DBX FAQ
What is Digital Brand Experience for Hotels?
Screen Pilot's digital brand experience (DBX) services use a variety of techniques to attract more direct bookings, such as showcasing strategic imagery and persona-driven social media content, providing helpful and personalized information, and creating personalized paid advertising to speak directly to your future guests. By prioritizing the digital brand experience, hotels can create a memorable and frictionless experience for their guests, ultimately driving repeat business and positive word-of-mouth marketing.
In the luxury hotel and hospitality industry, digital brand experience is especially important as it plays a significant role in attracting and retaining high-end guests. A luxury hotel's website, social media accounts, organic website content, and paid media campaigns serve as the primary means for guests to learn about and book their stays, and therefore the quality of these digital touchpoints can make a big impact on a guests' overall perception of the hotel.
A positive DBX can differentiate a luxury hotel from its competitors and help to build brand loyalty among guests.
Why Do Hotels Need to Incorporate Digital Brand Experience (DBX) in their Overall Marketing Strategy?
Hotels need digital brand experience services in order to create a positive and memorable online presence that attracts and retains guests. In today's digital era, most travelers rely on the internet to research and book their accommodations, and a hotel's website and social media accounts are often the first point of contact for potential guests. Therefore, it is essential for hotels to create a strong and cohesive online brand image in order to stand out from the competition and attract guests.
Digital brand experience services can help hotels to optimize their website and other digital touchpoints in order to provide a seamless and enjoyable online experience for guests. This can include everything from design and functionality to content and customer service. By prioritizing the digital brand experience, hotels can differentiate themselves from competitors and build loyalty among their guests, ultimately driving repeat business and positive word-of-mouth marketing.
What’s Included in Your Digital Brand Experience Services?
Screen Pilot's award-winning digital brand experience services for hotels typically include a variety of tactics and techniques designed to enhance the overall online presence of your hotel and create a positive and memorable experience for guests. These services typically include:
- Website design and development: We improve the overall look and feel of the website(s), as well as its functionality and usability.
- Content marketing: We create personalized content that will resonate with the types of guests who stay at your hotel. This can include personalized things to do at and around your hotel, personalized amenities and room offerings, and specific offers that will persuade guests to book directly with you.
- Search engine optimization (SEO): This refers to the practice of optimizing your website and its content in order to rank higher in search engine results and attract more potential guests to your website. When you rank highly for terms guests are already searching for, such as “Things to do near Millennium Park”, you will appear.
- Social & Paid media integration: This involves sharing and promoting content that your guests will resonate with on social and paid media channels and directing them to personalized content on your hotel’s website.
Overall, the goal of digital brand experience services for hotels is to create a cohesive and immersive online experience that helps to attract and retain guests and build brand loyalty.
What Results Have You Seen From Digital Brand Experience?
Hotel teams that use Screen Pilot's DBX strategy consistently enjoy overperformance in KPIs, including an increase in conversion rates between 3X and 6X their previous average.
For specific case studies where DBX has increased our client’s direct bookings, social media engagement, and more, please visit our results page.
How is Digital Brand Experience Different From Digital Marketing?
Digital brand experience services for hotels differ from traditional digital marketing in that they focus specifically on creating a seamless and memorable online experience for high-end guests. While traditional digital marketing may focus more on driving traffic and leads to a hotel's website, digital brand experience services aim to enhance the overall perception of the hotel brand through the design, functionality, and content of the website and other digital touchpoints.
This may include features such as:
- Personalized content recommendations
- Interactive elements that help to engage and delight guests
- Creating a consistent and cohesive brand image across all digital channels
- Tone and language used in communication with guests
Overall, the goal of digital brand experience services for hotels is to create a high-quality and memorable online experience that helps to attract and retain high-end guests and build brand loyalty.
How do you measure the success of your digital brand experience efforts for hotels?
There are several ways that we measure the success of our digital brand experience efforts. One common method is through the use of website analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, which can provide insights into:
- Increased website traffic
- Increased user engagement on website
- Decreased bounce rates on website
- Increased repeat visitors to a website
- Increased direct bookings
- Increased look to book conversions
- Increased website entrances through social media
We work with hotels to set up personalized goals and objectives for their digital brand experience efforts, and regularly track and analyze the relevant metrics in order to understand the impact and effectiveness of these efforts. By regularly reviewing and analyzing these metrics, we can help hotels identify areas for improvement and optimize their digital brand experience strategy in order to better meet the needs and expectations of their guests.
Do Digital Brand Experience Services for Hotels Include SEO & Paid Ads?
Digital brand experience services include search engine optimization (SEO), paid media, and organic social media as part of an overall strategy to enhance a brand's online presence. The SEO portion of DBX refers to the practice of optimizing a hotel’s website and its content in order to rank higher in search engine results and attract more organic traffic. Paid media, on the other hand, refers to the use of paid advertising to promote a hotel’s website or brand. Organic social media refers to optimizing and building personalized content across a hotel’s social media sites to build trust, authority and interest with potential guests.
Both SEO, paid media, and organic social media can be effective in driving traffic and potential guests to a hotel’s website, and therefore are valuable components of a digital brand experience strategy. However, they are typically just one part of a larger, integrated approach that also includes other tactics such as website design, content marketing, and user experience. The goal of digital brand experience services is to create a cohesive and immersive online experience for potential hotel guests, and SEO, paid media, and organic social media are effective tools in helping to achieve this goal.