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“Room to Grow” – A Modern Day Sales Blueprint Provides Tangible Insights to Find and Keep Good Salespeople in Hospitality
Gillis | July 14, 2021
CEO Tammy Gillis brings to market a book that provides the hotel industry with strategic, actionable suggestions to help elevate sales in the hospitality industry DALLAS — July 14, 2021 — Gillis, a consulting, training and sales performance organization for hoteliers, announced today the launch of a new book entitled, “Room to Grow – Not Leaving Sales to Chance.” After 28 years of working in the industry, Gillis founder and CEO, Tammy Gillis, saw the need to re-invigorate sales by authoring a strategic, thoughtful, business-focused and actionable primer to help hoteliers meet revenue goals regardless of the economic environment b...
Gillis Addresses Today’s Hospitality Sales Staffing Crisis Through Education, Training and Webinars
Gillis | May 19, 2021
Company empowers hoteliers across the country with key initiatives, tools and insights to elevate the sales profession DALLAS — May 19, 2021 — As the hotel industry begins to re-open in the United States, Gillis, a consulting, training and sales performance partner organization for hoteliers, announced today the expansion of its training and consulting team to empower hoteliers with key strategies for bridging the sales gap. Gillis works hand-in-hand with top brands such as Best Western and Choice, as well as industry organizations such as AAHOA and IHG Owners Association to ensure hoteliers are prepared and ready to capture business a...
Gillis Disrupts Traditional Sales Model With Dynamic Sales Solution
Gillis | April 15, 2021
Company invests in people and technology to provide support to hotels during recovery resulting in $12 million in actual revenue for its clients in 2020 DALLAS — April 15, 2021 — Gillis, a consulting, training and sales performance partner organization for hoteliers, announced today that key investments in its employees, training programs and technology resulted in $12 million in actual revenue for its clients while maintaining a 95 percent retention rate since the pandemic began. Its Dynamic Sales Solution (DSS) provides a full-service, turnkey virtual sales team that flexes to meet its clients’ relevant needs while actively pursuing ...
Hospitality Financial Leadership: The Consultants
David Lund | May 26, 2020
By David Lund That’s enough detail. I already have a good understanding of the requirements.” – Jeff Haden, New York Times Inside of the hotel company I worked for there has always been a constant movement to increase efficiency, especially inside the financial function. Not surprising, right? That’s what all businesses have done and continue to do, to evolve and ultimately outsource or eliminate seemingly needless, value lacking work. I was heavily involved in such a project that took me all the way to England. The “Consultants” were hired to come up with a solution to centralize our complete accounting function. In our comp...
Hospitality Financial Leadership: Chapter Four – The Pencil
David Lund | January 13, 2020
By David Lund The week after the summit was a bit of a blur for me. Several requests for interviews, all declined. Our public relations manager handled these with a simple story the flag mishap was a mistake given the procurement of new flags and the innocent mix up of which ones go where. Not our finest hour but the furor died down. But not before the chairman’s call. He was ballistic. “How could you be so stupid,” he asked? I explained the situation to him and he calmed down a little. “That little princess,” he said, “You tell her the next time she calls that we are not part of her domain. “Liquor permits or...
