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eRelationship

eRelationship is the name for Digital Alchemy’s comprehensive, hospitality-specific CRM suite of services. Its beauty lies in its quiet, constant connection with your PMS, so that Digital Alchemy is always in touch with your property.

Our eRelationshipSM program helps you build relationships with your guests by communicating with them in words and images and by offering guests many opportunities to tell you what they want.

Our custom software is placed on your property to mine information from your Property Management System, alerting Digital Alchemy to new and changed reservations.

  1. Our system automatically sends a beautiful email Reservation Confirmation to your guest. It looks and “feels” as if it were sent by your hotel. These messages can even be modified (seasonally or by other criteria) to include special information at various times, such as using snow images in winter and lake pictures for summer, in the case of a mountain resort.
  2. We send a Pre-Stay Marketing email prior to guest arrival. This piece promotes your on-property amenities to increase guest spending, REVPAR and pre-booking rates. Upgrade offers are just one example of many ways Digital Alchemy teams with your hotel to increase ADR.
  3. Cancellation Notices are sent when necessary, and our Cancellation Replies can open dialog with guests, if desired.
  4. Finally, a Thank You Note is sent to your guest the day after they leave your hotel. Thank You Notes can include a link to an optional, electronic Comment Card, which renders vital, guest-satisfaction feedback, reported to you in many ways. Hotels can even choose to receive email Comment Card Alerts about certain feedback, which can be directed to selected staff members, as appropriate.

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Online Comment Card

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Online Comment Card

Find out what your guest thought of their stay at your hotel.

  1. A thank you note is emailed to the guest, inviting them to click through to a comment card.
  2. Our online comment cards present the guest with an opportunity to provide valuable feedback about your hotel.
  3. Our comment card alert system informs property personnel immediately when a significant response is submitted.
  4. Some of the reports that are emailed to our customers monthly or weekly:
    • A Trend Report shows the improvement or reduction in each area and for each question over the previous 8 weeks or 8 months.
    • Summary Report
    • General Comments Report
    • All Written Comments Report
    • Scores sorted and grouped by score Report
“We receive an alert each time a guest requests a special service or when they submit a comment card that requires special attention. This helps us provide World-Class Service.”

David Benton
General Manager
The Rittenhouse Hotel

eBlast Manager

E-Blasts are sent to your guests, based on criteria that the property specifies. These blasts can be sent based on previous guests' stay and spend history or on preferences that they specify via our VIP Concierge Form.

For Example:
You want to send a Golf Special to everyone in your database that lives in New York, have stayed at your resort 4 times, played golf at least 2 times and had an ADR of at least $195.

We can specifically send an e-Blast to those people. Oh... And don't forget, we can make sure your deals do not go out to people with existing reservations!

Digital Alchemy's eBlasts go through three levels of Quality Control, including verification of all links, spelling and grammar checks, and calling all phone numbers to ensure validity. If, in the rare case an eBlast is sent with incorrect information, our revolutionary eBlast insurance, can be activated. This allows us to note a correction or expiration of an offer in blasts that have already been sent, without the need to deliver a second email.

To the right are examples of eBlast insurance at work. Two blasts are shown, one sent by Digital Alchemy, and another by a competitor. In both blasts, a phone number was incorrect. With Digital Alchemy's cutting edge eBlast insurance, we can clarify and correct the message without the need to send a second eBlast. Our competitors still need to send a second eBlast.

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VIP Concierge

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VIP Concierge

Our VIP Concierge is designed to help you understand your arriving guests and pre-sell amenities. Know their preferences for when you market to them later.

  1. VIP Concierge allows a hotel to take special care of its guests by asking them what their preferences are, and catering to those special requests. For example:

    • Would you like a USA Today or a local newspaper?
    • Would you like your Welcome Beverage to be Coke, Orange Juice or Water?
    • Would you prefer a king bed or two queens?
    • Would you like your welcome snack to be peanuts, crackers or fruit?

  2. Another advantage of VIP Concierge, is that it allows a hotel to find out what a guest's interests are so that the hotel can target that guest information for future stays. For example:

    When you visit the area which of the following do you enjoy? (Check all that apply):
    • Golf
    • SPA
    • Wine Tasting
    • Music Festivals
    • Sports
  3. Another benefit of VIP Concierge, is that it can be used to sell services and products before the guest arrives. For example:

    • The National Hotel in Miami Beach uses their Pre-Stay Marketing email to sell transportation from the airport and amenities like in-room massage.

    VIP Concierge helps personalize your guest's stay at your hotel and make it even more memorable.

Mobile CRM

Mobility used to mean a notebook computer. But today, people hold the world in the palm of their hands with email, calendars, text messaging, web browsing, music, and even navigation systems loaded on their phones. All of Digital Alchemy’s services are mobile-enabled and work the way your guests do.

Our mobile templates allow guests to view communications regarding their reservations in a clear, concise format designed specifically for mobile devices. This clears up the clutter and cuts out the confusion a fully formatted email could create when viewed on an iPhone™ or Blackberry®.

Mobile pre-stay marketing pieces also give the added bonus of turning phone numbers to book at restaurants or events into clickable links which will dial for the guest, simplifying the lines of communication and guranteeing instant contact.

The mobile comment card, simplified and straightforward, presents guests a quick way to tell a property about their stay without the need for a computer.

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Mid-Stay Communiqué

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Mid-Stay Communiqué

While Digital Alchemy can’t promise to help you read your guests’ minds, we can give you insight to their desires while they are still on property, with our industry-leading Mid-Stay Communiqué. This is an optional email sent automatically after your guests check in, stating your commitment to a quality guest experience and inviting free-format comment via an email reply. Don’t be surprised if you get Blackberry responses throughout a guest’s stay. But a chance to “fix” a problem before a guest departs will result in significantly higher guest satisfaction ratings on Guest Evaluations (comment cards). That can lead to better ratings and higher bonuses. It’s the ultimate win-win opportunity.

Mid-Stay Communiqué not only stops problems before they can ruin a guest's stay, they also add a personal touch.

“When DA brought to us the capability and option to stay in communication with our guests WHILE STILL IN-HOUSE, we jumped at the opportunity. A key focus of our service philosophy and culture is to ensure the guests' stays are flawless and exceeding expectations. We want to know BEFORE the guest departs if there is anything we can do to make their stay a perfect one...not after they have left. Although the program has just begun, we are seeing outstanding results and receiving extremely positive feedback from our guests...”

Roy A. Kretschmer
Vice President - Operations
VALENCIA GROUP

Bounce-Back

A Bounce-Back offer is sent to a guest typically 15-30 days after their visit, offering them incentive to book another stay at your property. Guests can be targeted by their stay dates, rate codes, or any other criteria that can be established. The Bounce-Back can then offer specific package deals for return visits based on those criteria, ensuring the maximum possibility of a repeat customer.

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