Michigan’s leading public relations and digital media agency serving the hospitality sector.
YOUR RESTAURANT AND LODGING COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTS
Partner with Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association.
Marx Layne has provided tailored marketing campaigns for restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, and events in Michigan’s major cities like Detroit and Traverse City, as well as out-of-state destinations such as Chicago and Cleveland, and smaller towns and main streets in the region.
Our agency has deep expertise in the hospitality sector: from QSRs, fine dining, multi-concept hospitality companies, and single-location restaurants to family hotels with entertainment offerings, boutique inns, luxury hotels, and hotels that cater to tech-savvy Millennials. As a result, we understand how to devise a communication strategy that aligns with each client’s unique brand.
Marx Layne delivers value to restaurateurs, hoteliers, and entertainment destinations seeking to grow their business. We successfully distinguish our clients from the competition, elevating brands through high-profile media coverage; social media, CRM, and digital media campaigns; search engine optimization (SEO); digital analytics consulting; search engine marketing (SEM); Google AdWords; pay-per-click (PPC) and social media advertising; and stakeholder engagement and community relations.
We consistently position our clients as industry leaders, showcasing their unique services and offerings through strategic communication campaigns crafted to “put butts in seats and heads in beds.” In today’s fragmented world of print, broadcast, and online media, our clients value the cost-effective strategic direction provided by our experienced communicators.
Through our deep experience, we know that clients in the hospitality sector are most susceptible to the media frenzy when a crisis arrives. Many agencies claim to offer crisis communication services, but few can match the high level of public relations advice and expertise provided by Marx Layne. For decades, we have helped guide our clients through the intense media scrutiny that often erupts during a company’s most trying times.
MARX LAYNE & COMPANY IS MICHIGAN’S LEADING PUBLIC RELATIONS AND DIGITAL MEDIA AGENCY SERVING THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR.
As your public relations agency, we will:
- Conceptualize a communications campaign that incorporates key timeframes, including seasonality, peak and off-season, messaging designed to engage key stakeholders and prospective patrons, product and service launches, strategic partnerships, trends, and events
- Draft bylined articles, op-eds, and blogs that position you as a thought leader in the industry
- Monitor industry news and trends to pursue interview opportunities for your brand
- Create and post social media content to showcase your brand’s offerings and points of distinction
- Web development, design, content creation, optimization, and programming
- Identify events for participation that align with your brand and are meaningful to generating business
- Social media content and disseminationtion
- Design, write, print, and disseminate brochures, newsletters, e-newsletters, and other graphic materials to keep your brand top-of-mind among key stakeholders
Our public relations professionals consistently generate high-profile media coverage for our clients, raising their brand profile and creating awareness among existing and prospective patrons.
We offer a wide array of synergistic services:
- Media Relations
- Spokesperson training
- Developing and managing social media platforms and dialogues
- Website design and management
- Creating SEO-focused content for clients’ websites
- Special events planning, execution, and promotion, ranging from small exclusive seminars to highly attended open houses to weekend outdoor events that draw one million people
- Our crisis management team has expertly handled such critical issues as food-borne illness, product recalls, industrial accidents, death on premises, boycotts, and strikes. We provide crisis communications on an hourly basis, navigating and managing the message with sensitivity to how things play out in a court of law and the court of public opinion. We also are the go-to agency for large law firms that need highly responsive crisis management communications for their clients.
We are partners with the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association and the Detroit Restaurant & Lodging Association, the recognized leaders of Michigan and Detroit’s hospitality industry.
DECADES OF
Experience
The hospitality industry is a passion of our account professionals. We have great respect and appreciation for how restaurants and hotels have positively impacted the economy, revitalizing main streets, downtowns, and small towns.
Marx Layne has worked with renowned restaurant brands like California Pizza Kitchen, McDonald’s, Morton’s, Ocean Prime Wolfgang Puck, and Texas de Brazil. Our seasoned account professionals have coordinated grand openings of restaurants throughout Michigan as well as in Chicago and Ohio.
We understand the needs and opportunities that are unique to different concepts, from QSRs to fine dining and everything in between. Our agency works directly with owner/operators, executive chefs, sales managers, franchise associations, corporate leadership and advertising agency partners.
Our hotel experience is equally as vast as our restaurant work. Marriott. Moxy. Best Western. These are some of the brands we have represented. We have managed public relations for the MGM Grand Detroit Hotel, MotorCity Casino Hotel; The Townsend Hotel; Bay Harbor; The Inn at St. John’s, and Weber’s Inn, The Godfrey Hotel Curio Collection by Hilton, and Chicagoland HELRA, Hotel Employers Labor Relation Association, to name a few.
We have grand-opened hotels, launched rebranding campaigns, and orchestrated sustaining marketing campaigns to keep our clients’ brands top-of-mind. Our account professionals work directly with hotel general managers, executive chefs, event and sales managers, corporate leadership, and partner agencies, including architectural and design firms.
Marx Layne has worked with many organizations on statewide campaigns, including the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association, Travel Michigan, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Bank of America, Comcast, Nestlé Waters North America and Verizon.
Digital Marketing
Marx Layne & Company’s Digital Marketing team specializes in SEO, Pay-Per-Click,
Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, Website Development and Creative Services.
- Managed SEO
- Pay-Per-Click
- Social Media Marketing
- Content Marketing
- Website Development
- Creative Services
Hospitality Marketing Team
Michael Layne, Partner
Lana Mini, Vice President
Michael Odom, Vice President
Marx Layne is your competitive advantage.
Your reputation and success are our only concerns.