viernes, 15 de enero de 2016

WEBINAR

TOPIC: 
Guest Satisfaction: 8 best practices for Hotels & Restaurants

EXPERTER PRESENTER:
Daniel E. Craig
FormerhotelGM
Special Guests: 
RJ Friedlander

Founder & CEO @ReviewPro 
Anna Kavelmann Digital Strategy, Corporate Social Media & ! Online Reputation Management 

KEY POINTS:

- Best Practice definition: A guideline or solution to a problem generally accepted as the most effective course of action.
- Google 5 Stage of travel (new info gained):
- 1st Practice: Optimize Your Online Presence
3 types:Paid content, owned content and earned content
(New info gained) Earned content MUST POWERFUL because it comes from the CONSUMERS not marketers, also Google ranked the search of the website

- 2nd Practice: Manage guest expectations










(New info gained) Reality marketing is the next generation of marketing, example: Casa Blanca hotel shows the "truth" of its rooms.

- 3rdPractice: Be true to brand 
3 factors that affects rankings:
People wants to see recently reviews.

- 4th Practice: Track guest feedback

Ask in person (solicited)
Guest letters & emails (unsolicited)
Comment cards (solicited)
Electronic surveys (solicited)
Reviews & social media (unsolicited) 

- 5th Practice: Analyze guest feedback
2 sources: Online reputation and guest surveys 
It's important the use of qualitative and quantitive measures and internal and external sources  

- 6th Practice: Use feedback to guide decisions
Reviews and Feedback not only for the guest also for the STAFF (New info gained) 

- 7th Practice: Respond
How to respond a review (New info gained) 
- 8th Practice: Provide Social Service
(New info gained) How to manage social media using The Google's 5 stages of travel: 

What were the benefits for attending the webinar?
- Dynamic
- Real time 
- Sense of approach
- Practical (you can attend it from anywhere)
- Q&A sessions (you can send even a tweet or Facebook post)
- Available material (you can download the material from the webinar)

If you were to organize a webinar, what would you do differently?
- More advertising about my webinar: It's was difficult to find webinars
- Survey in real time: planning a survey in real time as an activity to involve the audience and be part of the content.