Mark Simpson explains how to get your company booked by federal employees and contractors traveling for training: get listed with corporate travel and lodging coordinators at Fortune 500 and 1000 firms, then leverage those relationships to land government contracts.
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What would be that one thing that they could do right now to be able to implement and try and get more awareness of companies of their portfolio?
Great question. Great question. So here's a, here's a nice little gym that we use that we've leveraged a lot, right? So a lot of times you don't have to necessarily have your institute, your brand in a position to contract with the government directly. There are other Fortune 500, Fortune 1000 companies that already have those contracts, Right. And so what will happen is federal contractors and federal employees will go to those companies and travel to those companies for training. Training. Now, inside of those companies, there's typically a travel department. And what do they do? They reach out to the local, you know, extended stay, limited stay properties to put in, put them in a position to accommodate their, you know, their, their guests, their clients, right? And so what you need to do is get your entity put on that list, right? So you want to go to the person who handles the lodging and booking for those traveling, you know, employees and contractors.