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About Mark

Founder of Web Reservation Systems, focused on helping businesses in the Australian Accommodation travel sector get more value from Internet Marketing. Originally, we opened up in 2001 as a supplier of Front Office Software linked to Online Booking facilities. That allowed motels and hotels to add booking buttons to their websites as well as sell through Global Distribution Systems. You could say this was an early 'Channel Manager' because it allowed the property manager to simply control price and availability for a diverse array of wholesale and retails websites. Next, we started building websites to profile our customers (Australian Holiday Guide). That lead to building websites for customers as a favour. Now do about 80 websites a year using BurgundySky and Joomla. For small businesses I recommend using BurgundySky as it is very easy to start and manage. Joomla is also great, but harder to install and maintain for a small business. For a large website, Joomla is great - here's what we did for Golden Chain Motels, Australia largest accommodation provider with over 335 locations. Our business is based in Byron Bay, NSW. Byron Bay is a great place to live and work. I have 2 kids (12 and 14) who are both born here and my wife, Shobhan Oliver)is a successful artist.

Kalang River Motel in Urunga gets a New Website

We recently made a new website for Kalang River Motel in Urunga for June and Adriaan de Jonge using a theme from Elegant Themes. Continue reading

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Best Marketing Tip for Accommodation and Travel in Victoria

Great discount offer for a listing on Travel Victoria, the best value for inbound links and referrer traffic in Australia. Continue reading

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Adding Flickr Photos to Your Website with Author Attribution Tags

Using Photo Dropper, a WordPress plug in to add Flickr images to your blog posts. Continue reading

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iPad and MAC compatible Property Management Software for Australian Motels and Hotels

Reservation software for your iPad as well as being PC and MAC compatible hospitality software. Our MAC software for Australian accommodation comes with local support. Our systems are a big part of how you can build a multi channel Internet Marketing campaign that includes secure online booking from your website. Used by 100′s of motels, B&B’s, backpackers around Australia as well as 1000′s in America and Europe. Continue reading

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Survey Shows How Gen Y Uses Technology in Daily Life

Generation Y has a big fascination with technology and this new survey gives some insight into what they do and how they use it. For marketers selling to Gen Y customers you really need to know this stuff. Continue reading

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