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Old 3rd July 2009, 17:17
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Default Case Study: Social Media for Hostels

Jorge Ferrari from Hostel Colonial wrote about his success with using social media for hostel marketing:
http://hostelbuenosaires.blogspot.co...nos-aires.html
  • 900 blog posts in main blog
  • 100 posts in other blogs
  • 1000 photos published online
  • 400 photos on Tumblr

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1 – Filled beds.
2 – Blogger blog + Wordpress blog + Tumblelog = 79.188 unique visitors in the last 6 months. WOW!
I've mentioned Hostel Colonial's great use of social media a few times:
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I´ve been following him for some months now.
Great job.
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