Counting down ... Less than a month to go until The SME Business Awards! 🙌 We’re thrilled and grateful to be shortlisted as a Family Business! 🎉 A huge thank you to The SME Awards for this recognition, and to all of our clients, collaborators, and supporters for being part of our journey over the past 5 years since we launched Halo. Your support means the world to us! 😇 Congratulations to all the other amazing businesses on the shortlist—we can’t wait to celebrate with you in London this December! 🥂 #SMENationals #SMEBusinessAwards #awards #familybusiness #hospitalityindustry Michael Donald Ashleigh Donald
Halo Business Consulting
Business Consulting and Services
Award-Winning Customer Experience, Marketing and Communications for the Hospitality Industry
About us
😇 At Halo, we're on a mission to help hospitality businesses build stronger connections with their guests to cultivate long-lasting loyalty. Our USP lies in our fully integrated approach to marketing, communications, and customer experience strategies from our collective 40 years of experience in luxury hospitality. We offer businesses flexibility, hands-on experience and without a commitment to being a full-time resource. This can range from fully integrated consultancy, offering advice in one key area or becoming a virtual leadership team member to work on a specific project, coach in-house teams or to support in periods of change. Services include: - Pre-opening, re-opening and launch strategy for hotels and businesses - Customer experience audits, strategies and service culture training - Contactless customer recognition strategy - Operational audits and process improvement measures - Deep dive marketing and communications audits - Marketing and communications plan creation - Brand transformation - Direct marketing activations - Content creation for collateral, social channels, media releases - Media relations and crisis communications 🏆 Finalist SME National Awards 2024 🏆 Finalist British Business Awards 2024 🏆 Finalist Great British Businesswoman Awards 2024/5 🏆 Winner Best Businesswoman Awards 2023 🏆 Finalist Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2023 🏆 Finalist Great British Businesswoman Awards 2023 🏆 Winner Professional Services Services Start-Up 2022 🏆 Best Small Business Finalist 2022 WIN Awards 🏆 Top 5 PR & Content Advisor UK & Ireland 🎧 Hosts of the Podcast - The Halo Effect - Hospitality Stories with Ashleigh & Michael Donald For more information please contact Ashleigh Donald, Co-Founder at +44 (0)7907058206 or email ashleigh@gohalo.co.uk
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- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- Customer Experience, Marketing, Communications, Hospitality, Travel, Hotels, Online Marketing, Media Relations, Operational innovation, Global Hospitality, Luxury brands, Hotel Marketing, Flexible Working, Hotel pre-opening, Crisis Communications, Customer Relationship Management, SME support, Start up launches, and Content Creation
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Ashleigh Donald
Hospitality Marketing & Communications Consultant. Strategy & Planning | Launches & Re-branding I Fractional Marketing Director 💫 Winner Start Up…
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Michael Donald
Customer Experience specialist, offering flexible, hands-on support to help inspire employees and delight guests. 💫 Winner - Professional Services…
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📰While today’s news headlines might distract you this morning, please know that Episode 8 of The Halo Effect podcast has dropped, and will be here whenever you’re ready to tune in. In this episode, Ashleigh and Michael Donald discuss the differences between Branded and Independent Hotels. Having worked with global giants like Starwood and beloved independents like The Goring, we hope that our insights will be valuable to anyone looking to weigh up the opportunities with either option. 🎧 Ready to listen? The Halo Effect is available on the below link or your preferred podcast platform. 👉 If you’d like to see us discuss a specific topic or join us as a guest, please DM us or email podcast@gohalo.co.uk. #TheHaloEffectPodcast #HospitalityInsights #BrandedHotels #IndependentHotels #HotelIndustry
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📰While today’s news headlines might distract you this morning, please know that Episode 8 of The Halo Effect podcast has dropped, and will be here whenever you’re ready to tune in. In this episode, Ashleigh and Michael Donald discuss the differences between Branded and Independent Hotels. Having worked with global giants like Starwood and beloved independents like The Goring, we hope that our insights will be valuable to anyone looking to weigh up the opportunities with either option. 🎧 Ready to listen? The Halo Effect is available on the below link or your preferred podcast platform. 👉 If you’d like to see us discuss a specific topic or join us as a guest, please DM us or email podcast@gohalo.co.uk. #TheHaloEffectPodcast #HospitalityInsights #BrandedHotels #IndependentHotels #HotelIndustry
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🎧 The Halo-Ween Effect: Hospitality Horror Stories 🎃 Ashleigh and Michael invite you to join a spooky special Halloween episode where they share some hospitality horror stories. 👻 Expect haunted hotels, strange sightings, and those unforgettable night shifts that hospitality professionals know all too well. From eerie encounters to the camaraderie born from sharing these “war stories,” this episode uncovers some of the very real challenges behind the scenes in hospitality. 🎙️If you’re curious about what goes on in your favourite hotels when the lights go down—or if you just love a spooky story, drop in to listen: www.gohalo.co.uk/podcast/ Do you have any of your own hospitality horror stories to share? #TheHaloEffectPodcast #HospitalityHorrorStories #BehindTheScenes #HotelMarketing #GuestExperience
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🌟 This week on The Halo Effect, Ashleigh and Michael chat about dynamic pricing in the hospitality industry. 🏨✨ We break down the differences between dynamic pricing and surge pricing, sharing real-life examples like the recent Oasis ticketing scramble (Since recording, Oasis announced that surge pricing will be scrapped for their US tour) and Taylor Swift’s approach, that managed to kept fan loyalty a bit more intact. Tune in to see how hospitality can do dynamic pricing right, and manage to balance revenue optimisation with consumer value and trust. 🎙️ Episode 6 is live. Listen now! https://lnkd.in/e8btFn_5 Have thoughts or questions? We’d love to hear from you! 💬 #TheHaloEffectPodcast #HospitalityIndustry #GuestExperience #HotelMarketing #CustomerExperience #CX
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Less than a month to go until The British Business Awards 🙌 We’re thrilled and grateful to be shortlisted for Micro Business of the Year! 🎉 A huge thank you to The British Business Awards and smallbusiness.co.uk for this recognition, and to all our clients, collaborators, and supporters for being part of our journey. Your support means the world to us! ✨ Congratulations to all the other amazing businesses on the shortlist—we can’t wait to celebrate with you in London this November! 🥂 #HaloBusinessConsulting #BritishBusinessAwards #BBA2024 #MicroBusiness #Entrepreneur Ashleigh Donald Michael Donald
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🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨 🎙️ In today's episode of The Halo Effect, Ashleigh and Michael Donald explore the power of guest reviews in the hospitality industry. 🏨✨ Here’s some highlights from our discussion: 🔹 How guest reviews impact bookings and ADR 💼 🔹 The rise of Google and Booking.com as major review platforms & the SEO boost they provide 📈 🔹 The importance of authentic reviews and personalised responses to feedback (both positive & negative) 🙌 🔹 How tools like sentiment analysis and gamification can boost review rates 🎮 🔹 Strategies for managing fake reviews and turning guest feedback into opportunities for improvement 💡 Guest reviews are more than just ratings, they are an opportunity to get the feedback needed to continuously improve your service and product, improve guest satisfaction and drive customer loyalty. 💬✨ 🎧 Click below to discover how to harness the power of reviews for your business. #TheHaloEffect #CustomerExperience #HaloBusinessConsulting #Podcast #HospitalityMarketing
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Ashleigh recently spoke with Naureen on the Inspiring Women in Hospitality podcast, chatting all about her career journey in hospitality. She shared how working outside of my comfort zone has kept her focused and driven, in particular since launching Halo Business Consulting almost 5 years ago to support the industry in driving loyalty through an integrated approach to marketing, PR and guest experience. Each week, Naureen shares weekly inspiration via a newsletter and podcast, details to subscribe are below 👇 #hospitalityindustry #marketing #communications #guestexperience
Global Hospitality Professional | Community Builder | Gender balance advocate | Multicultural Inclusive Leader | Inspire Impact Coach| | Shining the light on inspiring women in hospitality | AEHL
📬 In this week's newsletter I shared Ashleigh Donald's podcast episode. Inspired by our conversation the question that I want us to reflect on is "Get comfortable with being uncomfortable" 🏔 Soon after starting her career in hospitality Ashleigh found her passion in marketing as it was an area that gave her a lot of creativity. Her time in Thailand taught her a lot about the culture differences of business being deadline orientated vs relationship oriented. Just before COVID, her and her husband started a business together to create a more flexible lifestyle for their family and be of service to the industry. They also prioritise giving back to the industry and donate 1% of their profits. Her key learning is to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, which she has faced at various stages of her career. ❓So the question I am asking today what level of comfort do we have in our careers? 🏔 In my own experience I can say that I there have been moments when I was too comfortable sometimes. So much so that it stopped me from taking action, moving forward and learning. I had become stagnant. Right now I would say I am living my most uncomfortable moments, but the experiences have been profound! 📬 To receive weekly inspiration to your inbox from Naureen, sign up here: subscribepage.io/nj099v #sponsors #leadership #career #advancement #progress #female #male #hospitality #career #individual #corporate #network #connections #research #access #senior #stakeholder #visibility #speakup #corporate #programs #coaching #strongertogether
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Congratulations Resident Hotels - exciting times ahead! #hotelnews #hospitalityindustry #rebrand
We’re excited to announce a franchise agreement with Marriott International to rebrand the four-strong Sleeperz Hotels portfolio under the Four Points Flex by Sheraton brand. This partnership aligns with our growth strategy, allowing us to expand rapidly across the UK while delivering superior experiences for our guests and strong returns for investors. We really look forward to this new chapter with Marriott! https://lnkd.in/e8GEPysb #Growth #Hotels #Hospitality #Partnership #ResidentHotels #SleeperzHotels #Cityroomz
Resident Hotels Agreement with Marriott | Press Release
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🎙️Episode Four is here! This week, Ashleigh and Michael look into the transformative role of AI in hospitality marketing. 🤖 From content creation to revenue management, we explore how AI is reshaping the way hotels connect with guests and streamline operations. This is a huge topic and ever-evolving! In Episode Four, we scratch the surface of AI in Hospitality discussing: 👉Using AI tools like ChatGPT for content creation & overcoming writer’s block 👉AI-driven chatbots and personalised recommendations for enhanced guest experiences 👉Ethical considerations around guest data and responsible storage practices 👉Streamlining operations with AI-powered automation to boost employee productivity Whether you’re in marketing, operations, or guest services, this episode is packed with insights to help you leverage AI for a competitive edge in the hospitality industry. We’ll be back discussing AI in more detail in future episodes, accompanied by some special guests, who are harnessing tech in innovative ways to elevate the hospitality industry. 🎧 Listen now #TheHaloEffect #HospitalityMarketing #AI #HaloBusinessConsulting #Hospitality #GuestExperience #MarketingInnovation #AIChatbots #RevenueManagement #EthicalAI #PodcastEpisode
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