Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Final Exam - Take Home - Due February 6

Final Exam – MBA Digital Marketing

Due -February 6 – Email by 9 PM

Please email me your final exam by 9 PM February 6st. You may send it on a Word Doc, so that I can make notes/comments. Plan to create a http://issuu.com/ document, so that you can load it into your blog. The Issuu should be done by Februrary 10.


Grading -

New, insights beyond what was discussed in the classroom – excellent examples – 20 to 17

Concise, impact analysis – with appropriate supporting examples – 16 -12

Long descriptive narrative, no clear conclusions – ok examples – 11 – 8

Description – no analysis, difficult to follow – unsatisfactory – 7 + lower


1.

Read the entire article linked below – then choose one Resolution that you think would have the most + positive impact on a hotel's internet success -

http://www.hospitalityebusiness.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HeBS-Best-Practices-2011-Social-Media-Resolutions1.pdf


Provide your analysis:

  • Why do you feel this particular Resolution is most important – for what types of hotels

  • What additional actions would give that Resolution even greater impact – drive more impressive results

  • Research 3 examples of hotels (or other businesses) that are successfully executing this Resolution online

  • Take screenshots of each example

  • Comment below the screenshot how the examples you have chosen supports the selected Resolution

    2.From the article, what role does technology play in a hotel's internet strategy success? If you are an independent, limited budget hotel (or business) what steps would you take to compete effectively online?

    • Research 2 hotels or businesses that are creatively reaching customers, without expending large resources – as the large chains are capable of doing.

    • Take screen shots of those examples, include in your answer

  1. From the Build Your Own Brand video series – what are they KEY elements to online branding, according to Loic LeMeur?

  • Research 2 hotels or businesses that are using the KEY elements successfully, in your view

  • Take screenshots, include in your answer comment on why you have chosen these 2 examples


  1. From the Build Your Own Brand video series – choose any 2 online tools that were mentioned:

  • Include a text link to each tool

  • Describe how a hotel could use these tools to effectively engage their customers

  • What actions would be needed to put the tools in place, in a hotel?

  • How could the selected tools be utilized across channels

  • What problems would the use of the selected tools solve

  • What problems would the selected tools create

  • Why did you selected these specific tools


  1. Select 5 of of the following terms. Define in your own words – include a screenshot example of each term

  • Location based services

  • Plug and Play

  • White Label

  • Rate Parity

  • PPC

  • Social Rewards

  • Aggregator site

  • Social commerce

  • Tweets

  • Social Media

2 comments:

  1. Here is my work:
    http://sp-digitalmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/02/internet-digital-marketing-strategies.html

    Enjoy it :-)

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  2. i get many valuable information here which is very important i like it. i am in terested in digital marketing for Digital Marketing is the new concept of marketing in the era of increasing popularity of internet marketing.

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