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Journey allows travelers to earn points and perks across a curated network of unique, independently operated properties—from boutique hotels in major cities to private rental homes in remote locales—offering the flexibility and personalization guests crave. Backed by the founders and leaders of The Points Guy, Opendoor, Tory Burch, and Red Ventures, Journey will launch to the public in Spring 2025. Join the waitlist or apply to join the Journey Alliance at JoinJourney.comAs Head of the Journey Alliance, I oversee the product, marketing, and growth strategy for the supply side of Journey working with our exceptional team to build a best-in-class product for hospitality entrepreneurs building next-generation stays for the modern traveler.

I host Behind the Stays — a podcast that shares the stories behind your favorite Airbnbs, boutique hotels, and hospitality brands and the hosts, operators, and entrepreneurs who’ve brought them to life. Every Tuesday and Friday you’ll meet the military veterans, retired flight attendants, tech entrepreneurs, school teachers, single moms, and real estate investors who are all, in their unique ways, shaping the future of travel and hospitality. Discover how these visionaries — from all over the world — have built chic cabins in the mountains, designed bohemian bungalows on the beach, erected eclectic off-grid and nature-immersed escapes, and so much more.Behind the Stays has generated more than 200,000 downloads and is brought to you by StayWatch — the internet’s best destination for deals on stays across Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com. You can subscribe for free at www.staywatch.ai

StayWatch brings you the best deals on stays across Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com that align with your travel preferences. Sign up for free at StayWatch.aiStayWatch was acquired by Journey — a next-generation loyalty program that allows travelers to earn points on independent hotels, luxury vacation rentals, treehouses, glamping stays, and more — in September 2024!

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Enrollify is where higher ed comes to learn new marketing skills, discover new products and services, and find their next job. Our community of 5,000+ higher education professionals includes higher ed marketing and admissions leaders from institutions of all shapes and sizes. Enrollify was acquired by Element451, an industry-leading CRM company, in October of 2023.

Fairfax, Va, Us

I lead product development, sales, and partnerships at Direct Development — a family of four brands (DD Agency, Enrollify, Novus and DD Studio) serving the education and nonprofit sectors. DD Agency is a top-rated HubSpot platinum partner agency that serves the enrollment marketing and education technology space. Novus is a digital marketing and fundraising agency for nonprofit organizations that specializes in rebrands, Enrollify is a learning hub and free digital community for enrollment marketers (anyone working in admissions or marketing at a college, university, or independent school). DD Studio is a media company offering a full suite of video and audio creative production services for educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and education and nonprofit software and service providers.

Fairfax, Va, Us

I am the Director of Marketing Strategy at DD and have spent the past six years helping enrollment management teams at institutions large and small and nonprofit charities and associations develop and launch innovative student and donor recruitment and retention strategies. I spend most of my day learning about the latest and greatest in marketing technology and brainstorming ways in which to apply these ideas and technologies to the graduate enrollment marketing and nonprofit fundraising spaces. I also am fortunate enough to regularly preach the inbound marketing gospel at industry events — special thanks to the NAGAP community for putting up with my 7+ workshops over the past couple of years!Things that pique my interest at the moment include conversational marketing (specifically how to make chatbots work for donor acquisition and student recruitment), journey-based digital audience profiling (particularly how to spend last time on bidding strategies and more time on psychographic targeting and audience segmentation upfront), and how to help more organizations become charity:water's (looking at you, legacy, faith-based organizations)!

Fairfax, Va, Us

As an Inbound Marketing Strategist at Direct Development, I help institutions and nonprofit organizations transition from traditional to next-gen marketing strategies that use the latest technologies to communicate with students and donors. I work with our creative team to produce engaging content with highly personalized and relevant information that appeals to the personas of an organization. By providing in-depth marketing tracking and analysis, I help make data-driven decisions to ensure our clients achieve better results. You can learn more about me and Direct Development at www.DirectDevelopment.com

Fairfax, Va, Us

Fairfax, Va, Us

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

I am the Director of Growth at Novus and have spent the past seven years helping nonprofit charities and associations develop and launch innovative donor recruitment and retention strategies. I spend most of my day learning about the latest and greatest in marketing technology and brainstorming ways in which to apply these ideas and technologies to the nonprofit fundraising space.

City Of Fairfax, Virginia, Us