What Makes a TRULY Successful Marketing Strategy? TSHS – 110

What Makes a TRULY Successful Marketing Strategy?

In this episode of the Social Hotelier Podcast, host Sam-Erik Ruttmann speaks with Eric Dingler, a digital nomad and marketing expert, about the intersection of travel and marketing strategies.

He runs successfully a location-independent business.

Eric shares insights from his family’s journey as they travel the world while managing a marketing agency.

The conversation explores how the digital nomad lifestyle has reshaped Erik’s understanding of marketing, emphasizing the importance of simplicity in marketing strategies and the need for businesses to adapt to changing consumer behaviors. Marketing is simpler than many make it out to be.

Eric also discusses the evolution of web design and businesses’ need to gather customer information for effective advocacy marketing. In this conversation, Eric Dingler shares insights on effective marketing strategies for engaging customers, particularly in digital nomadism.

He discusses the importance of specialized landing pages, understanding customer needs, and innovative engagement tactics, such as the unique Yahtzee experience at a restaurant in Buenos Aires.

Erik Dingler has been traveling full-time with his family for over three years. The digital nomad lifestyle has become routine for Erik and his family.

Eric also delves into the challenges and benefits of raising a family while living a digital nomad lifestyle, emphasizing adaptability and the use of technology to maintain connections. He highlights emerging trends in the digital nomad community, particularly the increasing number of families embracing this lifestyle and the impact of remote work policies post-COVID.

 

 

A Digital Nomad’s Marketing Blueprint

The Roller Coaster Ride: What aspiring Entrepreneurs need to prepare for – Chris Nader. TSHS-0064

The Roller Coaster Ride: What aspiring Entrepreneurs need to prepare for – Chris Nader. TSHS-0064

Chris Nader, CO-founder, of ENVI lodges talks about his background growing up in a family of hoteliers and his early exposure to the hospitality industry working at his family’s beach club at a young age. He later got a hospitality MBA from EHL, and worked with various hotel brands before deciding during the pandemic in 2020 to launch his own sustainable hospitality company focused on luxury eco-lodges.

He co-founded ENVI Lodges intending to create a global brand of lodges immersed in nature that provide unique guest experiences while operating responsibly towards local communities and the environment.

Chris discusses the key attributes entrepreneurs need – the courage to take risks and be disciplined to see things through.

He talks about the fundraising process, investing partners they targeted like high net worth individuals and family offices, and differences of raising funds in Europe vs the Middle East. Chris elaborates on ENVI Lodge’s brand vision centered around community and distinguishes it from safari resorts.

He shares perspectives on technology’s role at the lodges to enhance the guest experience while allowing people to disconnect.

The interview concludes with Chris emphasizing the importance of supporting and collaborating with local communities wherever ENVI Lodges launches.

Chris Nader can be contacted on Linkedin and Instagram, @envilodges and @hotel_trotter. When you contact Chris Nader please add #thesocialhotelier

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