Google reviews have always been more challenging than other review platforms. At one time, your customer needed to have a Google + account in order to post a review, and those customers were really hard to find! You also had … Continue reading
Direct Bookings have become much more difficult to obtain than they were even 18 -24 months ago. There are many contributing factors as to why this is happening. Many of these reasons have eluded Innkeepers and will continue to do … Continue reading
We had a busy summer here at Acorn Internet Services. We launched several beautiful new websites, all with responsive design and on secure servers, just the way Google likes it in the “mobile first” era. We currently offer three packages … Continue reading
Review and reputation management company GetFiveStars has changed its branding to GatherUp and added a conversion popup to its already impressive list of features. The name change represents the intention of the company to focus on the full customer experience … Continue reading
Last week TripAdvisor announced it will be expanding the role social media has on its platform both in providing content and in influencing people’s activities by providing personalized travel feeds for users. The new format will feature content and reviews … Continue reading
Site speed is very important these days. Important enough for Google to develop a tool to test it: Test My Site with Google. This tester will tell you how quickly your site loads on a 3G network – 3G being … Continue reading
Occasionally, the webmail interface for Rackspace email has issues. That’s been happening on and off for the last few days. If you access your email exclusively through the webmail interface, you will have noticed a problem trying to log in. … Continue reading
If you have an Acorn WordPress site, you have probably either received an email, or logged into your site to see this notification right on the top of your Dashboard page: Some of our customers have contacted us to ask … Continue reading
You may have heard about some changes coming to Google’s Maps API. They have announced that certain Maps products will now have charges associated with them. This is what we know. For the most part, this will mainly apply to … Continue reading
In a recent Acorn webinar, we were looking at different kinds of listings, and as we always get lots of questions about BedandBreakfast.com, we looked at the site and saw a result similar to this: Since we were pretty sure … Continue reading
