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.
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 and a hotel digital marketer. Listen in to understand some tricks to utilize each Marriott system.
Marriott Revenue Management and Marketing Systems Highlights
- 00:00 Video Start
- 01:18 Guest Welcome and Topic Introduction
- 03:34 Marriott MRDW – Focused on DAT, SEG10, ECM and MBV5 reports
- 08:39 Marriott MBOP – Marriott Bonvoy Offer Platform, which previously was in Brandworks
- 13:58 Marriott MarRFP and EPIC – What digital marketers use it for, versus what sales teams use it for
- 19:10 Marriott PLUS (Koddi) – Where to run ads for MetaSearch, Sponsored Listing, SEM and OTA ads
- 27:40 ICD – Has to do with inventory control dates
- 29:56 Wrap Up
- 30:39 Other video links
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About Cogwheel Marketing
Cogwheel Marketing™️ is a digital marketing agency specializing in branded and soft branded hotels, leveraging each brand’s capabilities and coupling that with supplemental strategies to maximize total online presence through digital marketing and advertising. The process starts with identifying gaps in a hotel’s online presence, aligning hotel and revenue goals, and then developing a strategy with tactics to close those gaps. Their reporting and business intelligence tool, Cogwheel Analytics™️, aggregates data across the customer booking journey to identify trends and benchmark marketing data across hundreds of hotels.
Media Contact
Stephanie Smith
Founder and Digital Matriarch [email protected] +1 540 239 1052