Starting Up
Discover the practical steps to starting your bed and breakfast, from property requirements to planning your first guests and setting up your home business.
Building a Website for Your Business
A website has to be considered an essential part of any business today. Certainly there are many bed and breakfasts that will survive and prosper for a long...
Business Framework for Operating a B & B
Once you have decided that you're serious about starting a bed and breakfast business one of the first things you need to do is decide what business framewor...
Buying an Existing Business or Starting from Scratch
Whether you should buy an existing bed and breakfast or start a new business in a suitable property is much more that of a financial decision. There are risk...
Catering: What Food Should You Offer?
Breakfast is obviously at the heart of a bed and breakfast establishment but these days you need to be catering for the myriad fad diets, food intolerances a...
Day to Day B & B Management
Keeping on top of a bed and breakfast shouldn't be that difficult, that's why a lot of people choose it as a vocation. But just like any other small business...
Does the Owner Have to Live in Their B&B?
The traditional B&B tends to have a live-in landlord or landlady, sometimes a couple, who have opened up their house to paying guests. Typically it is a priv...
Finding the Right Funding & Finance for Business
The good thing about starting a bed and breakfast is that it doesn't need to cost a great deal to setup compared to many other businesses, particularly if yo...
Finding the Right Niche Market for Your Business
Even if you're in a seaside promenade or a town in the lakes, where every single house with more than two bedrooms is a bed and breakfast or hotel, then you'...
Fire Regulations and Bed & Breakfast Businesses
The plight of the bed and breakfast or small hotel owner got quite a bit harder in 2005 and 2006 when new fire safety regulations aimed at large hotels were...
Is a Bed and Breakfast The Right Business For You?
Running a bed and breakfast is the sort of business that many people consider at some point in their lives, often when they’re staying in one, and realise...
Systems and Procedures For Booking in Guests
The importance up of a bullet-proof booking procedure for a B&B cannot be emphasised strongly enough. Lost bookings mean guests turning up and potentially ha...
The Benefits of Being Based in a Tourist Area
Location can be the making or breaking of a tourist-based business. The benefits of being in a popular area are many, but you need to be able to set your bus...
Will a City B & B Work?
When you think of B&B locations, you usually think of seaside towns or a quaint tourist spots. In locations like these B&Bs jostle for space and compete succ...