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Archive for May, 2007

And … Action!

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Pictures say more than a thousand words …. and so we decided to add photos to all tips and reviews. Want to share photos from your vacation of hotels, restaurants, attractions and more - just upload your photos and add them to your tip or review.

User photos

But wait! Videos say more than a thousand pictures.
So we decided to throw in a video upload tool as well. Just for the fun of it …

Video

Hungry? We will feed you!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

As of today you will be able to subscribe to RSS feeds on various levels for all sites of the GoSeeTell Network.

Some examples:
- Feeds for all new tips for each site (Fun Stuff - New tips)
- Feeds for each of the over 90,000 cities featured on the GoSeeTell Network (”Newest tips”)
- Personalized feeds with recommendations for each user and for each of the 90,000 cities (”Things you might like”)

Just look for the little orange RSS symbols to add your feed.

If you are not sure what RSS feeds are, you can learn more at Wikipedia.

Talk to them!

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Consumers who participate in travel sites that offer user generated content want suppliers to interact with them.

Compete, Inc. today announced findings from its latest study, “Consumer Generated Content in Travel”, which finds that a majority of consumers support a brand responding to consumer generated reviews. Travelers are increasingly turning to their peers as a valued research source and encourage travel marketers to join them in this dialogue.

So you hotels, attractions, restaurants and other suppliers out there: your customers - and potential customers want to hear from you!

Give them what they want, because a lot of money is at stake:

Compete estimates that consumer generated content (CGC) influences over $10 billion a year in online travel. With consumers finding CGC more credible than they do professional reviews or information from travel companies, CGC has emerged as a critical source of travel information.

More on the study at Hotelmarketing.com.