Facebook Marketing Tips For Hotels is one of the latest articles popping up encouraging bricks and mortar businesses to wake up about the power of the Social Web…in this case Facebook.

Social media has become the hottest method of marketing in today’s world. Millions of people are using Facebook every day – that’s a market that needs to be tapped. With the creation of the Facebook “news feed”, getting information about you to other people has never been more simple.

As a hotel, you can certainly use Facebook as an effective method to bring in more guests. However, you need to be careful. Like any marketing method, if done incorrectly, it can become a tremendous waste of both time and money. Here are a few ways that you can market on Facebook without wasting your time or your money:

The rest of the article goes into more details as to what hotels can do specifically…heres a summary of the 10 suggestions.

1) Create a profile so people can contact you

2) Post an event.

3) Post some pictures or videos.

4) Share news articles.

5) Create a Facebook group.

6) Create a Facebook page.

7) Post a classified ad on Facebook Marketplace.

8) Purchase Social Ads.

9) Start a poll.

10) Sponsor a Facebook Application.

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G. Wayne Clayton is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Integerol LLC  along with SocialMarketingExpert.org.  He’s a former newspaper publisher and investigative journalist. He has been seen seen and heard on CNN, Fox News Talk radio, quoted in The Toronto Star and is a Guest Blogger on FastCompany.com.