Archive for August, 2009

Search, Shop and Book Limos! What a great idea!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Are you a busy executive on the go?  Maybe you have retired and you lead and active life of leisure that includes extensive travel.  There are millions of people in the world that book their travel through various means and one of the means that has made all of our lives easier is the advent of on-line booking tools and search engines. If you have ever utilized those tools you know the benefits of such services.  However, if you are going to book chauffeured ground transportation, where do you turn?

Currently we have under development a web 2.0 search, shop and compare booking engine website that will list thousands of limousine companies together in one centralized location.  This website will give the busy business traveler and the savvy leisure enthusiast access to thousands of limousines and sedans at deeply discounted rates.  In today’s economic climate, this website will benefit the consumer and the suppliers of chauffeured ground transportation, by providing both with finding great deals or marketing great deals.

Over the next few months, our technology platform will be launched to market and millions of consumers will have access to the only comparison shopping and booking engine website today.  If you think that you would be interested in having such tools and services available to you, keep an eye out for CheapLimoRates.com.  You can return to this blog for more details in the near future.  If you are an online travel service and you are interested in partnering with us please contact us.

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Online Travel Industry…..Wouldn’t it be nice?

Monday, August 17th, 2009

The online travel industry is a seven trillion dollar business worldwide.  It represents one of the largest industries in the world.  Even in the tumultuous economy, online travel is still growing, albeit not as fast has it had in recent years, but it is still a rapid growth industry.  With all of the options out there for online travel, no one can offer their upscale or business clientele the ability to with a click order a limousine or sedan service to either get them to or from the airport or take them from their hotel or place of business for a night on the town, or a business meeting or lunch.  Seven trillion dollars in travel dollars and that service does not exist with the click of a button…Well until now.

CheapLimoRates.com will provide our industry partners the opportunity to offer these services with the click of a button.  Our web 2.0 comparison shopping and booking engine website, the only one of its type currently, matches public with thousands of chauffeured transportation providers who are heavily discounting their rates just to book their excess vehicle inventory, a feat heretofore unheard of.  That of course was until our technology platform becomes available.  This powerful technology will give online airline travel, cruise and hotel sites the ability to offer their clientele a comparison shopping and automated booking capabilities directly to the limousine industry.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could offer your clients a service that has not been available until now?  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add new revenue stream to your bottom line? If you want to know more contact us alan@cheaplimorates.com and we will work with you on a distribution partnership or some other form of partnership that will be beneficial for you and your clients.

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Helping Limousine Industry to Survive and Prosper

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Where are we headed as an industry?  I mean, with individual discretionary income dwindling quickly, rising gas prices, government spending run amok and businesses tightening their belts as never before, how are we as an industry going to survive?

As we built our technology platform CheapLimoRates.com, we imagined a site that would assist our limousine partners in strictly promoting their excess inventory.  However, as the tide turns on the industry, we now believe that our technology may be the only true salvation for those struggling companies.  You may say to yourself “Those words are a bit of bloviating.”  However, consider this.  With all of the tools available to anyone marketing their limousine company, there is absolutely no means or method to market their product in real time.

If your company is like a lot of companies around the U.S. your business is down from previous years.  Even major players like Savoya and LimoLink have felt the pinch and are cutting back staff.  So that being said, how you let the public know that you are willing to offer them your services at a reduced rate, without committing a whole lot of money to additional marketing?   That is where CheapLimoRates.com will become and invaluable partner in your marketing efforts.  Our web 2.0 supplier admin portal will let you market you products on a minute by minute basis in real time to potential clients, which will assist you in getting your vehicles out of the garage and on the road.  This will be the only venue by which struggling companies will be able to market in such a way.

Yes, it may become true that in the very near future, what the industry needs most, will be offered in the nick of time.  Keep following this writer’s blogs for additional information.

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Real Limo Change you can Believe in…

Monday, August 17th, 2009

In today’s busy world for the business and leisure traveler, so many tools have been introduced to make the whole experience easier and better.  However, when it comes to booking a sedan or limousine service, such tools are totally absent.  Many travelers question why?  When such services are needed, consumers must still use the old method of looking up multiple websites and hopefully finding a reputable provider that actually fulfills the promises made on their site.

This writer knows that many travelers question why such a dilemma exists.  The problem has seemed insurmountable and yet the reason is simple.  A full ninety percent of all limousine and sedan service providers are small operations with anywhere from one to twenty vehicles.  In truth there are less than five hundred limousine companies with more than twenty vehicles.  In the United States there are almost thirteen thousand limousine or sedan service providers.  None of these companies are hooked in to a national data base that allows for a one stop shopping experience, like Hotels.com or Kayak or any of the other convenient tools offered to the frequent traveler.

With so many providers and no solution for the traveler, it is at best a hit and miss proposition when it comes to securing these services.  Well, fear not for such a technology is currently in development.  Cheaplimorates.com is a Web 2.0 product that will link thousands of limousine services together in one convenient location.  The travel tool will allow you to go to one website and look at hundreds of companies located in your desired destination city.  You will be able to search through these companies for the one that best suits your needs.  The site will include transparent pricing, customer reviews, a full description of the company including a list of their available inventory and pictures of the vehicle you are booking.

Cheaplimorates.com will become the only tool you will ever need, to make reservations for limousine or sedan service wherever you need to be, whether it is Des Moines, Iowa or Bangkok, Thailand.  This website will give you access to the world and give you the opportunity to “Search, Shop, Book” your transportation needs.  Cheaplimorates.com is revolutionary new technology that will make your ground transportation experience a truly simple and rewarding one.  Come back often for more information.

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Limousine Industry Taking “Right” Turn

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I have read a lot of forums lately among the owners and providers of limousine services and I am overwhelmed by the inflexible pricing policies of most of the industry providers. In the current economic climate limousine executives need to utilize any method available to increase business volume and maintain profits, while keeping up their level of service.
If you would imagine for a moment that our industry is in flux and then realize that other industries within the travel sector have endured similar trials, and then ask yourself, how did they solve the dilemma?
The answer to that question is that, whether airlines or hotels and to some extent the rental car companies, they all banded together and utilized technology to sell their excess inventory at any price in order to become successful. Whether a Motel 6 or the Hyatt Regency, Whether a premier airline or a discount provider, they all knew that getting those rooms filled or those planes full, was paramount to their success at any price. These companies are very large and their CEO’s are making these big decisions in order to ensure their companies ultimate success. Between you and me, these guys are probably smarter than most of us and therefore it stands to reason, these are good economic decisions.
We in the limousine industry need to take the same type of a paradigm shift and understand that vehicles sitting in the garage are eating away at our profits and that discounting our inventories may become absolutely necessary in today’s economic climate. But you may ask, how could I do that even if I wanted to and where would I turn? My friends, be prepared to find the answer to your prayers through a new company that will provide you not only a means of offering your excess inventory to the consumer, but also the ability to do so in real time, all day, every day.
My friends you await Cheaplimorates.com. This unique concept will be the answer to the industries prayers and it will be the solution to a problem that has existed for nearly hundred years. Come back often to find out more details.

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