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TRADITIONAL WEBSITE |
| It’s Very User-Friendly |
weak(er) in user-friendliness and high on complexity |
| HOSTEL-BLOG allows non-technical people to manage content easly |
More robust and feature-filled CMSes done to solve complicated webprojects |
| Bloggers link to your valuable content on a regular basic |
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| Blogs’ tools are designed for search engine to access and index it’s content |
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| There are Tons of Great Themes/Templates for It |
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| The huge repository of currently available WP plugins already ensures that your job is half done. |
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Whatever method you choose, there are usually four main goals:
Improved customers relations
- Regular information about your hostel and creation and stimulation of demand for it among budget travelers worldwide.
- It gives serious trouble to adust manually information according to latest changes in your hostel.
- You’re interacting with others on social media channels in order to increase demand for budget travelling in your hostel´s area. You’re increasing your visibility in the right places. This way networking also works to bring visitors back to your website
Improved reputation
- Controlling your hostel´s reputation, ratings.
- You run and update your marketing manually.
- In order to improve the impression of your website onto visitors you take part in backpackers´ forums or networking sites and react asap to feedback. You keep all communication channels open. You improve your reputation as an expert by taking permanently part in discussions on topics that are relevant to budget travellers.
Personal Development
- Improve your business - enable yourself to run a state-of-the-art hostel that meets budget travellers´expectations worldwide
- You analyse the tourist markets and later adjust your hostel´s offers accordingly.
- Communication with the young travellers will keep you informed about happenings in the backpackers´ scene. Seeing their reflections is a perfect way to improve your own experience in the travel branch.
Relationships with benefits
- Mutual benefits.
- You search for useful reliable information and business contacts.
- Networking with others can mean free benefits such as testimonials, links or recommendations. When you interact with them you are even more likely to provide each other mutually with a benefit.
Immediate feedback
- Use rather incoming information instantly instead of responding to complaints.
- Often delayed reaction to ratings and complaints.
- See immediately needs and demands within the backpacker community. To avoid wasting money and power you can easily check effect and feedback before establishing new ideas or structures
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