Capacity Planning in Marketing
Know Your Limitations In his article What Is a Constraint in Marketing?[1], John DuBois claims, “A constraint limits or holds back the possible success of an operational strategy. The theory of constraints, an organizational change method focused on process improvement, contends that every organization must face at least one constraint, or weak link in the […]
Capacity Planning in Marketing
Abstract Capacity planning or capacity management is the process of determining the production needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products and services. For marketing departments, the key to capacity management is to counterbalance the right number of users and the right performance at peak usage to ensure a great end-user experience. Rather […]
Casino Positioning in Turbulent Times
I have been a marketing consultant to casinos for over two decades. Before undertaking any consulting assignment that involves marketing, I try to make sure that the interventions I am trying to enact are consistent with the casino operator’s existing positioning. I make it a point to ask casino marketing directors and general managers, “What […]
Casino Player Development Science by Nick Ippolito
In my continued mission to help casino hosts and management to focus on exactly what casino player development means and where the focus should be in this area, I created a fool proof casino player development science. There are, as we all know, many segments to casino player development and casino marketing. Often times I […]
Team Selling – Team Hosting in the Casino Industry
The casino industry has often been referred to as a copycat industry that often feeds upon itself copying various marketing ideas and or programs from competitor casinos. Actually, this isn’t bad and oftentimes what really matters is who is copying whom. There is a big difference from copying something that is happening with your direct […]
Casino Player Development vs Casino Hosting by Nick Ippolito
Your Time on the Phone and Your Time on the Floor My time in Morocco was an amazing experience for many reasons. First and foremost, to travel is always “The Dream”, to visit exotic places and to meet people from all walks of life and cultures is life changing. And for me, to visit casinos […]