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You should be getting lots of
online bookings
You could get up to half your bookings on-line, without any set up costs!
According to official figures 11% of guest accommodation bookings are made over the internet. But that's not the full story, it's
an average. The truth is that some properties get up to 50% of their business from the internet, while others get NONE.
You may be wondering why? You might think that only the most expensive websites succeed – but you'd be wrong. You might think
that its only for the largest hotels – wrong again. Online booking is successful for all types of Hotel, B&B and Guesthouse - yours included. Indeed, at the Irish Hotels Federation conference in March, all delegates were told "Get online or lose out".
The truth is that to get online business you need to have a website that is linked to a really effective online credit card booking system. And I mean a proper system that checks your latest availability and makes an instant reservation.
- NB: Many Hotels and B&B's fail
to get bookings because their website only has a request form – with a promise to reply soon. That just won't do. Customers will not wait. With thousands of other Hotels and B&B's offering instant
online booking your customers will simply go elsewhere.
Free Offer
We offer a Free booking system for your property because if you are local to us we'd like to promote your business.
But don't get me wrong. We're not offering this for free just so that we can charge you to install it – its free.
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"It's great. We've had a website for years. But
with Martin's help our online business
way up."
Kate Fitzgibbon
Ahernes Youghal
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We will create an online booking system with you that can take credit card
bookings 24 hours day. Your bookings will be totally secure. If fact, your online system will be exactly the same as some of Ireland's biggest hotel groups (many of whom have paid a lot of money for this same facility).
Your booking system will work from our website, and if you already have your own website we can add credit card booking to that too – for free!
But that's not the end of the story. You see your booking system won't
find new guests by itself - you need to have internet customers using it. And to find these - you need marketing.
That's where we will add even more.
My name is Martin Finn and I've been an internet marketeer for the past 14
years. My company, based in Youghal, has set up the first and only holiday website that exclusively sells this area – the area of East Cork and West Waterford that we call The Irish Riviera.
Look at the success!
We have just completed our first year and it was a great success with an amazing 139,000 visitors to our website. That's over one hundred and thirty thousand visitors wanting to know more about holidays in this area.
And they are still arriving; every day another 300-400 new visitors come and discover that The
Irish Riviera is a great place for their next holiday. Most importantly they also research and book their holiday accommodation.
You see, visitors don't just read about the area, they make online enquiries and on-line bookings too. Over
19,000 of our visitors have either asked for further details such as pricing, availability or just booked there and then . Its all handled automatically 24 hours a day. You can take bookings
day and night – effortlessly.
The year to April 2005 was our first year and yet we've generated hundreds of bookings worth
€150,000 of extra business for local accommodation. In fact, we created far more demand that we could meet.
2nd Free Offer
That's why we're also offering a FREE listing for your property. A free listing on The Irish Riviera will give you access to our website visitors, and with your online booking system you can
convert them to paying guests.
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Did you know
that in Ireland, B&B's get
as
many online bookings as
Hotels!
Source:
Gulliver Ireland 2004
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So that's a free booking system (that can often cost thousands of Euro's)
and a free listing on the premier website selling this area. I can hear you thinking "There must be a charge – and there has to be a catch". Well yes
, we do make a charge, its just 10% for credit card bookings that are taken using our system. And that's all. As for the catch – well … there isn't one
- NB: I should add that the online booking system relies upon your daily access to the internet and email, and your maintenance of
online availability. Its not hard and we will help you.
So what do you have to gain? A chance to get access to more bookings,
throughout the year. What do you have to lose? Nothing. There's no risk, and no cost to you. Join us today and you could be online and taking bookings within a few days.
Even More.
We're adding new sections to The Irish Riviera all the time. We concentrated in Youghal for 2004.
Now we're expanding to the full Riviera for 2005. Don't miss your chance to be listed in our pages for Ardmore, Lismore, Dungarvan, Ballycotton, Cobh, Midleton and others.
That's not all. We also produce The Irish Riviera Guide, a free book that is given away from our
website. To date we've distributed over 3,500 copies, and have thousands on our mailing list waiting for the updated editions – which could have your free listing in it too.
You can be part of The Irish Riviera success story today, just sign in below and join up immediately.
Of course I'd be delighted to answer your questions, so please call me, on 024 20634.
There really is no reason to wait. You have nothing to lose. Remember every day that goes by
another 300-400 guests have visited our website, and could have booked online with you!
Martin Finn
Founder
The Irish Riviera
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Privacy Notice
The Irish Riviera is operated by Smart Tactics Ltd., and we take your privacy very seriously. All customer
information is held in strict confidence. We do not sell or share our customer list with any other entities without your permission. We have invested in the most respected
systems to ensure that you always have the option of unsubscribing from any of our mailing lists.
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- PS: When you sign up, you'll receive a sequence of email's that will guide you through the
process of creating your Free booking systems and Free listing.
The Irish Riviera and Irish Holiday Owners are registered trading names of Smart-Tactics Ltd
Registered Office 5 Union Quay, Cork. Company Number 372545. VAT Number IE 6392545N
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