Posts Tagged ‘luxury lifestyle hotels’

Tips for Providing Exceptional Customer Care Online

Providing customers with an exceptional customer experience is essential for luxury brands.  From the way staff greets customers to all of the efforts made to ensure every customer experience is outstanding, luxury brands have mastered delivering customer care that goes above and beyond. To date, only a handful of brands have figured out how to deliver this same level of care online.

A few of the ways your brand can deliver outstanding care online are highlighted below:

Listen to Online Conversations
Brands that have yet to fully embrace social media and digital marketing should at a very minimum start monitoring online brand conversations. Regularly search your brand online and use Google alerts to monitor conversations.  Use Twitter search or free tools such as Twendz to monitor how people are responding to your brand. You should also monitor blogs discussing your brand. Both Technorati and Google Blog search tools are good tools to use for monitoring any brand discussions happening in the blogosphere.

Create Memorable Customer Experiences Online
Most businesses have a strategy in place for providing exceptional customer experiences. This same focus needs to be delivered online. Brands can enhance customer experiences by providing interesting lifestyle content, sharing employee stories, inviting customers to share their own stories and sharing videos and photos that cater to the unique interests of your customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Luxury Trends to Watch in 2012

In the age of social media and mobile technology, luxury brands have a plethora of ways to reach and engage affluent consumers. Consumers are savvier and making more informed decisions by tapping into the opinions of not only their friends and family members but those found on review and social networking sites.

To help you continue to navigate the constantly-changing luxury environment, we’ve highlighted a few of the trends expected to impact luxury marketing below.

Deliver Outstanding Customer Experiences – Everywhere

Affluent consumers have always celebrated brands and services that continuously strive to exceed their expectations. We expect this trend to continue in 2012 on a much broader scale. Whether staying at a hotel, visiting a website or accessing information on a mobile device, consumers expect brands to deliver an exceptional experience on all platforms.

Luxury brands can no longer get away with slow-loading websites or stale content. Instead, brands need to embrace the power of storytelling to create online content that’s fresh, entertaining and engaging. Websites should load quickly, cater to the affluent consumer and be easy to navigate. Social media should engage customers on a more personal level.

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Top 5 Marketing Tips For Boutique Hotels

Boutique hotels are on the rise. We see this growing trend first hand in New York City with the recent opening of The Ace, The Mondrian Soho, The Gramercy Park and The Bowery.

According to a NY Times article, the lifestyle hotel trend is largely due to travelers becoming increasingly tired of the ubiquitous nature of large hotel chains and their growing preferences for unique and “off beat” hotel experiences. NYU’s Hospitality & Tourism Dean, Bjorn Hanson, estimates that almost a third of hotel openings this year will be boutique hotels, with increased revenues per available room projected at 12 percent in 2011.

As a leader in hospitality marketing, I believe that, as more and more boutique hotels are introduced, being unique and “off beat” will no longer be enough. Boutique hotels will soon have to establish proactive marketing strategies to help differentiate themselves and to create visibility in a saturated market.

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