A hotel CRM (Customer Relationship Management) states exactly what it does: it manages the relationship you have with your customers. How does it do that? It combines multiple tools and connections to centralize and manage your hotel’s interactions with each of its customers, regardless of the acquisition channel (hotel website, transactional emails, newsletter, social networks, SMS, satisfaction surveys, etc.). Are you lost yet? In order to explain everything more clearly, we will try to clarify…
Dear hotel owners and managers, I know that 95% of people mix their online reputation and guest satisfaction analysis. I did the same thing…
Dear readers, Although it is true that most hotels have been struggling since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many platforms are trying to support hoteliers by highlighting their ability to provide a certain level of safety. This is the case with Tripadvisor, which recently launched the ‘Travel Safe’ tool designed to help travellers find establishments that have implemented a health and safety procedure since their reopening. A good way for potential customers who are…
Dear hoteliers, Today we’re going to talk about love, dating and “pulling”; and look at what you do when you meet a pretty girl…
Dear hoteliers, I have never considered marketing to be an esoteric or abstract domain in which only Geniuses are capable of producing miracles. While it is true that marketing is an extremely precise, even mathematical science, and must be supported by good ideas, this also holds true for all other professional domains. But what about relationship marketing, that intangible marketing approach whose purpose is to increase the life cycle of your own guests (loyal guests repeating “consumption”…
Dear Hoteliers, I am continuing to work on compiling a resource on CRMs for the hospitality industry. I have made a great deal of…
After years of working on the OTAs, today I can update the many tricks they use which directly affect the profits of your hotel. These tricks are much more than simple “gimmicks”. They are, in fact, actual diversions to the detriment of your income and to the benefit of themselves. The OTAs have virtually unlimited budgets and overwhelm you with their power. Yet, many hotels succeed in reining them in and do very well. The…