MISCELLANEOUS

Aug

31

How to Get Fabulous Inn Photos for $200 That Will Bring MORE Guests

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Take a look at this photo shoot for $200! (Southern California price – mileage may vary.) This photographer didn’t carry lights or lots of equipment to get these arresting shots. Just a tripod and a camera! But the camera was an HDR – a High Dynamic Range camera with an automatic HDR – you click […]

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Aug

30

Fall Birthday Bliss, 2017 Bogo Available Now

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Brand New: 2017 Certificates Ready! ORDER NOW Buy 4 Bogo certificates at $60 using the code FALL to get a discount of $20 or you can purchase one at $20.00 Buy-One-Night-Get-the-Second-Night Free Certificates last all the way through December 31, 2017, that gives you 16 months to use them. If you have birthdays in September […]

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Aug

22

5 Bed & Breakfasts that Let You Join in the Cooking Fun

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Going out for dinner can be a bit like attending a magic show. You see the menu (the magician), you know some of the ingredients (the props), and what shows up on your table is a plate full of enchanting flavors (the mind-blowing illusion). How do so many inn chefs manage to astound and delight […]

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Aug

22

Shop ‘Till You Drop into a Comfortable Bed at a Bed and Breakfast Inn

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7 Bed and Breakfasts Near Outlet Malls What’s better than a great day of shopping? Getting great deals while you shop. What’s even better than that? Putting up your feet at a bed and breakfast near an outlet center and letting someone else pamper you after saving lots of dough. Texas The Crystal River Inn […]

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Aug

18

Low Carb Pancakes to Love, More Summer Bookings for Savvy Bed and Breakfast Innkeepers

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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 (one of my all time favorites) found ways to lure guests off their couches. End-of-Summer Adventure Special Book before August 31, 2016, to take advantage of all […]

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Aug

09

Bed & Breakfasts Are for the Birds: Birdwatching at Your Favorite Inn

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Birdwatching is a ticket to the theater of nature. Birds of all colors, shapes, and sizes sing and dance before your eyes. Pack your binoculars and make a bed and breakfast vacation out of your birdwatching hobby. Below are examples of great birdwatching at selected bed and breakfast inns. Gibson’s Lodgings in Annapolis, Md, offers […]

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Aug

08

4 Innkeepers Genius Ideas You Can Use, Expanding Check-In Times, The Best Cheese Platter and Pretty Lemonade

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Hang Your American Flag With Etiquette and Style – Official Rules http://www.houzz.com/…/hang-your-american-flag-with-etiquette-and-style Annual JD Powers Guest Study – Expanding Check-in Times a New Trend 1. Guest Satisfaction Rankings By JD Powers Puts You Ahead and Behind –  “Service – It might not be free, but it’s less costly than capital investments, and you don’t have to give […]

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Aug

08

Innkeepers Love These Websites, 2 Website Problems You Can Solve Fast

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Today’s Website Problems Can Become Solutions We’ve been thrilled to hear comments from innkeepers about the websites we are building for them – Recent Comments From Innkeepers “The results are so phenomenal!” “With your help we’ve reached this (high) level of reservations.” “Thanks to our wonderful new website, we are booking all the time!!” “Please […]

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Jul

28

Kid-Friendly Inns

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Vacationing with the Family in Style You’re all set for a weekend getaway. You’ve chosen a wonderful place to stay: it’s small, or it’s historic, or it’s elegant. Whatever your fancy, it’s perfect. There’s just one small problem, your kids. There’s an easy to way to solve that problem, take the kids with you. That’s […]

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Jul

20

Harvard Business Review on Airbnb, Top Tourism Bureau Websites, POT-Friendly Inns

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Airbnb is now charging guests (in Paris) $.83 a night occupancy tax after reaching an agreement with city authorities last year. Airbnb professes to be open to partnering with cities, but it has shown little interest in these problems; the company forcefully opposes any measures that would limit the scale of its business. San Francisco […]

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