I been keeping an eye on the marketing since I was able to do anything with it a couple days ago. I had increased the general marketing by one and had gotten lvl 1 on the flag one and lvl 2 on visiting others hotels before this server day. but when I go to look at current marketing lvls it is showing no increase in the general and saying I had no achievements from yesterday. so I am wondering if I didn't get credit for the changes and if I still paid the marketing charges but did not get any benefit from it? I will keep an eye on it again and see what it does tomorrow.

ok its showing correctly now. guess it just needed a day to catch up?

This might help (on the marketing page)

"These are the "new" values. Whatever investment levels you set and bonuses that you will earn by midnight will result in a certain number of guests tomorrow."