The website for American Bed & Breakfast Inns, www.abbinns.com went live March 5, 2010. This site is designed using VIDEO as the marketing centerpiece, and entirely different look, feel, and function. Just two days later my business partner and I went off to the Professional Association of Innskeepers www.innkeeping..org annual convention and trade show in Austin TX to show off our project. As a new business we're to do everything with an eye on economy so we drove! Yes from Ohio to Texas, a twenty hour drive, to demonstrate a new website we barely understood. Now we'd viewed test pages, tested functions, made changes and did it all over again and again, but the site was live and we had to demonstrate to our potential customers at the largest event of its kind! We were feeling the pressure!
In the three days of the event, we met with dozens of potential clients, registered many, compared notes with fellow vendors, attended workshops and got a couple of great recommendations for our VIDEOs during presentations! It turned out to be a great experience. Of course, then there was the drive back to Ohio!
Since that time we've been busy! One of us is busy with our staff producing the promised VIDEOs and working to optimize the site. The other is following up with both current clients and those Innkeepers interested in our VIDEO product and directory listings. We're in the midst of negotiating with Innkeeping associations, state and national alike, for bundled listings. We've been asked to present our VIDEO production services and directory at a number of meetings around the country. Seems travel is in our future!
We are already working on some additions and enhancements to the site and our services. I'll explain more about those in the weeks to come.
All of us are thrilled with the reaction to our VIDEO service and directory and look forward to a long relationship with our clients.
