Louis J. Godin, owner of Event Planning solutions provider WebEventPlanner.com, announced today the launch of free hospitality, meeting planning, wedding planning and event planning industry advertising.
Free advertising includes (but not limited to) set up of a virtual trade show booth in your selected city and category (hospitality, meeting planning and wedding planning virtual trade shows). Trade shows are available on line 24/7, 365 days a year and accessible around the world on http://www.SalesEPacket.com.
Available for Hotels, Catering Facilities, Caterers, Catering, DJs, Entertainment, Wedding Party Rental, Bakery, Floral, Videographers, Photographers, Event Party Rental, Transportation, Meeting Planners, Wedding Planners, Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Hospitality and Event Planning Networking Groups, Publications, News and Press Releases etc. For more information, set up instructions and qualification form please visit at http://www.SalesEPacket.com. (select the free advertising banner) Additional free advertising available to those who qualify. Available to US hospitality, meeting planning, wedding planning and event planning industry only. Restrictions apply, subject to change without notice.
Virtual 'Real Time' Hotel Sales and Catering Sales Tool Solutions. Let us show you how to virtually sell your hospitality. Virtual real time hotel sales and catering sales management tools. Since 1999, Louis Godin has provided Event Planner Internet Resource Development, based on 18 years of hotel and event planning experience. He is certified in hospitality operations by the American Hotel and Motel Association and holds a degree in Hotel & Motel Management. Mr. Godin offers 10 years of Internet Research and Development for the Event Planning Industry.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Sales Industry Profession needs to start thinking green with its distribution of paper sales material!
"Recently I was at the office of a meeting planner providing virtual on site sales training". says Louis Godin, owner of http://www.HotelEPacket.com, "After the meeting we were talking and as we were talking the meeting planner was going through her mail. This meeting planner tossed in the garbage 5 hotel paper sales packets they recently received from various hotels without evening opening the packet information. Let take a moment and consider:
ESTIMATED WASTE OF PAPER HOTEL SALES PACKETS
5 sales packets snail mailed weighting 6.5 ounces per packet, per week.
2.03 pounds of paper sales material per week to one meeting planner.
Times 52 weeks equals 105.62 pounds of paper per year for one meeting planner.105.62 pounds of material not being used and ending up in our landfills or recycling.
Now consider that Meeting Planner International (MPI) has over 20,000 registered event planners within its organization.
That is over 1,050 tons of material being thrown always each year while having little impact in the sales process.(created by only one sales industry profession)
Not to mention millions of dollars in lost revenue each year....
This paper process also provides no personal attention or helps the hotel stand out above and beyond their competitors. The hospitality industry must look at its sales material and begin presenting enviromentaly friendly information while providing virtual sale information by traditional sales standards and giving personal attention to each guest and event planner.
SOLUTION
Hotel Sales and Catering Sales E-Packets (http://www.HotelEPacket.com) now provides hotel sales and catering sales professionals with web sites that are tangible virtual sales tools - offering all the necessary features needed to virtual present and close a sales efficiently in one phone call. Costing to the hotel less then a penny per distribution and viewing of its sales material while providing no paper, handling and shipping cost. Bring instant transmission of its sales material and eliminating the need for paper material. Sales E-Packets are always available 24/7 allowing hotel sales and catering professionals to organize not only all sales and facility materials, but also the process for delivering this information to guests and event planners. These tools deliver sales information in a format that updates across the inventory enterprise - regardless of when a client receives it.
The hotel sales and catering sales industry must also begin presenting sales information by traditional sales standards whereby web sites are virtual sales presentation tools to be viewed by the guest under the guidance of a hotel sales and catering sales professional. http://www.HotelEPacket.com for hotel sales and catering sales professionals now enable on-the-spot virtual property site inspection presentations and the ability to create customized and personalized web sites to each inquiry and sales call.
For more information please visit us at http://www.HotelEPacket.com
ESTIMATED WASTE OF PAPER HOTEL SALES PACKETS
5 sales packets snail mailed weighting 6.5 ounces per packet, per week.
2.03 pounds of paper sales material per week to one meeting planner.
Times 52 weeks equals 105.62 pounds of paper per year for one meeting planner.105.62 pounds of material not being used and ending up in our landfills or recycling.
Now consider that Meeting Planner International (MPI) has over 20,000 registered event planners within its organization.
That is over 1,050 tons of material being thrown always each year while having little impact in the sales process.(created by only one sales industry profession)
Not to mention millions of dollars in lost revenue each year....
This paper process also provides no personal attention or helps the hotel stand out above and beyond their competitors. The hospitality industry must look at its sales material and begin presenting enviromentaly friendly information while providing virtual sale information by traditional sales standards and giving personal attention to each guest and event planner.
SOLUTION
Hotel Sales and Catering Sales E-Packets (http://www.HotelEPacket.com) now provides hotel sales and catering sales professionals with web sites that are tangible virtual sales tools - offering all the necessary features needed to virtual present and close a sales efficiently in one phone call. Costing to the hotel less then a penny per distribution and viewing of its sales material while providing no paper, handling and shipping cost. Bring instant transmission of its sales material and eliminating the need for paper material. Sales E-Packets are always available 24/7 allowing hotel sales and catering professionals to organize not only all sales and facility materials, but also the process for delivering this information to guests and event planners. These tools deliver sales information in a format that updates across the inventory enterprise - regardless of when a client receives it.
The hotel sales and catering sales industry must also begin presenting sales information by traditional sales standards whereby web sites are virtual sales presentation tools to be viewed by the guest under the guidance of a hotel sales and catering sales professional. http://www.HotelEPacket.com for hotel sales and catering sales professionals now enable on-the-spot virtual property site inspection presentations and the ability to create customized and personalized web sites to each inquiry and sales call.
For more information please visit us at http://www.HotelEPacket.com
Hotels are in Tough Economic Times
In these tough economic times the hotel and event planning industry must look at new way to cut cost and attract new business. “Hotel sales and catering sales professionals need to take a look at their sales materials and examine how they sell in the virtual world,” says Louis Godin, owner of http://www.HotelEPacket.com. Virtually organizing your sales material and sales process will help you close more business, save your hotel thousands of dollars each month and give you a competitive edge in the industry."
In today's competitive hospitality sales environment, time is money. Distribution and presentation of your sales material instantly and professionally - while providing personal attention to the guest - can make the difference between the sale and lost business. In the age of computers and Internet, it's easy to lose touch with guest. Quick, easy and up-to-date information is no longer available. In order to find the information they are looking for guest may have to go to a corporate web site, independent web site and access e-mails, attachments, word doc., links, Web Programs, .PDF brochures, faxes, phone calls and snail-mail. What happened to one-on-one personal attention to help a client decide on services? The Internet has taken away the personal edge that hospitality sales once had before web site development.
The hospitality industry must look at its sales material/process and begin organizing/presenting virtual sale information by traditional sales standards, while giving personal attention to each guest. Provide not only a virtual sales tool to your hotel sales and catering sales staff, but empowering them to up sell and cross sell your properties and services.
REVIEWING 'SALES 101' FACTS:
- Provide professional and organized information
- Build rapport with the guest
- Educate your guest (helps build rapport)
- 'KIS' (Keep it Simple, bells and whistles are not needed at the sales stage)
- Have knowledgeable and friendly staff - Provide user friendly information
- Client like to see name/information displayed
- Communicate quick and accurate information
- Provide information specific to each guest needs
- Provide special personal attention to each guest
- UP SELL AND CROSS SELL YOUR PROPERTIES AND SERVICES
- EMPOWER YOUR SALES AND CATERING SALES STAFF WITH THE TOOLS NEEDED TO DO THE JOB.
- Sales 101 also tells us to find ways to stand out and sell above and beyond your competitors - How can you stand out above your competitors when you are doing the same thing as everyone else with your virtual sales material and paper material?
Today's full services and limited service hotel web sites have been built to reflect the web designer's technical goals and restrictions instead of the goals and needs of the hotel sales and catering sales professional. Traditional web sites do not provide the tools and knowledge your hotel sales and catering sales staff members need to close the sale with one phone call, while providing traditional sales 101 standards virtually?
Hotel sales and catering sales industry must start thinking outside the box when it comes to web sites. Web sites are good marketing tools, but marketing does not close the sale. Studies have shown that 85% of those who respond first to an inquiry with complete sales information and provide personal attention to the guest will win the business.
For more information on this topic please visit: http://www.HotelEPacket.com
http://www.HotelEPacket.com is a provider of common sense approaches to hospitality sales in the virtual world. Since 1999 Louis Godin, owner of http://www.HotelEPacket.com, has provided clients with Internet Sales and Catering Sales Resource Development and Consulting.
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