Good Stuff from Joan Eisenstodt

I've been a participant and a trainer at a number of meetings at this hotel.  Each quarter they send out a superb 'marketing' email - not the usual update on what's new and fabulous tho' you can get it there.  And I don't think I've received any cold calls from them - THANK goodness! - and yet, they are in my mind often since I've used some of the "tools" they've sent.

 Recipes!  Always recipes that their chef develops and they send to customers and prospects.  Brilliant!  They are easily used and sent on (see below tho' w/o the photo) and are yummy and fun AND by asking for feedback after you've made it, you're building a relationship with the property and esp. w/ the chef.  BRAVO! to Saddlebrook Resort for getting it.

What are some other brilliant marketing ideas you've seen .. or recipes you've received from properties that are easily adapted for home use?

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(This is a long post - take time to read it when you want to have your mind and heart engaged.)

This post is a result of years of being active in the civil rights and human rights movements.  If you attended the PCMA Education Foundation Awards Dinner, you would have heard me quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and heard me say that we need a more inclusive industry.  It has been my 'battlecry'

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I know.. don't I have better things to do? Naw .. not tonite.   Ok.. here's what happened: Was at DCA today and wanted an iced espresso and a bagel.  Starbuck's is closed for remodeling so I went to .. another place.  It was hard to tell if the bagel was real - you know, even CLOSE to a New York bagel - by looking through the glass. I didn't bother asking. It's like asking a restaurant if they

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China - home of the upcoming Olympics - place that is persecuting Tibetans and its own citizens who speak out - home of two dear friends who were hospitality students in the US and went home to work on the Olympics and with the Chinese broadcasting company that will broadcast the Olympics.  A place of great beauty from the pictures I've seen and the people with whom I've talked who have been

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