Revinate

Marketing Team

Meet the team behind our content

With diverse expertise spanning strategy, customer marketing, and product storytelling, our team is dedicated to empowering hoteliers and providing the resources they need to build stronger guest relationships and drive direct revenue.

Brenna Turpin

Brenna produces and co-hosts the Hotel Moment podcast and helps scale Revinate’s content library, writing blogs and industry editorials. Inspired by her time at Revinate, Brenna recently got her passport and is excited to start filling it with stamps!

Freya Craig

Freya is a Senior Customer Marketing and Product Marketing Manager at Revinate, where she helps hoteliers get the most out of the company’s email marketing and guest feedback solutions. She is passionate about showcasing the impact Revinate Marketing has on customers and sharing best practices that inspire hospitality professionals.

Linden Plumley

Linden has built deep expertise in customer success through various roles at Revinate, including Director of Training and Support. As a Product Marketing Manager, she leverages this experience to support the Customer Data Platform and Ivy.

Lucia Apostol

Lucia is a marketer who believes the best marketing reads like a story worth telling. With a background in tech, she crafts narratives that turn data into dialogue and campaigns into conversations across web, email, and beyond.

Melissa McMullin

Melissa is a Product Marketing Manager specializing in Revinate’s voice solutions, Reservation Sales and RezForce. She enjoys connecting with hoteliers to understand their challenges and successes while showcasing how Revinate’s solutions can help them succeed.

René Garcia

Rene is a seasoned marketer with several years of experience in the hospitality industry. He specializes in email, web, multi-media, and marketing copy.

Featured articles

Tips to reduce “leaky-bucket syndrome” from your hotel website

What’s one thing all guests have in common? The booking journey. And what’s one thing your hotel can influence? The booking journey. Prospective guests are scouting trip locations, hunting for cheap rates, and perusing hotel websites to learn more about each brand’s offerings and stay experiences. In fact, 74% of travelers who did their trip and rate research on TripAdvisor went on to book directly on a hotel website. And with 72% of travelers preferring [...]

By |December 21, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |

4 strategies to light up your hotel holiday email campaigns (with examples)

The holiday season is nearly upon us, a time of anticipation and excitement, magic and memories. It’s also a time when your guests eagerly await exciting seasonal email offers to hit their inboxes. Your hotel holiday email campaigns offer more than just festive cheer, however — they can drive substantial website traffic and help you harness invaluable guest data. When it comes to holiday marketing, Black Friday stands at the peak of the mountaintop, with [...]

By |November 21, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

Hotel marketing tips for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Black Friday is the biggest shopping weekend of the year — and the hospitality brands that prepare early are seeing the biggest wins. Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend has become a prime opportunity for hoteliers to boost direct bookings, strengthen loyalty, and fill their Q1 calendar before the year ends. In 2024, Black Friday spending topped $10.8 billion, and Travel Tuesday is quickly becoming one of the top booking days of the year. This playbook [...]

By |November 7, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

5 tested examples to recover lost revenue from hotel website and cart abandonment

Have you ever wondered why potential customers flock to your website, eagerly explore amenities, begin the booking process, and then simply vanish before confirming their reservation? Even more disappear before ever reaching the booking engine. These phenomena are known as website and cart abandonment. And they cause more than a mere frustration. They’re missed opportunities for maximizing revenue and securing guest loyalty. We’ve created a guide with an in-depth look at the causes and impacts [...]

By |October 26, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

What is zero-party data? An overview (and a hot take) for hoteliers

Third-party data… second-party data… first-party data… and now zero-party data? Yes, there’s another kind of data you need to be aware of — and not just so that you can sound smart at the next hospitality conference, but so that you can bring in impressive business results for your hotel. (Though hopefully, after reading this article, you’ll be ready for both). If you came here for the textbook definition of zero-party data, we’ll quote Forrester, [...]

Experience 3 major benefits of automated text messaging for hotels

We live in a world where smartphones have become an extension of our hands, with 85% of Americans now relying on these devices for everything from checking the weather to checking into their hotels. Demand for businesses to use automated, AI-powered messaging is rapidly rising. And it’s predictably rampant among Millennials and Gen Z. These younger cohorts prefer AI chatbots and messaging over other forms of communication when looking for answers to simple queries. But [...]

By |September 11, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |