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28.02.2011: bookatonce will be staging numerous innovations and new developments at the ITB 2011

This year’s ITB Berlin, the world's largest and most influential travel trade show, takes place March 9th - March 13th. bookatonce will showcase many impressive features and surprising new developments. The ITB offers visitors the perfect forum to gather all information on the newest technological...

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14.02.2011: Working at the most beautiful places…

… this is now possible for managers of small and medium-sized enterprises applying the first completely mobile property and guest management app „bookatonce for iPad“. With a weight of just 800 grams, this touch sensitive tablet PC designed by Apple is very easy to operate by any user and th...

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09.02.2011: The new bookatonce pricing structure

We have had a lot of feedback and conversations with our customers and we have learned that the customers experienced some challenges in picking the „fitting“modules according their individual needs. We reacted immediately and it was already in last November that we presented the two attractive ...

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28.01.2011: How to improve your online presence for your hotel

Things are changing very fast and even faster when we talk about the Internet industry, for a small hotel, pension or B&B is quite important to develop an online marketing strategy and understand how important it is to be successful on the new landscape. There are quite five basic key points th...

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13.01.2011: Individual solutions for bed & breakfasts: bookatonce & Jimdo's Website Builder

In former times it was the printed catalogue - today those printed catalogues are commonly replaced by Internet pages. . Everybody needs a website nowadays. Without it, i.e. without benefiting from the advantages of modern communication channels, a huge number of potential guests won't even know ...

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23.12.2010: Merry Christmas

The bookatonce team would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. We had many experiences during 2010, sharing, working, reading your feedback, commenting and all above having all of you close to us! We hope the 2011 will be better than this year and bookatonce wi...

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13.12.2010: Get bookings instead of inquiries! Seamless integration of bookatonce’s online booking into STRATO LivePages

Many guesthouses and small hotels are already benefitting from the STRATO LivePages to easily and cost-effectively create professional websites for their businesses. These customers now profit from the cooperation with bookatonce, providing an even easier and convenient way for guests to book on...

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02.12.2010: How to Choose Keywords for SEO of a hotel web page

The keywords have been used since the beginning of the SEO techniques as a key resource in the process of putting our content in search engines. Today many small hotels, pension or B&B doesn't have the chance to get the services of the  SEO experts, therefore we would like you some tips for ...

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29.11.2010: bookatonce around Europe!

Again and again, bookatonce is travelling across Europe visiting various tourism trade fairs, making new contacts, discovering the latest trends and to enter into direct dialogue with our customers. During the last months bookatonce was in Salzburg “Alles für den Gast” (All for the guest) ...

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22.11.2010: 8 reasons why the hotels and B&B should take advantage of social networks

Who doesn't have a iPhone with an Internet connection? Who doesn't have a profile in a social network like facebook, twitter, flickr, youtube? Both are being quite relevant for tourism industry and its constantly growth and people learning to use them and interact are making social network an op...

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19.11.2010: Twitter for Hotels - Communication strategy

As you all know Twitter is a microblogging service that allows users to send and read text micro-entries with a maximum length of 140 characters, called "tweets." In June 2010, Twitter, the online channel more interactive and instantaneous, had approximately 125 million users. The success is due...

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17.11.2010: bookatonce iPhone App 2.0.2 is released!

As Apple has released the iPhone 4 by now, bookatonce, too, has enhanced its legendary iPhone app.  Version 2.0.2 has been released! The iPhone app allows you to manage your rooms and guests conveniently via your iPhone and gives you direct access to all of your bookatonce features. What’s ne...

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02.11.2010: Back from GeMax Annual Meeting in Kassel

bookatonce is back from GeMax after three exciting days in this annual meeting and this time Daniel Quiles attended to the meeting in Kassel. The networking event was held under the topic e-Marketing & Social Media Marketing and the idea was to help GeMax members into their annual marketing pl...

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14.09.2010: bookatonce: web booking engine - reservation system

Is your website bringing in the customers and revenue you expect it to do? What are you doing to keep increasing your sales? If you definitely answer the first question with “no” and want to increase your business you should keep on reading. In order to have an appropriate answer to the ...

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06.09.2010: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, bookatonce!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, bookatonce! A reason to celebrate: This month marks our first anniversary! And we’d like to thank you - our customers, critics and fans - for all your support this past year! In September 2009 protel hotelsoftware GmbH launched the web-based, leasable application bookato...

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06.09.2010: bookatonce selected as top business application for September, 2010

bookatonce, the guest and property management system for smaller hotels and bed & breakfasts, was now selected as a Top 20 business application for September 2010 by GetApp.com, the business software search engine. Another indication of the growing popularity and acceptance of this software solu...

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03.09.2010: Channel Management provided by cultuzz and bookatonce

There are a lot of methods that assist hoteliers with distributing available rooms to their guests. The number of booking channels or distribution partners available for hotels, guest houeses or bed & breakfasts is constantly growing. This is resulting in a confusing amount of data (guest data, ...

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25.08.2010: The Professional Association of Innkeepers International (PAII) welcomes bookatonce as new member

bookatonce has now joined the Professional Association of Innkeepers International. This step reflects the importance of the US market given by bookatonce. It was just consequential to join one of the major players within the US Bed & Breakfast and innkeeping industry. The PAII community was ...

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19.08.2010: bookatonce is gaining ground all over the world – Internationalisation of front desk software is progressing swiftly

It hasn’t even been a year since the web based booking software bookatonce launched to support small hotels, guest houses and B&Bs with managing their rooms and availabilities. Amazingly enough, however, people all over the world are already using bookatonce, even though bookatonce was first m...

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16.08.2010: Strategies for Hotels in Social Networks - Hotel Social Media

Web 2.0 calls for a total change of mentality for companies. To sell today, it is not enough to just communicate a value, we must create it. And therefore, those values should be based on a roundtrip communication with the customer.  The Hotel Social Media key to success in ...

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12.08.2010: Online bookings and guest & hotel management software brilliantly combined - The advantages of applying bookatonce

Some innkeepers or owners of guest houses, cottages or private vacation rentals are still reluctant to replace their old-fashioned pen & paper solution for managing both online bookings and guest & property data by hotel management software. They still might wonder: "Why do I need guest mana...

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09.07.2010: bookatonce offers a reward for US bed & breakfasts

bookatonce – the most innovative online booking software provider – is now looking for US-based bed and breakfasts, motel owners and Innkeepers that would like to improve their current booking system. The exclusive reward for being our review partner is complete access to our full range of produ...

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08.07.2010: bookatonce goes West – our initiative to enter the US market

bookatonce goes West – our initiative to enter the US market The bookatonce mission is to help smaller properties to manage their rooms, guests and room availability more efficiently. Our ambition refers to family owned and run hotels and guest houses that want to benefit more extensively f...

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08.07.2010: bookatonce goes international

bookatonce is the latest technology solution developed by protel hotelsoftware GmbH based in Dortmund, Germany. protel is one of the market leaders in the field of Property Management Systems (PMS) and has been serving the hospitality industry for more than 15 successful years now. bookat...

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07.07.2010: Björn Grunert

Björn Grunert International Sales at bookatonce My name is Björn Grunert. After having lived a longer period abroad, I am now back in Germany. I am currently living in Hemer, a small village located about 30 kilometers from Dortmund, bookatonce’s headquarter. Hemer is situated at the edge of...

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