open your account with "4 Web Marketing" and
then contact us with:
COST OF Google MAP MARKETING
Pins on Google maps are free but if you're too busy to add your pin, we can, for a small fee of $200. The map marketing fee depends on the content in your pin. If it's just some text like "ACME Co. here we are" Then $100 should cover invoicing, liason and actually placing your pin. It also depends of which Google map. If it's our www.mapgoogle.org, we can also add much more of your content included in the $100, but if you needed video production for in your map pin, that adds a minimum of $500 to cost of your pin.