Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Lincoln 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 Central Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Lincoln, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Lincoln, I price September to November as the peak and January to April and June to August 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 Lincoln
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central 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 Lincoln: Nebraska Cornhuskers football at Memorial Stadium; University of Nebraska graduation and campus events; State government and legislative sessions; Volleyball and youth sports tournaments. Guests I price for: Husker fans and alumni on 1 to 3 night game weekends, visiting parents, and state government travel. Where I start: Home-game weekend premiums with 2-night minimums, graduation pricing, and steady weekday floors.
Lincoln hotels sell game weekends years ahead to fans and teams, while weekdays depend on the university, state government and business travel. From my five-star hotel revenue background I help set multi-night requirements on football Saturdays, plan team and band block releases and price weekday corporate rates that keep summer from sliding.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Lincoln.
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.
Revenue for a Lincoln hotel is decided on roughly seven autumn Saturdays. Husker football at Memorial Stadium sells the city out, often with multi-night requirements, while volleyball at the Devaney Center, Pinnacle Bank Arena events and commencement add smaller peaks. Weekdays rely on the university, state agencies and the Unicameral from January. I run each football weekend as its own project and keep summer from drifting.
My first task is to tier next season's home games by opponent and set arrival and length-of-stay rules for each, before group and team requests start arriving.
The Unicameral is in session and basketball runs at Pinnacle Bank Arena, so I keep weekday rates even and add small lifts for the state high school tournaments and the spring game.
Commencement weekend and the Lincoln Marathon fill the city in quick succession; I price both with two-night minimums and keep the weeks between them close to normal.
Walkable to Memorial Stadium and Pinnacle Bank Arena; I price these at the top on game weekends and use concerts and basketball to support winter.
My full Lincoln calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Lincoln.
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. Prices below are for a hotel of up to 20 rooms; larger hotels move up the size bands on the hotel plans page. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup | One-time, done first: market, comp set, room types and rates turned into your strategy | From $750 |
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | From $900/mo |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | From $1,150/mo |
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 Lincoln: September to November Nebraska Cornhuskers home football weekends, plus May graduation. May: Commencement weekend and the Lincoln Marathon fill the city in quick succession; I price both with two-night minimums and keep the weeks between them close to normal. September to November: Each home football Saturday gets its own tier, set when the schedule comes out; volleyball weekends at the Devaney Center and parents' weekend sit just below the game weekends. 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 calendar opens far enough ahead, since alumni and season-ticket families plan around the schedule months before kickoff and book the best homes long before game week.
Price May commencement weekend as a premium for homes near City Campus and the Haymarket. Next: keep steady weekday rates for legislative and state agency travel from January into spring. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Lincoln 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 Lincoln: December to February and July. January to April: The Unicameral is in session and basketball runs at Pinnacle Bank Arena, so I keep weekday rates even and add small lifts for the state high school tournaments and the spring game. June to August: With students away, I target summer camps, youth tournaments and families visiting relatives, and I relax minimum stays from mid-June until move-in weekend at the end of August.
Allowing single Saturday-night bookings on game weekends and leaving July priced like football season when campus is quiet. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Lincoln, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Lincoln, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Lincoln sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. May: Commencement weekend and the Lincoln Marathon fill the city in quick succession; I price both with two-night minimums and keep the weeks between them close to normal.
Haymarket and Downtown: Walkable to Memorial Stadium and Pinnacle Bank Arena; I price these at the top on game weekends and use concerts and basketball to support winter. Near South and Country Club and South and East Lincoln 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.
Volleyball and youth sports tournaments, Nebraska Cornhuskers football at Memorial Stadium and University of Nebraska graduation and campus events are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Lincoln. December: December commencement and volleyball tournament runs can bring short spikes; otherwise I lower floors before the holidays and offer weekly rates for visiting families.
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 Lincoln and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: use 2-night minimums on game weekends and keep Friday and Saturday together.
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 Lincoln I would start from May: Commencement weekend and the Lincoln Marathon fill the city in quick succession; I price both with two-night minimums and keep the weeks between them close to normal. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Lincoln.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Lincoln is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Lincoln have been optimized, including in areas such as Near South and Country Club. 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 Lincoln.
The other services I offer in Lincoln, 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 Lincoln, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Lincoln, 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 Lincoln and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
