2. History
● Funded by the Kellogg Foundation, the Kellogg Hotel and Conference
Center at Michigan State University became the first Kellogg Center for
continuing education.
● It served its first guests on September 17, 1951.
● 2010-2011 Revenue : $13 Million*
● Services offered:
● Fine Dining
● Lodging
– 160 Guest Rooms and Suites*
● Conference and event centers
– 35,000 Square Feet*
*Facts obtained from http://marketing.hfs.msu.edu/resources/documents/SHG_MarkPlan_Summary.pdf
3. Problems
● Slow economy means slow tourism and less bookings.
● Very Competitive market with many hotels available and varying competitive
rates.
● Social Media:
● Facebook Page is static.
– There is no picture and no way of
interaction or any information for the
hotel other than where it is located,
a phone number and the website URL.
● Foursqaure page looks better, however there is negative feedback from
consumers and it is not clear if the hotel addressed the issues or tried to
communicate back to the unsatisfied consumers.
● Website:
● Dull, Dark and a lot of empty space
● Very difficult to navigate to other pages
from it and mostly they talk about their
services rather than how those services
help consumers.
4. The Campaign
● The Campaign will start with the use of Google Adwords.
● Some keywords that should be use throughout the website, social media
pages and blog posts are:
– Luxury Conference room - 3 star Event Planning
– Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center - Banquet Hall Fine Dining
– Kellogg Foundation - East Lansing
– Event Hall MSU - In Lansing
– Wedding Reception - Conference room
– Event Planning - Kellogg Center
– Fine Dining - MSU
– State Room - Romantic ideas
● Using these words allows the many pages the Kellogg Hotel and Conference
Center will have to be as Search Engine Optimized as possible.
● It will ideally target Key Decision makers between the ages of 18 through 55.
● The reason for such a large gap is that some MSU student's rent out rooms at the Kellogg to get
away with significant others. They also rent out hall space for events through student
organizations. This age group also encompasses young couples looking for a place to hold a
wedding reception, companies looking to hold conferences. Business people looking for lodging
during their business trip to Lansing and East Lansing and finally parents and others visiting from
out of town, either for an event or to visit their children.
5. Website Reinvention
● First step is to integrate the keywords into the content on the web page.
● This is possible by incorporating the words into titles, descriptions, links,
and over the body content of posts.
● If done correctly, this will help the website appear towards the top of
search results when people use Google search.
● The next step is to make the website as user friend as possible.
● Move the navigation over to the left hand side and make it easier to use
the pull down tabs under each heading.
● Next, even thought white space can give the website a nice clean look,
that is not the case with www.Kellogcenter.com, the white space makes
the content portion look to tight and like they did not have enough space
to do good work. This step would include making the right and left
margins a little bigger to make the text not look as tight.
● The website will also include more pictures, some uploaded by the hotel
staff and others can be uploaded by guests.
● It will also include an area where the hotel and consumers can interact
with each other, such as badges and links to the Hotel's social media
pages.
6. Build up Social Media
● The Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center can do a lot with social media.
● Facebook:
● More content and information about the hotel
● Open up the wall on the page so that clients, potential clients and the hotel
can all interact.
– Letting the hotel interact with potential clients can help increase the
chances of that potential client booking a room for a weekend stay or for
an event.
● Add pictures and allow people to add pictures onto Facebook. This can help
“word of mouth” buzz generate and go around the internet world.
● Twitter:
● Creating a Twitter allows Kellogg Hotel to interact directly with potential
consumers. They can use Twitter to offer special offers, as well as news
about upcoming events at the hotel.
● Foursquare:
● The hotel does have an account, on that account there is some negative
feedback from consumers. The hotel will use foursquare to address these
negative issues. As well as to use it to keep track of the number of times
guests stay and offer them better incentives or free gifts for being loyal
patrons
7. Let's Blog
● A blog is a great way to let consumers and interested parties know that you
have real people working for you and that you are interested in the ups and
downs of the industry you're in and that you can be trusted since you are
willing to let the public know.
● Since the Kellogg Hotel and Conference center at MSU is one of the top
hospitality business colleges in the United States, it would help to have a
blog to keep this image at the top of peoples' minds.
● Imagine people looking for a place to stay stumbling upon your blog in
their search results and learning a lot about the hotel and conference
industry in a matter of minutes. They would probably be more likely to
reserve a room after the fact. And the best part is that since the Kellogg
Hotel and Conference center is also a conference and event venue, you
have authority in those industries as well, and you can incorporate it all
into a neat, organized and clean blog.
● Since it is free to open social media accounts, all it would cost the company
is, at the lowest, an intern salary and training, if you can get an unpaid intern
even better and cheaper!
8. Going Mobile
● With using mobile to our advantage Kellogg Hotel will be able to send a text
message the moment someone types in hotels in Lansing on their mobile
web browser, notifying them of a special rate just for them and allowing them
to reserve the room with a touch of the button.
● Mobile advertising is also a great way to increase interest in you business, if
it is not overlooked.
● You can also offer mobile surveys so customers can let you know what they
think of your services, while offering them an incentive to complete them.
● Using location based services such as foursquare and check in with
Facebook will go back to the point mentioned earlier of being able to keep
track of how many times a person stays per week/month/year and in turn it
allows the hotel to reward his loyalty.
9. Measuring Our Success
● Once we incorporate the campaign we will use Google Analytics to track any
difference in click through rates and length of stay, as well as any increase in
the number of page views.
● We will also keep track of sales (through event booking and room
reservation) before and after the campaign to get a real idea of whether or
not the campaign worked.
● The campaign will be successful if we get a positive Return on
Investment (ROI) based on the total expenditure of the campaign and
the difference in number of sales before, during and after the campaign
is launched.
● We can also measure the success of the social media campaign by looking
at increases of consumer wall posts both on the hotel page and on their own
page with reference to the hotel.
● We can also use the photo upload bit, to measure how many people
have visited the hotel and have put pictures up on their own pages with
any reference to the hotel.
● Both these measures would be a way of measuring the level of “word of
mouth” advertising that we receive.
10. The When and The How Much.
● The overall budget for a Digital Marketing Campaign of this magnitude would
be an estimated $1,069,922 per year. The budget is broken down as the
following:
– $1,051,602 for the Internet Marketing portion with Google Adwords.
– $8,320 for an intern paying $8.00/hour for 20 hours a week for 52
weeks to maintain social media platforms.
– $10,000 for the mobile campaign.
● The time frame of the campaign will vary, since the internet never truly
sleeps this campaign should not either.
● The heavy part of the campaign will take place between June and May,
with December and January being low.
– The reasoning for this is that this is the time period when parents
visit their college kids, take campus tours and sports fans travel to
games and end up staying the night.
– I would suggest that social media and the mobile campaign go on
year round, since people traveling for business can use both of these
features.
