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Ms. Chang

JC Chang

General Manager, Kapow

JC Chang is the General Manager of Kapow, a Cvent company, based in Chicago. Kapow is a fast-growing platform for booking corporate meetings and events that empowers companies to find, book, and execute memorable, scalable and essential experiences. Kapow's mission is to make it fast and easy to book corporate events that drive results and save planners hours of time.

Prior to Kapow, Ms. Chang spent more than 20 years at the forefront of the digital advertising sales transformation at top media companies, building a proven record of leading teams through extreme change and disruption in the industry.

Ms. Chang has spent most of her career managing the migration of traditional marketplaces online and has held pivotal roles in building Apartments.com, Cars.com and Careerbuilder.com. She is passionate about connecting buyers and suppliers and efficiently solving customer pain points with technology and people.

Ms. Chang started her career at the Chicago Tribune, selling advertising to small restaurants and entertainment venues. She has worked in all aspects of the selling world and is a salesperson at heart. She believes that at the core of any successful company is a well-tuned sales and marketing machine, and she is most proud of her variety of experiences leading award-winning enterprise sales team, building inside sales centers and launching affiliate sales channels.

As an avid traveler, experience seeker, and foodie, Ms. Chang is thrilled to bring her experience to the dynamic and exciting world of events. Ms. Chang holds a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University.

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

Ms. Chang can be contacted at +1 855-556-7452 or jchang@kapow.com

Coming up in February 2020...

Social Media: Social Listening Tools

The reach and influence of social media is staggering. Nearly 3 billion people use social media daily, posting a range of messages, selfies, images, and everything in-between. According to HubSpot, almost 4 million posts are uploaded to the major social networks every single minute! That's an astounding amount of content and it is crucial for hotels to skillfully use social media in order to effectively compete. From establishing a suitable brand identity and voice to creating content across all the major networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.), the goal is to actively engage consumers and to eventually convert them to customers. Some hotels are initiating online contests as a way to attract new customers, while others are rewarding customers with discounts who subscribe to the their email lists or follow their social media pages. Another recent strategy is to employ social media listening tools that track what people are posting online about their businesses. These tools allow hotels to monitor - or listen to - what's being said about a brand across the entire social web, and this can prove to be very valuable, unfiltered information. Social listening permits hotels to be aware of people's opinions about their business, industry or competitors, and some of these tools even listen beyond social media platforms. They also monitor publicly available information on blogs, forums, news outlets and websites. Some listening tools are more focused on gathering and analyzing data, while others offer more engagement-oriented features, which allow hotels to interact with people right from the platform. Often the information that is gleaned from these listening tools ends up being the most authentic, unbiased insights a business can get. The February Hotel Business Review will document what some hotels are doing to successfully integrate social media strategies into their operations.


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