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Your Own Customized and Branded Version of AshevilleBliss.com Added to Your Existing Website Will Enable Your Prospective Guests and Clients to Discover the Bliss of Asheville without Any Work on Your Part... and Without Your Promoting a Single Competitor or Having a Single Broken Link. Plus Your Newly-Enlarged Website Will Help Make Your Business Look Amazingly Professional and HUGE!

We know how important it is for the owners of Bed and Breakfasts, Inns, rental cottages, lodges, etc., (as well as Relocaton Companies, and Corporate Recruiters) to let their prospective guests and clients know just how wonderful the quality of life in the Asheville area is... as well as to give them an easy way to do a 'virtual tour' of the many 100's of fascinating attractions and 'things to do' this area offers.

Some innkeepers address this by adding a "What to See and Do While You're in Asheville" list of links to their inn's website... links which usually include one or more of the usual "Chamber of Commerce" type sites. There are several problems with this approach:

  • You are promoting ALL your other competitors when you link to the typical "Chamber of Commerce" type site or even the STANDARD version of AshevilleBliss.com
  • Such a 'link site' doesn't really do Asheville justice ... disclosing ALL of the wonderful aspects of visiting and living here.
  • Trying to maintain even a SMALL 'links list' is difficult, time-consuming, and, quite frankly, tedious. Links are constantly disappearing due to changes in the site's internal links or just dropping out altogether. Finding the time and energy to add NEW links is almost impossible.

We are offering innkeepers (and other appropriate businesses) an easy, inexpensive way to have their own customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com integrated with their existing or new website -- to provide their prospects with an automatically-updated and COMPLETE look at the entire amazing picture of just how wonderful a community they will be visiting or living in -- without DIRECTLY promoting a single competitor in the process!

We can CUSTOMIZE AshevilleBliss.com to suit your particular tastes and style while completely eliminating all competition. You can choose any or all of the various categories and webpages in AshevilleBliss.com (or even ask us to create a special category for you), and in the process, provide YOUR unique take on what's wonderful about Asheville while TOTALLY ELIMINATING DIRECT LINKS TO YOUR COMPETION. There will not be a single ad for or mention of, for example, another hotel, B&B or inn anywhere in your customized version which will be SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATED into your existing website (or into a new website which our professional designers can create for you.).

SURPASS the information provided by your competition... even the largest chains.

Suddenly, you're not only 'playing with the big boys', but surpassing them in providing your prospects with the exact information they need in order to make an EDUCATED DECISION ... in a way that makes YOU look very professional.

Replace a "Links" Page that is Either Non-Existant or Difficult to Keep Updated with a Professionally-Designed 50+ page Website that is Automatically Updated Daily With More Ways to Enjoy and Love Asheville... While ELIMINATING ALL of Your Competitors!

Until now, your only choice was to create a "links page" that linked to many other websites, knowing that every day there was a chance that one or more of those websites would disappear. Even worse, some of the BEST websites which featured the many wonderful aspects of Asheville ALSO had direct links to dozens of your competition! Furthermore, anyone who has ever attempted to create and maintain any type of "do-it-yourself'" links page knows just how time-consuming, incomplete and hard-to-keep-current a solution THAT can be!

When you ADD your own customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com to YOUR website, not only will it have YOUR website's name and appearance without a single direct mention of your competition, you can be assured that our AUTOMATIC daily updates to eliminate non-existent websites and to add new interesting websites will be providing your prospects up-to-the-minute information about the greater Asheville and Western North Carolina area without the annoyance of broken links from websites that have suddenly disappeared.

When you choose the AshevilleBliss.com's customized and branded solution, not only will have the same appearance as your primary website, but you can choose from a variety of packages to suite your budget and needs -- both with and without advertising. In order to provide daily updates and maintainence, all solutions required monthly hosting on our servers. The rate depends a number of factors including the number of pages, advertising or without. We have solutions to fit virtually every budget. In some cases, because you are eliminating your existing webhosting, it may not cost you anything extra at all!

If you need a website designed or overhauled, we can quote you on that too.

To find out just how economical your own customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com can be, please email us with your business name and current website if you have one, your phone number and best time to call.

Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!

Explore the Bliss of Asheville ...
Via
Eric Weiner's new book
The Geography of Bliss

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World: ".... Asheville, North Carolina, with its idyllic mountain setting and proliferation of good restaurants and New Age healing spas, is enjoying a vogue as a happy place to live. As one newly arrived resident puts it, "A lot of people spin the globe and their finger stops on Asheville."

"....the author is correct, nice weather, affordable housing, lovely scenery, and a slower pace of life, yet an active cultural scene..."

From Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog:

I've never been one of those uptight literary types who thinks that you have to have actually read a book in order to recommend it to others. So I feel no trepidation in suggesting Eric Weiner's new travelogue-slash-memoir The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World The premise of the book is simple but intriguing-- here is Amazon's description:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

In the imaginary Netflix queue of books-that-I'm-planning-to-read, this one has just jumped to the top. By the way, why has no one started a Netflix for books? This question, and many more, I'll leave for another day.

Your Featured "Advertorial" Will Appear in the STANDARD version AshevilleBliss.com When You Ask Us to Integrate a CUSTOMIZED Version of AshevilleBiss.com with Your Existing or New Website.

When you add a customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com to your existing (or new) website, we will include, as part of your promotional package, a bordered and editorialized 'advertorial' (similar to the "Asheville's Top Pick" ad in the right column) on the appropriate page or pages of the STANDARD version of AshevilleBliss.com at no extra charge.

This will help your business 'stand out from the crowd'... and will help you take full advantage of the many visitors which will be arriving daily at AshevilleBliss.com.

Contact us by email for details

Innkeepers With Wi-Fi Capability and/or a Guest-Friendly Computer On Premise Will, In Effect, Have a PRIVATE CONCIERGE Available to Their Guests 24/7 when they add a Customized and Branded Version of AshevlleBliss.com to their Website.

Innkeepers, when you add a customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com to your website it's like having your own wonderful 24/7 PRIVATE CONCIERGE available to your guest.

By making the all-encompassing information contained in your branded version of AshevilleBliss.com available to guests and prospective guests, you are:

  • Telling them how much you care about their having a great time while staying at your accommodations.
  • Giving them hundreds of reasons to not only EXTEND their stay in Asheville... and presumably with you.... but to RETURN to Asheville again and again... and stay with you.
  • Making it easy, through the addition of online maps for them to find their way without asking you or your staff for directions.

Get FREE eBook "How to Successfully Promote Your Inn or B&B" Which is Full of Advertising and Promotion Tips to Help You Add More "No Vacancy" Days to Your Reservations Calendar.

When you hire us to integrate a customized and branded version of AshevilleBliss.com with your new or existing website, you will also receive a FREE copy of the AshevilleBliss.com's eBook "How to Successfully Promote Your Inn or B&B". In this eBook you'll find DOZENS of methods successful innkeepers use to promote themselves to prospective guests -- for free or for a very low cost.

We'll Embed links to a FREE guestbook and provide you with a source of a FREE Reservations Calendar.

Every customized site we create will also include a link to your FREE guestbook which lets guests leave their comments on how wonderful their stay was with you ... for all of your prospective guests to see. We will also show you how to get a FREE reservations calendar which integrates with ALL of the rental databases and also lets you add your own reservations and block certain dates.

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If you would like to join us in creating the most amazingly relevant and useful website about Asheville, and you have a particular passion or topic you would like to help us edit, let's talk.

First, take a look at our larger ad on our "About Us" page to see if you resonate with our mission.

Then, if interested, email us.

Discover the Bliss of Asheville ...
through These Books and Videos.

Finding Your Way in Asheville is ".... a different kind of guide book. Instead of offering glossy photos and paid insertions from big bucks advertisers, it gives you the kind of information you'd get from a best friend who moved to Western North Carolina twenty years ago. "I've discovered the greatest place for a romantic dinner," she'd say. "Just around the corner from Pritchard Park. Here, let me draw you a map." It's a selective guide in that the authors share the places they've come to love while living, working, dining out, partying, biking, hiking, canoeing and raising children in the "Paris of the South."
America's Castles: The Biltmore Estate "...the grandest of all American homes... Biltmore dwarfs all the mansions built by his illustrious forefathers... . a remarkable top-to-bottom tour of the largest home ever built in America. With its 255 rooms, the Biltmore is a monument to the extravagance and eccentricity of its owner. See footage of its construction, and go behind the scenes with the men and women who work there to learn the secrets of this incredible mansion. Get a privileged tour of rooms that are off-limits to the public, and marvel at the magnificent treasures that Vanderbilt collected....."
Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place "... Few people realize what effort it took to design and construct the largest private residence in the United States, but this book details it all from the breaking of the ground to the designing of the curtain rods. This book is one of the best written and most appealing architectural history books ever. The photographs and drawings in it are also to be commended. Many of the pictures offer breathtaking views of the mansion and its grounds as well as showing many vintage photographs taken at various times throughout its construction and times of residence...."

 

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