Blog homeGoogle have a number of account managers who specialise in travel. One of their previous employees, on their public Linkedin profile, has the following:
- Senior account manager – Travel – For Google (January 2003 to September 2007)
- Lead Relationship Manager for Expedia Inc
- Managed all aspects of the Expedia – Google relationship for Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Expedia Classic, and Expedia Corporate
- Work with different Expedia teams to build out an effective Advertising strategy on Google as well as partnership opportunities to help drive additional revenue to Expedia
- Coordinate efforts with Global teams to share US successes to all Google Account Managers who work with Expedia Inc Co’s
- Appointed Global Lead for Expedia relationship, spoke at Expedia’s Global Marketing Summit and held a Global workshop at Google’s International Travel Summit
- Built out the “Power 16″ marketing plan that is currently what Expedia’s entire Search Marketing program is based on
That last point I find interesting. It would appear that Google have devised Expedia’s entire search marketing program (well that is what is says!). Yes I know that, if you spend enough as an advertiser, you get help….. but upgrading help into letting Google devise an entire search marketing plan is quite a bold commercial step.
If you want to find the profile yourself, Google it….
This particular individual, according to their profile, is no longer working for Google.
Read further coverage about Expedia / Google at the base of this post – Would your business cope if Google stopped sending you (free) traffic?
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with google now owning doubleclick as well (which manages ads for a much larger share of the high traffic high profile sites than google that masters the long tail) I dread to think what scope a google marketing plan can now have
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