MishTalk

JULY 9, 2015

Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. spokeswoman said that the Athens hotel had billed the customer in euros, not drachmas. were posted as being carried out in "Drachma EQ." Citigroup and Visa Inc. declined to comment.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

Booking a hotel for business travel poses a quandary for many of us. The key is to remember that hotels – as well as most companies – offer what I call “backdoor” discounts. .” In the hotel industry, two popular hurdles are selling packages and employing uncertainty. Package pricing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. The facilitator, Caroline Dvorjak , was a marketing professor and a seasoned consultant. Tooga/Getty Images. “What we’ve got is a mess.”

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Sanction Madness Escalates: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally Two days ago sanction madness hit a new extreme: Italy seizes Putin ally Arkady Rotenberg’s property assets. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

This week’s reflection point: It’s widely known that content marketing is critical to business success. But in this day and age, creating valuable, relevant content for your target audience isn’t the only marketing strategy you need. This week’s tip: Ready to go beyond content marketing?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 27, 2020

For example, when you go to a hotel, you often get a brochure (either physical or virtual) that paints a picture of that property and its amenities. The problem however, is that many times when you get to the hotel, the picture doesn’t match the brochure. as little as 90 days.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 1, 2020

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Other times, you have to find where the market has shifted toward. economic history. This is playing “defense.”.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2021

While most consultancies are establishing programs to reduce work hours and improve work-life balance, my personal experience revealed that this is little more than a marketing effort. Sure, you may be flying business class and staying at some of the finest hotels. It is no secret that work hours are tough, at least in many countries.

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

By: Pello Walker Targeting your direct marketing materials at non-English speaking prospects and customers in their native languages is an increasingly critical aspect of business success. This example illustrates the risks in not properly acculturating your marketing collateral and in not doing language localization correctly.

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IMC USA

APRIL 10, 2019

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — April 10, 2019 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces that its 2019 annual Consult-Con international consultants conference takes place October 4-6, 2019, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel, a short drive from Love Field (DAL) and DFW Airport.

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Alan Weiss

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I’ve found that corporate clients find it far easier to meet virtually than haul themselves through airports, suffer the bad food and distractions of hotels and conference centers, and endure all the wasted time. Stop lowering your fees and start raising your marketing efforts.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In fact, that's a recipe for failure over the long-term as this approach will guarantee your market positioning as an "extra pair of hands" and "trading time for money" commodity. How do you feel if your client gives you a free overnight to stay at one of their hotels to get a flavor of their customer service experience?

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MAY 30, 2014

We’ve already established that airlines, hotels and the like really want people like me to expense our way through their wares. Most hotels offer status-based floors and lounges , but they rarely keep the riffraff out in practice. Here are some ideas: Hotels should offer programs to “walk” elite guests to nicer properties.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 19, 2016

Are you more likely to stay at a hotel that you've heard of as opposed to an unknown one, even if 'heard of' refers to the fact that they've run ads? Over time, we've been sufficiently seduced by marketers that spend on the surface stuff that cognitive dissonance has persuaded us that we must be making those choices for a reason.

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IMC USA

JULY 27, 2012

Click here to watch a video of the hotel.) As I write this, our block of discounted hotel rooms is filling up rapidly so you should register now if you are going to attend. As I write this, our block of discounted hotel rooms is filling up rapidly so you should register now if you are going to attend.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Explicitly marketing yourself with the term “professional independent consultant” can increase the price you can command, and it can help you to be paid on a 1099 tax basis rather than on a W-2 basis. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. He entrusted me to craft my own job, manage my own way of doing things, and develop and refine systems for various marketing jobs, from trade show exhibits to catalog publishing.

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Alan Weiss

MARCH 26, 2020

All of us here at The Crowne Plaza Greenbelt are very grateful to everyone that has stayed in our hotel, dined in our restaurant, or had a drink in our bar. Jim Day, Director of Sales and Marketing. The hospitality industry is not just a career but it’s our passion and lifestyle. Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay strong!

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

AI algorithms like natural language processing offer the ability to automatically analyze customer reviews, social media posts, news reports, market sentiment, and other trends to predict emerging risks and opportunities.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2017

After checking into my hotel in the city center, I took the elevator down 13 floors to the street. Many years ago, Tropicana took orange juice to a new level with its branding, marketing message, and advertisements. The island he lives on is famous for oranges, a fact I knew about as I had visited this island three times before.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Research: Remember this: Market research is a proactive activity built on developing a hypothesis of the market or asking a question that you are looking to answer. One big failure I see in branding and marketing is too much change. Understand what the market really thinks of you. Spoiler: all markets are competitive now.

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

The conference dates are October 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, at the JW Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. I am pleased to announce the IMC USA 2017 Annual Consulting Conference: Building Your Practice and Adding Value for Clients. Connect, Learn, Grow at IMC USA Conference 2017! Our 2017 Conference Venue.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. The poor examples outnumber the good. For example, recently I was going from Minneapolis to NYC.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Rental licenses will be only given to properties for primary uses (hotels, offices, etc.), Clearly, the proposal seeks to eliminate competition to the unfair advantage of hotels. If hotels cannot compete against homeowners, they are charging too much for what they offer. Via Mish-modified translation from El Economista.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 27, 2014

They run bus ads and reach out to hotel concierge staff. After all, there are a lot more of them than there are the diehard fans who see three or four of nine shows a year.    And so the producers focus on celebrities and popular topics. Makes sense. Until you do the math.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Pricing is one of those things I stumbled into when I was a young marketer. I understood the power of marketing to sell stuff, but I never knew the power of pricing to drive profit, grow brand power, and establish market dominance until I got involved in nightclubs. Shouldn’t that come with a premium? Focus on value.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. Market Watch. Market Watch.

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Consulting Success

MAY 15, 2017

In a HBR article many years ago, Christopher Hart shared how BBBK was able to charge ten times more than its competitors and still maintain a disproportionally high market share in the areas where it was operating at the time. BBBK provides services to its clients that include restaurants, high-end hotels, and other businesses.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

P.S. I’d say that one program’s changes that do seem to have had an impact on purchase habits were the changes to the Marriott Hotels Bonvoy program. People noticed. And, in my not comprehensive survey of travelers, it seems that the changes have caused some change in behavior…but not for the good.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Bloomberg reports China Builds Its Own Manhattan -- Except It''s a Ghost Town.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

It’s interesting, and a bit sad, to see town car drivers waiting and waiting and waiting outside of hotels as Uber and Lyft cars come and go with passengers. Speed to market, speed to getting in front of customers, to getting the job done. And it’s not just technology. Often it’s speed.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

” It’s a big hotel. It’s reasonable to assume that the hotel decided to save some money by consolidating all of their front desk work into one central location. . “Where’s the gym located?” They have a thousand rooms, and they’re part of a chain. Still, I was surprised to hear typing.

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IMC USA

MAY 22, 2012

Innovative Marketing Mastery for Consultants — Ford Saeks. Where : Orlando, FL at the beautiful Buena Vista Palace Hotel and Spa. . · Accelerate Your Established Consulting Practice: Tools, Techniques and Tips — Andy Birol. · The Wisdom of Wizards — Dick Metzler. Ethics, Risk and Compliance — Juan Pujol and Paul Martino. Take a look!

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Marketers raise expectations in order to get someone to sign up and try a product and service. Or the person who sends a handwritten note telling the guest what to expect when they get to your hotel. There’s a time gap. In between, the trough. You spend $400 per customer on rent and architecture and web design.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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