Island Inn Sanibel
Established in 1895, Island Inn began as the home of Will and Harriet Matthews who traded the harsher climate of the north for the more temperate, year round weather of Sanibel Island. After years of entertaining friends and family, the Matthews decided to turn their home into a boarding house. From this grew the gracious tradition of the historic Island Inn that now hosts families and friends from around the world.
The Challenge
Island Inn started to experience an increase in competition from third party booking websites. In addition, increased marketing efforts by competitor hotels decreased Island Inn click through rates, and increased the average cost per click. Notably, local competition started mimicking Island Inn’s local and digital marketing strategies. Island Inn needed a marketing strategy designed to spotlight their most unique features in order to convert pageviews into bookings.
Our Solution
InteractOne focused on increasing overall marketing efforts and established budgets specifically to get the highest Return On Investment (ROI) through pay-per-click (PPC). For Island Inn, the goal is to maximize the number of direct bookings at their inn for the assigned PPC budget and related tactics.
We started by switching email marketing platforms from Constant Contact to the marketing automation platform, SharpSpring. The switch allowed us to create a system to track users coming to the site via PPC as well as their actions on the website. We also remarket to subscribing visitors based on actions performed on-site. This helped to leverage the unique parts of the website, such as Island Inn’s beach cam feature, which has frequent direct traffic, but few conversions.
When users want to catch a glimpse of the breathtaking views via the beach cam, a follow-up email is triggered through SharpSpring with content geared toward the weather and offers exclusive rates.
Finally, we utilized Google Tag Manager for better event tracking. Through better event tracking, we are able to focus the marketing budget to higher-value visitors, and report the ROI of each tactic to continually improve our strategy.
Drop Us a Line At:
Or, if you prefer an old-fashioned phone call:
Phone (USA): (513) 469-3362
4665 Cornell Rd. Suite 255
Cincinnati, OH 45241
