Facebook Cover Photo Guidelines for Pages: do they matter?
Last week we highlighted some companies breaking the official Facebook Cover Photo guidelines for Pages. With Facebook Timeline for Pages still only a few weeks old, it increasingly seems that their guidelines are unenforceable. We noticed two more dubious Cover Photos this week, from the ski areas of Sun Peaks and the Portes du Soleil:...
Three examples of ski companies breaking Facebook’s Timeline Cover Photo guidelines
Less than a month ago that Timeline became the standard format for brand pages on Facebook. When the new style was announced, we pointed out the key Timeline features. Last month we looked at a early adopters who had already converted to Timeline. We also looked at the UK’s largest ski company, Crystal Holidays, when...
Dominos use Twitter hashtag to boost sales
Using hashtags on Twitter for promotions is still a new area that we have written about before. So this recent Tweet Treat campaign by Domino’s Pizza impressed us. On offer was a great reason for followers to take part: cheaper pizza! The promotion, which ran from 0900 to 1100 on 5th March 2012, reduced the...
Thyon use an Eskimo in an igloo to create social media buzz
Another campaign Skipedia liked from last season was from Thyon in Switzerland’s Quatre Vallees. Possibly inspired by Whistler’s Embedded campaign, Thyon took a more light-hearted approach to employ their own esquimau to live for 14 days in his own igloo on the mountain. The candidate was chosen by interview from a shortlist of 40 candidates....
Nude skier helps Portes du Soleil win Facebook fans
Nude skiing isn’t something you see very often, so we at Skipedia liked this innovative campaign by the (Swiss) Portes du Soleil. The campaign was run via YouTube and a dedicated site – http://ski-nu.ch/. Once the video finished, users were invited to ‘participate’, taking them to the Portes du Soleil Facebook page. On arrival on the...
The Top 10 European Ski Areas on Facebook
So every time we produce one of these lists, it seems someone shows us up for lack of research. It’s true – we had never heard of Bukovel in Ukraine until a couple of weeks ago. And to be honest, we didn’t even notice that Tirol has almost 100,000 Facebook fans. Then again, Tirol isn’t...