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Waterwheel Marketing

Hospitality Marketing

Your Expertise Is Hospitality.Ours Is Marketing It.

The best hospitality marketing isn’t manufactured. It’s captured. Your guests are already having the experience, taking the photos and telling the stories. We build the systems that get those stories seen, from the first search to the next booking.

Pencil sketch of a mountain lodge

clients and partners

Royal Dunes ResortOuter Banks Beach ClubBlue Tree ResortOpulent Property ManagementResort Management and Consulting GroupSea Palace Sint MaartenResort TradesRCI

who we work with

Four Kinds of Hospitality Business

Each one has its own mix of guests, owners and stakeholders, and its own idea of what a win looks like.

Independent Resorts and Boutique Hotels

No brand flag and no franchise marketing fund. The strategy and execution a brand would bring, built around your property.

Management Companies

Marketing that fills every property in the portfolio and the positioning that wins the next contract.

Vacation Ownership and HOA Resorts

Rentals, ownership sales and owner communications, marketed as one system.

Travel and Trade Brands

Trade articles, award nominations and B2B content for the companies that serve the industry.

Content and creative

what we help you do

Goals We Help Achieve

Most properties come to us with one of these on the table. The best results come from working several at once, because each one feeds the next.

Increase Rental Revenue and Direct Bookings

Reduce OTA reliance and convert the traffic you already have, with a site built to book and campaigns across Google, Google Hotels and Meta.

Launch or Strengthen Ownership Sales

Carry a prospect from first awareness to signed sale, with Meta and LinkedIn campaigns and the nurture in between.

Retain and Engage Owners

Communications that feel personal, not like HOA notices, so owners stay informed and invested.

Add Revenue Streams

E-commerce, experiences, packages and digital products that earn beyond the nightly rate.

Create and Distribute Content

Photos, video, writing and social from the team you don’t have in house, then seen across the channels that matter.

Build Industry Authority

Content for RCI partnerships, trade publications and industry organizations, written for executives, not vacationers.

capabilities

What We Bring to the Property

Open any capability for the detail.

Paid Advertising

Google, Google Hotels, Meta, LinkedIn and more, built around direct bookings and ownership sales.

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More than $10 million in paid media managed, with tracking tied to bookings and tours, not clicks.

Direct Booking Strategy

Cut OTA reliance without losing volume. Open the paid channels by choice, not dependence.

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Every OTA commission is a guest relationship you don’t own, and AI search is only deepening that dependence. We map the channels you rent and the ones you own, find the leaks and build a roadmap.

Websites and Digital Systems

The capture layer: the site, plus the forms, CRM and automations underneath.

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Full website projects with content strategy and copy, conditional-logic forms, CRM integrations and marketing automations. If every prospective owner and rental guest still gets the same email, we can fix that.

E-Commerce and Revenue Streams

Merchandise, experiences, packages and add-ons around the stay.

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A stay is worth more than the nightly rate. We build and run the revenue around it from strategy through execution, with your existing team.

Owner Communications

Owner emails, digital magazines, owner websites and board communications.

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Written in a human voice that builds trust instead of reading like an HOA notice.

Content, UGC and Social

Consumer content for rentals and sales, industry content for trade audiences.

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We know the difference between writing for a future vacationer and an industry executive. We also build owned UGC systems that capture guest content, secure the rights and publish it, with no recurring vendor fees.

Strategic Communications and PR

For the moments the story needs to be handled with care.

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Crisis communications, leadership transitions, reputation management and resort narrative strategy.

Local Partnerships and Guest Programs

Packages that connect guests to what’s around them.

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Local partnerships built into programs that are part of the stay and promoted like a product, the way the Royal Dunes Unlimited Sports program brings the destination into the booking.

engagements

Start Where It Makes Sense

One channel or everything. Prices are clear where the scope is fixed and quoted where it isn’t.

Direct Booking Audit and Strategic Plan

One property per market. A full audit of your booking ecosystem and a strategic plan your team owns.

$5,000Details

Website

A focused, fast build with the messaging and booking paths that matter. Larger sites are quoted.

From $4,000Details

Ongoing Marketing

From a single ad channel to full-service marketing. Month to month.

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Content and Editorial

Your guests are already producing content. We build the program around it, plus the photos, video, writing and publications only you can make.

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results

From Inside the Industry

+57%Direct bookings, hospitality client
$13M+Paid media managed
80+Properties in one marketing department
11Years writing for Resort Trades

in their words

What Hospitality Clients Say

★★★★★ five-star rated on Google →

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“She has her fingers on the pulse in this industry and can provide customized solutions for your resort’s revenue or social media needs.”
Dana MyersGoogle review
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“Kelley is very easy to work with and is very attentive to our needs! We get real time solutions and accurate information.”
Andre TylerGoogle review

next step

Let’s Talk About What Your Property Actually Needs

Tell us about your property and your goals. We’ll tell you what we’d prioritize first.

every account, asset and system stays yours. always.