Member Checklist
Make sure you are taking full advantage of your BedandBreakfast.com/Inns.com membership!
To update your listing, use your Property ID number & password and log in to your Home Base.
- Change your password: If you have not already done so, change your computer-generated password to one that's easy to remember.
- Update your listing: Make sure your rates, contact information, and descriptions are current. Changes made to your BedandBreakfast.com listing will automatically be updated on Inns.com. You don’t have to do a thing!
- Photos: Display the maximum number of photos allowed at your membership level: Bronze, one; Silver, 10; Gold, 15; Platinum 25. Check to see if your photos need updating with ones that are brighter, clearer, and/or more current.
- Photo descriptions: Add detailed descriptions to your photographs.*
- Room-by-room descriptions: Add detailed descriptions of your guest rooms. **
- Video tour: Attract more guests with a video tour on your listing!*
- Free links to your availability calendar: RezOvation Booking Engine and Webervations customers get free links to their availability calendars.
- Reviews: To increase traffic to your listing on BedandBreakfast.com, encourage your guests to post reviews. Click the review link from your Home Base for suggestions on how to do this, and ask us to mail you business card reminders and postage-paid business reply cards. Add a reviews widget to get more reviews and save $5 monthly/$60 annually for posted reviews.
- Blog: Trade links with our blog, and subscribe to The BedandBreakfast.com Blog for B&B trip reports, trends, recipes and more.
- Innkeeper message boards: Our state-of-the-art message boards are the place to meet and greet your fellow innkeepers and industry gurus. *
- Best of BedandBreakfast.com Awards: Increase your chances of being an award-winning B&B by posting the review widget on your own website and distributing printed and emailed reminders to your guests.
- Publicity leads: Log in to your Home Base every week to check for newly posted publicity leads, and watch your email for more story ideas that can help you get media coverage.
- Recipes: Post your favorite recipes on BedandBreakfast.com to drive more traffic to your listing/site.
- Display BedandBreakfast.com Hot Deals & Specials: Get the word out to consumers via the weekly Hot Deals email. Post special packages to drive traffic to your listing. *
Optional products and services to achieve better exposure:
- Gift Card program: Attract new guests with our risk-free, nationally promoted gift cards, sold online, at your own inn, and by 20,000 U.S. retailers. You get 80%-85% of every dollar redeemed; participation is free. Because the cost of an inngoer's stay generally exceeds the value of the redeemed certificate, the effective commission rate is usually 10% or less! Plus, you make 20% commission on the ones you sell yourself!
- Sell Rooms while you sleep: Sign up for BedandBreakfast.com Online Reservations and encourage travelers to book your property 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Introduce your inn to millions of potential guests through our website and Expedia.com, hotels.com, Sidestep and Kayak.com.
- Availability calendar linking program: If you have an electronic availability calendar displayed on your website, you can display it on BedandBreakfast.com. For an annual fee (free for RezOvation Booking Engine and Webervations customers), BedandBreakfast.com will provide two calendar links: one from your brief listing on your city page, and one from your full listing. An additional link will appear on your Inns.com listing.
- 90-day risk-free upgrade guarantee: Get higher placement on your city page, add more photos, and link to your website. Upgrade to Silver, Gold or Platinum.
- Secondary listings: To gain even broader exposure, add a second listing for your property in a nearby city. Log in to your Home Base, then click Add Second Listing. All Secondary Listings appear on Inns.com at no additional cost.
- Feature your property: Make your B&B or inn the Featured Property on your city, region and/or state page(s) to direct more potential guests to your website. Featured Property Auction bids start at only one penny per page view.
- Inn of the Month: Give your B&B or inn maximum exposure by making it the top-listed property on your city page. Many cities are available for the $25 minimum bid.
- Inns for Sale: Thousands of interested buyers look here for properties to acquire.
*Silver level members and above.
**Gold level members and above.