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New Service Provides Forward Looking
Competitive Group Rate Reporting and Analysis



FT LAUDERDALE – December 2, 2009: Quality Track International is pleased to introduce GroupMetrix, the most comprehensive and cost-effective competitive set group rate shopping service. GroupMetrix can provide authenticated and verified group and meeting rates for future arrival dates for any hotel in the world.
 
Competitors group rates and pricing strategy are the most difficult pieces of competitive intelligence for a hotel to obtain. Group rates are not published in any electronic system and can only be obtained by “shopping the competition.”
 
The foundation of competition shopping is believability. The sales manager at the property being shopped must believe that the inquiry is from a real customer; otherwise they may not respond or worse, respond with misleading information.

Don Bundock, President of Quality Track International, says “The GroupMetrix group rate shopping service creates elaborate corporate identities to facilitate realistic shop calls to obtain competitor’s rates.”  GroupMetrix shoppers employ complete shopping identities and profiles which include:
  • A realistic company name, supported by
  • A professional looking, fully functional website for the company making the inquiry
  • Call-back telephone numbers that match the website contact information
  • CallerID display that matches the call-back number being provided
  • Legitimate email addresses that correspond to the domain of the shopping company website (not Gmail or Hotmail accounts)
  • Live call-back answering and personalized voice-mail for messages
Customer Price Resistance:  Real customers do not accept the first rate offered. Real customers “push back” on pricing and so do GroupMetrix shoppers.  Armed with highly believable shopping identities, GroupMetrix shoppers are able to effectively offer price-resistance and discover the true rates that competitors are offering.
 
The rates offered in response to the price-resistance, and the amount by which the rates are dropped, provide valuable insight into competitor’s rates and pricing strategy.

GroupMetrix CompSet Group Rate Reports include all the rate components that factor into a group or meeting quotation:
  • room rates and inclusions,
  • in-room internet,
  • catering (breakfast, breaks, luncheon and dinners),
  • meeting room rates, (per person rates if applicable)
  • AV rates, (LCD, Screen, audio equipment
  • meeting room internet rates,
  • minimum F&B guarantees,
  • complimentary rooms, upgrades and master bill discounts.
The rate reports include the initial set of rates offered plus any rate reductions resulting from the rate-resistance.

“We have the ability to obtain a full set of group rates from any hotel in the world.” says Bundock “Our extensive investment in systems to manage the complexities of this process enables us to offer the GroupMetrix service at a remarkably low price.”
 
The GroupMetrix service includes 2 rate shops per month on each of 4 competitors, for a total of 8 rate shops. Each rate shop is price challenged, creating an additional set of 8 rates.

The total cost is $129 per month, which is only $8 for each set of rates.

Additional competitors can be added if desired.

Volume pricing for management companies and market clusters is available.

Click here to view a sample GroupMetrix rate reportSample Report

Click here to view a short online presentation - Online Presentation

For additional information click here – GroupMetrix FAQ

GroupMetrix is a service provided by Quality Track International.

For more information contact:
  Mr. Donald Bundock, CEO, Quality Track International, Inc., at (416) 693-5426 or by email at [email protected]

About Quality Track International, Inc.:  Quality Track International, established in 1998, is a leading worldwide provider of a full range of mystery shopping services and PCI compliant call center monitoring to the hospitality industry.

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Contact:

 Quality Track International

Head Office:
36 Toronto Street, Suite 850
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5C 2C5
Telephone: (416) 693-5426
Email: [email protected]

 US Office
1601 N. Palm Avenue, Suite 211
Pembroke Pines, Florida 33026
Telephone: (954) 432-2998

http://www.QualityTrack.com
 

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Also See: Going Rogue on Group Pricing; How to Compete with Irrational Discounting / November 2009

Electronic Proposals - Easy for Sales Managers, Frustrating for Customers; Pretty pictures are no substitute for substance / November 2009

What is really going on with group rates? How to obtain critical competitive intelligence / November 2009

28% of Group Sales Inquiries are Lost, Ignored or Abandoned / May 2009

Quality Track’s 2,000,000th Mystery Call Received by Mandarin Oriental, New York / April 2009

Quality Track to Celebrate 2 Million Mystery Shop Calls / April 2009

Green Up Your Training. Improving Performance and Saving the World / December 2008

The Upside of a Downturn; The need to cut costs creates push to consider alternatives / November 2008

Downturn Dilemma; How to save money on training without sacrificing performance / November 2008
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