Using Rezgo to Make the Most of Your Groupon or Living Social Daily Deal

I have written in the past about my dislike for daily deal sites.  If you’re interested you can read my articles on Tnooz.com.  I think they have some significant flaws and, despite their incredible hype, have yet to prove they are a profitable and sustainable business model.  That said, if you do it right, you [...]

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Moving Your Book Now Button Can Improve Your Conversions

Are you wondering why your customers just aren’t booking on your website and you’re not sure what to do about it?  Building a website for your tour or activity business is hard enough but now you have to worry about conversion ratios, click streams, page views, exits, and all sorts of other stuff.  At the [...]

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New Version of the Rezgo WordPress Plugin

If you were wondering where the Rezgo WordPress plugin disappeared to for the last few days, you aren’t the only one.  We were surprised to find our plugin removed from the WordPress plugin directory because it violated one of the rules of the directory.  According to this site, which we found after the plugin was [...]

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Be Careful with Daily Deals

As a tour and activity business, you are a perfect target customer for the likes of Groupon, Living Social, or any one of hundreds of other daily deal websites popping up on the Internet everyday.  But be warned, the daily deals business can be a real nightmare for your company if you are not careful.  [...]

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Make the Most of Your Season

The first six months of 2011 are almost over and the summer season is upon us.  Here is some great advice to help you make the most of this upcoming summer season: 1. Use the Rezgo Point of Sale to keep track of phone and walk-up bookings.  This ensures that your inventory is always up [...]

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Using Referral Codes to Track Concierge Bookings

Even though referral codes have been a supported feature in Rezgo for almost two years, we are still surprised at how some creative Rezgo members are using them to track particular booking channels.  One popular and growing use of the referral code feature is to track bookings from concierges. Before you use referral codes in [...]

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CSS Over-ride for narrow sites and new Rezgo layout

Some Rezgo members have been asking if it is possible to maintain a narrow (750 px) width with the new layout or if they have to update their websites to support the new wider (850 px) width.  There is a way to maintain a narrower layout with the new front-end.  To use a narrower layout, [...]

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Integrated Twitter Share With Follow Me

Most people will agree that social media can be an effective way to build traffic to your website and increase your credibility with customers and potential customers.  With the release of the new Tweet This button from Twitter, we thought this would be a great time to integrate the Twitter share button on detail pages [...]

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New Front End Spoiler #3 – Automatic Google Sitemap XML

If you are using Google Webmaster Tools to manage how Google spiders your website then you probably already appreciate having a Google sitemap on your website.  A Google sitemap is an XML directory of your website that tells Google what pages are on your site and how often to expect changes.  We have integrated an [...]

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Accept credit cards through Rezgo & simplify your receivables

We are really happy to announce that we have set-up partnership agreements with three leading payment gateway and merchant processing providers in Canada and the U.S. to provide preferred merchant processing and payment gateway services for Rezgo members.  All three of these preferred merchant partners are already fully integrated with Rezgo.  The three payment gateway [...]

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