Hotel Internet Marketing and Restaurant Online Marketing

E-Packet COMPLETE Program

Sales E-Packet Program Includes:
Tools needed to provide each guest with a on the spot "Virtual Site Site Inspection" of your property and services. Enabling your sales staff to "Close the Sale" in one phone call. Providing professional and organized information while building rapport, educating and giving special personal attention to each guest.

VIRTUAL SITE INSPECTION TOOL (Sales E-Packet) - Close sales faster by providing personal attention above & beyond your competitors - Communicate quick, professional, user friendly and organized information - Use your Sales E-Packet as a virtual site inspection sales tool -
All information to best promote, sell and manage your property to guests, planners, and employees.	Example A Full Service	Example B Full Service	Example C Limited Service

All information to best sell, manage and promote your property to guest, planner and employees is listed on your E-Packet program sales tool.
*Indicates Full Service Hotel or Inn E-Packet Items

HOTEL & GUEST ROOMS
Room Brochure Information	Hotel Brochure Information
Facilities and Services Brochure	Photo Gallery
Virtual Tour/Video Link	Special Hotel Promotions
Location/Directions/Map	Guest Room Information
List Contact Information	Guest Comments
Hotel Banner Promotion	Virtual Brochure Rack
Area Attractions/Business	Other: Any additional facility items

RESERVATIONS
Corporate Reservations Link	Hotel Virtual Tour/Photo Gallery
Hot Dates/Promotions	Room E-Survey

GUEST SERVICES
Hotel E-Survey	Guest Newsletter
Inquiry Form (RFP)	Sign up E-Mail List
Banquet E-Survey*	Planner Satisfaction E-Survey*

ACCOUNTING
Direct Bill Form (Printable .pdf)	Credit Application (Printable .pdf)
Occupancy Tax Exempt Form (Printable .pdf)	Sales Tax Exemption Form (Printable .pdf)

"I love these tool more than anything else we are working with!! WE LOVE IT! Use us as a reference anytime. Thank you!"
Meredith Galvan (509.927.7100), Holiday Inn Express Downtown Spokane - Director of Sales & Marketing [additional comments]

HUMAN RESOURCES
Employment Application (Printable)	Job Posting
Staff Newsletter	Virtual Staff Training

MEETING & CATERING Indicates Full Service Hotel or Inn E-Packet Items
Banquet Menus and Information	Wedding Menus and Information
Holiday Menus and Information	Bar/Bat Mitzvah Menus and Information
Hotel Restaurant Menus	Meeting Information/Brochure
Banquet Layouts	Banquet Room Capacities
Audio Visual List	Facility Banner Promotion
Special Promotions	Other: Any additional catering items

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Offer guest complete sales and catering packet information on line, you are given a private link address to send clients directly to the individual Electronic Sales and Catering Packet. Sales and Catering staff members add this direct link to the signature of their email to communicate COMPLETE Sales and Catering Packets in seconds directly to each inquiry call. (and/or added your E-Packet Direct Link to your current web site providing additional information.) This "Real Time Sales and Facility Tool" can also be used daily by your sales staff; Sales Managers, Catering Managers, Conference Service Managers, Sales/Catering Assistants, HR, Accounting.

Use your E-Packet when you are on the phone or make a phone appointment. Web Sites should be a sales tool, not just something you forward. When you receive an inquiry call ask the guest if they have access to a computer. This will give your guest a visual while you describe your facilities. Working with the guest to give them a better understanding of the services you have to meet the needs of the guest. Use your Web Site as you would on a "Virtual Site Inspection." (build rapport, provides education to the guest) Have your information in a format that once the inventory changes so does the format. Items like .doc and .pdf are downloaded files and once changed or updated does not reflect on the files already sent out and you have to start over and resend. (less inventory, save time, money)

Walk each inquiry or cold call through a "Virtual Site Inspection" of your facility!
E-Packets Provide 'Real Time' Inventory, eliminating outdated .pdf, .doc files and paper

Hotel Marketing Ideas - including Hotel Internet Marketing

WebEventPlanner.com can help you market your hotel's accommodations and services. Our highly qualified marketing professionals are experts in online marketing for hotels. Put Web Event Planner.com to work for you today and we'll develop a comprehensive hotel marketing plan, painstakingly optimized for your specific marketing needs. Start promoting your ballroom, meeting space, boardrooms, reservations and catering options online today!

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Hotel Internet Marketing

We are committed to providing the hospitality industry with a cost-effective "Real Time Sales and Catering Tool" while facilitating instant transmission of sales and catering packets to prospective clients and planners. We want meeting planning company staff to find you and use your hotel for the next event they are planning.

WebEventPlanner.com specializes in electronic sales and catering packet design and offers a unique option to hotels and restaurants wanting to cut their sales and marketing budgets while providing guests with a complete sales and catering packet in just seconds.

Hotel & Restaurant Marketing

This "Real Time Sales and Catering Tool" is designed for hotel sales and catering managers to use daily in order to communicate sales and catering information instantly to potential clients. Close short-term business with one phone call or send a customized and personalized E-Packet to each inquiry call. Put our 18 years of hospitality and customer service experience, along with our seven years of hospitality Internet development experience to work for you!

WebEventPlanner.com helps hotels and restaurants with hospitality Internet marketing of catering and sales information in 6 different ways:

Over 360,000 e-packets viewed in 2006. Over 1.5 million e-packets viewed since 2002.

Internet Promotion of Your Complete Sales and Catering Packet

Event planners can browse our FREE directory offering access to your complete sales and catering market collateral, listed in our directory under state/city and by the amenities your hotel provides. Make it a part of your restaurant marketing plan or use it as a supplement to your hotel marketing plan. The WebEventPlanner.com directory is Internet search engine optimized. Our directory is listed under our keywords on the first pages of Go.com, Lycos, AOL, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot and Overture, to name a few.

Complete Sales and Catering Packet

Hotels that offer clients complete sales and catering packet information online with the WebEventPlanner.com Directory are given a private link address that will route clients to the individual electronic hotel sales and catering packet. Hotel sales and catering staff members add this direct link to the signature of their e-mail to communicate complete sales and catering packets in seconds directly to each inquiry call.

Each hotel's electronic sales and catering packet contains an inquiry form (FRP) that can be filled out and submitted to the hotel directly (e-mail address selected by hotel). The inquiry form is located on the navigation bar of the hotel e-packet. The navigational bar/home page of each hotel e-packet is also where site visitors wishing to receive future promotional material from your hotel will be able to submit e-mail addresses to be added to your e-mail list to receive future promotions from your hotel. The monthly stats report on unique, directory, direct, inquiries, e-mail submission and overall visitors provided in your hotel administrator are updated daily. This is an excellent and effective addition to any restaurant marketing strategy.

Hotel E-Packet Includes Menus and Information on:

Banquet rooms, weddings, corporate event planning, holidays, bar/bat mitzvahs, and restaurants. E-packets also contain information about audio visual listings, contact info, reservation links, and location information such as maps. There is also information about attractions and meeting planning-related needs. E-Packets also have info on special promotions such as Thanksgiving buffets, New Years Eve parties, Valentines specials, Fourth of July, guest room specials, Mother's Day buffets and other unique specials.

Restaurant Internet Marketing

E-packets are full of other useful information to help in online marketing for your restaurant. They are full of info about ballroom layout, capacities, guest rooms, amenities, accommodations, facilities, services, pools, and gyms. Check out galleries, virtual tours and details about area attractions. All information to best sell your hotel is included in your hotel E-Packet, including information about convention and visitors' bureaus. All information that can best sell your facilities is included in your e-packet to help you with your restaurant Internet marketing.

Customized Sales and Catering Packet for Hotel Internet Marketing

Each sales and catering staff member will be able to send a customized e-packet with the navigation bar showing selected brochure items for that specific event (inquiry). The home page is a letter personalized from that specific staff member and has their contact information. Each hotel and restaurant will be able to track this information by sales and catering personnel.

*Please review hotel E-Packet - customized - users guide before logging into the training module.

Hotel or Restaurant E-Packet Newsletter

WebEventPlanner.com will create a newsletter web page link for meeting planning companies to see. This will allow your sales and catering office or individual sales or catering manager to have a web page with a monthly or quarterly newsletter. Once the newsletter is created, it is the responsibility of the hotel or restaurant to provide WebEventPlanner.com with monthly or quarterly newsletter changes and updates (which, of course, are completed within 24 hours). Add the newsletter link to the signature of your e-mail and/or provide your e-mail list with this link to keep client/guest informed.

E-packet Updates and Changes are Completed by WebEventPlanner.com

We maintain your e-packet throughout the year with updates and changes! Hotel e-packet updates and changes are completed by WEP within 24 hours of receipt if received in a digital format (.doc .jpg or .gif). Please keep in mind your site is not like print material; there is no final deadline for editing. If you should find an error/correction or need to update your information, please e-mail us your request and we will make the change. Faxing and e-mailing is fine as well. Menu changes, facility updates, new photos, contact changes and more can all be updated. We do all the work and all you are responsible for is training, forwarding us changes/updates and verifying that all your information is correct once uploaded.

WebEventPlanner.com News Center and Press Releases

This is a resource we offer so that you can keep up to date with Internet technology and to use your hotel or restaurant marketing e-packet to its fullest potential (at no additional cost of WebEventPlanner.com subscribers). We are committed to providing the hospitality industry with a cost-effective "Real Time Sales Tool" while facilitating instant transmission of sales and catering packets to prospective clients and planners. Sales tips, industry updates, hotel E-Packet upgrades, global updates, statistical information, hotel welcome, hotel testimonials and much more can be found at WebEventPlanner.com. The site's news center is designed to be an ongoing reference for our clients and should be reviewed periodically. The Internet is forever evolving and WebEventPlanner.com is here to keep you in the loop.

Hotel Marketing Ideas Including Hotel and Hospitality Internet Marketing

If you manage or operate a hotel and need to market your accommodations, services, meeting and banquet rooms, WebEventPlanner.com can help. We can also help with a restaurant marketing plan. Our highly qualified marketing professionals are experts in online marketing for hotels. Put WebEventPlanner.com to work for you today and we'll develop a comprehensive hotel marketing plan, painstakingly optimized for your specific hotel and restaurant Internet marketing needs.

WebEventPlanner.com-Innovative Hotel Marketing Ideas for Your Business!

Watch for Future Upgrades

WebEventPlanner.com is continuously upgrading its hotel E-Packet services based on the needs of the hospitality industry. Global upgrades are given to our existing clients at no additional cost. It is our vision to integrate many different aspects of the meeting planning and hospitality sales experience through one module. That includes online marketing for restaurants. Soon, all e-packets will have an online credit application feature for accounting purposes. Other future upgrades will include a hotel job postings link, hotel employment application, and human resources job posting administrator.