Stephanie Smith of Cogwheel Marketing is Awarded 2022 HSMAI ‘TOP 25’ Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality Sales, Marketing and Revenue Optimization
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) has selected Stephanie Sparks Smith as one of its “Top 25 Extraordinary Minds“ for 2022. This is the 20th year HSMAI has compiled the list, which annually recognizes exemplary achievement and leadership in the hospitality sales, marketing, revenue optimization, and distribution. Stephanie joined an exclusive list when […]
Hotel Digital Paid Media Planning
Updated: October 2023 2024 Budget season is here! Do you feel stuck in your paid media campaigns for your hotels? Founder, Stephanie Smith, in her 2022 presentation talks about different strategies and budgets for paid media for your hotel that you can apply when focusing on your 2024 paid media planning. There […]
Cogwheel Analytics Debuts at HITEC e20X Start Up Pitch Competition
In June 2022, Founder, Stephanie Smith, of Cogwheel Marketing debuted Cogwheel Analytics at the HFTP HITEC e20X Entrepreneur Startup Pitch Competition. In a rigorously timed 4 minute speech, Stephanie shared with the hospitality industry the vision of her digital marketing BI (business intelligence) and reporting tool for hotels. Then, the judges had 4 minutes for […]
Stephanie Presents at HSMAI: ROAS is Dying, A Love Story
During Commercial Strategy week at HSMAI 2022 in Orlando, owner Stephanie Smith gets on the main stage to discuss a somewhat controversial topic. The presentation is done in a style called Pecha Kucha, so 20 slides and only 20 second per slide. The entire presentation can be viewed in 6 minutes and 40 seconds. A […]
Podcast: Branded Hotel Marketing Demystified: What Is It and What Hoteliers Should Know
What is demystified hotel marketing? Cogwheel Marketing’s Stephanie Smith and Cory Falter from the InnSync Show discuss the importance of maximizing your brand’s marketing efforts.
Podcast: The Marriage of Revenue Management and Marketing
Revenue Management + Marketing = The Perfect Match. Cogwheel Marketing’s Stephanie Smith and Topline Revenue’s Connor Vanderholm sit down with Revenue Hub to discuss how marketing and revenue management beautifully collaborate, providing excellent expertise.
Who Should be Responsible for your Hotel Social Media?
Defining and executing a social media plan is not for the faint of heart. Currently, hoteliers are short staffed in every department and sometimes social media is a last priority. But, if we have learned anything through the pandemic, it is not to forget or devalue our transient guests.
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 agency that caters to branded hotels. That same entrepreneurial spirit led her […]
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 MetaSearch Description: A search engine that displays rates across multiple websites for […]
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 commercial strategy approach thus through the lens of a hotel revenue manager […]