One of the leading Bed & Breakfast directories on the Net, and about the only one that provides free listings to innkeepers. Listings can actually be inputted online and are added/updated in real-time, as soon as the innkeeper hits the “submit” button! Also offers searchable archives of the rec.travel.bed+breakfast newsgroup, which we helped found. Selected by Yahoo Internet Life magazine as “Best Inn Directory”. Mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal.
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Your one-stop resource for finding a Bed & Breakfast using the Internet. This meta-search engine of all major B&B directories and many of the individual B&B home pages saves you from having to go to several dozen B&B directories and conduct searches from each one.
And it provides for a much more targeted search than the general Internet-wide search engines. In other words, Innfinder is a hub to all the B&B lodging information on the Net. In all, it searches over 200,000 B&B-specific web pages across the Internet.
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eFoodservice — Chicago, IL
Let’s face it, there is no need for eBusiness unless you have created a web site strategy. And creating it right is the key. This session will give you a step-by-step guide in order to make your strategy a success! After attending this presentation, you will know how to:
- Create a site that is easy to navigate and compelling to the customer
- Market through direct email response
- Acquire the proper lists of names
- Put together a permission based email marketing plan
- Survey users to see what’s right and what’s wrong with your site
- Increase response rates
- Decide what kind of manpower you need to create a full time website
- 24 hour, 7 days a week work force vs. outsourcing
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Beauty Online 2000 — New York City, NY
Are you absolutely sure that your web site is running at peak efficiency, dazzling customers, coming up high in search engines, generating an adequate ROI, and not leaving you exposed to unnecessary litigation?
Step-by-step, you’ll learn what areas to audit in your Internet presence, including: legal and procedural, public relations, financial, performance and reliability, customer service, Internet marketing task force, technical, user experience, accessibility, content, community, “findability”, e-commerce, privacy, and last but not least, security.
This interactive workshop will give you hands-on experience with:
- Where and how to begin the evaluation process
- What to audit and how often
- Tools and resources to use in auditing
- Benefits of auditing, risks of not auditing
- Turning measurements and recommendations into an Implementation Plan
- Applying all these tools and principles to your specific needs.
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The Internet’s top engines and directories account for more than 95 percent of all search traffic. Yahoo! alone commands more than half the market, and a Compaq study found that 68 percent of 500 million users only looked at the first page of results. For a top 10 search results position, the focus must clearly be on the big players. A company should start with its existing website.
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What’s the point of spending money on a great website if no one visits it? In part
one of this two-part series, the basics are covered: making the most of domain names, directory listings, and search engine rankings to improve a website’s traffic.
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Performance Measurements for Web Business -- Turning Your Internet Site Into an e-Business Profit Center — Chicago, IL
Are you absolutely sure that your Web site is running at peak efficiency, dazzling customers, coming up high in search engines, generating an adequate ROI, and not leaving you exposed to unnecessary litigation? Step-by-step, you’ll learn what areas to audit in your Internet presence, including: legal & procedural, public relations, financial, performance & reliability, customer service, Internet marketing task force, technical, user experience, accessibility, content, community, “findability”, e-commerce, privacy, security, and last but not least Y2K.
This interactive workshop will give you hands-on experience on:
- Where and how to begin the evaluation process
- What to audit and how often
- Tools and resources to use in auditing
- Benefits of auditing, risks of not auditing
- Turning measurements and recommendations into an Implementation Plan
- Applying all these tools and principles to your specific needs
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EconoPrint 1999 Seminar Series — Madison, WI
Whether you have an established website or you’re just beginning to think about one, this in-depth workshop will help you meet the new millennium head-on — with objectives, strategies, tactics, and measurable results, all in hand. Do you feel confident that your website is running at peak efficiency, dazzling customers, coming up high in search engines, generating an adequate ROI, and not leaving you exposed to unnecessary litigation?
Or, if you don’t yet have a website, are you adequately prepared to develop a solid Internet marketing plan, assemble an Internet marketing task force, create a budget and timeline, and then bring the project in on time and on budget? This seminar will introduce you to powerful and effective tips, tools, and techniques for planning and executing an effective Internet presence.
Specifically, you will learn:
- “Insider” information about other companies’ online successes,
failures, and lessons learned
- Unique Internet marketing strategies and tactics, applied
to your individual needs and situation
- Brainstorming techniques and hands-on exercises that
will identify new opportunities
- How to identify and benchmark (creatively imitate) innovative
marketing on the web
- How to apply strategic planning, project management,
one-to-one marketing, frequency marketing, and customer
service to your online efforts
- How to incorporate other aspects of the Internet besides
the web, such as email and newsgroups, into your Internet
strategy
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Staying at a bed-and-breakfast is just like spending the weekend at a friend’s
house — except that you can enjoy the homemade pancakes and coffee without
feeling obligated to reciprocate by springing for lunch later. Of course, you may have to endure a bit of awkward morning chitchat with total strangers, but many consider that a small price to pay for the B&B experience.
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Beyond the Banner (IQPC) — San Francisco, CA
There are many thousands of online communities in the forms of discussion groups conducted over email, Usenet, and the Web. At the most basic level, businesses need to be aware of where their company, products, services, or competitors are currently discussed and how they can conduct business effectively in these discussion groups. A proactive company could actually create discussion forums, influence the discussions, and leverage them to drive traffic to its site.
Online communities can be an invaluable source of fresh content for your site. After all, content is expensive to create, so why “grow your own” when you can leverage others’ content? You can also apply strategies to incorporate content from other Web sites. Don’t simply link to outside content, which drives traffic out your back door. Instead, incorporate that content into your site through a full-text, multi-site search engine. You can even take it a step further by partnering with other sites that will offer your search engine on their site with a co-branded interface.
Internet marketing is also about one-to-one marketing of value-added services and information to the Internet user. You can market most effectively on the Internet by catering to the individual through customization. Your Web site can change based on the user’s buying and surfing habits, past usage of your site, demographics, relationship to your company, and a multitude of other attributes which you could collect from your users online or cull from your corporate legacy databases.
Catering to individual needs on a personal level fosters self-reliance and lowers support costs. Personalization also makes it possible to track visitors and correlate Web site usage data with customer profiles.
This in-depth, half-day workshop is specifically designed for non-technical marketing professionals. We will discuss:
- Discussion groups, email listservers, Usenet newsgroups, Web discussion forums, and chat rooms.
- Ways to participate in, moderate, and influence online communities
- Results of how several companies carved out their own niche using search engine “spiders”
- Ways to customize your site to individual users
- How all this can affect your bottom line
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