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premium
5 years ago

🕶 Redesigned premium profiles

In case you didn't notice, Premium Profiles just got an all new look! Check out our 1-minute tutorial on How to Customize Your Premium Profiles

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promo opportunities
5 years ago

📣 New placements and boosted visibility for category sponsors

In addition to the existing native advertising that category sponsors receive, sponsors also benefit from additional banner advertising throughout hundreds of targeted pages that will 2x brand impressions of sponsorship.

Learn more about category sponsorship

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other product updates
5 years ago

👨‍💻 Get your free Partner Marketplace

So your team spend lots of time and money building out integrations but designing a slick page for your website and keeping it up to date is a marketers nightmare.  You see some companies with fancy marketplaces on their websites showcasing their integrations and wish you had one too but who has the time, am I right? Well...now you can!

See how it works

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lead generation
5 years ago

📩 Autoforward leads to your CRM

Want to save time copy/pasting new leads into your CRM and following up manually? Turn on CRM forwarding and automatically send new leads right into your CRM to be parsed and sent on automated followup campaigns.

See how it works

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5 years ago

Product Updates & Upcoming Promotional Opportunities

Article Overview

  1. July New Features (All vendors)
  2. New Benefits & Updates (Premium members)
  3. Upcoming Promotional Opportunities & Deadlines

 

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July New Features 

  1. 📩 Send leads to CRM: Want to save time copy/pasting new leads into your CRM and following up manually? Turn on CRM forwarding and automatically send new leads right into your CRM to be parsed and sent on automated followup campaigns Learn more
  2. 👨‍💻 Get Your Own Free Branded Partner Marketplace: So your team spend lots of time and money building out integrations but designing a slick page for your website and keeping it up to date is a marketers nightmare.  You see some companies with fancy marketplaces on their websites showcasing their integrations and wish you had one too but who has the time, am I right? Well...now you can! Get your free Partner Marketplace
  3. ⚒ Notifications Preferences Center: Each team member can now control which email notifications they receive from the new notifications center Learn more
  4. 📣 Boosted Visibility for Category Sponsors: In addition to the existing native advertising that sponsors receive on Hotel Tech Report, sponsors also benefit from additional banner advertising throughout hundreds of targeted pages Learn more
  5. 😀 Redesigned Help Center: We did a major overhaul on the help center to help you more easily find answers, access video tutorials and more. Check it out

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New Benefits & Updates for Premium Members

A warm welcome to our new premium members: Triptease, Protel, OTA Insight, Crave, Siteminder, Hkeeper, Hotelkit, Oaky, D-edge, Alliants, Lybra Tech, Impulsify and Oracle--welcome to the club! 🎉

A few new updates, perks and benefits for all you lovely Premium Members out there:

  1. 🕶 Redesigned Premium Profiles: In case you didn't notice, Premium Profiles just got an all new look! Check out our 1-minute tutorial on How to Customize Your Premium Profiles
  2. 🔄 1-Click Review Refresh to Improve Your Profiles & HT Score: Want any easy way to make the content on your profiles more relevant while also boosting your review recency to improve your HT Score and get prep'd for this year's 2020 HotelTechAwards? We've got great news for you, now you can! With a single click you send a request to clients to confirm and refresh their review.  If you like this feature you can thank your fellow Premium Member Leif @ Atomize for requesting it Learn more
  3. 🎨 Updated press release styling and boosted visibility: Press releases now have unique styling to look more like press releases (vs previously had the same styling as blog articles) and are showcased throughout HTR (shown here)
  4. 🤝 Multi-company press releases: Want to promote a new integration, partnership or upcoming webinar with one of your partners via the HTR newswire? Now you can and the release will show up on each member's profile.  Thanks to Premium Members OTA Insight, Atomize, Oaky and Protel for requesting this feature and congrats on your 1-click integration partnership roll out!
  5. 🎖Free support certification: Save $2000 as a premium member by getting HTR's all new Customer Support Certification totally free! Learn more and apply


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Upcoming Promotional Opportunities & Deadlines

  1. 📖 2020 Budget Season Buyer's Guides: Most categories are sold out but there are a few still remaining.  Sponsor your category to educate buyers, get turnkey co-branded content for your marketing and get a full year of advertisement on Hotel Tech Report.  Check availability 
  2. 🏆 2020 HotelTechAwards: Its that time of year again! Registration for Hotel Tech Report's annual data driven awards series is officially open! Register today for a chance to be crowned the top rated provider in your category for 2020.  Register now
  3. ✅ Support certification: Over the past few months we've been hard at work collaborating with 20 top companies to create a new industry standard to help buyers make safer decisions while helping vendors who deliver excellent customer support standout.  Learn more
  4. 🔮 Summer 2019 Media Kit: Looking for a quick overview of the promotional opportunities available through HTR to spread the word about your company? Request a copy of our Summer 2019 Media Kit to plan your marketing for Q3 and Q4.
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premiumrankings/ht scorereview manager
5 years ago

🔄 1-click review refresh to improve HT Score

Want any easy way to make the content on your profiles more relevant while also boosting your review recency to improve your HT Score and get prep'd for this year's 2020 HotelTechAwards? We've got great news for you, now you can! With a single click you send a request to clients to confirm and refresh their review.  If you like this feature you can thank your fellow Premium Member Leif @ Atomize for requesting it

See how it works

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premiumpromo opportunities
5 years ago

🎨 Updated press release styling, boosted visibility & multi-company announcements

Press releases now have unique styling to look more like press releases (vs previously had the same styling as blog articles) and are showcased throughout HTR (shown here).

Want unlimited free press release posting? Upgrade to premium

Also...🤝Multi-company press releases are now live!

Want to promote a new integration, partnership or upcoming webinar with one of your partners via the HTR newswire? Now you can and the release will show up on each member's profile.  Thanks to Premium Members OTA Insight, Atomize, Oaky and Protel for requesting this feature and congrats on your 1-click integration partnershiproll out!

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premiumreview manager
5 years ago

Recover rejected reviews & get them verified

Stop guessing which of your reviews got rejected and struggling to get them verified and just click the new 'verify review' button.

Easily find reviews that failed verification and place a request to get them verified so they count towards your HT Score and rankings.  Learn how to get unverified reviews verified


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premium
6 years ago

🚀 New Premium 2.0 Membership

)We're excited to announce Premium 2.0 which includes all new features and benefits to help Premium Members save time, improve your reputation and boost your visibility on Hotel Tech Report.  

A few new benefits exclusively for HTR Premium members include:

  1. Capture profile downloads by adding gated content to your premium profiles
  2. Boost your visibility by getting featured in trending Hotel Tech Report articles with content credits
  3. Cut down on PR costs with unlimited free press release posting
  4. Expand the reach of your content by uploading it to HTR's new reports library
  5. Improve your rank by gathering more reviews with less effort with the automated review manager
  6. All new Premium Profiles to entice buyers and improve your online reputation
  7. $500 off all sponsored content opportunities including annual budget season buyer's guides

With these enhancements to Premium Membership will come a price increase of $100/mo beginning on June 15th.  

Learn more about Premium


What's new?

  • Update #1: Hosted reports + unlimited downloads
  • Update #2: Content Credits
  • Update #3: Automated Review Manager (v2)
  • Update #4: Premium profile redesign (v2)
  • Update #5: Exclusive Access & Discounts on Sponsored Content

Update #1: Hosted reports + unlimited downloads

Unlock the downloads tab in the vendor dashboard and upload helpful content and a demo video to your profiles to capture visitor information. Learn more

Update #2: Content Credits

When it comes to hotel tech, telling your story in an engaging way is hard.  Telling your story in an engaging way AND finding distribution to get the word out it is damn near impossible.  Premium membership now comes with content credits to get featured in trending articles year round on HTR where we craft the story and spread the word for you to help boost your visibility and supplement your PR efforts.


Update #3: Premium Review Manager (v2)

The free version of the Review Manager has been discontinued and is now exclusively for Premium members.  All Premium members can access the full suite of features in the Premium Review Manager to run automated campaigns and gather more reviews with less effort.  New V2 features include: 

  • Manually triggered review verification
  • 🔄 1-click review refresh
  • v2 Performance improvements
  • Simultaneous campaigns +campaign analytics
  • Internal team contests

Update #4: Redesigned Premium Profiles (v2)

Entice buyers and improve your online reputation with the all new Premium Profiles.  New v2 features include: 

  • New premium profile design
  • Branded profile banner
  • Remove ads
  • Showcase awards & certifications 
  • Gated demo video
  • Gated reports section
  • Content and press releases section 

Update #5: Exclusive Access & Discounts on Sponsored Content

Premium members receive $500 off of all sponsored content opportunities.

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6 years ago

Lead gen 2.0 product updates

We just rolled out the new and improved Leads (HTR's new performance marketing offering) which is a culmination of taking feedback from early beta vendors to make the experience more seamless and easy for vendors to connect with high quality buyers interested in your solutions.

Over the past 6-weeks since the launch of the lead gen beta on HTR, we've gathered tons of invaluable feedback from all of our  participating early beta vendors so thank you so much to everyone that shared feedback (especially the critical feedback...that's the good stuff!).

We take your feedback very seriously and try to incorporate it as often as we can and that's exactly what we did with Lead Beta 2.0 so we hope you enjoy.

If you have any thoughts, questions, concerns or cool stories--we'd love to hear from you!

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What's new with Leads 2.0?

  • Update #1: Bye bye lead chat, hello lead cards...
  • Update #2: Lead Matches
  • Update #3: Reduced notification emails
  • Update #4: Additional placements and visibility for top rated vendors
  • Update #5: One click invites for your sales team
  • Update #6: Lead Beta 2.0 pricing

Update #1: Bye bye lead chat, hello lead cards...

Now when you purchase leads their info is available immediately so you can followup off platform via email, your crm or any way you'd like so there is no need to communicate with leads through the vendor dashboard.  
Improvements inspired by:Travelclick, HelloShift, Mews and Whistle (thanks guys!)

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Update #2: Lead matches

In the Lead Beta 1.0, you could previously only receive leads from hoteliers who inquired specifically about your product.  Now if you are a strong match for a hoteliers based on reviews in the platform for their property type (eg. boutique, resort, etc) and region (eg. North America, Europe, etc) matches will show up in your dashboard for you to connect with (Tip: make sure to get reviews from customers in your target geographies and hotel types!Learn more)

If you're highly rated and one of the top matches for a buyer interested in your category, you'll get notified when you have new matches so you can connect with interested in market buyers.  (Note: All matches have explicitly stated they are in the market for your specific category of software in the next 12-months).

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Update #3: Reduced notification emails

Some vendors requested to limit the amount of notifications sent so we added batch notifications so you shouldn't receive more than a maximum of 1 per hour even if you get multiple leads or inquiries.

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Update #4: Additional placements and visibility for top rated vendors  to increase exposure

Now top rated vendors receive additional placement in the lead request flow to increase exposure and lead volumes.  

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Update #5: 1-click invites for your sales teams

Several vendors requested an easier way to loop in multiple members of their sales teams to make it easier for teams across various territories to decide on and accept their own leads.  Now you can easily invite relevant members of your sales team to check out leads right from the new lead cards.​

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