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Shore up your direct channel: If you’ve been considering a new website , digitalmarketing strategy , or payment solution , now’s the time. Set your OTA business to autopilot for a while and give your most profitable channel some love. When it picks up again, you’ll be ready. Let’s face it—margins continue to be razor thin.
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Shore up your direct channel: If you’ve been considering a new website , digitalmarketing strategy , or payment solution , now’s the time. Set your OTA business to autopilot for a while and give your most profitable channel some love. When it picks up again, you’ll be ready. Let’s face it—margins continue to be razor thin.
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And we just need to be more mindful of that, that OTA customer who’s coming in or that person who’s coming in for the weekend is also coming in to work and we need to target them that way in our marketing efforts. So you don’t quite understand who that customer is. Ryan Embree: Yeah, I I love that term as well.
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