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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

Great Leadership By Dan

Hotels by AirBnB. Because they are more focused on customer engagement than just on the initial purchase, they are forced to develop agility and flexibility are core cultural strengths. It’s the relationships that matter in terms of driving loyalty today, and helping you anticipate what they will need tomorrow.

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Making Your Employer Brand More Appealing

HR Digest

With technology, interviewing has gone beyond just physical presence. Incorporate approach like welcoming lobby fixtures and reminiscent of a hotel or museum to your interview schedule will show how unique, inviting, and engaging your company is. 3. Invest in personnel and personal development.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. ” and instead asking themselves, “What kind of loyalty do we want our customers to have , and do we want to have for our customers?” Those answers aren’t obvious.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business Review

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. Use loyalty programs as leverage. Partner with Google and Amazon.

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The phone is smart. How smart is the user?

Strategy Driven

Sitting in the lobby of the Public Hotel in Chicago, there are about 50 people sitting and milling around, engaged in some form of interaction – primarily WITH THEMSELVES. Guidelines of phone use have significantly changed because of technology availability. That was a technological EON ago. Cellular phones are smart these days.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business Review

For example, where traditional hotels put more emphasis on the content in their advertising, Airbnb puts a greater emphasis on the content generated and shared by hosts and guests about their experiences. Survey respondents show more loyalty to usage brands. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. In some industries (e.g.