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Marketing Strategist · HospitalityHotels & hospitality businesses

Marketing strategy for hotels that need clearer answers.

Who are the right guests? Why should they choose you? Where are you losing them? What deserves investment next? I help hotels and hospitality businesses diagnose the marketing system, build the strategy, and, when needed, provide senior marketing leadership to keep it moving.

Proof

Evidence, not adjectives.

Every piece of evidence is labeled for what it is. A salon is not a hotel, and a reference is not a case study. See the Work page.

Real project · early results

Salon Touchée Organic, Palm Beach area

Website grown from about 2 to 70 pages. In the first three weeks, weekly Google search impressions rose from 247 to 2,130 and clicks from 9 to 94. In the first month: 20 new clients, completed and paid, nine of them on an AI assistant’s recommendation. Early-stage, not annualized.

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Operating experience

Immersive experience production, Paris

Multi-month branded environments connected to Friends / Warner Bros. and Stranger Things / Netflix, serving up to approximately 1,000 guests per hour, then culinary production for the TV series Vanderpump Villas / Disney & Hulu.

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Client leadership · 2009–2013

Virgin Mobile account, Kracow Enterprises

Email marketing and CRM programs, client relationship and partner coordination as Marketing Manager & Client Services Manager. Over the engagement, Virgin Mobile grew its advertising commitment to many multiples of its original level, per the former CEO’s written reference.

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Commercial discipline

Finance

B.S. in Accounting, Florida State University. Audit, property accounting, land development, financial analysis, budgeting, controls and management reporting.

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The Marketing System

One diagnostic question runs through every engagement: where are we losing the guest? The answer sits somewhere along this path.

  1. Business Need
  2. Market & Customer
  3. Positioning, Value & Offer
  4. Reach & Route to Market
  5. Preference & Conversion
  6. Experience
  7. Relationship & Future Value

Marketing does not own Sales, Revenue Management, Distribution or hotel operations. But strategy has to understand how those functions shape the guest journey and the economics of demand.

The point is not to add more channels. It is to see where the system is working, where it is not, and which decision has the highest leverage.

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Services

Four ways to work together.

One marketing system underneath all four, from the business need to the guest relationship.

Channels and specialists sit inside the work. They are not the service menu.
02 · Decide

Marketing Strategy & Roadmap

When the need for a full strategy is already clear

Turns the business objective into customer choices, positioning, routes to market, investment priorities, ownership and measurement.

Delivers: one integrated plan: who matters, why they choose, what gets funded, who owns it.
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03 · Lead

Fractional Marketing Leadership

For businesses with execution resources but no one holding the whole system

Selective senior leadership: priorities, budget oversight, agency direction and performance review, without becoming another layer of activity.

Owns: the decisions to continue, increase, reduce, redesign or stop.
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04 · Launch

Launch & Repositioning Strategy

Opening, relaunch or a major change of position

Go-to-market strategy built before the market decides what you are: segments, positioning, offers, launch routes and marketing readiness.

Two paths: pre-opening go-to-market, and repositioning or relaunch.
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Insights · Rooms That Remember

Observations from the work.

On guests, the stay, and what it gives marketing to work with next.
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The flagship essay

Why luxury service can be technically correct and still feel wrong.

Where the standard stops reaching the guest, named precisely.

A property can score 9.1 on every audit, follow every script, complete every step on the checklist — and still produce a guest experience that feels generic, distant, or unconvincing. The failure is not in the standards. It is between the standard and the moment the standard is supposed to land.

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All of Rooms That Remember →

Interactive

Follow one concept from the drawing to the room.

Six handoffs, the way they actually happen. Watch where the intent thins, and see which decision put it back.

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About

Ten years finding patterns in numbers and operations. Fifteen finding them in rooms.

My perspective combines financial discipline, hospitality operations, immersive experience production and years of reading culture and service in Paris, now applied to marketing strategy for hotels.

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What to bring: the business result you need to change, and where you think the guest is being lost.
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