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Chapter 18
RoomAuction.com
www.roomauction.com
Your name: Bob Drapella
Company name: RoomAuction.com Ltd
Website URL:
www.roomauction.com
Your company / website vision statement / goal:
Our aim is to serve our member hotels and potential hotel guests by
offering haggling on room rates. This way hotels will only accept the
rate that is good for their business, and reduce the risk of leaving a
room empty overnight and guests have a chance for a real bargain and
will only pay as much as their budgets allow.
What you sell / services you offer (brief description of your company):
We advertise our member hotels using an extended listing on our website
which among other details publishes hotel’s standard rates. Potential
guests chooses a hotel, makes a bid on a room rate for a specific stay.
Such bid is sent automatically to the hotel via email, and hotelier
decides.
Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your
previous jobs / companies?
I have studies Business Management and Marketing at the University and
this was purely designed to make me able to run my own business. I have
always been keen on that role and opportunity.
Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself
academically?
I have studied Business Management and Marketing at the
University of
Gdansk in
Poland. Although I have not
completed the 5 years Masters (left during the third year to gain
practical experience) from October this year I am going to complete the
course on a part-time basis.
I have gained NVQ Level 3 and Modern Apprenticeship in Hospitality
Supervision
How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?
Idea was conceived in 2002, winter months in a country side hotel in
Cotswolds. I as a Front of House Manager and we were thinking of new
ways of getting business into our hotel. Scheme has been previously in
operation purely as a module of hotel’s website. Only in April 2004
roomauction has actually received its own dedicated website.
If you could give readers of this book one piece of advice when starting
up a business, what would it be?
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