Fairhotel
A beautiful hotel with a Sky Bar close to the center of Brno
A beautiful hotel with a Sky Bar close to the center of Brno
This Brno hotel gets fully booked, the Sky Bar attracts guests, and conference rooms are often booked weeks in advance.
Capable managers and ambitious hoteliers who want to offer the best services just a few steps from the Brno exhibition center. This is how we can introduce the central heroines of this story, Kamila Rousová and Iva Ledererová, in one sentence.
Mrs. Rousová’s parents bought a house in Rybářská Street in Brno a few years ago and renovated it expensively with the aim of building a luxurious but still affordable hotel. They wanted to offer accommodation not only to managers looking for an overnight stay on a business trip, but also to families with children who went on a trip to the South Moravian metropolis.
After years of effort, the four-star FAIRHOTEL offers not only excellent accommodation, but also an excellent restaurant and, as an attraction, a Sky Bar on the terrace where guests can enjoy an early evening drink or perhaps breakfast while looking at Petrov, Špilberk and other Brno landmarks. In summer, you can stretch your body in the Sky Bar during regular yoga lessons.
FAIRHOTEL approached us at Four Bros, based on references, with a request for comprehensive marketing, which included performance campaigns and content marketing, and also wanted to improve the presentation on social networks. The goal was to invite new guests, retain them, and at the same time, increase brand awareness of the hotel and the services it offers.
By mutual agreement, we also intervened slightly in several purely organizational matters, such as the menu or the work of the receptionist who navigates the guests accurately and quickly to the Sky Bar.
In order to get to know the hotel and its offer better, we visited the restaurant several times and then washed down the food with a few sips of a good drink. To tell the truth, sitting on a terrace, sipping a mojito, for example, and watching the vibrant city below is highly addictive. We knew right away that this place was definitely worth showing to other people, and we set to work with gusto.
Our cooperation started with the creation of a content strategy for social networks. This can simply be seen as a list of topics that are worth informing about. We divided the strategy into four communication pillars that corresponded to what Kamila and Iva wanted to raise awareness among people: Restaurant, Sky Bar, Conference rooms and Hotel. On these pillars, the content of social networks began to emerge, the management of which we eventually took over.
Above all, we wanted to get more posts on Facebook and Instagram that would promote the restaurant as a place where you can eat well even during the working day, at attractive prices. According to Iva and Kamila, people were afraid to eat in the hotel restaurant because of the fear of a certain exclusivity and the resulting higher prices. A social media campaign featuring the weekly menu every Monday was intended to allay these concerns.
Together with her, we also arranged for the placement of navigation boards directly in front of the hotel and instructed the receptionists who were supposed to welcome the guests and point them in the right direction.
Posts from the restaurant were regularly supplemented with content related to the Sky Bar and the hotel in general, and if necessary, we also included news. We have successfully invited guests to, for example, St. Martin’s goose dinner or events held in the bar. We consider regularity and consistency to be one of the cornerstones without which social networks cannot be well managed, and good content also served as a basis for launching performance campaigns.
Quality photos and videos are also an integral part of the content. With colleagues from HotCat Production, we arranged three photo shoots and filming. This resulted in very attractive photos of the restaurant’s new menu, which directly encourages guests to visit, or beautiful photos of fireworks, as they can be observed directly from the terrace.
The materials were a hit with audiences on Facebook and Instagram, and can be reused in the future. We also recommended the FAIRHOTEL to rephotograph the wellness center, sauna, and breakfast to unify the graphic image.
We have also improved e-mailing. We worked out a schedule for what to send and when, tweaked the email template and explained how to work with this tool as efficiently as possible.
The website has also undergone changes under our leadership. We helped edit the texts to make them more attractive not only for readers, but also for search engines, we also added new and high-quality photos. The site has been greatly enhanced by this and now represents the hotel in a truly dignified manner, exactly as it deserves.
Along with that, we worked on advertising campaigns on Google and Seznam. We adjusted their keywords to better match what people are searching for. The setting of KPIs, according to which the success of campaigns can be evaluated, also underwent a change.
Supplementing ads with the so-called extensions, which make them more attractive to search engines which display them better later on, has proven to be extremely effective. These extensions include, for example, interesting graphics or links.
Together with the web developer, we also edited the landing pages directly on the hotel’s website, to which users clicked through the advertisements. We worked on their attractiveness and informational value and simplified the process of booking. Thanks to this, booking a hotel room or a conference room is easier and faster now.
Let’s add that the contents of social networks and campaigns were coordinated with each other, so that the communication towards the audience was uniform and clear.
We quickly realized that we were doing the right thing. In a short period of time, the organic traffic of the hotel website doubled, within two months since the campaign launch, the number of reservations increased by more than 300%. The amount of time users spent on the website also increased by 62%.
The ad was clearly aimed at relevant, interested people who, after clicking on the hotel website, viewed the pages in a greater detail instead of leaving them after a few seconds. Also, according to the manager, the number of guests coming to the restaurant for the lunch menu has visibly increased, as has the number of dinner reservations.
Facebook campaigns also proved to be a hit. Thanks to them, we managed to book the Sky Bar for private events for all weekends in the season. In their case, too, it proved to be an important new creative that managed to attract a large number of people interested.
After consultations on how to proceed further, Kamila and Iva expressed a desire to take the management of social networks back into their own hands. We taught them how to create the best Facebook and Instagram posts.
For example, we explained to them what the above-mentioned pillars of communication are, what essentials a good Facebook post should have, or how best to take a good photo that will complement quality content. Our colleagues at HotCat Productions helped us with the last point.
Mutual trust and exemplary cooperation bore fruit. New guests come to the Sky Bar, the rooms are occupied not only during fairs at the nearby exhibition center, and the conference room is booked weeks in advance. The high rating of 9 points out of 10 on Booking.com, which is supplemented by “Fantastic”, proves that the hotel is really popular among clients.
Last but not least, Iva and Kamila learned how to take care of their Facebook and Instagram profiles themselves, so that the posts are at a professional level and can attract attention at first glance. Thanks to this, social networks help to promote the hotel and its offer in a stylish and effective way.
We still have PPC campaigns under our management and they are doing well. The number of reservations is holding steady and with summer holidays coming we expect it to increase even more.