5,000 Instagram Followers and Empty Tables: What's Going Wrong
Thousands of followers, lots of likes, and still empty tables. The problem isn't your follower count: it's that your social isn't designed to sell.
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The hungry tourist in Cabo no longer asks at the front desk: they ask Google and, increasingly, ChatGPT. The question is whether your restaurant appears in that answer.
Read articleThousands of followers, lots of likes, and still empty tables. The problem isn't your follower count: it's that your social isn't designed to sell.
Two tour operators in Cabo with nearly identical boats: one stays full, the other waits. The difference is almost never the tour. It's how they're found.
The tourist booking transport in Cabo almost always passes through three filters: they search you on Google, read your reviews, and message you on WhatsApp. Fail one and you lose the booking.
In high season you don't need marketing: the destination fills you up on its own. The problem is that without strategy, in low season you sit empty, waiting.
When the plane lands in Cabo, the tourist already booked their transfer. That decision was made days earlier, on Google. Did you appear, or your competition?
Every time a traveler searches "where to stay in Cabo" and your hotel doesn't appear, that booking went elsewhere. And it happens dozens of times a day.
Every booking through Booking costs you up to a quarter of the night in commission. Multiply that by a year. There's your lost margin.
A huge share of Cabo properties sell to people who close the deal remotely. Selling that way demands a different kind of marketing.
It's not the price or the location. The mistake that costs Cabo developments the most buyers is invisible to whoever makes it.
The buyer about to spend a million dollars on a Cabo property starts searching months earlier, from their living room in California or Toronto. If you're not there, you don't exist.
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