for Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts .. Database marketing tools provide customized, personalized E-marketing campaigns that help Grand Heritage better identify and reach its ideal guests; Hotel group touts the benefits of using aligned technologies of Clairvoyix and Digital Alchemy |
LAS
VEGAS � JUNE 7, 2006 � Grand Heritage Hotel Group, one of the nation�s
premier owner operators of independent luxury hotels and resorts, has partnered
with database marketing authority Clairvoyix to pinpoint its marketing
effort and curb unnecessary spending by instantly identifying its best
guests, including where they spend, when they spend, what they purchase
and how often.
The Grand Heritage portfolio includes independent properties from New England to Oregon and Mexico to the Caribbean, and the company is developing an international presence in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy. Clairvoyix provides highly effective�and affordable�business intelligence software and services designed specifically for independent hotels and resorts such as those in the Grand Heritage portfolio. �Clairvoyix has become our MapQuest for the electronic marketing world,� said Bashar Wali, GHHG vice president. �Previously we had no road map. Metaphorically, when it came to target marketing, we would drive blindly wherever the road would take us. The only thing we knew for certain was that our road � which consisted of buying mailing lists or navigating off existing customer databases � sometimes led to a dead end. Clairvoyix put us back on the speedway to success.� Clairvoyix President Mike Schmitt said: �Database marketing has become a critical, proven aspect of any hotel�s marketing effort. We help hotels and resorts build highly targeted traditional and electronic-marketing campaigns that are based on a wealth of guest data, including guest preferences, spending behaviors, monetary, demographic, lifestyle and geographic information that is both imported from a hotel�s property-management system and appended from leading data providers.� Strategic alliance referral Wali said he was introduced to Clairvoyix by Don Hay, president and CEO of Digital Alchemy, a Fort Worth, Texas-based company that provides E-marketing and customer-relationship management tools to the Grand Heritage Hotel Group. Digital Alchemy provides Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts with the ability to communicate to existing customers full color HTML email reservation confirmations, pre-stay marketing designed to increase on-property spending, thank-you notes with a click-through on-line guest comment card and post-stay offers. In June 2005, Clairvoyix and Digital Alchemy embarked on a strategic alliance to provide hoteliers with the ultimate in online marketing, customer-relationship management and database management solutions. By adding the Clairvoyix Hospitality Solution (CHS), Grand Heritage Hotel Group now has access to complete campaign management, automated ROI tracking, data hygiene and demographic data-append tools. �Together the Clairvoyix and Digital Alchemy technologies deliver a world-class marketing automation system at a price-point that is not currently available to hoteliers,� Hay said. �As a result, Grand Heritage will immediately realize the benefits of this new, integrated solution for E-marketing and database management.� All Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts are currently using the E-marketing and CRM tools provided by Digital Alchemy. Within the next two-to-three weeks, all properties will be live with the Clairvoyix Hospitality Solution. Training of key property personnel on CHS will be conducted at the Clairvoyix training center in Las Vegas. �Rather than sticking with the 80�s way of doing business, Clairvoyix, when combined with Digital Alchemy, generates a lot of important information and allows us to communicate directly with our existing customers while identifying new potential patrons based on similar buying habits and lifestyles,� Wali said. �In essence, it gives us the ability to analyze and get exact profiles of our existing customers so that we can use that information to attract similar customers on a wide scale and market specifically to that group.� With better access to data through Clairvoyix, Schmitt said Grand Heritage Hotels & Resorts can generate real-time, detailed reports on guest demographics down to the household level, including age, income, occupation, education and other lifestyle criteria. Once the target market is defined, these properties can then build an e-relationship program for their target market via email using one of several of Digital Alchemy�s online CRM programs. Property approves partnership Not only will Clairvoyix help Grand Heritage to streamline its marketing operation, but Swan Lake Resort General Manager Doug Leekde said it also will help reduce his 100-room golf resort�s media costs since the company will �no longer have to take a brushstroke approach when selecting its media program.� Swan Lake Resort offers a peaceful haven for golf, conferences, family get-togethers, and social gatherings across 512 acres. Guests may choose from 92 newly designed resort rooms, 6 country cottages, or 4 two-story log cabins. �Clairvoyix should cut our media budget by at least 25 to 30 percent or more while dramatically increasing its effectiveness,� Leedke said. �From a national print advertising perspective alone, we can save a lot of money by targeting our message to smaller, suburban markets since we know exactly where our best customers originate from. Rather than taking a shot-gun approach to marketing, we�ll now be pin-point laser specific. �If I want to know every person in a particular zip code who earns more than $150,000 per year and has played golf over the last six months, I can get that information instantly through Clairvoyix,� he said. For more information on Clairvoyix, contact Eric Madsen at (561) 496-7969 or [email protected]. For more information on Digital Alchemy and how the two technologies can be integrated together, contact Don Hay at (817) 249-0757 or email [email protected]. About
Clairvoyix
About Digital Alchemy
About Grand Heritage Hotel Group
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President/Principal PRPRO Tel: (440) 930-5770 [email protected] Eric Madsen
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