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A Valuable Service for Lifestyle Inns

Financial Health of an Inn, Inn Operations, Innkeeping Consulting, Inns and Innkeepers, PAII, Uncategorized, Viability of an Inn, Websites / Marilyn Bushnell

Lifestyle inns, usually too small or poorly located to be viable, now have an alternative for their exit strategy consideration.

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The Operations of a Lifestyle Inn…Thinking Big when You are Small

Financial Health of an Inn, Inn Operations, Inns and Innkeepers, Marketing, Uncategorized, Viability of an Inn, Websites / Marilyn Bushnell

Smaller inns can make BIG impact in their financial performance by thinking Big.

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The Lifestyle Inn… the Backbone of the B&B Industry

Financial Health of an Inn, Innkeeping Consulting, PAII, Uncategorized, Viability of an Inn / Marilyn Bushnell

The Lifestyle Inn, the smaller sized inns, are about 2/3 of all inns per the PAII Industry surveys. But the create what has become the definition of a growing alternative for the American leisure travel industry.

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Technology for Inns … Tips for Making the Innkeeping Lifestyle a Bit Easier

Inn Operations, Innkeeping Consulting, Inns and Innkeepers, Marketing, Uncategorized, Websites / Marilyn Bushnell

10 tips to help make innkeeping easier!

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Please Just Touch and Go … and an Innkeeper Request

Building Relationships as a Marketing Tool, Inn Operations, Innkeeping Consulting, Inns and Innkeepers, Market Trends, Uncategorized / Marilyn Bushnell

Dover AFB is the final destination for some of our troops coming home for the last time. Innkeepers can have a real impact on the lives of these families going through what must be a terrible experience.

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B&B E-Mail Marketing does NOT conflict with Social Media Marketing

Building Relationships as a Marketing Tool, Financial Health of an Inn, Inn Operations, Innkeeping Consulting, Internet Directories, Market Trends, Marketing, Tracking Devices, Uncategorized, Websites / Marilyn Bushnell

E-Mail marketing is a low-cost proactive alternative channel to insert into your B&B’s marketing plan.

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What Niche Market Does Your Bed & Breakfast Target?

Financial Health of an Inn, Going Green, Inn Operations, Inns and Innkeepers, Marketing, PAII, Uncategorized / Marilyn Bushnell

Creating memories, and marketing your B&B’s ability to create them, is key to survival in a competitive market. Having a market niche that beats everybody else is an advantage to maximize.

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Is TRUST a Vanishing Value?

Building Relationships as a Marketing Tool, Inn Operations, Inns and Innkeepers, Marketing, Uncategorized / Marilyn Bushnell

Marilyn and I had the opportunity to visit Corrales, New Mexico, last week when we traveled to the Chocolate Turtle Bed & Breakfast. Dallas and Nancy Renner listed their inn for sale, a gem of a lifestyle inn that has strong business. The village of Corrales, just outside of Albuquerque, is right out of a

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