Podcast: How to Approach your Hotel’s Marketing Strategy in Extremely Fluid Times
Stephanie Smith joins Susan Barry of Top Floor Podcast to talk all things metasearch, OTA effectiveness, and more. Podcast Highlights Stephanie Smith combined her love of hotels, her coder brain, and her knowledge of what was missing in the marketplace to create an...
Determining Your Hotel’s Channel Strategy within Koddi
Each brand has slightly different channels and opportunities within Koddi, but most are fairly similar. But, you need to understand WHEN and HOW to use each channel based on your hotel needs. You don't have an unlimited budget, so choose wisely. Direct Media...
Podcast: Leverage Marriott Hotel Systems to Drive Commercial Strategy Results
Stephanie Smith of Cogwheel Marketing and Connor Vanderholm of Topline Revenue joined Trevor Grant of Revenue Hub in December 2021 to discuss leveraging Marriott systems and all the fun acronyms that go along with each system. Specifically, they look at it from a...
IHG Now Offers On-Page SEO Opportunities For Your Hotel Website
For as long as we can remember, IHG, which has brands like Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and many others handled their SEO marketing efforts in-house. The title and meta descriptions were written by their team as they did not...
Podcast: How a Hotel Marketing Audit is Crucial to Your Budget
In this podcast recording, Stephanie Smith, Founder of Cogwheel Marketing, and Trevor Grant of Revenue Hub, have an in-depth conversation about performing the proper marketing audit. Stephanie outlines why she feels the ideology around the digital marketing budget...
HSMAI 2021: Defining Success in the New Market
In September 2021, Stephanie Smith of Cogwheel Marketing and Melissa Kavanagh of Westgate Resorts did a joint presentation on "Defining Success in the New Market". While Stephanie is an expert on branded hotels, Melissa covers the other side of the equation with...