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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hey, I’m DANIELLE
Marketer, strategist, and founder of Golden Hour Co., the agency behind some of your favorite hospitality brands and local go-to’s. I’ve led corporate teams, built marketing departments from scratch, and now help founders cut through the noise with clarity, confidence, and conversions. We don’t believe in guesswork. We believe in strategy that works. If you’re ready to stop winging it and start marketing like you mean it, you’re in the right place.
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Google Quietly Changed Search Visibility And What It Means For Your Business
Visibility used to be about ranking. Now it’s about engineering relevance across an entire ecosystem.
What Gen Z Really Wants From Hospitality And How to Market Without Trying Too Hard
Gen Z isn’t chasing amenities. They’re buying relevance, community, authenticity, and moments worth sharing.
Local SEO for Hotels: How to Rank #1 in “Near Me” Searches
If you’re not visible in “hotel near me” results, you’re not losing to competitors; you’re losing to distribution. Local SEO is how you win proximity-driven demand and convert it into direct bookings. This is the playbook.
Masterclass: Acquisition.com. How to Engineer Authority Through Though Leadership
Attention without authority is noise. Authority without systems is wasted.
Masterclass: Gucci x The Tiger — How to Turn Storytelling Into Strategy
The best campaigns don’t sell products. They build worlds.
Owning the Room: What Female Founders Need to Hear About Leadership Presence
Leadership presence isn’t about attention. It’s about authority, and that isn’t given, it’s built.
Hotels as Content Studios: Why Every Stay Should Be a Story Guests Want to Tell
The most profitable hotels don’t sell rooms; they sell stories. In 2025, those stories are the difference between rate compression and market dominance.
What “Integrated Actually Means in Marketing (And Why It Matters Now)
Marketing doesn’t break down because of lack of effort. It breaks down because the channels don’t talk to each other.
How To Recession-Proof Your Marketing (Part 5): Create Scalable Systems for Long-Term Stability
Recession-proof growth doesn’t come from bigger budgets. It comes from systems that eliminate bottlenecks, protect ROI, and scale predictability.
How To Recession-Proof Your Marketing (Part 4): Strengthen Your PR, Partnerships, and Organic Channels
When budgets tighten, visibility has to work harder. PR, partnerships, and organic are how you stay seen without overspending.
How To Recession-Proof Your Marketing (Part 3): Double Down on Digital + Paid Media with Precision
Paid media isn’t a lifeline. It’s an amplifier. In a downturn, it multiplies strong strategies and exposes weak ones.
How To Recession-Proof Your Marketing (Part 2): Focus on Revenue-Driving Messaging & Offers
Your message is either making you money or costing you money. There’s no in-between.
How To Recession-Proof Your Marketing (Part 1): Build A Resilient Marketing Foundation
Resilient marketing means every dollar works harder, no matter the market cycle. Downturns don’t kill businesses. Weak foundations do.
Geotargeting Ads for Med Spas: Get Hyper-Local With Your Marketing
Your med spa doesn’t need to reach everyone. It needs to reach the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
The New Hospitality Marketing Funnel: Why Customer Experience Begins Before Booking
Customer experience doesn’t start when the guest walks through your doors. It starts the moment they discover you, and every touchpoint before booking sets the tone for revenue.
6 Reasons Your Last Campaign Didn’t Work (And What To Do Next)
Campaigns don’t fail because marketing doesn’t work. They fail because the foundation was never built to hold.
3 Marketing Levers That Actually Drive Revenue
Not every marketing move generates profit, but the right levers, pulled with consistency, turn marketing from an expense into a growth engine.
9 Client Red Flags Every Agency Owner, Consultant, and Freelancer Should Know
The wrong client will cost you more than the right client will ever pay.
Your Restaurant’s ROI Is Down Because Your Backend Is Bottlenecked
Most restaurants don’t have a marketing problem. They have an operations problem disguised as one.
10 Things I Look For On a Client’s Website Before We Run Ads
Running ads on a broken website is like pouring water into a leaky bucket. You’ll spend more, get less, and blame the ads when the problem is the foundation.

