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| You can join our site, with a small annual
membership fee, and no commission to be paid! That's right. No
commissions! We just want you to have the
privilege of being part of USABedandBreakfast.com. Don't mistake low
fee for lack of quality. Take a look around the site. We are a
professional organization who treats their members with respect.
E-mail any of our B&B members and get their comments and opinions.
In today's fast
paced internet life, there are hundreds of companies trying to sell you
internet advertising space. Most of these companies are just trying to make
money on building you a web page for a few hundred dollars. Once they
get your money, they put your site on some non-B&B web site, never to be
edited again.
We at USABedandBreakfast.com aren't interested in that type of business.
We are here for the long run. We want to be your one-stop provider of
B&B info and services. Here are just a few good reasons to
subscribe with us:
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aggressively market and promote this web site |
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aggressively market this web site on the internet. We currently list
our site on over 400 worldwide search engines.
The importance of
search engines can't be overlooked, as they are the most popular method for
discovering new sites.
As an individual B&B operator, you do not want to waste precious time,
money and energy registering on individual search engines. We'll do it
for you. We market our site across all the popular search engines
including:
Yahoo! United States,
Ask Jeeves,
Google,
Ninemsn,
Looksmart United States, and
OPTUSnet just to name a few. Click 'Alphabetical List of Search Engines' for a
complete list of all 400.
We also promote our site on the Radio (example: 2UE morning radio),
newspaper and by word of mouth. Check out some of the coverage in our
Press Room.
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get you bookings |
| Honest! Our web site has hundreds of
people visiting and using our site each day. We don't count "hits" (which is
a meaningless term). We count individuals: people like you and I from all
over the world using our server to find United States Bed and Breakfasts. We
publish our numbers for
anyone to review.
We have testimonials from across United States from B&B owners who are online
with us. They get bookings. It's just that simple. Check out some of
the testimonials.
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We use our 'BBProfiler' tool |
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represents our easy-to-use site updater. This is our technology that
allows our members to to easily update their listing anytime they want. It
is available to Bed and Breakfast owners who have internet access. The
update process is completely automated and immediate. It is secure and
encrypted (no one can get your password).
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We Are The Best United States Bed and
Breakfast Web Site |
| This web site was started in June
2003. In the past, you could go to any internet search engine and
look for B&Bs and only have 6 results come up. Today, large search engines
index tens of thousands of B&B related pages. We aim to be the most regarded
as THE standard for United States Bed and Breakfast listings on
the web.
There are many other United States Bed and Breakfast web sites on the
internet, but none have the power and simplicity of USABedandBreakfast.com.
We have designed this site so that anyone can use it: from the latest
versions of Netscape/MS Internet Explorer, to the oldest text browsers such
as Mosaic: They all work on our web site. You will NEVER see a "This site
optimized for Netscape" on our site. We won't alienate your potential next
client. It's a hard fact that many people browsing this site from overseas
do NOT have the latest internet technology at their disposal; some are a few
years behind in technology. No problem: everything will work on this web
site.
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We Are Inexpensive and Designed to Stay
That Way |
| We give you a complete color listing for a
low fee of either a one-time $55 admin fee for a standard listing or $99/year
Blue Ribbon membership. Fee dependant on your
level of membership. Many others charge up to $500 without
having nearly the audience that we attract. We ONLY list
United States Bed and Breakfasts. Our format is simple, powerful and
internationally recognizable since we use graphics to represent data.
We have developed a proprietary database technology which allows us to
offer free information and search functionality
Our database technology generates the content of the web site
dynamically, as well as generating renewal letters, reports and other
statistics about this web site. It is all self contained within one program.
Many of our competitors create your web page by hand, tediously, without any
method of tracking the data that goes into those pages. You'd like your
description changed?, no problem, we edit your record in our database and it
goes online immediately, or you can edit your page with us using
BBProfiler technology.
Test Drive
BBProfiler right now and see how powerful and easy it is to use!
Our database can tell us, for example, who is up for renewal in August,
who has not renewed yet in July, how many people subscribed in the first
quarter of 2000 allowing us to forecast our advertising budget for the next
quarter, print reminder letters to overdue subscribers, generate your web
page etc.
How does all of this technology affect you? All of these state of the art
techniques allow us to cut overhead and keep the price low. It only requires
2 people to manage this web site since we have developed such a powerful
database tool for tracking/adding Bed and Breakfasts.
A good demonstration of this technology is upgrading your web page: For
example, we recently added more information to the web pages, "Which Credit
Cards Are Accepted". We have thousands of subscribers which normally means
having to edit thousands of web pages to add this information. Conventional
methods would require someone going into each web page and editing them to
add this information. But with our method, we simply modify our
BBProfiler engine to show "credit cards accepted" and instantly
thousands of subscribers on our site now contain this information.
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You Have a Web Page Somewhere Else
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| Great! But will anyone ever find you? When
someone in Germany wants to find a Bed and Breakfast in United States, they
don't want to haphazardly look through random pages scattered across the
Internet. They would want to find a standard Bed and Breakfast resource with
hundreds of searchable listings shown in a commonly understood format. This
is precisely what we provide.
A common analogy would be this: Say you had a nice poster advertisement
developed: anyone can develop the poster ad, but it's totally useless if you
take that ad and stick it on a sign post in your backyard. You would want
that poster to be plastered in every major travel shop available. We offer
you the poster (web page) and we offer to put it on our billboard (our web
site).
As part of our subscription, we allow you an outside link to your other
web page at no extra cost. We would hate for those other web pages to go
unnoticed since you paid good money to have them developed!
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We Have The Future In Mind |
| Our internet web site has been very
successful. Our future goals include affiliations with large United States
internet content providers and perhaps a print book for people to carry
around.
We are working hard to promote your United States Bed and Breakfasts.
If you wish to become a member of USABedandBreakfast.com, please
click here to read more.
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