How to market/advertise a small brand new B&B?

gettingready

Thanks for that - emailed DogPeople asking how to organise to have a listing with them

Errata

Don't forget advertising on Facebook!

gettingready

Was just looking at vista's print offer of FB pages.

Will talk to my daughter later on tomorrow possibly and decide on design for that.

She is working today 6pm - 3am (in two places !!!) and has guests to make breakfast to in the B&B in the morning so may talk to her tomorrow night

Thanks a lot.

gettingready

Posted free advert on Dog Friendly Britain and also some other dog related websites....

Had no idea there was so many places that take free basic ads:)

Thanks a lot for that idea...

Back to searching for more

poet123

A newly set up B&B advertised a fee weekend on FB and they were inundated with entries, they got loads of bookings on the back of that freebie.

Lagoon

She does have her own website, yes?

cally6008

gettingready wrote: »

Was just looking at vista's print offer of FB pages.

Will talk to my daughter later on tomorrow possibly and decide on design for that.

She is working today 6pm - 3am (in two places !!!) and has guests to make breakfast to in the B&B in the morning so may talk to her tomorrow night

Thanks a lot.

Why pay Vistaprint to do a facebook page for you ?
Facebook pages are Free

gettingready

She has her own website but no FB page for the B&B - I am an idiot with FB, not sure how to set this up. As a business I mean.

Exactly, comps on FB are very popular I know.. used to enter like 100 per day when I was off work LOL

gettingready

The listing on DogPeople is now live

I have also posted the picture of the business card on my friend's FB pages and the done the "share".

Still looking where else to advertise, preferably for free....

Waiting for the business cards to arrive too...

paulwf

Loads of great stuff posted so far! One thing I haven't seen mentioned so far is increasing average spend per customer.

Loads of places offer add ons like champagne and chocolates on arrival if it is to celebrate an anniversary or birthday. Perhaps you could also do deals with restaurants and taxi firms? Do you offer breakfast upgrades for more money? In my business I've found increasing average customer spend has been more beneficial than increasing the number of customers.