Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Black Hills hotels, resorts and serviced apartments: daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and distribution, with a monthly report you can check. Plans start from $650 a month by hotel size, month to month, remote in Mountain Time (UTC-7).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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 plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Black Hills
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Mountain Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Outsourced hotel revenue management means I do the job of the revenue manager for you: I watch the comp set and pace every day, move rates and restrictions, manage the OTAs, forecast demand and report each month. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision.
What I plan around in Black Hills: Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park; Sturgis Motorcycle Rally; Summer national-park road trips; Deadwood gaming and events. Guests I price for: Road-tripping families on 2 to 4 night stays, rally visitors on week-long stays. Where I start: Rally-week premiums with minimum stays, summer rates, and long winter floors.
For Black Hills hotels and motels, my five-star background helps me manage rally-week pricing and deposits, summer family demand, and tour groups, with rate fences and deposit terms that stop early low-priced bookings from filling the most valuable nights of the year.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Black Hills.
I monitor your comp set and booking pace every day and move rates, rate plans and restrictions as demand shifts, room type by room type.
I manage the channel mix, parity and promotions together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your own site, so cost of sale does not eat the gain.
On the higher plans I forecast demand by month and segment, build the annual budget and keep a 12-month pricing calendar tied to the market's real dates.
You get a monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, and on Pro a monthly strategy call and a quarterly review.
“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.
No revenue manager
The role left or was never hired, and rooms are priced between other duties.
Results have plateaued
RevPAR has stopped moving while the comp set keeps learning.
More than one property
You want one consistent method across a small group without building a department.
An owner or asset manager
You want decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Room count, room types, channels and the systems you use. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your size.
I study your market, comp set and current rates, set up the strategy and connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
I adjust rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves, and manage your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
Step 4
You get the report against budget and last year, and on Pro we meet monthly, so nothing I do is hidden.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Core, Plus and Pro, month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and groups are quoted individually.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core, up to 20 rooms | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | By hotel size |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | By hotel size |
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
Busiest in Black Hills: June to September, with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. 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. 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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. Whether the home holds the state vacation home licence and charges the right lodging taxes, which I check before any rally pricing.
Price June to September with 2 to 3-night stays for road-trippers. Next: set low winter floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Black Hills property usually leaks the most.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Quietest in Black Hills: November to April. January to March: 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. 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.
No parking or house rules for rally guests and long minimum stays outside the rally. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Black Hills, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Black Hills, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Black Hills sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to March: 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.
Rapid City: The gateway with the airport and most services; I price for short road-trip stays and keep weekday rates steady for business visitors. Hill City and Keystone and Spearfish, Deadwood and Lead get their own treatment. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Deadwood gaming and events, Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park and Sturgis Motorcycle Rally are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Black Hills. 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.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. 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: set clear parking, guest and cleaning rules for rally guests.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of outsourced hotel revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Black Hills I would start from 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. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Black Hills.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 Hill City and Keystone. I work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. 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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
