Maximizing your Membership for 2004

Eric Goldreyer

NEW: Innkeeper Message Boards, free to members! In the fast-growing world of Internet travel, the only thing you can count on is constant change. To help you keep pace, BedandBreakfast.com works non-stop to improve and expand our services, including our brand-new Innkeepers Message Boards, and much more. Details here...

Advertising Auctions

Featured Property Auctions: BedandBreakfast.com Featured Property Auctions are an affordable, and effective way to drive traffic to your website. To make it even easier, we've introduced Auto Billing, designed to help you maintain a positive balance in your auction account at all times.
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Normandy Inn Spring Lake, NJ Inn of the Month averages double the click-through rates of the other B&Bs on the same city page, because of these significant benefits: Top placement on your city page Larger photo Custom marketing message Highlighted frame Try it and see for yourself!  Read more

Calendar of Events

Click here for a list of upcoming state B&B association meetings. We've noted when a member of the BedandBreakfast.com team will be attending, and look forward to meeting you! Be sure to email us if your state meeting is not on the list. If you have not yet finalized your conference agenda, let us know: we still have a few dates available when BedandBreakfast.com staff members are available to speak.

About our Sponsor

"A Stay At Your Inn Is A Special Occasion That Your Guests Want To Remember." When you provide your guests gifts with your custom logo you are achieving the best kind of advertising for your inn, a satisfied word of mouth referral. Contact us at dnjspecialties.com to see how we can assist in promoting your inn's image. www.dnjspecialties.com.

Promoting the Industry

BedandBreakfast.com's publicity efforts have produced several banner months for our members. Articles in high-profile newspapers and magazines contributed to record-breaking numbers of impressions: in the month of October alone, BedandBreakfast.com posted more than 57 million impressions with a value of $87,000. Read more

Our Members Speak Out

Butler Greenwood Plantation Saint Francisville, LA

We asked: What have been your experiences hosting guests over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays? We want to hear your stories - whether funny, poignant, or both! Read more. Question for our December issue:  If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your inn (i.e. layout, location, construction, amenities, name, etc.), what would it be, and why?

Email your responses to InnkeeperNews@BedandBreakfast.com. If we publish your comments, we'll thank you with a $25 credit in our Featured Properties Auction program!

Time for a Smile

Did we write that? Despite the computer age, terminal typos, mangled metaphors, and gruesome grammar are still with us. Read more

Travel Trends

Peter Yesawich: Sandy Soule of BedandBreakfast.com participated in the Superior Small Lodgings conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL (December 7-10, 2003), and compiled these notes from the presentation made by Peter Yesawich, president and CEO of Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell, America's leading marketing, advertising and public relations agency serving travel and leisure-industry clients. Details here

Best of BedandBreakfast.com Awards Program

Don't miss out on this great B&B marketing opportunity. Posting a voting badge on your home page is the easiest way to encourage guests to vote! If you have not yet started telling your guests about this program, wait no longer! Some of you have sent us helpful suggestions and great questions, so click here

Availability Calendar Links

We are delighted to announce yet another way to help you increase your occupancy: BedandBreakfast.com Availability Calendar Links! If you are already using one of the many availability calendar programs, you know how easy, effective, and affordable they are for increasing reservations when you have availability and for decreasing time-wasting phone calls when you're fully booked. Log in to your home base to sign up!

This Month's Sponsor

Online Trade Show

Click to visit our newest vendor members:

• BB Amenities
• BedBathStore.com
• Michigan Lake to Lake Web Hosting
• Cloth & Clay
• Rare Brick Design
• Flavia Coffee Beverage Systems
• RezOvation

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Gift Certificates

Inn at Occidental, Occidental, CA

More gift certificates are sold during the holiday season than any other time, and the lucky recipients will soon be searching for B&Bs that will redeem them. Don't miss out! To join the nearly 3200 participating inns, just log in to your home base with your property ID and password, or click here for more information.

Traffic statistics

Log in with your property ID and password for details on the number of page impressions and click-throughs your B&B has received as a result of all BedandBreakfast.com online marketing, including property listings, Featured Property, and Inn of the Month advertising. More information

Member Information

To update your entry, post specials, and renew your membership, please log in with your property ID and password. Can't remember your password? Click here, then enter your property ID and we'll email it to you. Don't like your password? Once you're logged in to Home Base, just click "Change Password" (first item in the left-hand column), and choose another that's easier to remember. More information

Inns for Sale

Time to move on? Sell your property by listing it on the leading Internet site for bed and breakfasts and inns, BedandBreakfast.com. Email us today and we'll put you on our special offer mailing list. Read more

Online Bookings

Taking real-time, online reservations is the most effective way to transform your Internet presence from an informational resource into a 24/7 sales engine.  Read more

Innkeepers Information Center

Need more info? You’ll find lots of forms, tutorials, and educational articles on our site for your convenience.

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