Business, Product & Tool Tips

How to Create a High-traffic Booking Website

How to use SimplyBook.me custom features to build a high-traffic booking website. Now is the era of the internet. As such, most of us have become accustomed to finding everything through “searching” the Web. Using search engines such as Google, or even searching a specific website for a particular product. We seek, we find, and […]

Amie Parnaby

19/11/2019

Business, Product & Tool Tips
Recurring services

Friday Feature: Recurring Services, Sessions & Classes

Do you need your clients to commit to a set number of sessions? Encouraging your clients to book (and pay for) recurring services such as a programme of fitness, self-care or other personal or professional need, will guarantee that you retain a client for the time required, and will ensure your income. Why offer recurring […]

Amie Parnaby

15/11/2019

Business, Product & Tool Tips
Facebook and Instagram online Self-Booking

Facebook and Instagram Bookings – Two more channels from SimplyBook.me

If you haven’t already heard, SimplyBook.me has gone live as a Facebook Inc. developer partner. That means you can enable both Facebook and Instagram bookings with a business service that links to your SimplyBook.me booking website.  We’ve had the Facebook widget and Messenger chatbot for a while. Still, now, the functionality is part of the […]

Amie Parnaby

12/11/2019

Business, Product & Tool Tips, Business Tips, Tool Tips
Localize - Custom translations

Localize – Custom Language Translations to Suit Your Markets

If you have ever had to display your website in multiple languages, you know that sometimes the simple option isn’t always the best. It’s not uncommon for websites to show in a variety of languages, and some businesses are legally required to display their websites in multiple languages. In countries like Canada that have more […]

Amie Parnaby

08/11/2019

Newsletters
Autumn/Winter transition - October.

October Newsletter: Marketplaces, Payments & Partnerships

Autumn is turning to winter, the gorgeous fall leaves have started falling, and it’s the time of year when people start to get the festive vibe (or “Bah, Humbug!”). The holiday season is just around the corner, and we have a couple of early gifts for your business stocking. October has been a busy month […]

Amie Parnaby

06/11/2019

Sports, Fitness & Gyms
Sports & Fitness Trends for 2020

7 Sport & Fitness Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2020

The end of the year is drawing closer, and people are beginning to think about what the new year will mean for them. For many, that means thinking about starting, maintaining or switching their fitness regime. Since a lot of people buy their gym memberships or fitness packages at the dawn of a New Year, […]

Ingvar Gudmundsson

05/11/2019

Business Types
driving school marketing

How to Manage Booking & Marketing your Driving School

Whether you’re an independent driving instructor or a driving school trying to increase your numbers and reduce your admin time, you need two things. One is an online booking system; the second is a marketing strategy that will bring the motorists of tomorrow to your door. How to set up your driving school website on […]

Ingvar Gudmundsson

01/11/2019

Business Types, Events & Entertainment
Halloween Escape Room

Top 3 Most Scary Escape Rooms on Booking.page

What can be more exciting than going to a scary escape room on Halloween? Halloween is all about freaking out others or even better freaking out yourself! I mean, who says only children should get the delicious thrill of being scared out of their minds? We encourage you to dig deep for your inner child, […]

Ingvar Gudmundsson

31/10/2019

Business, Product & Tool Tips, Business Tips
Seasonal Marketing - Frank N Vova

Seasonal Marketing Strategies for Service Businesses

Summer is gone, and Autumn has a firm grip on the northern hemisphere. Halloween is just days away, hailing the beginning of the most significant promotional period of the year. Have you got your seasonal marketing strategy ready for it?  Product retailers would have us believe that Black Friday and all the other “Special Sale […]

Amie Parnaby

29/10/2019

Tool Tips, Business, Product & Tool Tips, Business Tips, SimplyBook.me Tips
Booking.page - Global Service Marketplace

Booking.page – The Global Service Marketplace by SimplyBook.me

Have you heard about it yet? The new release from SimplyBook.me is a global service marketplace. Booking.page has all the benefits of listing your business on a directory, such as SEO, accessibility, and more customers, but your clients can book with you directly from the search result.  Why we did this? Everything we do with the […]

Amie Parnaby

25/10/2019

Business, Product & Tool Tips, Business Tips
Client Loyalty Strategy

The Importance of Client Loyalty – Getting it and keeping it

Your business relies on getting new customers and getting those customers to come back time and again. This kind of client loyalty is not easy to attain when price comparison has become so easy, and everyone wants the best deal they can get. Why is client loyalty important? When you welcome a new client into […]

Amie Parnaby

22/10/2019