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Aug42010

HotelORes.com – Launching Off Day

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My Hotel Reservations Website

I have recently launched my own hotel reservations website HotelOres.com. It is officially up and running now, anytime soon I will be adding hotels to the database which is going to be an ongoing duty when I get time apart from my other work which I currently do for momentohs®.

I have always had a dream to have my own hotel reservations website and found that putting this together during my dedicated online years will get this thing moving much faster. Obviously my key strengths with SEO will get our site the type of audience and website traffic we need. I will be lookign forward to any future partners or investors on this project, so do not be shy in getting in contact with me.

I always found that although there are loads of hotel reservations websites out there, but very few good ones.  But we will achieve our own personal targets for the time frame we set.

Our hotel reservations system allows hotel guests the ability to quickly find the hotel they would like to stay at for their desired location and book online immediately, the hotel owner will then have their details on booking confirmation ready for check in.

The site also features reviews and star ratings for each hotel along with photo gallery and prices for weekdays and weekends.

I may have my own little launch party for hotel owners and managers in the next coming months, so stick around for the updates.

Jun212010

Setting up a Company in Australia

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First of all it is pretty easy to do, you simply go to the ASIC website and search for the company name you would like to register to see if it has not been taken, and to be extra sure I also suggest you search in the business registration website as well by clicking on ABN look up and you can type the name of the company just to see if anyone else has this name.

Now that you are 100% certain nobody has registered your name, you can download the form 201 which appears as a drop down from the right sidebar on their home page and leads you to this page and then gives you the option to register either a public or proprietary company, to keep this really simple, I recommend you register the proprietary company (201c) which has a cost of $400.

This is the download form (unfortunately they do not yet have an online version) Once you are ready to fill out the form, remember that it is highly likely you need to nominate yourself as the director, and you can leave other directors and secretary pages blank if you do not have partners, however if you have partners then you will need to fill out those pages and also state the shares each partner has. Otherwise leave it as 100 shares at 100% ownership at $1 per share. (This is just an example)

From the time the application is submitted there is usually a 3 day waiting period, it really doesn’t take that long and then you will need to wait a week or two on the company registration certificates. You will need the original certificate in order to open the company bank account.

You will then have an ACN number which will be very useful for when applying for certain things. Remember also that if you think that you will be earning over $75,000 to apply for GST. This means you will need to charge 10% on top of all your invoices to your clients. But also remember that by doing so you will need to get your bookkeeper to fill out the GST statements each quarter before giving them to your accountant, which can be very time consuming and costly.

For those who are in need of branding out, I highly recommend trademarking your name as well. This can be done through IP Australia and remember to do a search there as well!

And if you have a new product on the market, do not forget to patent it!

Last but not least if you are after website design or search engine optimisation services for your new company at affordable prices please do give me a bell – info@danlew.com

I hope you found this post useful and wish you all the best in getting a company set up and good luck!

Jun92010

Marketing for Hotel Management Systems in Asia

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I have been working with a sideline project company lately and have dedicated alot of my time to the hotel software industry. The company I am working with is a 6 year fast growing company momentohs® which is a Hotel Management Systems company and they have in the recent year expanded into Thailand and are in desperate need in getting themselves up to speed with high sales targets in Asia, particularly in Thailand.

Micros who run Opera Fidelio and other smaller Hotel Management Systems that have been around for quite a few years lack certain capabilities that momentohs® offers, and I feel confident I can help grow this company in the Thailand region. Recently we have been able to get Centara on board with a few sites in Thailand and regions such as Phuket and Udon Thani.

We have implemented the system also in the Hotel at BelAir Panwa, Phuket and Solo Sukhumvit 2. We are also talking with Amari group and other various chains which are serious about getting our software implemented for future projects.

Hotel Management Systems which are not only controlled by a booking engine but also controlled by a front end and back end for handling rooms and food and beverage, spa and much more is the key success in having a successful system. Problems with Opera these days is the front end do not work properly with the back end.

The great thing about momentohs® it has all of what Opera has but more and is very simple to use. It also is much more friendlier in the sense that you do not need to export files back and forth which is the case with Opera. And instead of having multiple servers which Opera has, instead momentohs®  is controlled by 1 server even if you have multiple hotels, you run it from just one location.

It also runs on a SQL server, not on an Oracle server which is the case with Opera, which makes it much more cost effective for server licenses and so forth.

If you have left your hotel room on a certain temperature when you come back after few hours your room will be climatised according to the control by the system and will save costs. If your sons birthday is around the corner during your stay in the hotel, the system will record this information, and allow your son to have the 5 star experience you deserve. With Opera it can not record birth dates past the first 2 people of a group that have checked in. With momentohs® it is this and much more that gets you the 5 star experience any high paying customer should expect.

The momentohs® system is really catered towards 3 and a half star to 5 star. It offers 3 main versions, momentohs® enterprise, momentohs® sprint, and momentohs® entree.

Because this product is for a a selective audience, it needs the finest in marketing efforts in order to get the word across to the right people and I find that I am doing well at just that!

If anyone has experience with Hotel Management Systems and would like to leave any comments please do so, I would be more then happy to discuss differences and any other information that is of interest.

May212010

Business, Travel and Pleasure

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One thing I have been doing alot lately is traveling, just in one year alone I have flew to Australia and Back to Thailand three times. Although some of my time I had spent were related to pleasure generally most of my time mainly was related around business and setting up companies.

When I was in Melbourne this year I found the city to be very multicultural, perhaps more so then last time when I was there. There seems to be alot of Asian faces particularly Chinese who are there for university or study and even some in which have migrated there or been doing living there since birth. The amount of restaurants which are either owned by Asians or just generally working there is immense. Sad to say sometimes staying there, I don’t even feel Australian anymore.

Business on the other hand is quite enjoyable, being able to arrange meetings is not easy as time is very limited and everyone is always very rushed and busy, but after some time it is easy to nail them down and get clients to go through with a deal. Funny enough I probably got a total of around eight good clients while I was there and didn’t get anyone to sign a deal until I left to go back to Thailand. Once I flew back everyone started going ahead and using my services. It’s always the way.

I also really enjoyed the amount of networking events I attended whilst I was there, all ranging from social media marketing to entrepreneurship kind of groups. Once you start getting your face out there and giving out cards, people see your passion and start giving you work sooner or later.

As far as the rest of the trip was concerned I got to see family and of course my nephew as I am now officially an uncle! Being in Thailand now feels good as I can now handle business as usual with all the right connections I have here as I have always been a bit more set up here particularly for the last five years since I have been here. Regardless of the Bangkok riots and political situation I really do love it back here and am happily safe back home far away from all the chaos. I do have some exciting opportunities ahead of me here though now too.

Two clients in which want to work very closely with me one in the hotel software industry and the other in a global travel directory.
Feb182010

GSEO Website Review

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First of all I would like to thank Alan Josef Caceres who recently did a review about the GSEO website.  He gave some good opinion and insight as to what the website has to offer. I am very grateful to have good friends like Alan who support the fast growing community that took me 2 years to build.

Although Alan covered everything very well, I thought I could use this as an opportunity to also elaborate on the membership benefits for GSEO.net as follows:

As a free member you are already getting the following:

FREE MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant or SEO Consultant)

# Upload profile image

# Discuss inside Forum

# Blog Commenting

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Non Hyper)

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Paid Members)

When you upgrade you will get all of this:

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (SEO Consultant)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Appear as Featured SEO Consultant

# Personal Messaging to Clients

# 2 Forum Signature Links Allowed (Hyper Links)

# Blog Submission for Self Promotion

# Live Chat System

# Article / News Submission for Self Promotion

# Video Submission for Self Promotion

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

GOLD MEMBERSHIP (Client)

# All of FREE account benefits +

# Live Chat System

# Appear as Featured Client

# Personal Messaging to SEO Consultants

# Add Profile Website & Links (Viewable by Free & Paid Members)

Jan62010

GSEO.net – Social Networking Community

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It has been more then 2 years since I have been developing GSEO.net and officially launched the site in September 2009. The site has over 300 members and will steadily increase as the word gets out.

The whole purpose of GSEO.net is to connect SEO Consultants or Internet Marketers with Clients who are in need of advice giving the consultant opportunity to take the client on for any future services, along with giving SEO professionals a change to promote their services by posting blogs, videos of themself or company and news articles along with contributing in the forum and anything else that interests them.

As for the Client they can also upgrade to contact SEO consultants directly enabling them to save hours of hard work doing SEO them self, they can have answers at their fingertips. The concept is unique and seems to be working well already. We are also conducting SEO competitions along with prizes and cash giveaways.

Another very nice feature is the affiliate program allowing other website owners to gain commissions on referrals they send to the GSEO.net community.

So whether you are a client seeking advice or services or an seo professional / internet marketing guru or even newbie get started and join today and benefit from the community!

Once you register, we recommend you to upgrade here while we are still a low monthly fee at only $19.95 per month. If you upgrade at this cost, this will lock you in for the future, so that you do not pay more for when we increase prices before we launch our own private SEO tools and other nick nacks for paid members!

I would also be interested to know by leaving your feedback here, what do you think about GSEO.net?