Tag Archives: lodging marketing

Facebook, Edgerank and Bed and Breakfasts

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

Yesterday I wrote a post for our local Chamber’s newsletter and put it on the local Patch as well. This was prompted by the overwhelming numbers of businesses thinking they needed to A. pay to post at all and B. … Continue reading →

Posted in B&B, Hospitality News, How tos, Inns, marketing, Observations, Social Media | Tagged Algorithm, Business, Content (media), Edgerank, facebook, facebook fan pages, Facebook features, fan pages, hospitality, Hospitality Marketing, lodging, lodging marketing, Social Media | Leave a comment

Bed and Breakfasts and the local Patch

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

Patch.com just really started to come on the radar since late last year. To take Connecticut as an example, I remember there only being a 3 or 4 hyperlocal sites and now there are 67 and rolling at apparently several … Continue reading →

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Another Quick Tip for Bed and Breakfasts to leverage Facebook Photos

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

This technique is also great for Google+ posts, sharing on twitter and pinning on Pinterest If you missed the last post about leveraging Facebook Photos, you can find it here http://chefforfeng.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/a-quick-tip-for-bed-and-breakfasts-to-leverage-facebook-photos/ Because photos are the one thing that is shared … Continue reading →

Posted in B&B, How tos, Lodging, marketing, Observations | Tagged Bed and Breakfast, facebook, facebook fan pages, Facebook features, fan pages, Google+, hospitality, Hospitality Marketing, lodging, lodging marketing, Online Communities, Pinterest, Social Media, twitter | 7 Comments

Bed and Breakfasts, Steps on Evaluating a Marketing Company

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

It seems like every day I get a call or email from a friend (who has an inn) or a client who just got solicited by a marketing company wanting to know what the skinny is on a company, I … Continue reading →

Posted in B&B, Hospitality News, How tos, Lodging, marketing, Observations | Tagged Bed and Breakfast, Business, facebook, Facebook features, Google+, hospitality, Hospitality Marketing, lodging, lodging marketing, marketing, PageRank, Search engine optimization, Social Media | 8 Comments

A Quick Tip for Bed and Breakfasts to leverage Facebook Photos

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

You just had some great guests stay at your inn, or a lovely wedding just took place on your lawn and you got some awesome photos. The temptation is just to just put them all up on Facebook in an … Continue reading →

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The Lodging Resource Newsletter Mid Summer Issue

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

Hello again Lovely Innkeepers! Two things of interest that have happened in the last couple of months that should be of interest to innkeepers. Linkedin got hacked and Google+ has merged with Google Places. Linkedin: Many Linkedin passwords got compromised. … Continue reading →

Posted in B&B, Hospitality News, How tos, Lodging, marketing, newsletters, Social Media | Tagged Bed and Breakfast, blogging, facebook, facebook fan pages, Google Places, Google+, hospitality, Hospitality Marketing, Linkedin, lodging, lodging marketing, Password, Social Media, twitter | 7 Comments

Twitter for Business Checklist Worksheet

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Chef Forfeng

I thought it might be useful to B&Bs and perhaps other businesses to continue to do some checklists for social media as the Facebook Business Page Checklist Worksheet has proved popular and the feedback I got was that it was … Continue reading →