HOTEL WEBSITE - I made $5k+ in Holidays

[Deanna Martin]

,I went on a holiday around two months back to an awesome holiday
destination,I was leaning out my hotel's window admiring the beauty of
nature when I noticed that nearly 20 sign boards of Hotels and Lodges
were there around my vision only.I took out my mac and did keyword
research,"hotels in *****" and here was the result

I was clear of my plans at this stage,I quickly made a website on this
(wasted my day,skipped sight seeing),got domain n hosting,I extended
my holidays by a week and collected few school children from that
place and hired them,the offer was $2 for each hotel they
visit,collect contact info and some basic info about that hotel
etc.For this I wrote a note on white paper and pasted it on a wall
opposite to a secondry school (the only one in that area). Got few
phone calls till the eve and I made a team of 4 students to do
research on hotels nearby in the city and its outskirt.I gave them two
days to search as many as they can (as it was supposed to be only a
trial of my method).They came up with a total of 53 Hotels.I have
enough writing skills to write articles by myself so I wrote
discription of each hotel and published it on newly made
website.Nothing much in the articles,200-250 words,full of worthless
adjectives,remember I didn't even visited the hotels,articles were
written in air!Now the time was for designing,the best job I can do,so
no hard efforts made.Then comes SEO,I used some grey and black hat
techniques to rank the website (Oh by the way I was back from the
holiday till now).It took nearly 1 month to rank the site #2 in
Google,I wanted to wait till it gets #1 but....couldn't control my
emotions . Now comes the trick,I took out the contact info of the
hotels and contacted them through Email and telephone (prefer
eMail),here is the sample mail I sent.


Quote:
To
Hotel Manager
***** Hotel

Sir,
My name is *****,I have a website with list of few hotels in your
city,and I am happy to announce that your Hotel has made it to the
lists.The sites gets xxxx clicks a day and your page alone gets xxx
clicks!It was a non-profit site but now I can't bear the expances and
would close it if my financial condition doesn't get back on track.You
may help us by paying a so called listing charge of just $139 and then
just $89 as subscription changre per month.You can earn this money
back easily with one guest only!If you pay only listing charge then
your hotel's page would be kept listed in the site,but if you pay
subscription charge also then I will add "Contact details" "Hotel's
Facility" "Pricing" etc to help you get online orders.Hope you'll be
able to see your profit in this and will reply with a yes.Further
discussions after your reply.

Your Name

I contacted this way to 53 hotels out of which 27 were ready to pay
listing charges,and 21 out of those 27 were ready to pay subscription
charge also.So lets do the maths now.


Quote:
Expenditure-
53x2=$106 (paid to students for collecting info)
$12 (Domain & Hosting,go find some coupons and you'll get them in even
cheaper rates)
$90 (SEO,including linkwheel,web 2.0,SB blast,xrumer,Used Fiverr in
some cases)

Total expanses-$208


Hotels Approached for listing charge-53
Success-27 Hotels
Success %-50.94% (Low IMO)
Total collection-$3,753 ($139 each)

Hotels approached for subscription charges-27
Success-21 hotels
Success %-77.77%

Total Collection-$1869

Overall collection-$5622

Quote:
Total Profit-$5414

So this is it,heavy profit!!Planning to spend it in order to make more
profit from this.will be a JR VIP after I get a new credit card (In a
week or 10 days).This is where I understood the value of offline
business linked to online business.If you think this method was as
easy as explained,then hold on.Its not easy,,,you have to work hard on
SEO part,articles,traffic,designings etc.Give it a try if you want,my
next traget is to approach more hotels(50 more at least),more
work,more profit


Note-
1.Be careful while using xrumer blast,this is a damn powerful
tool.Never use it directly on your site.
2.Use limited SB blast for a newly made site,too much can end up in a
sandbox.
4.Visit this thread for best SEO service on Fiverr
5.Be ready with different payment modes,none of the hotels paid
through Paypal.
6.Before executing,make sure your plan is foolproof.
7.Profit is not made in a day,this whole process took near about 3
months.
8.You need to explain the importance and significance of your site to
the owners,show them the potential.
9.The eMail is just a sample,make it more appealing for better success
rate.