With so many dyi websites out there, I am wondering if you are paying as much attention to your other social media? If you have a Facebook page, shouldn't it be spit shined?
The beauty of today, is right now we can create and change all of these things ourselves and not have to pay anyone to do it. Not typesetting, no printing presses, no charge! Now that is truly beautiful. But if you put inferior photos on your Facebook header then you might as well take in the welcome mat from your inn.
I have no idea who is on this forum, but I will be danged if I didn't see one that was just awful a moment ago. I don't think they are here, and I won't share it, but it was almost scary.
Your storefront is your social media presence. Share political slams, aka jokes or news, tmi about your guests or personal life, etc etc then you will never know who does NOT book a room with you.
Terrible personal story from yesterday from me: Caller during breakfast, we had a room open up so DH took it and walked into the other room (office). About that time our loud-mouth cat decided it was time for a pat on the head and went in and began scream-meowing. She could break glass when she does this, he was mid speech when he heard the call drop. Great, real professional. I would have hung up too. So we lost a booking because of the unprofessionalism of a family member, the cat. We were not pleased, we work too hard to let something so small run off business! So the same applies to our social media, if we aren't branded per se, we can at least appear professional. NO CATS ALLOWED!
The beauty of today, is right now we can create and change all of these things ourselves and not have to pay anyone to do it. Not typesetting, no printing presses, no charge! Now that is truly beautiful. But if you put inferior photos on your Facebook header then you might as well take in the welcome mat from your inn.
I have no idea who is on this forum, but I will be danged if I didn't see one that was just awful a moment ago. I don't think they are here, and I won't share it, but it was almost scary.
Your storefront is your social media presence. Share political slams, aka jokes or news, tmi about your guests or personal life, etc etc then you will never know who does NOT book a room with you.
Terrible personal story from yesterday from me: Caller during breakfast, we had a room open up so DH took it and walked into the other room (office). About that time our loud-mouth cat decided it was time for a pat on the head and went in and began scream-meowing. She could break glass when she does this, he was mid speech when he heard the call drop. Great, real professional. I would have hung up too. So we lost a booking because of the unprofessionalism of a family member, the cat. We were not pleased, we work too hard to let something so small run off business! So the same applies to our social media, if we aren't branded per se, we can at least appear professional. NO CATS ALLOWED!