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Get off the social media merry-go-round with social commerce

Associate Dean and Full Professor of Digital Marketing at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Associate Professor in Marketing at EHL Hospitality Business School
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Synopsis

Most social media campaigns designed to engage with customers are unsuccessful, write Alessandro Inversini and Hilary Catherine Murphy, both of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, failing to generate brand awareness and, in most of the cases, any financial return on the investment. How can hotels avoid this? Try “social commerce” instead, the authors suggest.