Smart Innkeepers & What They Give Guests

Re-enforce Your Relationships – Keep Talking to Your Guests You represent what’s authentic and good in the world. And most people today want to reconnect with that to build their strengh and keep positive. Some Smart Innkeepers message their guests with good will all year round like Smart Innkeepers #1 – the Wilburton Inn family […]

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2016 Awards – Are You a Top 10 Romantic Inn? Best of State?

We have been awarding the Top 10 Romantic Inns for more than 20 years. Maybe it’s your turn to become one of the 2016 Top 10 Romantic Inns.  How to Tell if Your Inn Is Romantic Do you get reviews that are LONG and ENTHUSIASTIC raves about how romantic their stay was? (Not only “great […]

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Could You Get a 52% Increase with a New Website and Newsletter Marketing?

Could You Get a 52% Increase with a New Website and Newsletter Marketing? Internationally respected digital expert, Marketing Sherpa offers this case study of an inn’s success in raising occupancy by 52%. In 2008 the bottom fell out for family-owned Jamaica Inn. Here’s what they did to recover starting in 2012: Launched a New Website […]

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Do You Choose a Bed & Breakfast Inn By Its Name?

How do people choose an inn or bed and breakfast? Most do online searches by city they wish to visit, go to directories like iloveinns to read reviews. But then what? A few years ago I was visiting Brewery Gulch Inn in Northern California and took a survey of the 5 couples who were there. […]

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7 Great Scone Recipes that Will Make Your Mouth Water

These seven delicious scones make a perfect treat for sitting by the fire on a weekend morning with loved ones while the polar vortex rages outside. Romancing the Scone is something innkeepers do everyday all around the nation so if you want someone to make them for you check the scone recipes in our bed […]

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