Survey Question: Is Anything Working to Sustain Your Future? In answer to the above survey question posed to innkeepers on May 5: 35% of innkeepers reported that absolutely nothing was working 13% of innkeepers reported that they have no mortgage. The majority of innkeepers are hopeful and employing everything they can think of to keep […]
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Take This Re-Open and Economic Survey Here’s our new survey: The Inn Business Re-Open and Economic Recovery Survey The anonymity of I Love Inns surveys allows innkeepers to answer with more candid and valid answers. Be as honest as possible with your answers. This is of great value in the current situation and will help all […]
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New SBA 7 Loan Adapted with 6 Months of No Payments. If you are struggling with a loan of $500,000 or more this loan newly adapted to the current economic stress allows for 6 months forbearance. SPECIAL NEWS FROM Small Business Administration As part of SBA’s debt relief efforts, If you refinance from a high-interest conventional/commercial/private/lease purchase […]
Read More»Innkeepers Have Missed You So Much!! Everyday for the last six weeks we have been getting emails from innkeepers around the United States telling us how much they miss their guests. And yet they are busy, busy, busy! They are busy cleaning every nook and cranny, and setting up the latest new sanitizing procedures They […]
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Survey Results – Innkeepers’ New Plans for Managing Breakfast Last week, April 20-24, innkeepers took the I Love Inns Breakfast Plan Survey. Almost all innkeepers have organized a new way of doing things in their individual inns. Less than 1% plan to serve a buffet breakfast. A hand-full of inns were still operating – mostly serving health […]
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What To Do Now to Prepare Ahead In this issue we are giving 4 ideas for preparing ahead for leisure travel comeback. Work On a New Website While things are quiet you have time now to start that long needed new website. It’s easier to get started than you think – We’ve taken many many […]
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Visit Savannah Asks Followers to Share If you are involved in your area’s destination development, keep an eye on Savannah’s. They are one of the better visitors bureaus for compelling messages.. Here’s what they emailed, ” Although a trip to Savannah may not be possible right now, we asked our social media followers to tell […]
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Why Guests Choose Other Inns Over Yours The new Five Gables website is a good example of how to design and layout a website so guests will choose your inn over others. (Very important this year!) The Five Gables new website has a well thought out layout that makes it easy to see the benefits of choosing the […]
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Camellia Inn Guests Want to Help Sending Newsletters Brings Instant Funds This week a California Inn sent our staff these 2 notes: Sold $700 – “You just sent out an email newsletter for us 2 hours ago telling our guests we were closed but were selling gift certificates. We have sold $700 in Gift Certificates already […]
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Visit Edenton Keep Marketing – Don’t Let 2 Months Turn Into 9 Months A top notch hotel marketing firm today reminded hotels: Historic data and research have proven time and again that companies that actively market during a time of crisis experience higher sales and net income than those going dark. Don’t allow your inn to […]
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