5 Essential tips for using your website to book more guests!
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Photos can make or break how new visitors perceive your B&B. Are the photographs of your B&B doing enough to invite and attract more bookings? Today’s interview will shine the light on this crucial aspect of promoting your hospitality business. Professional Architectural Photographer, Marcus Berg of Unique Angles Photography, joins us to share his secrets. […]
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Think your hotel needs a mobile site? Let’s see… Put yourself in your customer’s shoes: You’re running late for your business trip. You’re stressed and busy thinking about the presentation you’ve prepared for your meeting tomorrow. And then the hotel you’re booked at this evening calls you to tell you they have made a mistake, […]
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It’s official. We’ve picked a date. Tuesday, September 4th. That’s the day that Hotel Propeller, our web design service for Hotels, Inns, and B&Bs is set to open it’s doors! I’m dying to share all of the work we’ve been doing over the last few months. So today I’m giving you a sneak peek at one […]
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Your Bed & Breakfast needs a new website. So where do you turn? Well, it usually starts with two choices: You could try and design your own website, or you could hire a professional web designer. There are pro’s and con’s to each of these, and I’ll break those down in this article. But — […]
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What separates a professional web designer from a hobbyist? How do the pro’s do what they do — design stunning websites that not only look great, but actually convert more visitors into customers, or in the case of Bed and Breakfast websites, more bookings? Well, the professional web designer takes a very precise approach, based […]
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This week’s hotelier interview brings us back to Canada as we welcome Susan Poole of 40 Bay Street Bed and Breakfast. I found two insights really caught my attention in this interview: How Susan focused on her web presence alone, with no print or other promotional expenditures. How Susan overcomes seasonal ups and downs by running […]
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One thing I truly love about working on the web is I get to meet and learn from folks from across the world! And today’s interview is the perfect example. Barbara Ann Kinghorn, of Coral Tree Guest House, located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, joins us to share her experience running her accommodation business. Aside […]
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This week’s hotelier interview is with Ed & Shirley, owners of Abadin Bed and Breakfast in L’Orignal, Ontario, Canada. Their story takes across oceans and across industries (from healthcare, to a motor Inn, to a B&B!). I found their thoughts on relying heavily on online booking very insightful. Read on to hear it all… This is […]
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Today we’re joined by Dennis George, owner of Highland Garden House in Mt. Vernon, Washington to hear about what he’s learned from running his Bed and Breakfast. They opened only 5 weeks ago and they’ve been ‘busy enough’ since the start! This is the first interview in our Hotelier Interviews series, where we’re inviting Hotel, B and […]
Continue Reading »Attention Hotel, BnB, & Resort operators: To kick things off here on the Hotel Propeller blog, we’re planning a series of featured interviews with veterans of the Hotel, BnB, and Resort industries. We want to hear about what you’ve learned about the business of operating your hotel, hear your story, and grab some key take-aways […]
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5 Essential tips for using your website to book more guests! Plus, a Free email course, Winning Web Strategies For Innkeepers.