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Don't miss out on our winter promotions.
Post your specials today for Christmas Open Houses, Romantic Getaways, and more.
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Special Promotions
One of the best ways to promote your property is to attract media and consumer
attention with inviting seasonal promotions. And the easiest place to publicize
them is on our
Special Deals page. Here's how:
Here's the free deal for Silver members and up:
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Log in with your property ID and password, then click the "specials" link on
the left-hand side of the page.
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Under "Special Summary," click the theme of your choice (see below) and combine
a promotional rate with whatever tempting treats or special event tickets your
guests might enjoy--it's up to you.
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Remember that creative offerings are more likely to attract media attention --
they make a better story.
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To see the specials that have already been posted by your fellow innkeepers,
visit our
Specials page
and click the drop down box marked "Select Special."
Bronze member??? Don't miss out on these specials.
Try our 100 percent risk-free upgrade guarantee.
Publicity Leads
As a service to our members, BedandBreakfast.com will be alerting you as we
learn about upcoming publicity leads. We regret that we cannot respond to every
email you send, but are very grateful for the excellent responses. We'll be
listing the responses in the Recent Publicity section below, and/or including
them in our Press Room.
Watch for emails with this subject line: "Urgent: Publicity Lead from
BedandBreakfast.com." Depending on the assignment, these leads will
be distributed to inns in a specific region or more widely.
Recent Publicity
We are thrilled with the response to our Publicity Leads from both our
members and the media. During the month of October alone, we scored over 3.6
million impressions in 61 newspapers from Puerto Rico to Maine, along with
radio stations as far as Cork, Ireland. Six of the most popular Internet
e-zines also featured BedandBreakfast.com and its member inns. You can read all
current press releases
online.
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"Our Halloween release, featuring ghost stories contributed by many of our
member inns, got a wonderful response.
Frommers.com sent the release to their 500,000 subscribers.
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"A Room with a Boo! Things Go Bump in the Night in these B&Bs on Halloween"
included 18 member inns around the U.S. Ben Gumm, Angel of the Mountains,
Bethlehem, NH, told us that "during the past seven days, Frommers.com
has been the top referring link to my website, a direct result of the web
article initiated by BedandBreakfast.com."
American Woman Road & Travel also ran the entire press release on their
website and radio stations from Cork, Ireland to West Palm Beach, Florida to
Madison, Wisconsin to Calgary, Alberta interviewed Sandy Soule about ghostly
B&B happenings.
Trudy Tynan, writing for the Associated Press, interviewed Marti Mayne
for an article on fall foliage in New England. The article was picked up by
dozens of papers around the U.S. during September. Laura Bly's fall foliage
article for USA Today was picked up by the Gannett News Service, and
received widespread additional coverage. Member inns recommended in the article
included: Cliffside, Adele Turner and Abigail Stoneman inns of Newport, RI, as
well as the Francis Malbone Inn. (September, 2002).
The Washington Post, in a list of top Internet travel sites, included
only one B&B directory, and described BedandBreakfast.com as "a fine site for
choosing a B&B." Forbes.com again listed BedandBreakfast.com as a top travel
site.
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 Thorwood
Historic Inns, Hastings, MN
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Pam Thorsen, Thorwood Historic Inns sent us a note about the guests who
redeemed their BedandBreakfast.com Gift Certificates at her inn: "What a
wonderful opportunity. The guests were an absolute delight, plus they spent
another $100 with us for food and massage. Thank you!"
Sign up today.
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in the email we sent you. For more details, 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
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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. "BedandBreakfast.com
was responsible for excellent exposure, and sold my listing in just three
weeks.” Donald Hoffman, Thompson & Riley Ltd., Lexington, KY Read
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According to PhoCusWright's Online Travel Market Update 2001-2005, online hotel
reservations in the U.S. are expected to grow 114 percent to $9 billion by 2003
over 2001. According to Forrester Research, online hotel bookings will more
than double over the next four years, to $7.7 billion from $3.8 billion.
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.
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