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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

In this article, we will explore a variety of rewards you might be able to gain on airlines, hotels, rental cars, and credit cards. Ultimately, your choice of airline may come down to the classic real estate mantra: location, location, location. Like airlines, the best plan is to pick one hotel and stick with it.

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Who is undermining your brand?

Seth Godin Blog

Or perhaps it’s the front desk person who can’t be bothered to bring the extra energy that the architect, real estate professionals and builders brought to the hotel you just opened. Is there anything less Italian than that?

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Blue Ribbon for Sanction Craziness: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally; Russia Threatens Law Allowing Seizure of Foreign Assets

MishTalk

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. But what puzzles me is that the current situation involves real estate to which the sanctions do not apply. Nothing surprises me anymore.

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In temporary residence

Seth Godin Blog

So many things about college, funerals, real estate, hotels, weddings and the contractor trade are frustrating and opaque to customers. They will outlast you. Why are some industries so irrational (when seen from the point of view of the customer)?

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Case Study: Should a Hotel Giant Eliminate Some Brands and Refocus?

Harvard Business

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. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries.

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Thinking Like a Consultant: Paralysis by Analysis

Management Consulted

The next morning we got up early to do a real estate signing (it seems we always have to do these when we are not in the location where we are buying). And we still had to fly out the next day – me to speak in New York, my husband to work on a real estate project in California. The drive got us there at the same time.

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Inside the Invisible but Influential World of Scent Branding

Harvard Business

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. While packaged goods, hospitality, retail, medicine, real estate, and fitness are some of the obvious industries for employing scent branding, many brands in other industries have benefited from this approach. Ad agency J.

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