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How to Evaluate Your Paid Listings in Five Minutes or Less

By Scott Thomas | Published: January 10, 2012

A frequent concern among innkeepers is how to evaluate the effectiveness of B&B directories and other paid listings. Google Analytics provides a simple but effective way to help you see this with only a few minutes effort. Segment Everything Google Analytics ninja Avinash Kaushik points out the value of Advanced Segments, saying, “Segment everything.” This [...]

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Conversions – Getting Your Website to Do Its Job

By Scott Thomas | Published: November 29, 2011

This is the fourth article in a series examining how B&B guests proceed through the decision process for booking a stay. Based largely on research from WIHP Hotel Marketing, the first article describes the four-step process for booking, the second describes how a guest discovers your property, and the third examines how to provide information [...]

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Attracting B&B Guests: How does that work?

By Scott Thomas | Published: November 8, 2011

A few of you may have noticed that we seem to have taken a bit of a hiatus over the past several weeks. In fact, our Freeport Maine Bed & Breakfast had a very busy summer, and there wasn’t much time for About the Inn writing. Now that our busy summer and fall foliage seasons [...]

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Analytics simplified – GA Evolution

By Scott Thomas | Published: February 2, 2011

From conversations with innkeepers at some recent conferences, we know that innkeepers understand that web analytics are important, and they are searching for ways to use and understand them, but are not finding that to be an easy task. We were looking at tools that provided some additional capabilities for Google Analytics, and came across [...]

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Where do bookings come from?

By Scott Thomas | Published: October 22, 2010

Instead of re-writing the article, we will simply mention and link to the great information provided by our friends at Acorn Internet Services showing a comparison of statistics on bookings from before there were Google Place Pages and currently, and also noting which directories produce bookings. This is obtained from Acorn’s customers who use Acorn’s [...]

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