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		<title>Eco-luxe Caribbean Resort Selects MP&amp;A for Digital Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2011/11/22/eco-luxe-caribbean-resort-selects-mpa-for-digital-marketing-advertising-and-public-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosalie Bay Resort on Dominica retains Madigan Pratt &#38; Associates for expertise in marketing luxury Caribbean hotels and resorts. The digital marketing agency will design a new SEO-optimized website and launch a fully integrated marketing program for the 28-room eco-luxe and wellness resort. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Madigan Pratt &#38; Associates, specialists in hotel marketing, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Hotel Addiction to OTAs</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2011/01/25/breaking-the-hotel-addiction-to-otas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate, wine and sex are good examples of things that are good for you when used in moderation. However, when taken to excess they can become addictive and hazardous to your physical and financial health. The same holds true in hospitality...take OTAs for example.]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Are Killing Us!</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/07/16/the-media-is-killing-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social Security Administration recently held its first conference since 2001 which included 700 attendees at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.   Perhaps you heard about it because of the brouhaha raised by ABC News when they offered a totally unflattering report. If not, you can read and see it here. Just in case you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are All Hotel Marketers Liars?</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/07/07/are-all-hotel-marketers-liars/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/07/07/are-all-hotel-marketers-liars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a hospitality marketing professional you and I both know we&#8217;re not.  But even Seth Godin would be hard pressed to think otherwise after reading the press releases for the new, over-hyped online hotel review site Oyster.com. Essentially, Oyster.com is a hotel review site that sends professionals to stay at and review individual hotels.  Purported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Hate TripAdvisor &#8211; sometimes</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/06/04/why-i-hate-tripadvisor-sometimes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/06/04/why-i-hate-tripadvisor-sometimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a regular reader of HospitalityMarketingBlog.com you know I&#8217;m a raving fan of TripAdvisor.  With over 20 million reviews there&#8217;s hardly any guest who enters the door of a luxury hotel who hasn&#8217;t first read about the property on TripAdvisor. The TripAdvisor Home Page proudly boasts, &#8220;more than 15,000,000 travelers from 190 countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase Web Traffic &#8211; Stop Advertising!</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/04/22/increase-web-traffic-stop-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/04/22/increase-web-traffic-stop-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet serves as the foundation for most luxury hotel marketing programs today.  It&#8217;s used to launch relationship building emails and send tactical offers.  Press releases must pass search engine optimization tests and advertising, promotional and linking opportunities abound. At the center of all this Internet activity is the hotel&#8217;s own web site.  So it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways to Fill Luxury Hotels</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/04/14/ways-to-fill-luxury-hotels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2009/04/14/ways-to-fill-luxury-hotels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once thought to be somewhat impervious to economic downturns, luxury hotels are among the hardest hit in the current worldwide recession. So what should a luxury hospitality marketing executive do &#8211; and not do now?  That&#8217;s what David Wilkening, Associate Editor for Hotel Interactive set out to answer when he interviewed six top hospitality marketing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Hotel Belong on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/10/20/does-your-company-belong-on-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/10/20/does-your-company-belong-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies sure seem to be falling all over themselves to be the first on the web 2.0 social networking bandwagon. YouTube MySpace Facebook, Etc. But there are many land mines that than can implode your marketing program before your very eyes.  Before your ad agency launches you into the great unknown ask yourself. What are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pity the Poor Packaged Goods Marketers</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/03/05/pity-the-poor-packaged-goods-marketers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/03/05/pity-the-poor-packaged-goods-marketers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started in travel marketing many industry professional looked longingly at packaged goods marketers. Companies like Procter &#38; Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive were admired for their research, budgets, and marketing prowess. That was then, This is now. Small luxury hoteliers can stop their envy and start pitying these packaged goods Goliaths who have lost their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why People Hate Some Hotels</title>
		<link>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/01/16/why-people-hate-some-hotels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.madiganpratt.com/2008/01/16/why-people-hate-some-hotels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madigan Pratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting here writing this post in a rocking chair at the Charlotte, NC airport while enjoying free Internet service. It&#8217;s great. I love it! But it got me to thinking about the last three days. I &#8216;m returning home from attending a hotel conference in the Bahamas earlier this week where I stayed at [...]]]></description>
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