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Several clients have requested updates to the room count ranges for leads and we have adjusted them as follows. Please check your Instant Connect settings to ensure that you are accepting leads in your desired ranges.
| Before | After | |
| X-Small | 1-9 rooms | no change |
| Small | 10-24 rooms | no change |
| Medium | 25-99 rooms | 25-74 rooms |
| Large | 100-199 rooms | 75-199 rooms |
| X-Large | 500+ rooms | 200+ rooms |
After lots of feedback from companies in the HTR ecosystem wanting to have a way to more effectively showcase their entire suite of products and capabilities (rather than each individual product/point solutions), the April 2023 profile redesign brings company-level information, content and data into product profiles to showcase a more holistic view of vendor capabilities while still maintaining product/category specific content and reviews.
We've created a checklist of 8 things to prepare in advance of the new profile design rolling out in April that takes 15 minutes and will make sure your profiles are optimized for the new design.
| Basic Profilesℹ | Premium Profilesℹ | |
| Fully Re-designed Profiles ℹ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Modules Showcase ℹ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Native Social Sharing for Reviews ℹ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Benefits & Use Cases ℹ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Enhanced Image Clarity | ✅ | ✅ |
| Vendor Responsiveness Spotlight ℹ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Company Profiles | ✅ | |
| Branded Profile Header Banner | 🔒 Premium only | ✅ |
| Remove Ads & Competitors ℹ | 🔒 Premium only | ✅ |
| Boosted Visibility & Leadsℹ | 🔒 Premium only | ✅ |
| Branded Images ℹ | ✅ | |
| Products Showcase ℹ | ✅ | |
| Notable Clients Spotlight ℹ | ✅ | |
| Simplified multi-profile management | ✅ |
Want to learn more about all of the features, benefits & exclusive discounts that come with Premium Membership to drive you more visibility and leads year-round on HTR?
Looking to invest in brand awareness and strategic growth in key markets? HTR now offers geo-targeted campaigns to your target regions a la carte or bundled into a discounted package to drive brand awareness and growth in strategic markets.
Along with the new year HTR is rolling out new and improved v4 Gold & Platinum Premium Membership plans that now include flexible HTR Agency credit that can be used towards advertising, sponsored content and demand generation campaigns.
What's New:
Head to the Membership Portal in the vendor dashboard to learn more and upgrade
As we round the corner into the last month of the HotelTechAwards, we have increased the HT Score scheduler to run twice a day (typically runs only once a day).
This will provide participants more visibility into real time rankings day-to-day without having to wait a full 24-hours to see updated scoring.
NOTE ABOUT SUB-CATEGORY RANKINGS: Please note that given the amount of dynamic data, rich filters, content and multiple languages the category pages are extremely dense/heavy pages. As such, the page content is cached weekly in order to improve page load speed for users.
Are you a basic member who is running review campaigns and you want to check if a specific customer left a review but you don't have access to the Automated Review Manager? Now you can lookup reviews in the new review lookup feature
Want to save a boatload of time updating old reviews to get fresh content on your profiles and boost your HT Score, rankings and visibility?
Verified Case Studies are a feature that enable hotel tech companies to quickly and easily build beautiful, engaging and trustworthy case studies that get promoted on Hotel Tech Report. Click here to learn more about creating verified case studies.
🎁 While case studies will require posting credits (10x for basic members, 5x for premium members) they are free for the next two weeks so go ahead and give it a try!
Lead Instant Connect is a feature that allows you to set criteria for the types of leads that you want to target so that they'll get instantly accepted and forwarded into your CRM for immediate follow-up without delays or the need to manually check the dashboard. Click here to learn more about Instant Connect.
Since Instant Connect facilitates a better marketplace experience for hoteliers, ultimately the entire marketplace will shift fully to this model. That said, we're going to be rolling this out slowly to give vendors a chance to migrate over to the new system and optimize your lead targeting criteria. Additionally, vendors who accept leads via Instant Connect will receive increasing incentives over the first 6-months post-launch as a reward for delivering better, more responsive service to hoteliers placing requests through the platform. Below are the scheduled incremental increases in the discount amount for Instant Connect leads:
Please note that beginning September 1st, in order for a lead to be eligible for the HTR Money Back Guarantee--your company must abide follow HTR's Lead Program Guidelines to ensure that all leads are followed up with in a timely fashion and in accordance with defined best practices: