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17 Pieces of Hotel Sales Collateral Your Team Needs

Does your hotel sales team have everything to succeed? You’ve looked your sales strategy and put technology in place, but when it comes to hotel sales collateral, you could be coming up short

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How Good Hotel Marketing Can Give Group Sales A Leg Up

Easy to shop, easy to book, easy to plan, easy to communicate. In short, that’s what meeting planners love about hotels. It’s the job of sales and hotel marketing to ensure you are delivering

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Podcast: Oaky and Staah talk Hyper Personalisation

We discuss the topic of Hyper Personalisation, how this extends personalisation, which we are all familiar with, and clarify how this should not to be confused with segmentation

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RFP Season is Over; What Now? A Business Travel Sales Manager’s Day

The end of RFP season does not mean it’s time to slow down for Business Travel Sales Managers, but instead it’s time to manage and maintain the accounts we’ve worked so hard to obtain

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An Eggcellent Strategy to Increase Family Bookings this Easter

You can learn a great deal from previous years’ bookings. When did people previously book for Easter? Longer lead-in from the US market vs. domestic? What was your rough occupancy?

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How to Create a Successful Gift Voucher Campaign

Guests are hungry for gift vouchers. All you need to do is market them. Utilise the strategies suggested to get your gift voucher on people’s shopping radars

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How Hotels Can Survive a Downturn with AI Upselling Technology

Upselling has even more value in a downturn when there are empty rooms or when guests are booking at the best available rate and standard room types.

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Don’t Leave These Group Bookings On The Table

While data suggests a decrease in group bookings, hotel DOSMs hoping to tap into new or additional markets to shore up group business need to look outside the 3rd party meeting planner tools

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Digital Marketing vs Digital Sales – Why Your Hotel Needs Both

When it comes to digital marketing vs digital sales, lines are undoubtedly blurred. Many, including Digital Marketing Managers, assume the two are one and the same and use terms interchangeably

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Does Pre-Stay Upselling Cannibalise Front Desk Upselling?

Does Pre-Stay Upselling Cannibalise Front Desk Upselling?

A common worry is that pre-arrival upselling cannibalizes front-desk upselling, thus reducing the receptionists’ chances to upsell guests. But does that actually happen?

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