An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Black Hills hotel prices, restricts, distributes and forecasts its rooms, then give you a ranked roadmap, a 12-month pricing calendar and training for your team. Fixed scope, fixed price, remote in Mountain Time (UTC-7), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Black Hills, United States, one to one, remotely and in Mountain Time (UTC-7). In Black Hills, I price June to July and Early August (Sturgis Rally) as the peak and January to March and October to December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Black Hills
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
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Hotel revenue management consulting is an independent review followed by a plan. I look at 12 to 24 months of your own data, shop your comp set, and find where rates, restrictions or channels are costing you money. Unlike outsourcing, I do not make your daily decisions; your team does, with a better plan.
This is my view of Black Hills. The Black Hills are a summer road-trip market with one extraordinary week: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Rally week can earn far more than any other period, and it needs clear rules on parking, guests and cleaning. The rest of summer is Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park visitors on short stays.
For Black Hills owners, I review how your home is priced for the rally, how summer weeks are spread, and how the long winter is handled. Then we build a year plan with the rally, the park season and the quiet months each priced on their own terms.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Black Hills.
A review of the last 12 to 24 months: pricing decisions, rate architecture, restrictions, channel mix and cost, comp-set position, pace and the systems behind them, with every gap ranked by value.
Base rates and floors per room type, BAR levels tied to occupancy and pace, seasonal and event calendars and restrictions, written as a 12-month calendar your team can run.
Which channels to sell on, at what rate and with which promotions, so the mix protects margin: OTAs, corporate, wholesale, metasearch and direct.
A demand forecast, an annual budget, weekly pace reports and a workshop for your team, plus honest advice on revenue systems before you sign for one.
“The Black Hills are a summer road-trip market with one extraordinary week: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Rally week can earn far more than any other period, and it needs clear rules on parking, guests and cleaning. The rest of summer is Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park visitors on short stays.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Snow brings skiers to Terry Peak and gamers to Deadwood, so I price northern Hills weekends a little above the rest and keep long-stay offers elsewhere.
Road trips start after Memorial Day, so I lower floors in April, then lift late May weekends as the parks and attractions open for the season.
Families visit Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, so I keep two or three night stays, hold rates firm and fill single gap nights with smaller discounts.
I price the rally as a separate block with longer stays and clear rules, and I set the days before and after it as their own smaller peak.
Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates.
Most visitors leave, so I drop to long-stay rates outside Deadwood and price the holidays and hunting weekends where they apply.
Price Sturgis Rally week as the top band, opened a year ahead with week-long stays.
Set clear parking, guest and cleaning rules for rally guests.
Price June to September with 2 to 3-night stays for road-trippers.
Add Deadwood events as smaller premiums.
Set low winter floors.
Performance has flattened
RevPAR is stuck while the market around you moves on.
Opening, renovating or rebranding
A new positioning needs a pricing and distribution strategy built from scratch.
An owner wants a second opinion
You need the operator's numbers checked by someone outside the hotel.
You have a team but want a better plan
Someone prices today and wants an audit, a calendar and training.
Thirty minutes on your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks. I scope the work and confirm the price before starting.
With read-only access to your PMS, channel manager and extranets I analyse the data, shop your comp set and talk to whoever sets rates today.
A written report and a working session: the gaps ranked by value, the strategy to close them and a 12-month calendar.
Step 4
I can set the strategy up in your systems, train your team and check in monthly, or run it for you as outsourced management.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. After a free discovery call you get the scope and the price in writing before any work starts. Training days and monthly check-ins are quoted separately.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Audit and roadmap | Audit, ranked gap report, strategy and 12-month calendar | Fixed fee, quoted |
| Implementation support | Setup in your systems and team training | Quoted |
| Monthly check-ins | Optional review sessions after delivery | Quoted |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
For hotel revenue management consulting, that is where my audit begins, because a finding here changes every recommendation after it. Whether the home holds the state vacation home licence and charges the right lodging taxes, which I check before any rally pricing.
Busiest in Black Hills: June to September, with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Late August to September: Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates. June to July: Families visit Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, so I keep two or three night stays, hold rates firm and fill single gap nights with smaller discounts. For hotel revenue management consulting, my audit tests whether your current rates and restrictions capture these windows, and the 12-month calendar I hand over sets them in advance.
Rally-week premiums with minimum stays, summer rates, and long winter floors. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Black Hills calendar before I make it. Early August (Sturgis Rally): I price the rally as a separate block with longer stays and clear rules, and I set the days before and after it as their own smaller peak.
Rally week can earn far more than any other period, and it needs clear rules on parking, guests and cleaning. The rest of summer is Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park visitors on short stays. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Black Hills.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Black Hills the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: set clear parking, guest and cleaning rules for rally guests. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Black Hills sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. April to May: Road trips start after Memorial Day, so I lower floors in April, then lift late May weekends as the parks and attractions open for the season. For hotel revenue management consulting in Black Hills, my distribution review covers each channel's cost, contribution and rate position, then recommends a mix.
For hotel revenue management consulting, i begin with 12 to 24 months of your own data, so the first findings are about your property in Black Hills, not the city. Price June to September with 2 to 3-night stays for road-trippers. Next: set low winter floors.
Spearfish, Deadwood and Lead: The northern Hills are nearest Sturgis and Terry Peak, so I build the rally and winter weekends into this area's calendar. Rapid City and Hill City and Keystone get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Black Hills, not the market average.
For hotel revenue management consulting, consulting gives you an independent view and a plan your own team can run, without handing the daily decisions to anyone. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Black Hills and work remotely in Mountain Time (UTC-7). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price June to September with 2 to 3-night stays for road-trippers.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks. The scope of hotel revenue management consulting is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Black Hills I would start from late August to September: Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Black Hills.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Black Hills is delivered remotely and scheduled in Mountain Time (UTC-7), and 100+ properties in and around Black Hills have been optimized, including in areas such as Spearfish, Deadwood and Lead. The engagement is remote and fixed-scope, with calls in your time zone and a written report your team can run. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Black Hills.
The other services I offer in Black Hills, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Black Hills, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Black Hills, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Black Hills and what you need. I reply in Mountain Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
