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Ms. Wilkins

Leslie Wilkins

Co-Founder, Pipeline Social Media

As the Co-Founder of Pipeline Social Media, Leslie Wilkins brings with her over 10 years of digital marketing experience that spans from social media marketing and advertising to hotel specific marketing and branding. Since co-founding Pipeline in June 2011, she has been a part of every business-making decision as she succeeded in building an effective team and business model that maintains contemporaneity in an ever-changing social media environment. With a team of twelve, Ms. Wilkins carries out her mission to help businesses and brands fully benefit from the power of social media, website design, optimization, and advertising. Pipeline's skilled team thrives off of the cultivation of a positive working environment built on ethics, trust, and faith.

Pipeline Social Media is a full-service digital marketing agency that enables its clients to expand their digital impact and customer loyalty by combining unique content strategies, results-driven web design, and advertising campaigns. Pipeline Social Media manages 400+ social media channels and websites, and optimization campaigns on behalf of businesses across the U.S.

Pipeline Social Media offers three approaches to help hotels increase their social media presence: full management, hands-on social media training for hotel staff, and monthly monitoring programs to coach teams along the way. Pipeline also designs and develops custom websites and landing pages, search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns, blogging, and email marketing campaigns. Pipeline is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Prior to founding Pipeline, Ms. Wilkins worked in the industries of social media, blogging and hotel real estate brokerage. Ms. Wilkins graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of North Georgia in 2008. Ms. Wilkins lives south of Atlanta with her husband of eight years. 

Please visit http://www.pipelinesocialmedia.com for more information.

Ms. Wilkins can be contacted at 678-814-4601 or leslie@pipelinesocialmedia.com

Coming up in March 2019...

Human Resources: An Era of Transition

Traditionally, the human resource department administers five key areas within a hotel operation - compliance, compensation and benefits, organizational dynamics, selection and retention, and training and development. However, HR professionals are also presently involved in culture-building activities, as well as implementing new employee on-boarding practices and engagement initiatives. As a result, HR professionals have been elevated to senior leadership status, creating value and profit within their organization. Still, they continue to face some intractable issues, including a shrinking talent pool and the need to recruit top-notch employees who are empowered to provide outstanding customer service. In order to attract top-tier talent, one option is to take advantage of recruitment opportunities offered through colleges and universities, especially if they have a hospitality major. This pool of prospective employees is likely to be better educated and more enthusiastic than walk-in hires. Also, once hired, there could be additional training and development opportunities that stem from an association with a college or university. Continuing education courses, business conferences, seminars and online instruction - all can be a valuable source of employee development opportunities. In addition to meeting recruitment demands in the present, HR professionals must also be forward-thinking, anticipating the skills that will be needed in the future to meet guest expectations. One such skill that is becoming increasingly valued is “resilience”, the ability to “go with the flow” and not become overwhelmed by the disruptive influences  of change and reinvention. In an era of transition—new technologies, expanding markets, consolidation of brands and businesses, and modifications in people's values and lifestyles - the capacity to remain flexible, nimble and resilient is a valuable skill to possess. The March Hotel Business Review will examine some of the strategies that HR professionals are employing to ensure that their hotel operations continue to thrive.

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