Dear hoteliers, As you know, without careful preparation a project seldom achieves the desired results. In any strategy, making a careful plan is a far better option than winging it. Email marketing is no exception to the rule. To reach your target audience and generate the desired traffic to your establishment(s), it’s important to define and control each of the steps that make up the production line of your email marketing campaign. What are the…
Dear Hoteliers, Let’s talk about email marketing! We should start by pointing out that there are products out there that are obviously great, like…
Dear hoteliers, We recently decided to interview hoteliers about their feelings and their advice on how to get through this painful period. The results…
Hello everyone, During the COVID-19 crisis, I had the chance to collaborate with Fabienne Ardouin (Co-President of the International and Digital Europe Commission – GNI) to help thousands of hoteliers communicate with their guests. As each hotel is unique with very specific circumstances, Fabienne and I wrote out several scenarios that we then translated into many languages, before distributing them to all the hoteliers in this network. Today, we have (finally) arrived at the end…
Dear hoteliers, I haven’t written for over two months because, like you, I’ve been wrapped up in this totally unexpected situation. I’ve had to…
Dear hoteliers, The circumstances are becoming more and more difficult to manage and a lot of hotels have temporarily been forced to close until…
Dear hoteliers, This is based on over 500 Hotels that run Christmas campaigns with us every single year. What is your objective? Which period are you trying to drive traffic to? Design your campaign with these in mind. Your Christmas strategy should include direct repeat business and gift vouchers to be purchased. Segmentation of your database According to analytics we have run with over 500 of our hotel partners we see that a personalised marketing…
Dear Hotelier, My hotel flash sale journey began at Groupon in 2011 (a couple of years after the financial crash) and ended with Travelzoo…
Dear hoteliers, It has been amply established that customer loyalty is the challenge of the day. And a proper email strategy is vital to…
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”…