BUZZ Buzz: The Buzz Membership Campaign has been extended through 3/31/10!
During these economic times, it is more crucial than ever to be a member of HSMAI. As a member, not only are you privy to the hospitality industry’s most coveted collection of tools and resources for sales and marketing professionals, but new Americas Region members* also receive:
• A complimentary copy of HSMAI Foundation’s The Travel Marketer’s Guide to Social Media and Social Networks — a $99 value.
The report was researched and written by renowned industry author Cindy Estis Green, managing partner of The Estis Group, is published by the HSMAI Foundation and The Travel Industry Association. For the report, Estis interviewed travel executives, vendors, and experts from various social media sites. Additionally, executives from non-travel industries that have a strong background in the use of social media were interviewed. Case studies and results from travel executive polls are also featured.
And, a choice of one:
• A complimentary Hospitality Competency-Based Assessment, created in partnership with 20/20 Assessment, a service of HVS — a $250 value.
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Selling and marketing hospitality services is challenging. Services are both tangible and intangible, hard to differentiate at times, and difficult to evaluate. Most other sales and marketing skills assessments are designed with product marketing in mind; this skills assessment has been specifically designed for hospitality professionals. You need to know that you and your team have the right skills, knowledge and attitudes for the job.
Developed in partnership between leading hospitality consulting and research firms HVS and 20|20 Assessment™ with Cornell University, HSMAI provides a unique measure of the skills most essential to sales and marketing success in the hospitality industry. This assessment is designed to help you, as a hospitality sales and marketing professional, plan your organizational and personal professional development.
As a primary benefit of membership with HSMAI, the assessment offers you the opportunity to evaluate your skills and to be provided with a coaching-development session at no charge beyond the annual HSMAI membership fee. The Web-based self-assessment takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. It measures core skills in ten hospitality-based competencies:
• Leadership
• Creativity
• Group Process
• Self Efficacy
• Sensitivity to Diversity
• Ethical Awareness
• Sense of Humour
• Company Loyalty
• Service Orientation
• Problem Solving
Individual members will receive a skills report, personal and confidential evaluation of their skill-sets so that they can better understand their strengths and weaknesses and plan for continuing professional development.
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• A complimentary list of regionalized meeting planner profiles from HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings.
Choose from lists of planners who plan meetings in one of seven U.S, regions (Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, West, Northwest, Mid-Atlantic). HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® conferences and exhibitions are the ideal forum where planners, properties and suppliers come together to do business – attracting motivated planners from all sectors of the industry who attend looking for quality resources to enhance their meetings and events. Attendees represent corporate, association and independent sectors, government, non-profit, education, religious and medical/healthcare organizations, trade show management and the military. The majority of planners who attend HSMAI's Affordable Meetings do not attend any other planner events.
PLUS, sign up today and you’ll receive a $5 gift card to Starbucks.
Think of it as our own little stimulus package.
To take advantage of this limited-time offer, put "Buzz" in the Promotion Code on your Membership Application.
*Special promotion applies only to new Americas Region members joining between 10/15/09-03/31/10 and paying regular membership fee ($350.00). New member is defined as someone who has never been a member of HSMAI or whose membership has been expired for six months or more. Other rules and restrictions may apply.
