Insights & Strategies for Independent Hoteliers.
Today’s Revenue Management Thought - ran for 4 years
Now I publish Monday Revenue Rethink each Monday
5 Revenue Management Mistakes
Costing You Money
Dynamic Pricing Myths
Holding Your Hotel Back
How to Compete with OTAs
Without Losing Margin
The Power of a
Balanced Channel Mix
Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Without Revenue Management strategies / systems - Pricing is guesswork.
How do hoteliers without a Revenue Management team / systems determine the price of their products.
In almost every case, the process of decision is one of guesswork.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Pricing is always a reflection of how people divide up value.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
The is a wonderful saying:-
In every market there are two kinds of fools:-
One charges too much,
the other charges too little.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Life’s a journey, as is your revenue strategy.
Make it dynamic and flexible, yet maintain clear goals for what you want to achieve.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Something happens, you pay attention to your thoughts and feelings about it, and then ask yourself "Hmmm, is there something I could do about this?"
If so, start your experiment right away.
What simple experiment can you do that will give you useful raw data ?
Limit the time to 2-3 weeks….. and then see what you learned.
Don't wait!
Hunches are telling you to get moving now!
If not, let it go.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Dynamic pricing pitfalls to avoid:-
Using a “Set it and forget it” attitude - make sure you have hands-on at all times.
Distrust amongst customers, who adapt a “wait you out” for a better price in the days to come.
Fluctuating your prices too often can cause your customers to stop trusting your brand altogether.
Do consider the industries and your competition’s standards, but don’t follow them blindly
Undercutting your competition could cause them to do the same, leading to race to the bottom.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Adopting dynamic pricing as your go-to pricing strategy, ensures you’ll always remain competitive in terms of price, regardless of what changes may occur.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
I think hotels must really understand delivering value, not just generating revenue.
A hotel creates its growth from being innovative and focused on specifics rather than being mediocre or worse in every area.
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Today's Revenue Management thought:-
Establishing & implementing an effective pricing strategy should be a priority for any hotel looking to expand its arsenal of competitive weapons.
Critical to success, however, is a strategy that is understood & upheld by all departments.
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