Because Time Really Does Mean Money For Small Businesses

Nov. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- London, UK: This week BookingBug (www.bookingbug.com) launches out of beta with a new look and a raft of exciting partnerships designed to help small businesses.

BookingBug is an online booking and reservation system designed to help service businesses distribute real-time availability and reach new clients across the internet.

The BookingBug benefits:

BookingBug enables a business to manage their time; be it hourly, daily, weekly, or as classes, courses or events and works for any size of business.
BookingBug’s platform provides businesses with booking and enquiry widgets that easily embed onto their own sites, partner sites and through social media.
Businesses using BookingBug’s system are able to efficiently and effectively get valuable time/availability information in front of their potential customers.

By building an affiliate programme that mirrors how a tangible goods business uses ecommerce to drive sales, BookingBug is helping to create a real time bridge between the businesses that offer services and the destination websites that many potential customers use. With this, BookingBug is building a new market which will change the way service based small businesses of every kind manage their presence online.

Comments

BookingBug:
Glenn Shoosmith, Founder: “BookingBug is creating a new vision of the real-time web, helping businesses create multiple touch points where customers can find live information quickly and easily.”

Robert Harrison, Director of New Leaf Fitness Ltd: “BookingBug has made our company more professional by giving clients the opportunity and flexibility to book on-line at a time they find convenient”.

BookingBug launch partnerships

There are many destination websites that could take real-time information from businesses using BookingBug and earn affiliate revenue for doing so. BookingBug is pleased to announce the following launch partnerships of sites and systems that will greatly benefit small businesses.

BrownBook, the ‘free directory that anyone can edit’ now allows businesses to embed live booking widgets on their business listing in the directory to expand their reach to new customers. (www.brownbook.net)

TrustedPlaces is one of the UK's local review community websites, where users discover and recommend restaurants, bars, pubs, shops and much more. It's also a platform for local business owners to enhance their online presence and get more customers via the web. With BookingBug, businesses will be able to get their live availability in front of the TrustedPlaces community and users easily. (www.trustedplaces.com)

BView is the UK's largest voucher, sale and discount search engine. With BookingBug, BView customers can create vouchers and coupons for their real-time services and assist in expanding their businesses reach. (www.bview.co.uk)

SchoolOfEverything is the website that helps you learn whatever, whenever and wherever you want. From Biology to Beekeeping, History to Hula Hooping and everything in between - the site helps you find teachers and lessons near you. School of Everything teachers can use BookingBug to show their availability for lessons and classes.

SocialGo allows its users to create a flexible, fun social networking website with great features and start building an online community in minutes. With BookingBug, users can integrate and customize booking and availability widgets quickly into their SocialGo sites.

QuickTV enables users to create dynamic videos in order to increase client engagement. Using BookingBug you can display real-time information about upcoming events, courses or classes as a ticker over the top of any video. A viewer then has the ability to click on the video and book the upcoming events or courses quickly.

FoodLoversBritain runs a searchable database of nearly 4000 places to buy, eat, visit, stay and learn - all approved to stringent standards. Working with BookingBug.com FoodLoversBritain is launching a searchable online booking facility for their unique and comprehensive database of food and cookery courses, tours and cookery holidays.

Kashflow is a multi-award winning, jargon-free accounting application for small business owners. The integration between BookingBug and KashFlow means that invoices and customer data created in BookingBug are seamlessly copied to KashFlow to form part of your company accounts.


For further information, please contact: Glenn Shoosmith (glenn@bookingbug.com +44 7748 182841), or Jenifer Davis / Abigail Harrison at thebluedoor jdavis@thebluedoor.com, aharrison@thebluedoor.com +44 1252 899969

Notes to editors:
Booking Bug is an online booking and reservation platform designed to help businesses and organisations offer their time online. Suitable for almost any service based business, BookingBug aims to change the way they manage and publish services, classes, courses and events. BookingBug is an open platform that allows a business to push dynamic availability information across the internet to allow easy discovery by consumers wherever they look. By building key strategic partnerships BookingBug aims to help bridge the gap between service providers and consumers. More details can be found at www.bookingbug.com
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