Live from Ireland
Usually when people talk about ads on blogs the focus is on Adsense. But some blogs make money from Pay per post articles. So in the interests of journalism I looked into this.
Conclusion: Its too tacky, even for Ambrand.com, plus ahem the returns are too low, and are paid is US Dollars which are laughably worthless at the moment.
Parrots imitating speech? pff thats old news. But the Lyre Bird doing sound effects now thats impressive. Check out the Michael Winslow of the avian community. It makes noises that no human could make.
One of my friends runs a busy “Guesthouse”, although its central location and high standards mean it might as well be called a Hotel. The property uses a pen and ink booking system.
So unless you want to phone or walk-in any electronic inquiry you make will have a lag of say 1 hour at best, i.e. they check email, check the book, reply. Today that just doens’t cut it. Any potential guest will have meanwhile found examplecorporatehotel.com and will have been able to confirm availability in 5 seconds and booked in 5 more with his credit card.
I have been trying various “Front desk” software programs.
When running a hotel there are a few key functions you will need in software.
ASI Frontdesk
Support: An American address, with Indian employees. There are a few bugs in the software. Like most things made for the American market the address field expects a two letter state abbreviation (eg CA) and a character zipcode (90210 with or without 1234). An Irish address can fill neither of those fields and the software does not truncate the final address on the letter head, leaving nasty spaces. Overall the software is badly designed.
I’ll keep trying and report more…
Comments