Every year The B&B Team travels to various innkeeping conferences, sometimes to exhibit in the trade show, but always as speakers. In the past month we attended the Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers Conference and Trade Show in Hot Springs, Virginia and just this week were at the 17th annual conference of CABBI, the California Association of Bed […]
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While we're only into the New Year for a matter of hours/days, it already feels good. Not because things have magically become better or easier, but because a New Year brings a new beginning and a fresh start. Because of the current news and the pundits telling us about the economy, I added a posting
In a recent AP article, Corporate Darwinism: Only the Strong Survive, it was explained that, “Economic cycles are Darwinian, picking off weak companies and leaving survivors stronger”. From my perspective, this is a pretty brutal but completely honest and interesting view of the business landscape for the New Year. Ok, so it is an interesting
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Every year toward the end of December we begin the process of celebrating the holidays. Whether it's shopping for gifts, decorating the house or the inn for Christmas, planning time away or with family and friends, most of us become engaged in the "holiday mood" in one form or another. The holidays also bring with
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We've all heard the expression about a "flight to quality" especially with regard to investments in these challenging times, but what is a "flight to value?" A couple of nights ago my wife and I were at a holiday party hosted annually for Charlottesville, VA area innkeepers by some former innkeepers (and clients), Becky and Norm Lindway.
In other postings on The Innkeeper's Resource we often talk about tools like Google Alerts that can help you monitor your "social presence." We have a regular Google Alert for "The B&B Team." It lets us know if someone might be using our trademarked name, so we can address it, but the spinoff is that one
These are tough times, no doubt about it. They were tough for the lodging industry after 9/11, too, and the immediate response was to discount rooms in hopes of filling them. Back then it worked, sort of, but the long term consequence was a period of several years to rebuild ADR and RevPAR. So what's
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All four of The B&B Team (Peter and Peggy Scherman, Rick and Janet Wolf) had the pleasure of participating in the recent Select Registry Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia as vendors and speakers. Select Registry is an association of 400 of the top inns in North America known for their high quality, attention to detail, lofty standards,
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We all get bombarded by "stuff" all day long: good stuff, bad stuff, funny and scary stuff, silly and sage. And it comes at us through lots of media: TV, radio, the Web, email, snail mail, billboards, etc. etc. We humans have an incredible power to sift through it all and glean what we want,
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OK. So it takes me a while sometimes to get a new post written. But this one has been simmering for a month when Google Alerts first let me know about a GREAT posting by Oscar Meier. Oscar is a dog. A Weimaraner, to be exact. And he's written an article all about BLOGGING and WEB 2.0!!! So,
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