Black & Wright Services Increase Revenue, Optimize Operations and Technology
Since 2001 our focus has been on financial, technology and operational performance of travel industry organizations worldwide. We measure our success by your financial standards. To accomplish this, we assemble proven industry talent to quickly identify the issues, identify resources and solutions and often help execute.
These individual services are all designed to achieve one result: improve financial performance.
Wholesale to Consumer – Business Model Transition
Transition to New Consumer Model- B2B companies focused on going direct to consumers face challenges in making a successful transition. We accelerate that process and avoid common pitfalls by guiding the B2B company through decisions about target customers, right product and pricing, marketing, website traffic and performance, technology, and customer service.
- Create B2B financial modeling with metrics
- Match products and offers with new targets
- Refine target customer profiles and personas
- Develop consume marketing strategy
- Recommend website modifications for consumers
- Develop programs to drive traffic
- Optimize consumer web traffic
- Review branding for consumer audience
- Create and manage email marketing
Strategic Partnerships
We help you identify the right partner at the right time. We are intimately familiar with travel, from the leaders to the innovators to the mainstay mid-size companies. And we have access to the business leaders who make the industry run. If your company is looking for a strategic fit, we can identify the potential partners, validate the business benefits, develop the numbers and facilitate the deal.
If the deal involves an equity component, we work closely with Bentley Associates, investment bankers, who have envious record of success in travel industry transactions.
- Evaluate partnership needs and opportunities
- Provide prospective partnership strategy
- Develop forward looking models/projections
- Identify short list of partner prospects
- Make introductions and facilitate negotiations
- Provide full financial advisory through Bentley Associates
- Develop and perform due diligence requirements
Confidential Industry Research
We identify strategic opportunities, validate concepts and hypotheses, uncover market intelligence to guide planning and decisions for new products, new market entry, business model change or just about any critical unknowns facing the travel organization.
- Identify methodology to develop intelligence
- Unique access to senior management worldwide
- Conduct up to 1 hr one-on-one interviews
- In depth conclusions and analysis
- Full recommendations and action items
- Highly confidential one-o-a-kind intelligence
- Conducted by Senior Partners & Research Specialist
Branding and Competitive Positioning
Black & Wright in conjunction with ISM-Boston works to formulate a clear and well defined positioning and brand platform that creates a competitive advantage, defines differentiation and articulates a brand promise that drives product, marketing and technology. Our business team combines with the Award Winning ISM-Boston group to give companies a tightly woven, unique industry positioning from which to succeed.
- Branding Discovery Session
- Competitive Analysis
- Persona exploration & development
- Brand positioning
- Messaging by target audience
- Communications – Graphic, messages, all media
Travel Email Marketing
Black & Wright Email Marketing services include initial or later stage complex strategy, evaluating and optimizing existing programs and developing new program to integrate new trends in social networking and merchandising. We know and implement most sophisticated, latest effective programs.
Our email services are run by Dwight Sholes, a marketing professional and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in building brands and profitable companies, with a focus on the travel industry. In 2001 co-founded Quotient Marketing, a provider of email marketing technology and strategic services that was acquired by Fishbowl Marketing in May, 2007.
- Email program design
- Customer contact plan
- Segmentation and persona analysis
- Campaign strategy
- Evaluating existing email for conversion
- Behavior triggered messaging
- Acquisition strategy
- Co-ordinate multi-channel programs
- Multivariate Testing
New Entry to Travel Vertical
Companies just coming into the travel industry face challenges navigating, sizing the market, gaining traction and avoiding unnecessary expenditure of time and resources. Black & Wright knows the industry and help size the market, develop the right strategy and identify the decision makers. Whether it’s technology, advertising, publishing, data service or supply…we know how the market will respond and can help focus and accelerate your travel marketing plan.
- Confidential Industry Research
- Develop new market entry strategy
- Provide analysis of industry landscape
- New market sizing
- Match services/products with right prospective customers
- Advise on pricing, positiong for travel & leisure
- New entry feasibility
Optimize Revenue
We evaluate the company’s business model, financial results, web performance to determine where you’re either leaving money on the table or missing revenue because of challenges somewhere between your customer and the results. Using our “Deep Dive” approach, we facilitate a focused Discovery Work Session where we will work together to define, organize and prioritize the issues. A day of concentrated information exchange and brainstorming will give you a roadmap for meeting challenges, including a high level strategy and resources required to further develop it.
- Evaluate company/brand financial performance
- Identify revenue “left on the table.”
- Evaluate website financial performance
- Review & evaluate business model
- Identify additional distribution channels
- Develop “next step” action items
- Execute and implement solutions
Product Management
We provide short term or interim product management for online travel companies seeking to overcome technology “roadblocks” and increase revenues. We identify travel market requirements and design features into website releases. We provide close interaction with ecommerce leads, product architects and developers. All of our product managers come from major travel company successes and provide highly sophisticated insights and hands-on solutions.
We make sure clients’ technology properly supports the business, writing market requirements documents or Agile product backlogs, and monitoring the implementation of each product project.
- Evaluate website performance
- Identify “fixes,” improvements
- Interim Product Management
- Website architecture
- Business requirements
- Wire frame and functional specs
- Lead development, customization, enhancement
- Provide ROI on technology enhancement
- Develop technology RFP
- Interact with technology providers