Luke M. Davis on December 29th, 2009

With the explosion of social media marketing in 2009, email still remains a king amongst a court of princes in online marketing tools.  No matter what methods you use to market your hotel, hostel, or B&B, building loyal customer relationships is on top of the list of ways to grow your business. Email marketing is still [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on December 21st, 2009

The following is a list of calendar management systems currently linking to Instant World Booking.  What this means is that these 3rd party systems, whether CMS, Channel Management systems, availability calendars, property management, or front desk software systems, provide an interface to automatically update your calendar on the Instant World Booking network. http://www.IWBFrontDesk.com http://www.bookingexpert.it http://www.oldtownapartments.com http://myallocator.com/ http://www.bnbmanager.com ASSD Hotel [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on December 21st, 2009

A special discount is now offered to Instant World Booking clients for trying the BnB Manager online property management service.  An added benefit is that Instant World Booking now interfaces with BnB Manager, and you can automatically upload your availability to Instant World Booking from BnB Manager. BNB Manager offers 10% off the full first year cost to [...]

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Luke M. Davis on December 4th, 2009

Some hostels and hotels have suggested that the solution to some of their email problems is to have their email forwarded to a “more reliable” email host such as GMAIL.   The problem with this approach is when you want to reply to a customer or supplier email. Do you really want your customers to be receiving email from [...]

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