Travel - renovation and a competitive advantage!

Interior makeovers give historic buildings new life as hotels

Historic buildings that evoke the elegance of a past era are finding new lives as modern, instantly iconic hotels.

One benefit of the reuse, recycle mindset that has developers creating fabulous new properties in the shells of once-grand buildings is that elegance and glamour are returning to interior design.

This is just an informative article for our customers.
http://www.hotelinteractive.com/article.aspx?articleid=13065

Renovations:

The development of capital replacement budgets and the setting aside of reserves for replacement are long term strategies that keep a property fresh and competitive in the marketplace. If an organization has reserves for replacement set aside, now may be a good time to implement needed renovations which will allow the property to emerge stronger when the economy improves.

The accelerated price of energy earlier this year suggests that renovations related to energy efficient technology would yield future returns. If the property is experiencing reduced occupancy, renovation disruptions will be minimized relative to the guest experience. So, I think we did very well for the past year!

A native of Germany, he says this is a European sensibility. "In America you think, 'It's bigger, it's better,' but many places in Europe you didn't have the space, so you made very small jewels."

This is exactly how we think about our property as a "JEWEL" - that is!

Renovation, staying in business in tough times and meeting the "GREEN" guidelines

http://www.ahla.com/Green.aspx?id=24560

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and just another 'Green" fun link!

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_green_news/8/twelve-amazing-shipping-container-houses.html

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Innovation in tought times

How it helps when you keep your networking live and building it continually.

I don’t know too many small business owners hanging around looking for bailouts. The bailout of choice for the small business owner is innovation and determination.

ONE great step we took in the last year was Renovations:
The development of capital replacement budgets and the setting aside of reserves for replacement are long term strategies that keep a property fresh and competitive in the marketplace.
If an organization has reserves for replacement set aside, now may be a good time to implement needed renovations which will allow the property to emerge stronger when the economy improves.

The accelerated price of energy earlier this year suggests that renovations related to energy efficient technology would yield future returns. If the property is experiencing reduced occupancy, renovation disruptions will be minimized relative to the guest experience.


I am listing this link here in this posting to bring it to live that we, the small businesses are trying so many ways to be innovative and make our businesses going and more attractive in this economic downturn!

Innovation in tough times

developing oneself

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Morel Mushroom Festival (coupon)

Celebrating our neighbors UNIQUE Festival!

The World Capital of Morel Mushroom Festival happens in MUSCODA, WI a great little town where you can feel at home. Come celebrate an entire weekend with great foods, arts and live music, UW parade and so much more.

Usually the Festival is held every spring the weekend after Mother's Day.

Let's discuss where the morels accompanying a dead elm tree are most apt to be located. If it is early in the season, they will be on the south edge of the timber or on the south facing slope near the top of a hill because he sun warms these areas first. As the season progresses, the morels begin appearing further into the woods, further down the south side of the hills, and near the top of the north facing slope. At last, near the end of the season, they will appear at the north edge of the woods and in the bottom land.

Take your time to visit us on merchantcircle.com to find our coupon:
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/The.Usonian.Inn.LLC.608-588-2323/promotion

Your savings Opportunity!

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Hello everyone,

I am taking the time to list here a few opportunity that I was thinking about and I came to the conclusion that is worth publishing this information.

As every business is looking into different strategies to save a "buck", we decided to pass Our savings Opportunity into you.

We have Decided TO USE different ways of saving you money and making it easy for everyone to pay for their travel leisure or business or more, like shopping in our beautiful artsy village.


I. - OUR NEW POLICY stands for a percentage down payment of the total bill, and we though this will have everyone split their payment and this way is not so much of a burden to pay a chunk at once.


II. Yet, another way to book and save is using our on line booking system that allows you to take advantage of the flat fee discount (which we will keep uniform for all offers), this system is limited to 45 day advance booking, but not more. The offer is a flat Fee Discount!

Once we get your request we will produce the invoice for your reservation and you are in your way!

Thank you for helping us speeding in a great way to get more "green," and being an active participant!



We all strive to be in front of customers as often as possible and be our best. But, when we think about it, our clients and prospects give us many opportunities to stay in their minds in positive ways and we want to give them a reason to remember us for future business.

Yet, these opportunities are often overlooked, simply because we neglect to have open communication.

In conclusion:

• If you can find your the room type on line on our system, use our online booking and SAVE - http://usonianinn-online-booking.genbook.com
• The down payment will make it easier for you to pay in small bites and not a big chunk. (I also had people feel comfortable to pay 100% up front, we are NOT asking for that.)

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Spring is in the Air!

It might not be that Spring had arrived yet, but, we get the feeling of the whole nature returning to life and getting ready to revive, to bloom, to challenge the entire environment (atmosphere) with all kinds of fragrances! ... with those birds songs, geese are lined up in the sky and started migrating....

The sun is on the ski mostly every day, all day, sometimes all week. It's long since we had any forecast,...it's like we need that, and we are awaiting for something to happened, maybe some rain,...

Leaves will grow fast and will enhance the sound of winds in the area, coming through and going by and again, carrying life and beauty along to perfect our enjoyment and fulfilling what is usually missing those winter months.

This winter it wasn't as long and dragging, I was busy with different projects. I managed to take a short vacation.

With spring coming there are some other events we are celebrating this time of the year!

Starting with St Patric's Day, then is Earth day - we do have a special event for that date!

Then there is a proposed "GREEN" Open House and Busness Fair on the premises planned for last weekend of March and 1rs in April. More to be listed in details on our Calendar on the web page. We are remembering the Customer Appreciation date as well - now called "Sprint into Spring," so, visit us and enjoy shopping in our great area.

Keep an eye on our calendar of events! (Off my web page - it's constantly being updated)

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