Hospitality Marketing That Reports Itself
Your bookings live in five places. OTA dashboards (the online travel agencies reselling your rooms), the point of sale, the reservation platform, ad accounts, and a spreadsheet someone updates when they remember. We build the marketing system that pulls all of it into one weekly report a GM can read in five minutes.
Where it breaks
The problems we see over and over.
Bookings data that never agrees
The OTA extranet says one thing, the POS says another, and the reservation platform says a third. Nobody knows the real number until month end.
Event promos rebuilt from scratch
Every wine dinner, live music night, and holiday package gets promoted by memory. Steps get skipped, and nobody can say what worked last time.
Reviews read too late
Review volume across Google and the travel sites drifts for weeks before anyone notices. By the time a slide shows up, it has already cost bookings.
Reports a GM cannot use
Marketing sends impressions and click rates. The GM runs on covers, occupancy, and revenue. The two never meet in one document.
How this plays out
The pattern, up close.
Picture a Monday at a twelve-property group. The revenue manager pulls the OTA extranet, the front desk pulls the reservation platform, and the GM pulls covers from the POS, and the three numbers do not agree. Meanwhile the marketing coordinator is rebuilding the fall wine dinner promo from a screenshot of last year's email. The weekly meeting burns its first half hour reconciling instead of deciding, and the promo ships late again.
The usual fixes all stall for the same reason. A new dashboard becomes a sixth login nobody opens. The paid media vendor reports clicks and impressions, which never map to covers or occupancy, so the GM ignores the deck. A coordinator inherits the master spreadsheet, learns its quirks, and then leaves, because hospitality turnover is real, and the whole reporting process walks out with them.
With the system in, the data pulls itself. The report is waiting Monday morning: bookings, covers, revenue by channel, promo results, and review trend on one page a GM reads in five minutes. A wine dinner promo starts from a saved workflow, AI drafts the landing page and emails, a human approves, and it ships the same day. When weekend booking pace slips, an alert fires while there is still time to fill the rooms, not after the post-mortem. Your team runs all of it, and we coach until that is true.
Signs this is you
Your Monday meeting opens with a debate about whose booking number is right.
The OTA extranet, the reservation platform, and the POS never say the same thing.
Every wine dinner and holiday package gets promoted from memory.
A review slide shows up in bookings before it shows up in any report.
Marketing sends click rates. Your GM runs on covers and occupancy.
The weekly report lives in one person's head, and they just gave notice.
What we do about it
Audit · Build · Coach
One weekly truth report
We wire OTA, POS, reservation, and ad data into a single report that assembles itself every week. One number for bookings, one for revenue, one source everyone trusts.
Event promo workflows
A repeatable workflow for every event: landing page, emails, posts, and tracking links, with AI producing the first drafts. Launch a promo in hours, not weeks.
Review monitoring, wired in
Review volume and rating trends flow into the same dashboard as bookings. A dip triggers an alert instead of a surprise.
Alerts that triage themselves
Booking pace drops, broken tracking, and spend spikes get flagged and sorted automatically. Your team sees what matters and skips the noise.
A team coached to run it
We train your people to own the system, from the GM to whoever posts on social. You own every account, dashboard, and automation. Nothing leaves if we do.
We have built and run marketing systems behind $100M+ in managed spend, for brands you know in outdoor, Western, industrial, and agricultural retail, including multi-location brands with hundreds of locations. Multi-property is the same problem with different signs on the doors.
Same industry, other services
The first 30 days
What actually happens after you say go.
Weeks 1-2: Access and audit
We get read access to the POS, reservation platform, OTA extranets, ad accounts, and the spreadsheet holding it together today. Then we trace where every booking number is born and where it goes wrong. You get plain-language findings: what agrees, what does not, and what it costs you.
Weeks 2-3: The plan and first fixes
We agree on the one number for bookings and the one for revenue, then wire the first connections into a draft of the weekly report. Quick fixes ship as we find them: broken tracking links, naming conventions, the worst copy-paste step. You see a working version of the report before the month ends.
Week 4: The rhythm starts
The report starts landing on its own schedule, and we walk your team through the first live one. Alerts go on for booking pace and review volume. Coaching begins, so the system ends up belonging to your people, not to us.
From the blog
How we think about hospitality & restaurants marketing.
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ReadQuestions we get
Straight answers.
Can you connect our POS, reservation platform, and OTA data?
Almost always. Most point of sale and reservation systems export data or offer a connection, and OTA extranets can feed the same report. We build on the tools you already run instead of forcing a migration.
What shows up in the weekly report?
Bookings, covers, revenue by channel, promo performance, and review volume, in plain language. It is written for a GM, not for a marketer. If a number needs a glossary, we rewrite it.
Do we need to hire an analyst to keep this running?
No. The system assembles the report, watches the numbers, and drafts the routine work. Your existing team reviews and decides, which is the point: multiply output without adding head count.
Who owns the system if we part ways?
You do. Every dashboard, data connection, naming convention, and automation lives in accounts you control. Nothing leaves if we do.
We are seasonal. Is there a wrong time to start?
The slow season is the best time. The build lands while your team has bandwidth, event workflows get made before you need them, and the system is proven before peak hits. Starting in season works too; we just sequence the audit around service.
How much of our team's time does this take?
The first two weeks are the heaviest for your side: granting access and walking us through how bookings actually flow, a few hours in total. After that, the rhythm is a five-minute report and a short weekly working session. The system assembles; your team reviews and decides.
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