They Won a Travel Channel Hotel Impossible contest but didn’t get a thumbs up from our website design team. http://www.adorainn.com/ This a clean design although dated and compartmentalized too much. it is well maintained on calendar events. There are some severe issues however, with navigation – for example if you are using Chrome as your browser, home […]
Read More»Pulling Out All the Stops for Summer Bookings A Deal Customers Can’t Afford to Miss Pulling out all the stops for getting summer bookings, the beautiful Hillbrook Inn (above) found ways to lure guests off their couches without the inn giving up dollars. When sent to their newsletter list, there’s no commission to pay either! […]
Read More»12 Inns of Christmas 1886 Kelley & Young, California Welcome glass of wine. Stay 3 nights and receive a 30% discount (Up to $228 saving) 50% discount off food and wine pairing… Read More Lyons Mansion, Kansas Flights of Fancy” at Lyons Twin Mansions of historic Fort Scott, Kansas A Treasured […]
Read More»The #1 Best Way to Research for Your Next Website Look at 100 Good / Bad Websites **** – It’s an easy way to educate yourself so you know what the possibilities are. Get out a notebook or start an email to self during the process and take note: What do I like about this […]
Read More»5 Reasons Belinda Sawed Off Her Footboards I’ve often thought about how limiting it is to have a footboard – perhaps because we have a lot of 6’2″ people in my family. (My kids are glad I married tall.) Jumping Rocks photographers made these recommendations: “Remove footboards from the beds in small or medium-sized rooms. Belinda […]
Read More»Fall is the Perfect Time to Find a Mentor – Free Innkeeper Shares What Free Consulting from SCORE Did for Her Inn Lynne Griffin of Lancaster, Pa.’s Australian Walkabout Inn found helpful advice from a SCORE mentor that has built her clientele in an extremely competitive area. Here’s what she said, “I think the most significant […]
Read More»Find a $200 Photographer and People Will Stay on Your Website a Lot Longer How to Find a Really Cheap Photographer The photographer one of our staff met this month didn’t carry lights or lots of equipment to get these arresting shots. Just a tripod and a camera! But — the camera was an […]
Read More»5 Inns Reveal the Good, the Bad and the Ugly and How to Fix it Good Design, Good Title Tags Chatham Gables Inn Good Website Design and Good Title Tags – Study the title tags – always include city and the region (Cape Cod and Chatham in this case). This is something many “designer-types” […]
Read More»4 Ways to Tell If Your Site is Mobile-Friendly the Way Google Likes It Google says a website is mobile-friendly if: It avoids Flash and other software that doesn’t play well with mobile devices. It sizes the screen to fit the device (and nixes horizontal scrolling). It has readable text that doesn’t need to be […]
Read More»Lifestyle Photo Brings in $4,000 in One Use Thanks to industry photographers like Jumping Rocks, finding great photos is easier than former years. This morning I found a fabulous photo in a New York Inn’s newsletter and in response to my inquiry, the innkeeper said, “Yes! 7-10 reservations.” (Least expensive room $399.) Some booked for […]
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