Retreat Insider

Autumn is a good season at All About Retreats! Historically, more retreat or conference center owners, managers, and marketing mavens are browsing the web for new marketing feeds and discover AAR through it’s high website rankings on Google, MSN, and Yahoo! AAR’s webstats show that traffic increases by 23% between October and Thanksgiving, with another higher upsurge mid January through April. Centers evaluating what works and what doesn’t in their marketing mix, as reflected in their YTD revenues and bookings for the coming months, make marketing budget decisions.

Even as the downturn of our economy has made a noticeable impact on some meeting hospitality venues, others are well-positioned and enjoying level, and even increased business activity compared to recent years!

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Whether you are a business owner or someone who gets a paycheck from and employer, if you are responding ably to the economic shift now firmly underway, you review your income versus the costs of living. Lifestyle changes such as joining (or initiating!) a carpool, increasing (or beginning) home vegetable and herb gardening, supporting local farmers and small businesses, are just a few of the householder conversations heard in our community. Perhaps the greatest concern about the immediate near future here in the north country is what our heating costs will be this winter, even though near term gas prices are down from the highest ever in our history!

Business owners are undoubtedly feeling the effects of “the way we do things around here” for good or for better. There is always untapped potential when we evaluate and indeed question our habits - a change of mind, a shift in perception can almost instantly improve the bottom line! Here’s how … Continue Reading »

EFT®: The surprising natural healing aid you can use for almost everything

Editor Speak: I recently discovered this technique through a fortunate stroke of serendipity. Without the resistance of my ‘jaundiced eye’ skepticism sprinkled lavishly with cynical reservation, I began reading about EFT and playing with the technique on low level anxiety and minor physical disturbances, such as a headache. I achieved immediate relief and no recurrence.

The essence behind EFT is in this Discovery Statement:

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”
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Rooms, that is … meeting rooms! Meeting planners have inquiring minds: They want to know and to them, size DOES matter! But that isn’t all … Continue Reading »