American Guest House, a Washington DC Bed and Breakfast, was one of our first three clients to take advantage of our new Turnkey designs. These template based sites offer the chance for a new web site at a much lower cost than a full custom site, but also have the advantage of a mobile site component, blog and of course, Acorn SEO (search engine optimization).

Lucia Rosan, the owner of American Guest House, went through our Turnkey process, sent us her photos and the other pieces required for a new site, and this is the result:

Said Lucia:
“I love my new website!  My reservations increased immediately after it went live.  It took Acorn less than 2 months to finish my Turnkey WP website and SEO and the whole process was very well coordinated and easy to follow.  I must say I was a bit skeptical at the beginning of the process because I was trying something new,  but this has been one of the best decisions I have made about my business advertising in the last several years.

I spoke with a few innkeepers, got referrals and read reviews and I am very happy to have chosen Acorn in the end.  I strongly suggest you go with a company that will do the design and SEO.  I have tried it both ways and believe me, this is the best way even if you have to pay a bit more.”

We are so pleased that the process was easy to follow, that was exactly our goal.

Annie Buck
Sales Manager
Acorn Internet Services

Joe Cloud of All Seasons Fredericksburg was in a special position. He has three distinct properties in the same town. He wanted to market them all together under the same brand, while still keeping the businesses distinct for Google Places.

Having been a customer of Acorn for quite a while, Joe was asked to be our test subject for the new Turnkey sites. He went through the entire process and helped us refine it to make it easier for our customers. He offered excellent suggestions for making the process more clear and concise.

After all of his hard work, the results:

Joe had some comments about the Turnkey process:

“I can’t say enough good things about my experience with ACORN creating my new turnkey website. The TurnKey website is a brilliant idea that allows ACORN to provide a great product at a great price for those of us that can’t allocate large amounts of revenue to a custom site. I went in to the process with my eyes wide open, expecting it to be difficult and cumbersome since it wasn’t custom. Boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong. They made the whole process so easy. There are excellent forms and videos with detailed step by step instructions on how to complete the whole process. Your sales person is also available to help with any questions. Once you finish the forms detailing all of the choices you’ve selected (there are many more options than you might think considering it’s turn key!) then the design and marketing team go to work. Let me tell you, the SEO is worth the money alone. They have a brilliant marketing team.”

And was very happy happy to tell us about his numbers since the site’s launch:

“Year of year revenue increased by 26% the first month we launched the website. Month number two, it increased by 49%! What makes this even more impressive is that this followed two months of revenue decline during our busy season and the revenue increase was during our slowest months of the year. I attribute this directly to the new website. Our online booking success rate has gone from 1.6% to 4.8% since launching the website. “

We thank Joe for his work in helping us refine our new Turnkey site process, and are so happy that his new site is working so well for him!

Annie Buck
Acorn IS Sales Manager
Educating our Industry One Innkeeper at a Time!