Category Archives: Live Shows
Live Show 110 September 15th 2017
“Are QR codes still alive? Apple thinks so” Show 110 Player Co-Hosts Edward St Onge Stuart Butler Show Notes 00:02 Hurricane Irma 00:11 Apple new releases 00:26 QR codes as a native function for iOS 11 00:39 Amazon and its lack of delivery 00:50 OTA’s offering potential financial services to help them start rather than …
Live Show 109 September 8th 2017
“Most hotel apps are DOA and still tons of click-bait headlines exposed” Show Player Co-Hosts Robert Cole Show Notes 00:04 – Robert Cole Joins 00:09 – Robert discusses his issues with his recent car rental issues 00:23 AirBnB Lessons in scaling 100X 00:36 Roberts Skift article about Hotel apps and how they need a major …
Live Show 108 September 1st 2017
“Saar Fabrikant of B4Checkin is our special Co-Host” Show Player Co Hosts Robert Cole Stuart Butler Special co -host Saar Fabrikant Tim Peter Ed St.Onge Show Notes 00:02 Saar discusses the real problems they are solving 00:15 B4Checkin is now has the ability to post directly into Oracle 00:24 B4youbet B4youpost B4youbook all different as …
Live Show 107 August 25th 2017
“Amazon is taking over the world or at least food, and why are apps not the answer for your hotel” Show Player CoHosts Edward StOnge Tim Peter Holly Zoba Robert Cole Show Notes 00:04 Dean of Rosen School of Hospitality resigns 00:14 Why are hotel apps not getting downloaded and used and what would be …
Live Show 106 August 18th 2017
“Has TripBam figured out overbooking and should hotels consider it?” Show Player Co-Hosts Edward StOnge Show Notes 00:03 TripBam article discussion 00:14 Alibaba and Marriott short term venture 00:21 Recended Chinese international investment. 00:28 Influencer marketing on Facebook is getting more expensive 00:31 Minimum wage discussion 00:47 Agencies and new contracts with clients getting modified …
Live Show 63 October 21st 2016
“To app or not to app, that is the question, and does the method of payment and consumer trends in OTA’s really make a difference?” Co-Hosts Edward St Onge Robert Cole Show Notes Minute 1 — Marriott opening Wholesale portal interface Minute 20 — Expedia’s expansion onto other distribution types Minute 25 — industry segmentation between …
Live Show 62 October 14th 2016
“Expedia got it right, stories are content, banner ad creator comes with a warning, Pinterest ad’s make an improvement” Co-Host Edward StOnge Show Notes Minute 7 — content comes from the guest not from the property, at least not the most productive. Google has ruined the content to being just SEO and its not the real …
Live Show 61 October 7th 2016
“Price gouging during Mathew can’t hotel’s learn their lesson? ADA, and special needs travelers, and is MetaSearch all that?” Here is our weekly animated recap video Co-Hosts Tim Peters Robert Cole Edward StOnge Show Notes Minute 6 — Price gouging in Florida during Hurricane Mathew Minute 18 — special needs travelers Minute 31 …
Live Show 60 September 30th 2016
“ROAS? what does that have to do with MetaSearch? Our special guest Dean from Derbysoft talks about that and is Expedia using face recognition now?” Show Notes Co-hosts Tim Peters Holly Zoba Special Co-Host — Dean Schmit with Derbysoft Minute 13— Expedia uses facial recognition Minute 15 — what happened to Pokemon ? Minute 19 — …
Live Show 59 September 23rd 2016
“Darlene Rondeau from Leonardo is our special guest, Marriott and Starwood are finally final, Google has two new apps, and Expedia has a new tool” Our Fun Animated Recap Co-Hosts Robert Cole —Rock Cheetah Edward StOnge — Flip.to Tim Peter — Tim Peter & Associates Special co-host — Darlene Rondeau of Leonardo Show Notes …