Magnolia Hotels Choice of ZDirect Pays Dividends

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. May 05, 2009

DENVER, CO, May 5, 2009 - Magnolia Hotels choice of the ZMail(R) by ZDirect platform in the summer of 2008 has proven to be a significant success generating dramatic ROI and rejuvenating the management company's electronic marketing and eCRM initiatives.

According to Mike Pratt, VP of Sales and Marketing for Magnolia, "We needed a solution that would automate everything from our confirmations to our cancellations to our weekly e-marketing specials. We were a "hodge-podge" of services from our previous vendor and we needed centralization, consolidation, better tracking, enhanced design and a reliable support structure that would allow us to grow as we add new hotels."

Magnolia Hotels presently uses ZMail core configuration which includes:

• Campaign manager: Ability to send highly personalized transactional and scheduled email campaigns with numerous automated CRM bells and whistles;

• Web integration and customer acquisition engine: Ability to turn "lookers into bookers" and profile those visitors to your web site;

• Property management interface (Hotel Concepts PMS): Centralize the feed of transactional data via a fully supported interface. Send pre and post stay along with dynamic customer satisfaction surveys;

• RezQueue portal, ZDirect's reservation communication tool: Queue, resend edit, customizes and resend transactional emails. Excellent tool for customer service and hoteliers that seek another guest touch point.

Pratt continues, "We selected ZDirect primarily due to their functionality, ease of use and their specific targeted email marketing tools. The system, since its implementation, has generated over $2.5 million in revenues for the four hotels. I have been very impressed with not only the tool, but the support team at ZDirect as well. Their support team goes out of their way to make sure our systems are operating efficiently and the tracking mechanisms are helping us in realizing incremental revenue to the hotels."

According to Hayes Thomas, President and CEO for ZDirect, "We are proud to be a strategic partner with Magnolia Hotels. These are the types of success stories that the marketing experts at ZDirect strive to achieve. We look forward to many more."