Posted on October 19th, 2007 at 4:10:13 pm in Family Business, Saratoga Arms, Website
“Mom, you’re going to write a blog.” my thirty something daughter said to me. She had just spent eight months convincing her seventy year old father and sixty year old mother that we were going to spend a small fortune to redesign our hotel’s website and give a young woman in Hawaii the job of promoting it. Hard for me to swallow. We were getting so much of our reservations from our old website, and besides, everyone knows that no one actually works in Hawaii. The new Saratoga Arms’ website went live a month ago. Within ten days we had pulled in enough online reservations and a conference to pay for it. It must be very difficult to be a smart, sharp, tech savvy daughter of the founders of Saratoga’s very best lodging property and have to combat twentieth century parents with whom you work.
The next hurdle is to educate her old mother to blog protocol. Like Betty Davis said, fasten your seatbelts. It could be a bumpy ride.
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Hello Kathleen!
We just had a good giggle reading your blog! In case you don’t remember us, we are the Clarks from Rochester…Bill went to Allendale Columbia…our daughter Mary spent the summer at Skidmore in an art program…ringing a bell? Well we wanted to tell you that Mary applied early decision and was accepted! Yippee! So, under advisement of a seasoned college mom, we are writing to you in order to secure lodging when school starts next August. OUr friend told us to book a room for the weekend of freshman delivery, and also for the first Parent’s Weekend. We have no dates yet…we need to survive Christmas! But we will be in touch! Keep up the blog…you’re a natural!
Best…..Bill and Alice Clark
February 11th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Dayton 500 Online…
cool article, thanks so much. Good writing, going to read more……