7 winning strategies for personalizing your guest experience - An overview of 7 best practice tips for personalization within the Hospitality industry.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Travel Research, Planning & ValidationLeonardo
In part 2 of our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, Charlie Osmond, Chief Tease of Triptease, and Ellis Connolly, Chief Revenue Officer of TrustYou discuss the travel research, planning & validation phase of the travel shopping journey and its impact on direct bookings.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Searching for Travel InspirationLeonardo
In part 1 of our Digital Marketing Summit for hoteliers, Chris Blaine, VP, Sales & Account at Sojern and Ed St. Onge, President of Flip.to disscuss how the inspiration phase of the travel shopping journey impacts direct bookings.
Get Smart about Visual Storytelling: Drive Bookings with Intelligent Content Leonardo
Joined by special guests Felix Laboy, CEO of WayBlazer, and Christopher Regalado, CEO & Founder of RevMar Digital, we take the content marketing conversation to the next level and explore how you can use more personalized, intelligent visual content to improve your marketing performance.
This document discusses how hotels can better understand what drives guests to choose their property. It emphasizes tracking guests by season, source of booking, market, and company to understand what factors influenced their decision. Hotels should analyze this data along with competitive intelligence and market trends to optimize marketing. New technologies like mobile apps, social media, and CRM tools can provide insights into guests and help hotels tailor their offerings to attract more business.
The document discusses strategies for hotels to maximize revenue in 2010 given the challenging economic conditions of 2009. It recommends that hotels (1) recognize their competition at the city level rather than just other hotels, (2) closely manage yields and rates through ongoing research and flexibility, and (3) focus on bringing direct bookings to their own websites through targeted promotions and online advertising rather than relying on OTAs. The document emphasizes being proactive, empowering employees, and partnering with CVBs on promotions.
This document summarizes a webinar about 4 hotel marketing trends for 2017:
1. Fundamentals like loyalty programs are losing their effectiveness as competition from OTAs increases and guests expect more personalized experiences. Content remains important.
2. Mobile usage is growing rapidly and becoming mandatory for hotels. Google is prioritizing mobile-friendly content and usability.
3. Paid search effectiveness may be declining while search engine optimization grows in importance. Quality content wins over keyword stuffing.
4. Social media platforms like Facebook are changing their algorithms to prioritize engagement over reach. Hotels must test new strategies to reach customers.
How to Compete & Win with Smaller BudgetsAlex Rudie
This presentation from Dave Looby, Joe Henry, and Steve Markuson provides tips on how to compete and win in the Tourism industry, even if you have a small budget.
E-Commerce Strategic Plan - 101 Hotel E-CommerceUndisclosed
This document outlines an e-commerce strategic plan for a hotel. The goals are to generate short-term revenue and gain online exposure, as well as achieve long-term sustainability and loyalty. The plan focuses on increasing room and non-room revenue from both offline and online sources. It explores expanding online revenue through cost-effective distribution channels. Multiple pricing approaches and upselling opportunities are discussed to maximize occupancy rates, average room rates, and overall revenue. Monitoring reviews, competitors, and conversion are emphasized to improve the hotel's online presence and reputation.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Travel Research, Planning & ValidationLeonardo
In part 2 of our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, Charlie Osmond, Chief Tease of Triptease, and Ellis Connolly, Chief Revenue Officer of TrustYou discuss the travel research, planning & validation phase of the travel shopping journey and its impact on direct bookings.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Searching for Travel InspirationLeonardo
In part 1 of our Digital Marketing Summit for hoteliers, Chris Blaine, VP, Sales & Account at Sojern and Ed St. Onge, President of Flip.to disscuss how the inspiration phase of the travel shopping journey impacts direct bookings.
Get Smart about Visual Storytelling: Drive Bookings with Intelligent Content Leonardo
Joined by special guests Felix Laboy, CEO of WayBlazer, and Christopher Regalado, CEO & Founder of RevMar Digital, we take the content marketing conversation to the next level and explore how you can use more personalized, intelligent visual content to improve your marketing performance.
This document discusses how hotels can better understand what drives guests to choose their property. It emphasizes tracking guests by season, source of booking, market, and company to understand what factors influenced their decision. Hotels should analyze this data along with competitive intelligence and market trends to optimize marketing. New technologies like mobile apps, social media, and CRM tools can provide insights into guests and help hotels tailor their offerings to attract more business.
The document discusses strategies for hotels to maximize revenue in 2010 given the challenging economic conditions of 2009. It recommends that hotels (1) recognize their competition at the city level rather than just other hotels, (2) closely manage yields and rates through ongoing research and flexibility, and (3) focus on bringing direct bookings to their own websites through targeted promotions and online advertising rather than relying on OTAs. The document emphasizes being proactive, empowering employees, and partnering with CVBs on promotions.
This document summarizes a webinar about 4 hotel marketing trends for 2017:
1. Fundamentals like loyalty programs are losing their effectiveness as competition from OTAs increases and guests expect more personalized experiences. Content remains important.
2. Mobile usage is growing rapidly and becoming mandatory for hotels. Google is prioritizing mobile-friendly content and usability.
3. Paid search effectiveness may be declining while search engine optimization grows in importance. Quality content wins over keyword stuffing.
4. Social media platforms like Facebook are changing their algorithms to prioritize engagement over reach. Hotels must test new strategies to reach customers.
How to Compete & Win with Smaller BudgetsAlex Rudie
This presentation from Dave Looby, Joe Henry, and Steve Markuson provides tips on how to compete and win in the Tourism industry, even if you have a small budget.
E-Commerce Strategic Plan - 101 Hotel E-CommerceUndisclosed
This document outlines an e-commerce strategic plan for a hotel. The goals are to generate short-term revenue and gain online exposure, as well as achieve long-term sustainability and loyalty. The plan focuses on increasing room and non-room revenue from both offline and online sources. It explores expanding online revenue through cost-effective distribution channels. Multiple pricing approaches and upselling opportunities are discussed to maximize occupancy rates, average room rates, and overall revenue. Monitoring reviews, competitors, and conversion are emphasized to improve the hotel's online presence and reputation.
Fine-tune your hotel’s guest marketing communicationstnooz
Seventy-nine percent of companies face challenges when connecting guest data from disparate sources to a single customer view. Hotels are no exception.
Even though 70 percent of consumers expect more personalized services from brands, most hotels today have a limited ability to deliver on this expectation.
Guest information is siloed in different technology platforms, and there’s no easy way to find and leverage meaningful data points.
But, when guest data is combined with a marketing automation platform, hoteliers have a way to look at their data, understand their guests, and deliver the personalized experience that each guest expects.
In this FREE webinar, Revinate and hospitality professionals from Whitney Peak Hotel will discuss:
the importance of marketing automation in hospitality
how to segment guest databases to deliver relevant messages
energizing your email marketing through best practices
Panelists for this FREE webinar are:
Niki Gross, managing director, Whitney Peak Hotel
Carrie Murphy, marketing specialist, Revinate
Sean O'Neill, Editor-in-Chief & Moderator, Tnooz
Gene Quinn, CEO & Producer, Tnooz
This free webinar took place on Thursday September 24, 2015.
Learn how to jump start your hotel's content marketing strategy with our experts, Adele Gutman, VP Sales, Marketing & Revenue for Library Hotel Collection and Clementine Amiraux, Creative Director for Hotel Josef and Maximilian Hotel.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Traveling & Sharing The ExperienceLeonardo
In the final part of our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, Ed St. Onge, President of Flip.to and Charlie Osmond, Chief Tease of Triptease discuss the traveling & sharing the experience phase of the travel shopping journey and its impact on driving direct bookings.
This document summarizes the services provided by ResortsandLodges.com, a digital marketing agency focused on the hospitality industry. It provides services including search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, display and retargeting ads, social media marketing, online reputation management, email marketing, referral listings, and consulting and reporting to help drive more online conversions and direct bookings for hospitality clients. The agency manages all aspects of clients' digital marketing through customized packages designed for small, essential, and pro-level needs.
Travel and hospitality industry - 2017 analytics landscapeMetriplica
Use and importance of analytical strategies in the travel and hospitality domain. This relatively recent development presents both a unique challenge and an extraordinary opportunity. An opportunity that many brands are not fully capitalizing on. We travel to connect, detach, explore and experience the world outside our homes. Some of us travel for business while others travel to discover themselves.
Let's see how.
Tap OTA conversion secrets for direct hotel bookingstnooz
The webinar discussed how hotels can increase direct bookings by learning from the strategies used by online travel agencies (OTAs). It emphasized the importance of optimizing the hotel website for usability, social proof from reviews and awards, and a fast checkout process. A case study of the Stratosphere Hotel showed how redesigning its website to focus on these areas led to a 24% increase in revenue and 20% more direct bookings within four months. The webinar also proposed an automated best rate guarantee to simplify rate matching for hotels and customers.
TINT is a social media curation tool that hotels can use to display positive guest reviews, photos, videos and other content from multiple sources on digital screens in their properties. It allows hotels to pull in social media posts, approve or reject content, and filter it by location. Hotels can engage guests by showing relevant content on screens in lobbies, guest rooms and websites. TINT also enables hotels to generate extra revenue by offering ad space to local businesses to promote attractions, restaurants and other partners.
Join us at Ignite Hospitality as we share the slides from our talk at the Boutique Bar Show in London. Here we focused on the importance of digital marketing in hospitality, some of the steps to the approach we've found yields the best results and then some chat around channels and tools to help you develop and implement your own digital strategy for local hospitality businesses.
Personalization - The key to customer engagement
How to improve revenue by improving customer experience and personalization.
You can expect to learn
Creating single view of customer
Identify mechanics to push customer into a single incentive program
Driving constant engagement with customer
Building customer engagement via Loyalty Program
Grow direct bookings and reduce distribution cost by engaging with customers regularly
Priceline acquired Kayak for $1.8 billion in a deal announced in late 2012. This was Priceline's largest acquisition to date and aimed to capture more of the online travel consumer market. The acquisition allowed Priceline to eliminate a potential competitor, expand its role in the travel value chain, and increase conversion rates from travel searches to bookings. A financial analysis valued Kayak at $1.2 billion based on projections for its advertising revenues and hotel booking referral fees through 2019.
Hotel Marketing Benchmark #10 - Virtual reality, Chatbots, AI, hotel industry...HotelMarketingNews
This document is a quarterly hotel marketing benchmark report compiled by Sebastien Felix and Martin Soler. It provides opinions, news, inspiration and technology trends in the hotel marketing industry. The report discusses recent advances like Facebook Workplace and new retargeting options on Pinterest. It also provides predictions about the future of travel planning through artificial intelligence and a potential shift from direct bookings versus online travel agencies. The report aims to keep people in the hotel marketing industry informed about important developments.
Managing customer service through all the stages of the guest's vacation journey staying in vacation rentals and travelers staying in short term rentals.
Fastrack Group - Hotel Marketing Must Do's 2013-14 WebinarKen Jones
This document provides an overview and summary of a presentation by Adrian and James, hospitality digital marketing experts. The presentation covers topics such as optimizing websites for mobile users, using digital marketing to attract Chinese travelers, best practices for hotel distribution, and how peers are allocating their marketing budgets. Key points discussed include the growth of mobile bookings, challenges of mobile-friendly websites, tips for Chinese SEO and imagery, maintaining rate parity across booking channels, and allocating over 30% of budgets to website redesign and SEO.
Gain an understanding of how graphics and better organizing information can have a positive impact on target audiences. Hear case studies from your own backyard about marketing challenges organizations faced and how they were solved in a creative manner with the use of re-purposing content.
Being a Hotelier, you do know that ADR and RevPAR are the two most important indicators to measure your performance. Listening to your guest feedback, analyzing it and customizing the Guest offerings based on their preferences plays a major role in increasing ADR and RevPAR.
What you will learn
How to track the guest's happiness quotient, from booking to check out
How to identify opportunities to grow RevPAR and ADR
How to target and attract the right audience based on guest persona
How to increase Direct bookings and more...
Mastering the Hotel Marketing Ecosystem at the Property LeveleCornell
The document discusses strategies for marketing at the property level for hotels. It begins by defining marketing in the hospitality industry as solving customer problems through giving them what they want or need at a price they are willing to pay. It then outlines the key areas of focus for hotel marketing and discusses the marketing ecosystem at properties. This includes different stakeholders and considerations for property types. It also addresses challenges like the decline of organic social media reach and the rise of data-driven personalized marketing across channels.
Tapping into the power of authentic travel experiences for hotel marketingNancy Huang
This webinar discusses how hotels can tap into authentic travel experiences for marketing by inspiring new audiences during planning and booking stages. Speakers discuss how hotels can be relevant by anticipating travelers' needs, be inspiring through visual content and storytelling, and make their websites easy to use on mobile. Translating local concierge knowledge into digital guides and empowering travelers to share their experiences can help hotels inspire new audiences organically. Storytellers who share their authentic experiences can build trust and spark new relationships with future travelers.
Xotelia - How to attract business travelers online?Jeffrey Messud
Business travel represented 15% of the global tourism economy in 2015 with 1,18 trillion dollars U.S*. The choice of accommodation is made early in the business travel organisation and corresponds to the second spending item.
Even though companies tend to chose hotels (in 98,2% of the cases** as their preferred accommodation, business travel is a real opportunity for vacation rentals too. Business travellers are on the rise and online distribution can be an answer to capture the demand. Airbnb and MagicStay have understood the interest of such a target and propose special services dedicated to business travellers.
Business travellers search to answer various needs while organising their stay, such as travel motivation, destination, length of stay, travel frequency... and Internet has become the first tool to be used for business travel organisation. The various criteria can be used as a leverage by vacation rental owners/managers to attract professionals. This webinar aims to give you some tips on how to combine them with a sharp online distribution strategy.
1/ "Business e-tourism"
2/ Adapt your offer to Business travellers' needs
3/ Capture the demand on the online distribution platforms
Audience : vacation rentals, smal and medium capacity hotels.
Sources
* statista.com
** economie.gouv.fr
Fine-tune your hotel’s guest marketing communicationstnooz
Seventy-nine percent of companies face challenges when connecting guest data from disparate sources to a single customer view. Hotels are no exception.
Even though 70 percent of consumers expect more personalized services from brands, most hotels today have a limited ability to deliver on this expectation.
Guest information is siloed in different technology platforms, and there’s no easy way to find and leverage meaningful data points.
But, when guest data is combined with a marketing automation platform, hoteliers have a way to look at their data, understand their guests, and deliver the personalized experience that each guest expects.
In this FREE webinar, Revinate and hospitality professionals from Whitney Peak Hotel will discuss:
the importance of marketing automation in hospitality
how to segment guest databases to deliver relevant messages
energizing your email marketing through best practices
Panelists for this FREE webinar are:
Niki Gross, managing director, Whitney Peak Hotel
Carrie Murphy, marketing specialist, Revinate
Sean O'Neill, Editor-in-Chief & Moderator, Tnooz
Gene Quinn, CEO & Producer, Tnooz
This free webinar took place on Thursday September 24, 2015.
Learn how to jump start your hotel's content marketing strategy with our experts, Adele Gutman, VP Sales, Marketing & Revenue for Library Hotel Collection and Clementine Amiraux, Creative Director for Hotel Josef and Maximilian Hotel.
The Evolving Travel Shopping Journey: Traveling & Sharing The ExperienceLeonardo
In the final part of our Digital Marketing Summit for Hoteliers, Ed St. Onge, President of Flip.to and Charlie Osmond, Chief Tease of Triptease discuss the traveling & sharing the experience phase of the travel shopping journey and its impact on driving direct bookings.
This document summarizes the services provided by ResortsandLodges.com, a digital marketing agency focused on the hospitality industry. It provides services including search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, display and retargeting ads, social media marketing, online reputation management, email marketing, referral listings, and consulting and reporting to help drive more online conversions and direct bookings for hospitality clients. The agency manages all aspects of clients' digital marketing through customized packages designed for small, essential, and pro-level needs.
Travel and hospitality industry - 2017 analytics landscapeMetriplica
Use and importance of analytical strategies in the travel and hospitality domain. This relatively recent development presents both a unique challenge and an extraordinary opportunity. An opportunity that many brands are not fully capitalizing on. We travel to connect, detach, explore and experience the world outside our homes. Some of us travel for business while others travel to discover themselves.
Let's see how.
Tap OTA conversion secrets for direct hotel bookingstnooz
The webinar discussed how hotels can increase direct bookings by learning from the strategies used by online travel agencies (OTAs). It emphasized the importance of optimizing the hotel website for usability, social proof from reviews and awards, and a fast checkout process. A case study of the Stratosphere Hotel showed how redesigning its website to focus on these areas led to a 24% increase in revenue and 20% more direct bookings within four months. The webinar also proposed an automated best rate guarantee to simplify rate matching for hotels and customers.
TINT is a social media curation tool that hotels can use to display positive guest reviews, photos, videos and other content from multiple sources on digital screens in their properties. It allows hotels to pull in social media posts, approve or reject content, and filter it by location. Hotels can engage guests by showing relevant content on screens in lobbies, guest rooms and websites. TINT also enables hotels to generate extra revenue by offering ad space to local businesses to promote attractions, restaurants and other partners.
Join us at Ignite Hospitality as we share the slides from our talk at the Boutique Bar Show in London. Here we focused on the importance of digital marketing in hospitality, some of the steps to the approach we've found yields the best results and then some chat around channels and tools to help you develop and implement your own digital strategy for local hospitality businesses.
Personalization - The key to customer engagement
How to improve revenue by improving customer experience and personalization.
You can expect to learn
Creating single view of customer
Identify mechanics to push customer into a single incentive program
Driving constant engagement with customer
Building customer engagement via Loyalty Program
Grow direct bookings and reduce distribution cost by engaging with customers regularly
Priceline acquired Kayak for $1.8 billion in a deal announced in late 2012. This was Priceline's largest acquisition to date and aimed to capture more of the online travel consumer market. The acquisition allowed Priceline to eliminate a potential competitor, expand its role in the travel value chain, and increase conversion rates from travel searches to bookings. A financial analysis valued Kayak at $1.2 billion based on projections for its advertising revenues and hotel booking referral fees through 2019.
Hotel Marketing Benchmark #10 - Virtual reality, Chatbots, AI, hotel industry...HotelMarketingNews
This document is a quarterly hotel marketing benchmark report compiled by Sebastien Felix and Martin Soler. It provides opinions, news, inspiration and technology trends in the hotel marketing industry. The report discusses recent advances like Facebook Workplace and new retargeting options on Pinterest. It also provides predictions about the future of travel planning through artificial intelligence and a potential shift from direct bookings versus online travel agencies. The report aims to keep people in the hotel marketing industry informed about important developments.
Managing customer service through all the stages of the guest's vacation journey staying in vacation rentals and travelers staying in short term rentals.
Fastrack Group - Hotel Marketing Must Do's 2013-14 WebinarKen Jones
This document provides an overview and summary of a presentation by Adrian and James, hospitality digital marketing experts. The presentation covers topics such as optimizing websites for mobile users, using digital marketing to attract Chinese travelers, best practices for hotel distribution, and how peers are allocating their marketing budgets. Key points discussed include the growth of mobile bookings, challenges of mobile-friendly websites, tips for Chinese SEO and imagery, maintaining rate parity across booking channels, and allocating over 30% of budgets to website redesign and SEO.
Gain an understanding of how graphics and better organizing information can have a positive impact on target audiences. Hear case studies from your own backyard about marketing challenges organizations faced and how they were solved in a creative manner with the use of re-purposing content.
Being a Hotelier, you do know that ADR and RevPAR are the two most important indicators to measure your performance. Listening to your guest feedback, analyzing it and customizing the Guest offerings based on their preferences plays a major role in increasing ADR and RevPAR.
What you will learn
How to track the guest's happiness quotient, from booking to check out
How to identify opportunities to grow RevPAR and ADR
How to target and attract the right audience based on guest persona
How to increase Direct bookings and more...
Mastering the Hotel Marketing Ecosystem at the Property LeveleCornell
The document discusses strategies for marketing at the property level for hotels. It begins by defining marketing in the hospitality industry as solving customer problems through giving them what they want or need at a price they are willing to pay. It then outlines the key areas of focus for hotel marketing and discusses the marketing ecosystem at properties. This includes different stakeholders and considerations for property types. It also addresses challenges like the decline of organic social media reach and the rise of data-driven personalized marketing across channels.
Tapping into the power of authentic travel experiences for hotel marketingNancy Huang
This webinar discusses how hotels can tap into authentic travel experiences for marketing by inspiring new audiences during planning and booking stages. Speakers discuss how hotels can be relevant by anticipating travelers' needs, be inspiring through visual content and storytelling, and make their websites easy to use on mobile. Translating local concierge knowledge into digital guides and empowering travelers to share their experiences can help hotels inspire new audiences organically. Storytellers who share their authentic experiences can build trust and spark new relationships with future travelers.
Xotelia - How to attract business travelers online?Jeffrey Messud
Business travel represented 15% of the global tourism economy in 2015 with 1,18 trillion dollars U.S*. The choice of accommodation is made early in the business travel organisation and corresponds to the second spending item.
Even though companies tend to chose hotels (in 98,2% of the cases** as their preferred accommodation, business travel is a real opportunity for vacation rentals too. Business travellers are on the rise and online distribution can be an answer to capture the demand. Airbnb and MagicStay have understood the interest of such a target and propose special services dedicated to business travellers.
Business travellers search to answer various needs while organising their stay, such as travel motivation, destination, length of stay, travel frequency... and Internet has become the first tool to be used for business travel organisation. The various criteria can be used as a leverage by vacation rental owners/managers to attract professionals. This webinar aims to give you some tips on how to combine them with a sharp online distribution strategy.
1/ "Business e-tourism"
2/ Adapt your offer to Business travellers' needs
3/ Capture the demand on the online distribution platforms
Audience : vacation rentals, smal and medium capacity hotels.
Sources
* statista.com
** economie.gouv.fr
The travel industry continues to experience changes, stemming from travelers' interest in a more authentic travel experience, comfortable prices and convenience - as well as from technologies which enable companies to respond to these needs. Competitors in the market - including hotels, OTAs, apartment rentals, aggregators and search engines - turn to digital to enhance their offering before, during and after the traveler's journey.
The Smart Hotelier’s Guide to 2017 Digital Marketing Budget PlanningTuristenístico
This document provides recommendations for creating a 2017 digital marketing budget for the hospitality industry. It discusses key factors to consider, including the importance of direct bookings and reaching consumers across devices. It recommends organizing the budget into three categories: year-round direct response marketing, seasonal/targeted campaigns, and assets/strategy/operations. For year-round initiatives, it recommends investing in search engine optimization, search engine marketing, display advertising, email marketing, and data-driven personalized marketing. The document provides best practices and considerations for each initiative.
The document discusses how hotels and resorts can use customer data and technology to provide personalized customer experiences, boost loyalty, and increase revenue. It recommends building a 360-degree view of customers by gathering data on their preferences, past spending patterns, and planned activities. This enables highly customized communication through multiple channels to immerse customers in a distinctive experience. When executed well through loyalty programs and other initiatives, this approach can significantly increase customer satisfaction, engagement, and spending.
The pressure is on to grow your business, while operating on a tight budget. To do so means getting the right data. Customer profiling provides key customer insight that can help businesses better manage their marketing dollars to increase ROI.
The document discusses strategies for businesses in the hospitality industry to be the first choice of customers. It recommends focusing on building an engaging website, using personalized messaging, mobile apps, gamification, videos, social media, virtual and augmented reality experiences. The goal is to attract and engage customers at every touchpoint and provide memorable experiences that keep them coming back.
HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: BE THE FIRST CHOICE OF CUSTOMERSEswar Jabba
The Hospitality Industry encompasses a variety of services like hotels, food service, recreation, tourist destinations, events etc. The marketing revolves around customer experiences that you offer because there are not many tangible products to provide or showcase. This makes image building pivotal for your growth. With globalization, both business and leisure travel and stays have increased manifold. This multi-billion dollar industry has a large number of big and small players, and to stand out, you need to focus on brand recognition and relationship building. A majority of your customers search for hotels and resorts online. And hence the importance of a good social media presence, search presence and web presence in general. Your website, photo galleries, social profiles and online reviews all matter, and influence decision making.
Read More at http://pixelsutra.com/blog/hospitality-industry-be-the-first-choice-of-customers/
“How can I get more bookings and more revenue?”
This is the question that every hotelier must answer to keep his business alive. The question is simple, but answering it can be a challenge.
The challenge becomes even greater when you’re immersed in managing the day-to-day operations of your hotel. It’s hard to see the forest for the trees, sometimes – or, for a more appropriate metaphor, it’s hard to see the battlefield when you’re busy in the trenches.
This presentation will briefly lift you out of the trenches by providing you with 18 tips that’ll help you get more bookings and boost your hotel revenue. Take a look at a map of the whole battlefield and find out where your strongest and weakest points are.
Let’s go.
This document provides 18 tips for hoteliers to boost bookings and revenue. Some key tips include developing guest personas to understand customers, creating a clear value proposition, optimizing the website for speed and simplicity, using compelling visuals and stories to engage guests, ensuring the design is mobile-friendly, analyzing data to understand customer behavior, and continually testing strategies to improve performance. The overall message is that a variety of digital marketing techniques can be leveraged to attract more customers and increase bookings if implemented effectively.
The document discusses best practices for hospitality e-marketing, focusing on website design elements like visual appeal, demand generator content, navigation, flexibility, and scalability. It also covers e-marketing strategies like search engine optimization, social media, mobile marketing, and measurement and analytics. The seven-step travel process of inspiration, research, planning, booking, validating, and sharing is examined in the context of how websites can support each step of the customer journey.
Digital customer engagement is a critical success factor for market players in the travel sector. Switching between brands has never been easier for travelers. That's why it's critical for marketing and digital experts to offer a differentiated customer experience (CX) to better meet the consumers changing expectations for engagement with brands.
Today's digital solutions need to be built around customer engagement to provide an optimal and omni-channel CX. While the boundaries between physical and digital trade are increasingly blurred, strong brands understand they need to offer the best possible customer engagement tools.
In this new report, Redefining Digital CX in the Online Tourism, you'll explore the latest best practices for digital strategies: among them, conversational marketing approaches to bring back a human touch to the heart of the customer experience.
Understanding the market you work & compete in is very important when it comes to success.
Guest & Competitive Intelligence is where it all starts.
Here's where you begin...........................
This document discusses how travel companies can use personalized marketing strategies enabled by big data analytics. It argues that harnessing consumer data to provide tailored experiences at each stage of the travel planning and booking process can increase sales and customer retention. Specifically, it explores how travel sites can leverage customer preferences and behaviors to improve on-site recommendations, target digital ads more effectively, and tailor messaging in marketing communications. The key is for companies to develop a deep understanding of individual customers in order to engage with them in the most relevant way.
Invite Ideas Consulting, the owner of all rights associated with Choice N Cheers mobile app and choicencheers.com is in the process of getting a Series A round of equity capital in the amount of $100,000.
The company has developed a minimum viable product featuring 90+ Indian cities nightlife and hangout places. We intend to release iOS and Android Wearable version of the App this coming quarter and reach new markets like Americas and Europe. Based on the initial conceptualization and a successful web application having already achieved over 10,000 hits, the mobile version of the Choice N Cheers total system has been designed to provide travelers, tourists and locals in unknown locations world-wide with market leading functionality and values. Choice N Cheers plans to introduce new excellent features like Pool Party, Cashless Payments, Online Ordering, Chair Reservations, unique Rating System, and Engaging Alcohol Games; over the time.
The overall size of the world market for this type of bar searching system has been estimated to be more than 100 millions. Management will focus on an initial target market of individuals aging 21+. This target is estimated to include over 4.2M users in the US alone and over 14.5M accessible target market worldwide.
The company is forecasted to obtain profitability in year 2, over $75M in revenue in year 3 with anticipated growth to over $200M in year 5.
Capital will be used in the following manner:
Development of future versions of mobile and wearable app ; IPR and Patent – 20%
Post-launch marketing – 25%
Infrastructure development – 10%
New hiring’s and team expansion – 10%
Partial salary for full-time Co-Founders – 20%
$15K cushion – 15%
Celebrate and Nurture Your Guests: Drive Loyalty Through a Personalized Journ...Nancy Huang
This document summarizes a webinar about driving loyalty through personalized guest experiences. The webinar discussed how guest expectations have changed and personalization now shapes hospitality. It also discussed how Hersha Hotels uses behavioral mapping and integrations between its CRM, booking engine and property systems to recognize repeat guests and provide personalized perks. Travel Tripper and Pegasus discussed how their expertise in integrating loyalty programs with booking engines allows for personalized online loyalty experiences, such as welcoming guests by name and showing tiered rates. The webinar emphasized that a seamless, personalized experience throughout the entire guest journey is key to driving loyalty.
Direct marketing to drive customers directly to a hotel's website instead of relying on outside travel agencies to bring them in. Additionally, aimed to bring in more lunch reservations for their in-house restaurant.
This document proposes the Xiao Yao You ecosystem, an exclusive luxury travel experience for wealthy Chinese travelers. It will provide curated shopping, adventure, and wellness programs through a digital platform, physical stores, and travel partners. The target customer segment is high net worth individuals who spend heavily on overseas travel and luxury goods. Projections estimate $360 million in total transaction value by year five, with a gross profit margin of 34%. Risks include increased costs, lack of customer loyalty, small market penetration, and difficulties hiring multilingual staff.
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The definition of personalization, psychology of needs, and technological constructs make automated personalization systems possible. The science behind the man-machine interface brings user psychology and technology together.
This document contains a list of 9 photo credits attributed to various photographers and includes a call to action to create your own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare. The photos are credited to photographers with names like Sprengben, Yogendra174, Robert S. Donovan, Tom Raftery, Stephen A. Wolfe, Nissan Juke Nismo, North Dakota National Guard, Ricky Flores, and Mark Fischer. The document ends by encouraging the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation.
This document contains photos credited to various photographers and encourages the reader to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare. It features 8 photos from different photographers and a call to action to get started making a Haiku Deck presentation.
AI Best Practices for Marketing HUG June 2024Amanda Farrell
During this presentation, the Nextiny marketing team reviews best practices when adopting generative AI into content creation. Join our HUG community to register for more events https://events.hubspot.com/sarasota/
Conferences like DigiMarCon provide ample opportunities to improve our own marketing programs by learning from others. But just because everyone is jumping on board with the latest idea/tool/metric doesn’t mean it works – or does it? This session will examine the value of today’s hottest digital marketing topics – including AI, paid ads, and social metrics – and the truth about what these shiny objects might be distracting you from.
Key Takeaways:
- How NOT to shoot your digital program in the foot by using flashy but ineffective resources
- The best ways to think about AI in connection with digital marketing
- How to cut through self-serving marketing advice and engage in channels that truly grow your business
In this humorous and data-heavy Master Class, join us in a joyous celebration of life honoring the long list of SEO tactics and concepts we lost this year. Remember fondly the beautiful time you shared with defunct ideas like link building, keyword cannibalization, search volume as a value indicator, and even our most cherished of friends: the funnel. Make peace with their loss as you embrace a new paradigm for organic content: Pillar-Based Marketing. Along the way, discover that the results that old SEO and all its trappings brought you weren’t really very good at all, actually.
In this respectful and life-affirming service—erm, session—join Ryan Brock (Chief Solution Officer at DemandJump and author of Pillar-Based Marketing: A Data-Driven Methodology for SEO and Content that Actually Works) and leave with:
• Clear and compelling evidence that most legacy SEO metrics and tactics have slim to no impact on SEO outcomes
• A major mindset shift that eliminates most of the metrics and tactics associated with SEO in favor of a single metric that defines and drives organic ranking success
• Practical, step-by-step methodology for choosing SEO pillar topics and publishing content quickly that ranks fast
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era"" is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era"" is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
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Digital Marketing Services | Techvolt Software :
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List of Services offered in Digital Marketing |Techvolt Software :
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1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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3. Social Media Optimization (SMO)
4. Social Media Marketing (SMM)
5. Campaigns
Importance | Need of Digital Marketing (Online Promotions) :
1. Quick Promotions through Online
2. Generation of More leads and Business Enquiries via Search Engine and Social Media Platform
3. Latest Technology development vs Business promotions
4. Creation of Social Branding
5. Promotion with less investment
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Unlock the secrets to enhancing your digital presence with our masterclass on mastering online visibility. Learn actionable strategies to boost your brand, optimize your social media, and leverage SEO. Transform your online footprint into a powerful tool for growth and engagement.
Key Takeaways:
1. Effective techniques to increase your brand's visibility across various online platforms.
2. Strategies for optimizing social media profiles and content to maximize reach and engagement.
3. Insights into leveraging SEO best practices to improve search engine rankings and drive organic traffic.
How to Start Affiliate Marketing with ChatGPT- A Step-by-Step Guide (1).pdfSimpleMoneyMaker
Discover the power of affiliate marketing with ChatGPT! This comprehensive guide takes you through the process of starting and scaling your affiliate marketing business using the latest AI technology. Learn how to leverage ChatGPT to generate content ideas, create engaging articles, and connect with your audience through personalized interactions. From building your strategy and optimizing conversions to analyzing performance and staying updated with industry trends, this eBook provides everything you need to know to succeed in affiliate marketing. Whether you're a beginner looking to start your online business or an experienced marketer wanting to take your efforts to the next level, this guide is your roadmap to success in the world of affiliate marketing.
What Software is Used in Marketing in 2024.Ishaaq6
This paper explores the diverse landscape of marketing software, examining its pivotal role in modern marketing strategies. It provides a comprehensive overview of various types of marketing software tools and platforms essential for enhancing efficiency, optimizing campaigns, and achieving business objectives. Key categories discussed include email marketing software, social media management tools, content management systems (CMS), customer relationship management (CRM) software, search engine optimization (SEO) tools, and marketing automation platforms.
The paper delves into the functionalities, benefits, and examples of each type of software, highlighting their unique contributions to effective marketing practices. It explores the importance of integration and automation in maximizing the impact of these tools, addressing challenges and strategies for seamless implementation across different marketing channels.
Furthermore, the paper examines emerging trends in marketing software, such as AI and machine learning applications, personalization strategies, predictive analytics, and the ethical considerations surrounding data privacy and consumer rights. Case studies illustrate real-world applications and success stories of businesses leveraging marketing software to achieve significant outcomes in their marketing campaigns.
In conclusion, this paper provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of marketing technology, emphasizing the transformative potential of software solutions in driving innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage in today's dynamic marketplace.
This description outlines the scope, structure, and focus of the paper, giving readers a clear understanding of what to expect and why the topic of marketing software is important and relevant in contemporary marketing practices.
We’ve entered a new era in digital. Search and AI are colliding, in more ways than one. And they all have major implications for marketers.
• SEOs now use AI to optimize content.
• Google now uses AI to generate answers.
• Users are skipping search completely. They can now use AI to get answers. So AI has changed everything …or maybe not. Our audience hasn’t changed. Their information needs haven’t changed. Their perception of quality hasn’t changed. In reality, the most important things haven’t changed at all. In this session, you’ll learn the impact of AI. And you’ll learn ways that AI can make us better at the classic challenges: getting discovered, connecting through content and staying top of mind with the people who matter most. We’ll use timely tools to rebuild timeless foundations. We’ll do better basics, but with the most advanced techniques. Andy will share a set of frameworks, prompts and techniques for better digital basics, using the latest tools of today. And in the end, Andy will consider - in a brief glimpse - what might be the biggest change of all, and how to expand your footprint in the new digital landscape.
Key Takeaways:
How to use AI to optimize your content
How to find topics that algorithms love
How to get AI to mention your content and your brand
Unlock the secrets to creating a standout trade show booth with our comprehensive guide from Blue Atlas Marketing! This presentation is packed with essential tips and innovative strategies to ensure your booth attracts attention, engages visitors, and drives business success. Whether you're a seasoned exhibitor or a first-timer, these expert insights will help you maximize your impact and make a memorable impression in a crowded exhibition hall. Learn how to:
Design an eye-catching and inviting booth
Incorporate interactive elements that engage visitors
Use effective branding and visuals to reinforce your message
Plan your booth layout for maximum traffic flow
Implement technology to enhance the visitor experience
Create memorable experiences that leave a lasting impression
Transform your trade show presence with these proven tactics and ensure your booth stands out from the competition. Download the PDF now and start planning your next successful exhibit!
Embark on style journeys Indian clothing store denver guide.pptxOmnama Fashions
Finding the perfect "Indian Clothing Store Denver" is essential for those seeking vibrant, authentic, and culturally rich attire in the heart of Colorado. Denver, a city known for its diverse culture and eclectic fashion scene, offers a variety of options for those in search of traditional and contemporary Indian clothing. Whether you're preparing for a wedding, festival, or cultural event, or simply wish to incorporate the elegance and beauty of Indian fashion into your wardrobe, discovering the right store can make all the difference.
Did you know that while 50% of content on the internet is in English, English only makes up 26% of the world’s spoken language? And yet 87% of customers won’t buy from an English only website.
Uncover the immense potential of communicating with customers in their own language and learn how translation holds the key to unlocking global growth. Join Smartling CEO, Bryan Murphy, as he reveals how translation software can streamline the translation process and seamlessly integrate into your martech stack for optimal efficiency. And that's not all – he’ll also share some inspiring success stories and practical tips that will turbocharge your multilingual marketing efforts!
Key takeaways:
1. The growth potential of reaching customers in their native language
2. Tips to streamline translation with software and integrations to your tech stack
3. Success stories from companies that have increased lead generation, doubled revenue, and more with translation
Empowering Influencers: The New Center of Brand-Consumer Dynamics
In the current market landscape, establishing genuine connections with consumers is crucial. This presentation, "Empowering Influencers: The New Center of Brand-Consumer Dynamics," explores how influencers have become pivotal in shaping brand-consumer relationships. We will examine the strategic use of influencers to create authentic, engaging narratives that resonate deeply with target audiences, driving success in the evolved purchase funnel.
Mastering The Best Restaurant Advertising Campaigns Detailed Guide
7 Winning Strategies For Personalizing Your Guest Experience
1. T A R G E T I N G
H O T E L
G U E S T S
U S I N G W E B S I T E
P E R S O N A L I Z A T I O N
7 WINNING STRATEGIES
FOR PERSONALIZING YOUR GUEST EXPERIENCE
2. Personalization is simple,
give the traveler more of
what they care about and
less of what they don't.
It's about surfacing value
for visitors and hoteliers
alike
T A K E A W A Y :
Put each customer at the center of their
digital experience and deliver the cross-
device, personalization experience that
engages travelers, delivers increased
bookings and creates long-term, loyal
relationships
-Bill Hustad, CEO, Baynote
3. Dynamic
Hero Image
Optimized Offer
A major hotel brand saw
travelers that engaged
with recommended
offers and content were
50% more likely to
convert with Baynote
T A K E A W A Y :
Match the visitor’s current intent with
engaging and relevant content, offers,
and hero images to reduce bounce and
increase conversion
4. "Just 8% of travelers
surveyed in October say
they're loyal to the same
hotel brand"
-Deloite
Trending
Destinations
Makesuretoshowrelevant
destinationsandaccommodationsfor
eachtravelerbyunderstandingtheir
preferences,segmentsorpastpurchase
history
T A K E A W A Y :
6. Personalization is simple,
give the traveler more of
what they care about and
less of what they don't.
It's about surfacing value
for visitors and hoteliers
alike
Showcasethebestcontentbasedon
whatyourknowaboutthetraveler's
preferences. Thiscaninclude
dynamicallyrecommended
destinations,links,contentand
offersdisplayedinrealtime
throughoutthesiteexperience
Dynamic Content
Dynamic, relevant
content is proven to
increase engagement and
conversions by as much
as 6 times when
compared to static
content
T A K E A W A Y :
7. Use Customer Data to
Personalize
Customerdataaboundsinthetravelindustry,butverylittleofthisdatais
usedinreal-timeinteractions.TheBaynoteONECustomerExperience
Profile(CXP)isanonlinecustomerdatahubpurposebuilttodrive
relevant,personalizedexperiencesfornewcustomersandbrandloyalists
nomatterhoworwhentheychoosetointeract
-Forrester
T A K E A W A Y :
"Innovative use of data will be a key to unlocking
value in next-generation loyalty programs...many
companies lack the talent and technology
to get to this next level"
-McKinsey & Company
"41% of leisure hotel
travelers belong to a
hotel loyalty program"