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2010

See below — an article about dynamic pricing in the hotel sector.

IHG Claims Growing Use Of Dynamic Pricing
http://www.management.travel/news.php?cid=dynamic-pricing-growing-IHG.Dec-10.15

In the hotel sector, dynamic pricing has been part of their business model for the last 10+ years. And their pricing strategies can shift daily and weekly.

What is your approach to the pricing of your furnished suites? What are the trends for pricing in your specific market? How is it similar/different when compared to competing extended-stay hotels and other corporate housing companies? How often are you shopping/comparing pricing in your market---then tucking this into your sales presentations/proposals? How is your pricing strategy being included in the sales scripts being using by your inside sales team…when they are handling inbound leads and prospects?

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Surf the url below:

Stars Are Aligned For Bullish Apartment Outlook In 2011
http://nreionline.com/property/multifamily/bullish_apartment_outlook_1201/

and also, this one:

http://rismedia.com/2010-12-01/consumer-confidence-at-highest-level-since-june-2010/

While I am grateful to read the news and projections for 2011 in the apartment sector — a sector that I have worked in since 1988…from a corporate housing perspective — this means higher rents are coming— , right?

So as you look towards 2011 — good/strong are your property management relationships?

From your point-of-view…are you getting the best pricing? The least amount of move-in fees/costs? The best contractual term/conditions + flexibility and vacancy credits?

And, do you have all of this — writing?

Want to learn more about the topic/discussion above? Join our LinkedIn® professional networking services group at the url below,

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This group is for corporate housing professionals looking to sell furnished apartments, temporary housing, furnished suites, and/or serviced apartments + those who are part of CHPA.

The goal of this group is to facilitate connections between corporate housing professionals, to help you improve your professional development/skills and to serve as a learning resource for the furnished suite sector.

This LinkedIn® professional networking services group helps the corporate housing industry and corporate housing professionals collaborate, share, mentor, and strategize when it comes to issues, challenges and opportunities — with a focus on revenue success, more booked furnished suites and increased profitability.

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
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Interesting to see/read the article below about the Irvine Company — a leading property management company in Southern California.

http://www.multifamilybiz.com/News/142/Irvine_Co_In_14B_Apartment_Deal

In your market — are you seeing property management companies setting up a large number of furnished apartments?

Want to learn more about the topic/discussion above? Join our LinkedIn® professional networking services group at the url below,

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2355651/

This group is for corporate housing professionals looking to sell furnished apartments, temporary housing, furnished suites, and/or serviced apartments + those who are part of CHPA.

The goal of this group is to facilitate connections between corporate housing professionals, to help you improve your professional development/skills and to serve as a learning resource for the furnished suite sector.

This LinkedIn® professional networking services group helps the corporate housing industry and corporate housing professionals collaborate, share, mentor, and strategize when it comes to issues, challenges and opportunities — with a focus on revenue success, more booked furnished suites and increased profitability.

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
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See/read the article below. This is another strong report/indicator — that we are heading out of the bottom — and into a new/strong upcoming year!

October Hotel Rates In GDSs Rise
http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Business-Travel/Hotel-News/Articles/October-Hotel-Rates-In-GDSs-Rise/

Are you and your team set/ready for a strong 2011? Are you setting the stage — right now — for the first quarter of next year?

Did you know/realize — that web activity/searches for corporate housing...spikes/increases in February by 26 — and continues strong until September?

Would you like to see the research we do every 30 days, across North America — measuring and scoring/ranking 400+ corporate housing companies and their websites?

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In 2010 — we have seen green shoots. In 2011 — green lawns — are returning/coming!

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
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Since 1995, Ernest has spent 26,330 hours coaching/guiding 350+ leading corporate housing companies and their sales teams, around the world — and is the author of SmartMatch Alliances, http://www.powerhour.com/corporatehousing/smartmatchalliances.html

Please join Ernest and the team at CorporateHousing.com on November 18th for a discussion focused on *The Brand Called You*. During this 60-minute conference call we will be discussing the points below plus fielding your specific questions:

1. What is the corporate housing brand of your company? How is the brand of your company measured by your clients and guests? What are the steps for growing and improving your corporate housing brand with a focus on increasing your revenue + furnished suites?

2. What is your professional and individual brand for creating corporate housing success? How do those on your corporate housing team measure your brand? What are the steps for increasing your professional brand that will result in more revenue and increased commissions + larger raises?

3. What is feed-forward? How does feed-forward impact your company brand? How does feed-forward impact your professional and individual brand?

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
--> PowerHour Executive Recruiting, find/hire corporate housing & serviced apartment superstars.
--> Weekly PowerHour Sales Academy,
--> LinkedIn® professional networking services member #176 of 2,176,785 since 2003.
--> PowerHour Thought-Leadership Webinars.
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--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

See/read the article below. This is another strong report/indicator — that we are heading out of the bottom — and into a new/strong upcoming year!

Extended-Stay Segment Leads Lodging Recovery
http://lhonline.com/development/extendedstay_HighlandGroup_occupancy_RevPAR_1110/

Are you and your team set/ready for a strong 2011? Are you setting the stage — right now — for the first quarter of next year?

Did you know/realize — that web activity/searches for corporate housing — spikes/increases in February by 26%---and continues strong until September?

Would you like to see the research we do every 30 days, across North America — measuring and scoring/ranking 400+ corporate housing companies and their websites?

http://www.powerhourseo.com

In 2010 — we have seen green shoots. In 2011 — green lawns — are returning/coming!

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
--> PowerHour Executive Recruiting, find/hire corporate housing & serviced apartment superstars.
--> Weekly PowerHour Sales Academy,
--> LinkedIn® professional networking services member #176 of 2,176,785 since 2003.
--> PowerHour Thought-Leadership Webinars.
--> Internet Marketing PowerHour White Papers.
--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

Just saw/read the news below — and because the extended-stay market is so closely related to our corporate housing sector/industry — I wanted to share this with you.

Extended-stay hotel room nights accommodated in 2010 were the highest ever recorded in the first nine months of a year and room revenues hit a record for any third quarter period, according to The Highland Group's US Extended-Stay Lodging Report: Third Quarter 2010. Double-digit demand growth combined with a sharp decline in new rooms opening caused occupancy to rise more than 10%. Quarterly changes in extended-stay average rate turned positive following six consecutive quarters of decline. Extended-stay hotel RevPar should be up 7% to 8% in 2010 compared to 2009.

The rate of increase in extended-stay hotel supply plummeted to its lowest level in at least 15 years and it will go even lower in 2011. Record low supply growth coupled with rising demand and room rates portends even stronger extended-stay hotel RevPar growth in 2011 than in 2010.

Your take on these trends for 2010? Your thoughts on how extended-stay hotels are impacting your revenue?

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
--> PowerHour Executive Recruiting, find/hire corporate housing & serviced apartment superstars.
--> Weekly PowerHour Sales Academy,
--> LinkedIn® professional networking services member #176 of 2,176,785 since 2003.
--> PowerHour Thought-Leadership Webinars.
--> Internet Marketing PowerHour White Papers.
--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

Since 1995, Ernest has spent 26,330 hours coaching/guiding 350+ leading corporate housing companies and their sales teams, around the world — and is the author of SmartMatch Alliances, http://www.powerhour.com/corporatehousing/smartmatchalliances.html

Please join Ernest and the team at CorporateHousing.com on October 20th for a discussion focused on *Budget Season Selling*. During this 60-minute conference call we will be discussing the points below plus fielding your specific questions:

1. What are the myths and realities about selling corporate housing during budget season?

2. Why is budget season prime selling/sales season for corporate housing professionals?

3. How must you prepare for selling corporate housing during budget season?

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
--> PowerHour Executive Recruiting, find/hire corporate housing & serviced apartment superstars.
--> Weekly PowerHour Sales Academy,
--> LinkedIn® professional networking services member #176 of 2,176,785 since 2003.
--> PowerHour Thought-Leadership Webinars.
--> Internet Marketing PowerHour White Papers.
--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

Since 1995, Ernest has spent 26,230 hours coaching/guiding 350+ leading corporate housing companies and their sales teams, around the world — and is the author of SmartMatch Alliances, http://www.powerhour.com/corporatehousing/smartmatchalliances.html

Please join Ernest and the team at CorporateHousing.com on September 30th for a discussion focused on *Smart Marketing Strategies*. During this 60-minute conference call we will be discussing the points below plus fielding your specific questions:

1. What are the key components of a strong/powerful corporate housing website? What matters most? What matters least?

2. Is your E-newsletter reaching your best clients, prospects and guests? What are the key components for a strong and powerful marketing E-newsletter? How important is your E-newsletter on the day you are ready to sell your corporate housing company?

3. What Internet advertising should your corporate housing company be doing?

The Coach, ...and your LinkedIn group owner/moderator
Ernest

--> PowerHour, serving the corporate housing & serviced apartment industry since 1995 and the apartment property management industry since 1988.
--> Join our weekly PowerHour Sales Academy that will help you sell more furnished/serviced apartments, gain better rankings and leads from your website & increase your number of industry referrals.
--> PowerHour Executive Recruiting, find/hire corporate housing & serviced apartment superstars.
--> Weekly PowerHour Sales Academy,
--> LinkedIn® professional networking services member #176 of 2,176,785 since 2003.
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--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

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--> Based on group size ...we’re #176 of 2,176,785 worldwide LinkedIn groups with 130,000+ members who are part of our 20 LinkedIn groups.

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