Bloggle + Resources

A look back at our #ComeBackStrong campaign

This is the final #ComeBackStrong masterclass, with our friends Bums on Seats. It’s an hour jam-packed with the latest advice and guidance for operators around the sales opportunities for recovery and growth in 2021.

Since March 2020, the mobile gaming audience in the UK has grown by 50% – that’s 8.6M new gamers. Find out why some of the biggest global brands are including games in their marketing mix and how they can help hospitality come back strong.

Most hospitality operators are aware that they can get better insights for their business from data, but need to overcome the challenges of having multiple data sources and move towards a single customer view.

With the return of outdoor hospitality just around the corner, Julia Platia, Head of Client Services at Feed It Back, shares the latest data and insights and provides practical advice on how to navigate the coming months.

The importance of sustainability and protecting the environment is ever-increasing amongst consumers and the businesses that implement measures to reduce their environmental footprint are likely to reap the reputational benefits from being an environmentally responsible brand.

So it appears that track and trace will be part of the government guidance for re-opening. I'm very disappointed, hospitality poured there collective heart into reopening in July 2020, complying with UK Gov requests and guidance to create some of the safest spaces in the UK. Little good it did with some of the stupid rules that were then brought into play; remember the scenes as everyone turfed out for the 10pm curfew?

Guest wifi is the largest source of data for operators (and can be leveraged for pre-sold revenue opportunities whilst doors are still closed), so this week's 10-minute Fireside Chat (minus the fire) sees Zoe Knowles, senior client director for hospitality Wi-Fi and analytics specialists Wireless Social, impart her wisdom about the key actions operators need to be taking now to prepare for lockdown being lifted.

Easter 2021 may be set to look different this year, but many of your guests will still want to celebrate the occasion in a Covid-friendly way. So we’ve come up with some egg-cellent Toggle gifting ideas for you to showcase your Easter bestsellers!

This week's 10-minute Fireside Chat (minus the fire) sees Katy Moses, founder and MD of boutique hospitality insight agency KAM Media, chat with Dan Brookman about some of the fundamental shifts in customer behaviour, sentiment, attitude as a result of the pandemic.

Most restaurants businesses are not pricing correctly and default to discounting, which results in lost margin, kills profit and damages brand image in the long term.

Today marks an entire year of binge-watching, binge-eating, binge-nothing, doom scrolling, zoom calling, panic buying, doorstep clapping, 5k running, home working (or at least trying to), in the United Kingdom. 

This week's 10-minute Fireside Chat (minus the fire) sees all-round hospitality PRO Myles Doran, founder of Hospitality Inc and ex-Varsity, Barracuda and Revolution Bars Group PLC, share his wisdom with Dan Brookman around the things that operators should be doing now to prepare their teams for the sector fully reopening in the summer.

Sheffield-based hospitality technology company Airship has won three awards at the UK Developer Awards 2021 - including the prestigious Dev Team of the Year accolade.

With the world of corporate work, and life as we know it permanently transformed, what can the hospitality industry do to get in front of a B2B audience?