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Bed and Breakfasts, Social Media and Natural Disasters
Of course this is also valid for unnatural disasters like fires and theft as well. It’s best to be prepared ahead of time if you can for any type of disasters and you may as well take advantage of...
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The Lodging Resource Newsletter November 2012
Hello again Lovely Innkeepers! I hope all of you have gotten through the Hurricane unscathed. Thoughts, prayers and future fully booked rooms I hope are in your future for those affected. There are...
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30 Places to advertise your Facebook Page
If you have a Facebook fan/business page and you don’t advertise you have it at all, how are people supposed to find it? Put the link on your website (most important!) Put the link on gift certificates...
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Facebook Oh Facebook, Where Art Thou Oh Facebook?
Or perhaps it should be Facebook Oh Facebook, Where the Heck are You At? - important piece at the end, so skip down if you must. Lots of questions about edgerank and interest lists in the last few...
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Hacked Social Media Accounts, Hoaxes and George Parker
Photo credit from Facebook: IFeakingLoveScience (apologies in advance for the page name for those easily offended) Who is George Parker you ask? Parker was one of the most audacious con men in...
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Twitter Questions and Bed and Breakfasts
I recently came across an interesting twitter related site, http://youasked.it/ which gives you random questions asked in real time on twitter. You can also search questions asked on...
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The Lodging Resource Newsletter: Issue #17, December 2012
Hello again Lovely Innkeepers! I hope everyone is all ready for the holidays! A couple of changes that are new in social media that might be of interest, one Pinterest rolled out business accounts,...
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Leveraging Google Maps for Lodging Part Two
A while back I wrote a post about utilizing custom Google Maps: The Innkeeper as Concierge or Custom Google Maps and leveraging them for lodging I suggest you read that and then come back here to...
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Innkeepers, think before you post…a photo
Not professional photographs, but which one would you rather eat? I am the first to lobby that innkeepers NEED to post photos on social media, especially food photos. Photos are what sell a brand, and...
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Using WorkFlowy to organize your Bed and Breakfast’s blog posts
https://workflowy.com/ From their website: WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that makes life easier. It can help you organize personal to-dos, collaborate on large team projects, take notes, write...
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The Lodging Resource Newsletter: Issue #18, January 2013
Hello again Lovely Innkeepers! I hope you all had a great Holiday season and started everything off with a bang! Now is the time to get your tushes in gear and do all the marketing things you know you...
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Facebook Local and what it means for Bed and Breakfasts
It appears Facebook is still working on aspects of Facebook Local (which hasn’t really hit the news much yet), which is in the process of being rolled out along with Facebook Nearby, a good article on...
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Travel Bloggers and Bed and Breakfasts
I’ve gotten quite a few emails in the past year from Inns I work with, and Inns I chat with online, asking me what I thought about solicitations from travel bloggers asking to do a feature on their...
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Bed and Breakfasts, Reputation Management and Deleted Tweets
A common concern I hear frequently voiced from B&Bs, “Is what if I have a conversation with someone who voices a complaint,” or “What if I posted something I regret?” Like a drunk tweet, or...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Lodging Resource Newsletter: Issue #19, February 2013
Hello again Lovely Innkeepers! The big news for this past month was TripAdvisor announcing a new feature that will allow Innkeepers to report any issues regarding blackmail threats from their guests...
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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...
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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...
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