Business Intelligence

BedandBreakfast.com, Rezovation, and Webervations Raise Prices

Posted by on January 13, 2012 at 4:39 pm

BedandBreakfast.com, Rezovation, and Webervations have raised prices again.  Upon recently visiting their websites to update our analysis of comparative pricing, we discovered that another wave of price increases have been rolled out in the last 6 months.  But don’t take our word for it, visit their websites for yourself. BedandBreakfast.com for example now charges about [...]

A Gift for New Year’s – IWB Channel Manager

Posted by on January 12, 2012 at 8:44 pm

We have a New Year’s gift for you. We now offer channel management to our members. This means you only have to manage your calendar once, and you can update all your booking sites. The advantage is incredible time savings and convenience. Eliminate many hours of work each month in managing calendars on multiple websites. [...]

A Cheaper Alternative for Property Management Systems

Posted by on September 19, 2011 at 6:01 am

Introducing IWBFrontDesk.com, a cheaper alternative for property management IWBFrontDesk is a new property management system with one major advantage: Savings of 30% to 75% versus competing services. With prices so low, why not begin saving today? Get a free 30-day trial, available only to Instant World Booking members. Contact us for the promo code to [...]

Property Management System for Bed & Breakfasts

Posted by on September 7, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Get your Demo today Engineered as an alternative to products like RezOvation ®, Webervations ®, SuperInn, Resnexus ®, Hostel Power, HostelMate, etc., IWBFrontDesk has one major advantage: lower cost.  In our last article, we showed price comparisons indicating savings of 30% to 75%+ versus many of the most popular PMS providers.  Now, for complete details, [...]

New Booking Engines, Lower Prices for 2011

Posted by on November 1, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Following is a letter published to our fellow members of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International (paii.org): We wish to introduce to you our new Booking Engines (Online Reservation System) for 2011.  They’re available right now!  BedBreakfastTraveler.com (Instant World Booking) believes that this announcement is quite timely.  Economic conditions in North America, and for the B&B industry [...]

Don’t ever turn down free advertising

Posted by on October 30, 2010 at 10:42 am

“Don’t ever turn down free advertising. Marketing has a ‘cumulative effect’. In this case, less is not more. More is definitely More!” The “cumulative effect” is even more valuable if the source of advertising is costless.   To learn how it works, read: http://www.instantworldbooking.com/blog_iw/2010/10/cumulative-effect-online-marketing/Link to this post!

New Version of XML API introduced, featuring “Get Bookings”

Posted by on October 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm

Instant World Booking features an advanced XML API, enabling accommodations to easily use XML feeds to: Get Calendar Availability/Allocations Set Calendar Availability/Allocations Retrieve Bookings Our latest version 2.1 was released today, and includes the capability to download bookings/reservations right from the system.  This version effectively completes Instant World Booking’s upgrade to a fully functional Calendar and Bookings [...]

Get Free PPC (Pay per click) Advertising from BedBreakfastTraveler.com

Posted by on May 27, 2010 at 10:03 am

BedBreakfastTraveler.com (Instant World Booking) has proven to be very successful in gaining top search engine rankings for its listed bed & breakfast partners. One reason it is important to use the instant booking method is that we use pay-per-click (PPC) advertising to market your property on Google and other sites. Use of a PPC campaign [...]

Property Management Systems Integrating with BedBreakfastTraveler.com

Posted by on May 3, 2010 at 7:51 pm

ASSD Hotel Property Management System is one of the latest PMS systems to interface with BedBreakfastTraveler.com (Instant World Booking).  If you currently use a 3rd party PMS or Channel Management System, or any Calendar Management System for your B&B, contact them today to tell them you want their system to feed BedBreakfastTraveler.com (IWB).  Perhaps you’re using one of the [...]

Questions about BedBreakfastTraveler.com’s Booking Engine for B&B Websites

Posted by on April 25, 2010 at 7:45 pm

Maybe you’re considering a new booking engine for your bed and breakfast website.  Maybe you’re looking for a better solution at a lower price.  Here are some of the questions you should be asking: What do you mean by “almost cost-free solution”? Are my customers charged a service fee? Can I still keep all my [...]