The Alberta Bed and Breakfast Association Site

Our newest association site design is for the Alberta Bed and Breakfast Association. Their site contains some of the great tools and features that our Association system has become known for including our Google maps, editable specials and revenue options for the association.

They have a beautiful new site design that is not only lovely, but highly functional. It contains a great foundation for Search Engine Optimization, with each page containing unique titles, canonical URLs, fully built using CSS styling.

Some of the other great benefits for Alberta innkeepers include the ability to edit all aspects of their listings and and randomly generated search results for inns unless the user chooses to view them alphabetically. This ensures that each inn’s listing is displayed in a fair manner.

This makes 18 state or province association sites InsideOut has built – with no small effort from our lead association programmer, Jack Waknitz. Thanks, Jack! Jeff Logan will be heading to Alberta next month to showcase the new site to members at their annual meeting.

Steven Dunston, our SEO Manager, will present “15 Minute Marketing Makeover: Refocus your Revenue Goals with the help of Web Statistics”. This is a great presentation on how to read your web site stats and use them to help your online marketing. We have given this presentation at past B&B conferences and have had standing room only, so show up early to grab a seat.

We hope to see you at the conference and go here to sign up for your one-on-one meeting.

Just can’t wait to get on the road again.

Goin’ places I’ve never been,

Seein’ things I may never see again,

And I can’t wait to get on the road again.”

– Willie Nelson

As the off-season rolls around for many of our clients, we set out to make contact with the innkeepers we know and love, as well as meet new members of our industry.

Steven Dunston's 15 Minute Marketing Makeover Presentation packed the room.

Going back to Wisconsin was a great treat for us. It was everyone’s second visit, at least, to the dairyland, and we were happy to see old-time clients like the Inn at Lonesome Hollow’s Nora Knapik, Honeybee Inn’s Barb Ruka, Westby House’s Marie and Mike Cimino and Naeset-Roe’s Carl Povlick, to name a few.

The Wisconsin Dells was a fun place for the conference to be held, and the whole Logan family attended to partake in the entertainment. Glacier Lodge, where the conference and trade show was held, was also home to several massive indoor water parks. It was a fun place for the kids as well as the adults. Katie made a mad dash for the watersides as soon as she had a spare hour!

Katie Pate with Innkeepers from Wissahickon Farms

There wasn’t much time to spare in the Dells, however, the InsideOut crew was quite busy. Steven Dunston, Katie Pate and Jeff  Logan were all speakers at the conference. Katie and Jeff presented on Facebook and Twitter marketing, while the three worked in tandem to cover “Blogging 2.0: Finding Great Content” and share some of our favorite methods for keeping your web site and your blog an engaging and interesting location on the web.

Jeff also presented the Association’s new web site. It is our fifteenth state lodging association web site, and we love what has come together for them. Featured inns, an interactive map and other unique features have made the site a great tool for internet users and an asset for members of the Association. Features include a section of the site dedicated to searching for lodging based on specials offered, and changing content on itineraries based on artisan cheese, hiking, cross country skiing and other activities that are perfect for enjoying in Wisconsin.

There will be more photos and stories of travel around the nation to come!

The Web Site for Bed and Breakfast Association of Tennessee

We created our signature search tools for Tennessee, which include a variety of means for visitors to search for lodging, including city, region, specials and alpha. We also have built a special section all about Tennessee Wedding locations. This is a tool to help the Association make a little profit, while enhancing the member’s listings. For a small extra fee, members can create a listing that focuses on their wedding facilities. Weddings are a great way for inns to make extra income, and the web site now ranking the top 15 on Google for the great wedding terms “Tennessee wedding locations” and “wedding locations in TN“.

Jeff had a great time seeing some of our current Tennessee clients, and getting to know more innkeepers and their annual meeting. He spoke to the group on Facebook and Google marketing.

We are glad when we get the chance to meet face-to-face with our clients, especially when we have worked together on a large project like an Association web site. Jeff enjoyed Nashville, and looks forward to continued projects with the Tennessee Association.

Pat McCauley, Jeff Logan and Steven Dunston attend the Select Registry Conference. In case you are out of the loop, Select Registry is an elite association of Inns and B&Bs that meet extremely high standards of quality. We are privileged to have several clients whom are already Select Registry members, and we were excited to meet more innkeepers that represent the best of the best!

Flying cross country always means adding a day for travel and having extra time before the Conference starts, so our crew decided to be tourists and explore some early American history – and I do mean early. They visited the Jamestown Settlement that is just minutes from downtown Williamsburg, as well as the fascinating Colonial Wiliamsburg!

We love attending these Conferences because it gives us a chance to spend some face time with our current clients as well as cultivate future relationships. We are pleased to report it was a successful trip and that we continue to gain new clients from across the U.S.

Scroll down to see some of the pictures Pat took while in Virginia.

Denny Eister & Karen Cooksey of the Frederick House in Sauton, VA with our own Jeff Logan

Ray & Kristie Rosset of Lookout Point Lakeside Inn in Hot Springs, AR

General Cornwallis with Jeff Logan and Steven Dunston. Click on the photo to reach his site!

Jeff Logan and Steven Dunston at Colonial Williamsburg

BBNOLA, as we have so fondly referred to the site, went live on Friday. It is a beautiful site, full of nifty features and insightful traveler information.

The site also features one of our signature maps – thanks Jack! – showing the city broken down by neighborhood. It is a great Google map displaying the sections of the city with B&Bs highlighted and color coordinated.

MEMBER ALERT! Make sure to download the BBNOLA graphic to your homepage so that you can proudly proclaim you are a member of this exclusive group, and also link to the association Web site. We are recommending that all members do this for marketing and SEO purposes. The more links the new Web site has, the more it will growing the rankings. Therefore, the better your business’ visibility will become through being linked to an important site like BBNOLA.

The Homepage for Professional Innkeeps Association of New Orleans!

Our prodigious web team has created another beautiful Web site for the Accredited Inns and Bed and Breakfasts of Florida. With a beautiful and colorful Web site, the design reminds the viewer of the lush and tropical nature of the state.

An interactive map, one of our specialties here at InsideOut, makes it easy to navigate through the site and find out more about the different regions. Once you zoom into a particular area, major highways, rivers, and with accredited B&Bs appear.

The new Florida Bed and Breakfasts Inns Web site.

We try to make our sites as easy as possible for potential customers. We have the inns organized by region, amenities, city, specials, and alphabetically. That way, hopefully, they will find whatever they are looking for without a struggle.

There is also an in-depth travel guide included on the site. Each region of the state has information on family or romantic travel, thrifty travel tips, nature-based travel, meeting and event facilities and recommendations about how to get “off the beaten path”.

Take a moment to explore the new Florida B&B Web site, and find out for yourself all the sunshine state has to offer!

Left to Right: Wayne E. Howell Jr., VP Herbie Wiles Insurance; Pamela Lanier, Travelguides.com, Lanierbb.com, Elegantsmallhotels.com, and Familytravelguides.com; Jeff Bryce of Reservation Nexus; Patricia Detwiler, Owner of Quilter's Inn and President of Florida Bed and Breakfast Inns (FBBI); Jay Karen, President of PAII; Jeff Logan of InsideOut Solutions; David Caples of Lodging Resources and Berkeley Young, President of Young Strategies, Inc.

Good-bye gray skies and evergreens, hello palm trees and sandy beaches-at least for a couple of days. We were lucky enough to have Pat McCauley and Jeff Logan representing us in Florida at the end of last month for the Florida Bed and Breakfast Inns (FBBI) annual conference. Held in Lake Wales, some of the most important folks in the B&B industry gathered in the sunshine state to discuss this year’s theme; “The Keys to Success”.

Jeff Logan spoke on the importance of every inn’s online presence with a lecture called “Get Going with Google”. He also unveiled the new Florida Bed and Breakfast Inns website to excited members.

Jeff and Pat helped the innkeepers continue to fill information for their businesses into the website database. One of the reasons InsideOut has seen so many contracts for State association websites is because we include features and details that make the site easy to use, present information in an organized and readily available manner, and of course, make it look as lovely as the state itself. Look forward to the new Florida Bed and Breakfast Inns website going live this Friday October 3rd!

Explore the wonders of Virginia. This waterfall is in Shenandoah.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! InsideOut is happy to be working with another state association!

That’s right devoted readers, we are pleased to announce that we have been awarded the design contract for the Bed and Breakfast Association of Virginia! It’s becoming a regular thing around here – listening to Jeff Logan espouse the virtues of our design and marketing team here at InsideOut to the head of the association. And then -Â ta da! A new sticker on our big national map in the place for lovers – Virginia!

We are looking forward to a completed site for Virginia in January.

Look forward to drastic upgrades in map quality, usability as well as intuitive design and ease of navigation.

We recently completed a new web site for the B&B Association of Tennessee. Now each member can login and update all the information about their inn, add photos, specials and local events. The new web site has also increased placement in the search engines and lowered the site’s bounce rate from 37% down to 24%. Each member can also see a click-through percentage to their sites which is an average of 84%. A huge number of referrals!

If your association is interested in getting a quote for development please get in touch.