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Ms. Aggarwal

Benu Aggarwal

Founder & President, Milestone Internet Marketing

Benu Aggarwal, founder and president of Milestone Internet Marketing, is an expert in internet marketing strategies for the travel industry.

An award-winning internet marketing firm, Ms. Milestone is a cutting-edge, interactive agency providing complete internet solutions, from web 2.0 to search engine promotion strategies. Ms. Milestone is making a difference on how the travel industry maximizes marketing on the Web, representing over 700 clients worldwide, including major hotel brands and premier resorts. Leading a team of internet marketing specialists, graphic designers, writers, and programmers, Milestone works with clients every step of the way to ensure their success.

Ms. Milestone has penned several articles on Search Engine and Social Media Marketing, has written the internet marketing handbook "Hotels to HTMLs", and offers speaking expertise on a diversity of topics. With her lighthearted leadership style, technical marketing experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and motivating "can do" attitude, Ms. Milestone has the ability to communicate technical ideas into tangible practice through step by step instruction.

Her speaking engagements are packed with real-life experience and cost effective strategies you can implement right away. Ms. Milestone has been a speaker for Search Engine Strategies - New York, Chicago, San Jose, SMX, Phocuswright - and several nationwide conferences on travel, search engines and online promotions. She was a key speaker in the Pushing Your Profit seminar series sponsored by AMLA and American Express. Milestone Internet Marketing, Inc. is a leading provider of internet marketing solutions for the lodging industry.

Milestone's portfolio of services includes Hotel Website Design, Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-Click marketing, Social Media Optimization, eBuzz Connect™ Online Reputation Monitoring, etc. Milestone currently works with over 1000 hotels and drives over $350M in annual revenue for its clients. Milestone is a preferred vendor for several major lodging industry brands and works with some of the leading management companies.

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

Ms. Aggarwal can be contacted at +1 408-492-9055 or benu@milestoneinternet.com

Coming up in October 2020...

Revenue Management: Maximizing Profit

Hotel Revenue Management continues to evolve at a blistering pace. Driven by technological innovation and new distribution channels, there are some dynamic opportunities for expansion in this fast-growing field. The technology is primarily designed to help revenue managers further refine their operations and pricing models to maximize hotel profit. For example, hotels can't be all things to all people, so a key strategy is to precisely identify their target audience. By employing geo-targeting techniques and analyzing behavior such as previous bookings, on-property purchases and online shopping practices, there is an increased capability to define guest demographics. By segmenting customers in more specific ways, hotels are able to create more personalized experiences which, in turn, allow managers to optimize their room rates. It is also an effective way to fulfill the unique needs and preferences of the individual. Another methodology is to consistently monitor the competition's pricing strategies. There are software tools that analyze a competitor's current rates, and then allow a hotel to make its own pricing adjustments. It is also a useful means to conduct forecasting models. Other technologies that are being integrated into a revenue manager's toolkit include Artificial Intelligence in the form of automated algorithms, and Voice Recognition (VR) for data inquiries, rate changes, and booking behavior. Predictive and analytic software programs are also being leveraged to provide more forward-looking data, instead of the usual reliance on historical performance. These metrics allow managers to be more proactive - rather than reactive - with their revenue strategy. The October issue of the Hotel Business Review will examine these developments and report on how some leading hotels are executing their revenue management strategies.


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