Small Business
Online Hotel Marketing
When it comes to online hotel marketing, Social Energizer can help you tackle the tough parts. Each solution has been researched, tested and chosen for features that will quickly help you make the most of getting online. You’ll be amazed at our focus on choices that let you work less, not more! • Online Booking Engine…
Read More15 Trending Travel Terms
Moving your hotel to an automated, online integrated system is a big step. Here are 15 Trending Travel Terms to help you with some of the new lingo. Property Management System (PMS) The application used by the hotel to control onsite property activities such as check in/out, folios, guest profiles, room status, requests, etc. PMSs…
Read MoreAdditional Revenue Model for Hotels
Catalin calls this hotel strategy The Catwalk Concept. It is fundamentally an additional revenue model for hotels that uses the concept of sponsoring brands that may be used within the hotel. Excerpt from Catalin at Cain: “A branded hotel can take three specific steps to capitalise on this opportunity: First, conduct research to identify specific brands…
Read MoreThe Better Road to Success
Ever wonder where Road to Success really is? I’ve been working a lot lately with people that I like and respect. It’s actually a choice I made a couple of years ago and at times I have questioned that decision, as I walked away from certain business opportunities, because of the people connected to them.…
Read MoreYour Guide to Selecting a Hotel Property Management System
When I was young, my grandmother and grandfather owned and ran a small resort in Northern Wisconsin. I remember her notifying the nearby Visitor’s Information Center on Friday evenings when they had open, unsold cottages. It was a friendly conversation that was often repeated just before the cottages ‘turned-over’ for the next weekly rentals. These…
Read MoreKeeping Your Website Real
Recently, Chris, from Design4Real.net, and I ventured down to Posada Yum Kin Hotel in Tulum, Mexico to work on their next web update. It has been a little over a year since images and content throughout the website have been updated, so once again, it is time to refresh everything. Our trip went smoothly with…
Read MoreTips for Planning a Vacation via Trip Advisor
Travel sites like Trip Advisor, have become one of the most essential social networking and travel planning sites for travelers and for businesses in travel, leisure, and restaurant industries. Monitoring and participating to keep Trip Advisor reputations as favorable as possible may be the most vital online function any travel and leisure-based business can practice. Smart…
Read MoreStringHub –Where Educators, Students and Startups Meet
Article first published as StringHub –Where Educators, Students and Startups Meet on Technorati. As a guest writer, Technorati published my first article last week, which is shown below. I found it a great compliment to be asked to write for Tehnorati. After all, Technorati, the very first search engine for blogs, is considered the gold standard,…
Read MoreDo Accountants Really Save You Time and Money?
Can you really save your company money with an accountant? Quite simply the answer is yes, if you take the time to find the accountant that best suits your company’s needs. When you find the best accountant for your business you will be saving your company not only money but also time. The ideal accountant…
Read MoreCuckoo for Cacoo, Free Flow Charting for Entrepreneurs
It is always tricky envisioning how the various pieces of a startup business will fit together and interact. Cacoo (https://cacoo.com/) is a cool cloud-based application that can be used for project envisioning, flow charts and mockups. Cacoo offers free and reasonably priced product tiers that will fit into those very tight budgets. For entrepreneurs that…
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