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 […]
Read More»Stein Lodge Website Touches All the Right Notes Click Below to See a $15,000 Website* Stein Lodge Pull this site up onto your screen and decide what parts you would want for your inn.- You can have it and NOT have to pay top dollar at all. Here’s How to Study Stein […]
Read More»What These 5 Websites Did Right 5 Websites That Will Inspire Your Next Re-Design Below are inns we love and they all have good websites. You can get it right when you re-do your website and ensure your success by studying what they got right! (And our designers know how to easily Fix some aging […]
Read More»3 Reasons Why You Really, Really Need a Blog Now Start making good blog posts and you’ll get more traffic. When you have a good well-written and informative B&B Blog, you get higher in Google rankings and get more traffic. You might have spent a lot of money on your website, but if you don’t […]
Read More»You Won’t Believe How Wedgwood Inn Made November and December High Season Last week I asked Carl Glassman if he still kept November full at the 1870 Wedgwood Inn and he replied: “Yes! Deborah, “Our Wedgwood Inns in New Hope, Penn. are overwhelmed with Lodging Requests for the month of October, despite keeping our online calendar […]
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