Okay so here I am to say something, to get people upset at me. But I want to, I can't help myself, besides my Innkeeper A.D.D. I also have Innkeeper O.C.D. which means I can't stop myself... (yeah right)
There are those who are magnificent at Social Media, innkeepers, I mean. They blow me away how much they "share" in every social media outlet, it boggles the mind...and yet, none of it is personal, not one stitch.
No photos of the innkeepers on the website, or any other social media format, nothing personal about the guests, the people, the experience. I wonder what the experience would be? It is all so "canned" for lack of a better term. Every single comment, post, article, photo is pure marketing. Nothing more nothing less. There is no personal touch to anything! Can you blog from time to time with an image of you - the innkeepers serving the guests? Or working in the yard? Or exploring the area, hiking a trail, picking fruit at the farmer's market for guest breakfasts?
Okay I got that off my chest. I just wanted to mention it, I wanted to ask you - as we are in the people business, we have people in our homes, where we live, not in our office at work, someplace else. We make their beds, we cook their food, we make their coffee for goodness sake! Do you extend a personal touch in any of your marketing or are you just a place, with place holders on the internet all over trying to sell rooms? Isn't this business more than that?
A business that makes only money is a poor business. --Henry Ford.
There are those who are magnificent at Social Media, innkeepers, I mean. They blow me away how much they "share" in every social media outlet, it boggles the mind...and yet, none of it is personal, not one stitch.
No photos of the innkeepers on the website, or any other social media format, nothing personal about the guests, the people, the experience. I wonder what the experience would be? It is all so "canned" for lack of a better term. Every single comment, post, article, photo is pure marketing. Nothing more nothing less. There is no personal touch to anything! Can you blog from time to time with an image of you - the innkeepers serving the guests? Or working in the yard? Or exploring the area, hiking a trail, picking fruit at the farmer's market for guest breakfasts?
Okay I got that off my chest. I just wanted to mention it, I wanted to ask you - as we are in the people business, we have people in our homes, where we live, not in our office at work, someplace else. We make their beds, we cook their food, we make their coffee for goodness sake! Do you extend a personal touch in any of your marketing or are you just a place, with place holders on the internet all over trying to sell rooms? Isn't this business more than that?
A business that makes only money is a poor business. --Henry Ford.