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Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Thinking
Aug 13, 2012

Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Thinking

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little.

They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Margaret Chase Smith (1897 – 1995)  
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Performance
Jul 23, 2012
Zig Ziglar shares his proven perpsective on performance

 
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week - Four Points to Long Term Success
Jul 15, 2012
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Practical ideas on improving hotel profitability
Jun 19, 2012
   Energy is a cost that you can influence. 
Install timers on housekeeping closet lights that may be accidentally left on. 
 Look at other areas that may not be used daily. Update quarterly and note the savings.
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Understanding What Being Busy Really Means
May 22, 2012

Hospitality Tip of the Week™: Focus on Understanding What Being Busy Really Means   

“Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.”

Thomas Alva Edison
Public Content Undercover Investigation on Hotel Keys
May 17, 2012

TRENDS

Fox News Investigations on Key Cards
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week®: Listening.
Apr 30, 2012

Hospitality Tip of the Week®: 

The most successful hospitality businesses are the ones that listen to their customers, address their needs and continuously improve their service and product delivery.
Public Content The Value of Our Industry Links
Apr 21, 2012
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week™ Create a Competitive Advantage
Apr 20, 2012

Hospitality Tip of the Week®:

“If you don't like the status quo, change the status of your thinking and ol' quo is going to be all right, no matter what you are selling.” Zig Ziglar


What are you doing at your hotel, restaurant or hospitality business?


10 Hotel Mistakes to Avoid in Selling- Making Hospitality More Profitable

Part of the 2011 Keys To Success Workshop Series
Public Content Stay Hungry - Be Foolish - Steve Jobs Commencement Speech on Values, Life and Death
Apr 18, 2012
Here is Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.
Public Content When Franchisees Innovate: How To Use the "Big Mac" Provision Correctly
Apr 16, 2012
  Franchisee innovation is nothing new. Franchisors often find that some of the best-selling products are created by franchisees.  For example, some of the most popular sandwiches (including the Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, and Egg McMuffin) at McDonald's were created by franchisees. Indeed, the Big Mac is one of the all-time innovation success stories, having been created by franchisee Jim Delligatti in the 1960s and finally adopted by McDonalds in 1968 (the sandwich quickly became one of the chain's best sellers, accounting for 19 percent of all sales).
Public Content Hospitality Tip of the Week: Focus on Common Sense
Mar 26, 2012

Two quotes this week

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense." Robert Ingersoll,

(1833 - 1899) American political leader, and orator during the Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture


"Common sense ain't common".- Will Rogers

(1879 -1935), born to a Cherokee Nation Family, he became known an American cowboy, humorist, social commentator and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s -1930s. He wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper newspaper columns 
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