Hospitality Sales Podcast

Stephanie Smith, owner of Cogwheel Marketing shares some great insights on marketing today in this challenging environment. Stephanie’s niche is helping branded hotels to market better and she has some really good advice about working more closely with your sales team.

Dave Hamilton, SVP of Business Development for MMI Hotels has been taking a unique approach – to everything for a long time. Every touch point – from his voicemail message to his follow up is memorable. We talk about some of his best ideas and his approach to sales that has made him so successful.

I do listen to two podcasts pretty religiously – The first is called Sleep with me and trust me, it isn’t what you think. I cannot quite figure out how it works but I will be forever grateful to Will Traynor for introducing me to it. It is a podcast that puts you to sleep. I have an echo dot in my bedroom and when I cannot fall asleep (or back to sleep) I say, Alexa, play the Sleep with me Podcast and on comes this very odd man. He doesn’t necessarily have a soothing voice and honestly, I cannot tell you exactly why or how, but he puts me to sleep almost immediately. I mean, right away – I cannot tell you even one topic that he talks about because I never make it that far and I am out. I am just hopeful that he isn’t doing some sort of suggestive hypnosis that is telling me to do nefarious things. But, it is a risk I am obviously willing to take in order to get some good sleep!

I kept hearing about how much trouble these event planners were causing my hotel sales clients and I thought, why are they trying to persecute us iwth all these cancellations? So I called two big event planners I know and they definitely explained things to me from a new perspective! Lance Fensterman is the President of ReedPop and Matthew Brown is the Managing Director of C2C Events.

For our first show, we found ourselves in week one of of a global shutdown so I wanted to share some help for handling stressful times. Hope this helps!