Category Archives: How tos

WordPress Themes and Bed and Breakfasts

About a week ago, WordPress.com released a theme specifically geared towards Lodging http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/stay/. Since then I have received over a dozen emails from innkeepers asking what I thought about it for use for a B&B website, so thought I may … Continue reading

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Responding to Fruitcake Reviewers

There’s been a ton of talk, articles and blogs about how to respond to online reviews. But not too much on how to deal with Fruitcakes and Trolls. The difference? A Fruitcake reviewer is someone who may have been a … Continue reading

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Some tips for Bed and Breakfasts using Linkedin Business Pages

Our last post Linkedin Business Pages and Bed and Breakfasts http://chefforfeng.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/linkedin-business-pages-and-bed-and-breakfasts/ gave you a walkthrough of things you need to make sure you fill out when setting up your B&B’s Linkedin Business page. Here are some additional tips: If you are … Continue reading

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Linkedin Business Pages and Bed and Breakfasts

Does Linkedin have value for innkeepers? Absolutely! Can you source guests and advertise updates for your inn on Linkedin? Absolutely! One of the things Linkedin offers above and beyond a personal profile, that Bed and Breakfasts should be taking advantage … Continue reading

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Blog Checklist Worksheet

I developed this checklist awhile back but it’s still current, as I find many people have blogs and use them but haven’t gone through and added some basic information and options. This is how you should feel when your finished … Continue reading

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A tip for innkeepers to leverage the new Faceboook Graph Search

With Facebook Graph Search geared for public rollout soon, it’s important that innkeepers that have Facebook business pages invite ALL their friends and family to be fans of their business pages. In this case it has nothing to do with … Continue reading

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Innkeepers, are you REALLY leveraging local?

On Monday I had a great interview with Tom Costello, and during the interview he brought up the gentlemen that he had interviewed previously, whose thoughts were that hoteliers (and this relates to any lodging) needs to be spending more … Continue reading

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