fine-tune your hotel’s guest marketing communications
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How to fine-tune your hotel’s guest marketing communications
Webinar 24 September 2015
Your hosts
Sean O’Neill Editor-in-chief & Moderator Tnooz
Gene Quinn CEO & Producer Tnooz
Your presenters
Carrie Murphy Marketing Specialist Revinate
Niki Gross Managing Director Whitney Peak Hotel
Poll no. 1 Where are you located?
Poll no. 2 What industry segment do you represent?
Poll no. 3 What is the state of your guest or customer
communications?
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Guest Marketing How to fine-tune your hotel’s guest marketing communications
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Agenda
• The state of hotel communications • The case for personalization • Effective email marketing • Tools for successful personalized marketing
Join the conversation!
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Meet the Presenters
Niki Gross Managing Director Whitney Peak Hotel
Carrie Murphy Marketing Specialist Revinate
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About Revinate
SaaS tech company based in San Francisco Offices in Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Amsterdam and NYC
• Founded in 2009
• 120 employees
• Focused exclusively on hospitality
• 25,000+ hotels in 160 countries
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Hotel Communications The state of the hotel-guest relationship today
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The Average Consumer’s Inbox
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Promotional
Transactional
Personal
53.5% 28.3%
18.2% Nearly 82% of emails in consumer inboxes are promotional or transactional in nature.
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Most hotel marketing is exactly the same
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How do you stand out?
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Personalization Lip service, or critical objective?
Poll no. 4 On a scale of 1 to 5, how high a priority is
personaliza7on for your hotel?
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Guests Have High Expectations
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70% of consumers expect more
personalized experiences
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Knowing and understanding your
customer must be the center of your
guest experience strategy
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OTAs own the guest relationship
OTAs
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Email Marketing The most effective way to communicate with your guests.
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Why Email Marketing?
3x Email conversion rates are three
times higher than social media, with a
17% higher value in the conversion
48% of consumers prefer to interact
with brands via email
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Customer Feature: Whitney Peak Hotel
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Guest Database Data analysis, targeted marketing, personalized guest experiences
Poll no. 5
My hotel uses guest data to personalize guest communica7ons
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Revinate Marketing™
Lucy Jones
Check In: 12/16
Nights: 2
Rate: $125
Email: ?
Phone: ?
Stay History: ?
Available data: What a hotelier sees:
There is a lot of guest data out
there, but a
hotelier typically
can’t access it
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Most Hotels Today Can’t Deliver
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79% of companies face challenges when
connecting data from disparate
sources into a single customer view
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Retain Your Existing Customers
20%
80%
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Existing Customers New Prospects
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Building and Maintaining a Guest Database
• Build quality lists • Segment your database • Practice good list hygiene • Legal requirements • Send relevant content
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Build Quality Lists
Capture missing emails at the front desk
Incentivize front desk agents
Encourage visitors to opt-in on your website
Email capture is especially critical if the guest booked through an OTA!
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Segment your database
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Practice Good List Hygiene
Clean your lists regularly to maintain a good sender reputation.
Remove generic addresses
Correct misspelled domains
Remove duplicate addresses
Remove inactive users
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Legal Requirements
US: CAN-SPAM Compliance
• Identification information • Unsubscribe mechanism • Consent is optional
Additionally, in Europe and Canada:
• Consent is required • Check each country’s local laws on a
case-by-case basis
SPAM
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Send the right message to the right guest
Hi Asha, Registration is open for the 2015 Ottawa Marathon. Come stay with us again at a discounted rate!
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Marketing Automation Create valuable relationships and personalized experiences
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Guests Respond to Personalization
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Revinate Marketing™
Revinate Rich Guest Profiles™
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Revinate Marketing™
Segment guests and develop special offers tailored to their preferences
Quickly create effective marketing communications
No additional add-on pricing by campaign
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$4200 average revenue per promotional campaign
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“With Revinate Marketing™, our communications are
very personalized and relevant to what each guest is
looking for, right now.” - Rebekah Hubbard, Provenance Hotels
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Next Steps
1. Collect all guest emails 2. Practice good database
maintenance 3. Invest in a CRM
4. Looking for consultation?
Talk to one of our email marketing experts.
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Questions? Email me! [email protected]
Q & A
Thank you!
Send your questions and comments to [email protected]
Replay and presentation will be available on www.tnooz.com