Friday, August 14, 2009

Bed and Breakfast Seminars at Sea

This is the first blog posted by the The B&B and Country Inn MarketPlace®. We will be posting these informative blogs regularly to keep everyone up to date about new events or marketing ideas that might enhance your B&B profits or help you buy or sell a B&B.

Have you ever cruised or attended our Seminars at Sea?
Get away from your Inn for a week and enjoy yourself cruising the Caribbean on the NCL Pearl. Enjoy a few days of relaxation and learn how to make your Inn more profitable.

On January 9-16, 2010, we will be hosting the 10th Annual Seminars at Sea Cruise on the Norwegian Pearl. January is a generally a slow time for innkeepers and a great time to get away for a few days. You can also bring friends and family along and spend time with them on days in Port. The seminars are held on days the ship is at Sea, and we offer our participants an information-packed agenda.

Seminar leaders will be Sandy Soule and Marie Lanier. Sandy Soule is a well known travel writer/speaker and key member of the Bedandbreakfast.com/Inns.com/RezOvation team. She offers a unique perspective on the B&B industry, derived from her decades of experience as a freelance writer, book author, editor, and Internet pioneer, combined with the fact that she's visited more inns than anyone else in the United States. As the Marketing VP, Sandy is responsible for communicating a wide range of company products and services to both consumers and the innkeeping industry.

Sandy will explain how to sell the value of B&Bs through packaging, PR and promotion, and how to use your Internet presence to effectively convert lookers to bookers.

Marie Lanier is a VP and Marketing Guru at LanierBB.com and TravelGuides.com, publishers of The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfasts, Inns and Guesthouses International. Marie will be sharing some of her secret social networking and marketing techniques with us. She is young, enthusiastic and a dynamic speaker.

Both of these gals have conducted seminars on past cruises and were highly praised with requests coming in to hear what’s new in technology to help us all make more money.

NCL’s FreeStyle Cruising is the Best!. You don’t have to worry about getting there on time for dinner as NCL does not assign a dining time or a dining-room to its guests. There are several choices for dining and there are also a few up-grade restaurants aboard this beautiful ship. A cocktail party is planned for this group so as Innkeepers can get acquainted and share marketing ideas with each other.

This cruise is a real vacation! No beds to make, no breakfast to prepare or cleaning to do – Fantastic! And best of all you will learn new marketing techniques to help you book more rooms.

Book now for best cabins. 1-800-871-8977 or 1-828-324-7291 ask for Mariette

Email Mariette at innsales@charter.net

www.innmarketing.com/cruise.php

Your InnMarketing Specialists
Claude & Mariette Gagne


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