Recent content by Evan

You can get a website with a booking engine free here at http://thebookingfactory.com it also comes with a free property management system also. You can sign up anytime to play with an account instantly to see if you like it. Disclaimer: I am the founder of this company. As far as I am aware...

Good going guys! I always tell people not to pay for the business listing! They should remove that whole no availability stuff and give your contact details instead, especially if you pay for a listing.

Stripe and its close rival Braintree are great, they make the whole process of taking and storing cards in a safe way a total breeze. Both have security checks if you choose to set them although if you go too strict it will hurt conversion slightly as some valid cards might get rejected. Did you...

I quote from Tripadvisors official page: What was the date of record of the TripAdvisor spin-off? How much of TripAdvisor, Inc. does Expedia continue to own? Following the close of trading on December 20, 2011, 100% of the outstanding shares of TripAdvisor, Inc. was spun off to Expedia...

Yeah you want a custom look and feel widget to match your website? You need to hire a developer to do this for you as its a simple job for them but near impossible for you

I don't know guys, they just bought Orbitz and now HA. Seems like they have too much money and a small part of me thinks they are slightly worried on Priceline and Tripadvisor. Tripadvisor is the real competitor, with their content and now their quasi OTA instant booking they are turning into an...

What you want is the widget part right? Where people will enter the dates and amount of nights they wish to stay? and then pass all that information over to the reskey booking engine. If you don't want to use reskey's widgets and use your own you need to find out what format the information is...

Well it is built into your website but the website is full managed by the company, making all the problems with PCI, hosting, security etc our problem and not yours. Yeah I get that a lot of you are 100% into Reskey, To be honest with you we are not ready to sell anything yet till early 2016 and...

I think sometimes it's not worth your time and the hassle to sell too cheap if your the one that has to do all the work I always like how the airlines do pricing based on occupancy, if you book in advance its cheaper and the price increases as the plane fills up (makes sense) Hotels have been...

Your right I am not an innkeeper, maybe inns are different to hotels? I've been in the hotel industry all my life as my parents own a small hotel of 17 bedrooms. From a hotel perspective hotel rooms are like perishable goods, once they go unsold they are gone! so its a balance of lowering and...

You have given me lots to think over, thanks for that I really like the email idea with the choices inside, reminds me of excel. I can already think of other uses where that would be useful. No8: I forgot to mention this but we are working on a rule based system where you can setup rules like...

It's free to try so they will give it a shot, I don't blame them really.

Thanks for your honesty, I like the brutal truth!

Whoa there! Sounds complicated but I can see why you would want it! The opt in would be to sign up as a member, just making a booking its not possible to add the email address, unless there was an opt in checkbox or something, but hotels can also get the permission on check-in forms or by...

Hey Guys, I don't post here much but I try to help where I can. If people would like to post more questions in the marketing section of the forum we could get a good discussion going! I'm the founder of a hotel booking and marketing startup and I would love your opinions on some things Anyways...