Hello everyone and welcome to Hospitality Digital Marketing the podcast, I am your host Loren gray and this is episode #128,  we are airing Friday, November 4th, 2016 where every week we spend around 20 minutes sharing the most interesting tools, news, and techniques being used in digital marketing for the hospitality industry. We also do a quick recap of our weekly Live Video show “This Week in Hospitality Digital Marketing” which also airs every Friday at 10:30 am Central US Time. SO let’s get started;

Minute  4 — Darlene Rondeau congrats on the online video summit

Minute  8 — discussed the too answer the public

Minute 13 — guest engagement platform

Minute 18 — main question before starting any of these projects “what is your goal?”

Minute 20 — Review of the guest engagement programs — some are designed to engage to those that already use the platform and those that are  trying to edge you on them, some are for staff and guests

minute 29 Hilton brand reviews — robert

Minute 61 Wyndham 17,000

Minute 61 — starwood marriott merger PMS platform choices

Minute 80 — robert rejoins and we discuss marriotts video studio and its continued use?

Minute 91 — snapchat glasses boon or bust

Minute 101 — convergence of digital marketing / revenue marketing and operations

Minute 107 — revpar hacking book go.flip.to/revparhacking

Minute 119 — Flip.to flipto.wistia.com/media..

Expedia eyes alternative accommodation bounty, plots HomeAway integration

https://www.tnooz.com/article/expedia-q3-2016-results/

The Rising Costs of OTA’s

Less than half of activity suppliers distribute through online travel agencies

Every One of Hilton’s 13 Hotel Brands, Explained

Need tome to talk about these

ZuZapp — http://www.zuzapp.com/

TymeGlobal — http://www.tymeglobal.com/

Alice — http://info.aliceapp.com/

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