1. How to join InnSite
   1. Application Form
   2. Graphics
   3. Filling out application on-line
   4. Linking to your homepage and email address
   5. Entry number
   6. Listing Online
   7. Mailing address
   8. Copyright statement
2. Making changes to your listing
3. Time frame
4. InnSite description
5. Volunteering
6. It's free?

1. On this web site is a printable application form. Print out a copy (requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader), fill it out, and sign it. To save $25, make sure to follow step C.

2. If you want photographs with your listing, include your original photos with the application form and a check covering the $10 per photograph fee. (Slides, transparancies, or any print materials are not acceptable! If you have slides or transparancies, you can take them to your local photo developer and get prints made from them. We will now accept scanned or digital photos, see Guidelines for Submitting Photographs for information on image formats and scanner settings.) Please read the Guidelines for Submitting Photographs before selecting photos. You may include as many photographs as you want. (More than 5 tends to look odd on the page) Make sure to send $10 for each photograph to cover the cost of image scanning.

3. Connect to the InnSite web site*, select the "Add Entry" option, then fill in the form-- an online version of the printed application you completed in step 1. Be sure to assign your entry a password (make one up that you will remember) This is important: if you do not assign a password to your entry, you will not be able to make changes to it.

   If you cannot access the web site (http://www.innsite.com/), include an extra $25 with your application form, and we will do the data entry for you.

4. There is a space on the application form, near the top right, to put your home page and email address. The addresses will appear as hyperlinks in your listing. Please keep your information current, and ensure all your links and images are correct.

   You are welcome to link to InnSite from your home page.

   I want my own customized home page. Can you help me with that? Unfortunately, that's not a service that we offer to individual inns. offers web site development services to associations and medium to large-size businesses. For an individual home page, try asking on the Innkeeping email discussion list for recommendations of good web page designers.

5. After submitting the application online, note the number that your inn is assigned. It will start with an "A" and will be the last part in your inn's URL. Write this number at the top right of the application form where it says "A__________"

6. Your listing will not appear in our online directory straight away. It will be held for one to four days pending approval. Once your listing is approved it will appear online immediately even if we have not yet received your printed application form in the mail. If your submission is rejected we will notify you and let you know the reasons for rejection. The most common reason is that the inn already has a listing with us.

7. Now mail your signed application form (from step 1), photos (optional) and check or money order if applicable (payable to Netconcepts, LLC) to:
8. Netconcepts, LLC
   InnSite
   2820 Walton Commons West
   Suite 123
   Madison, WI 53718
   
   

9. Why do you require the photographs and descriptive text to be original and solely for use in InnSite, and that I assign copyright of this material to you? This is because it gives me legal protection in case someone (like a competitor) wants to download my whole database of inns and get a head start on their own directory. If I possess a registered copyright, I can sue them for statutory infringement if necessary. Copyright assignment is commonplace in book publishing: authors are usually required to assign copyright to their publisher before the publisher agrees to publish the book.

   What if I don't agree with what it says in the small print at the end of the application about copyrights? If something in the small print really bothers you, then cross off the small print that you don't agree with and we'll review on a case-by-case basis.

2. Making changes

If you originally got added by filling in a print application form and mailing it in, and now you are online and want to make changes, contact uswith a password request. Include your name, your inn's name, and your inn's URL on InnSite. (http://www.innsite.com/inns/A000001.html, for example)

3. How long does it take for my listing/photograph to get added/updated on InnSite?

4. What's different about InnSite compared to the other online B&B directories?

• InnSite offers FREE detailed listings for your B&B on the Internet. Innkeepers can add and edit their own listings online, at their convenience-- including a 200-word description, list of amenities and attractions, price and contact information.
• InnSite does charge a one-time fee of $25 to cover the cost of data entry, if we input the listing. If the innkeeper wishes to have color photographs in the inn's listing, there is a $10 fee per photograph to help defray the costs of digitizing the photographs.
• We were the first B&B Directory to take applications online!
• This directory is a grass-roots effort and needs your help to succeed.

What is your background as creator of InnSite?

How did you get started with InnSite?

What do you hope to accomplish with InnSite?

Has your B&B directory been mentioned in the press?

5. Volunteering

• If you are representing a B&B Association:
  • On this web site is a printable application form for InnSite. Please print out a copy (requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader), make some photocopies and distribute them to your members. Collect the application forms from your members along with image scanning fees for those who submit photos. Make a photocopy of the application forms. Send the original signed application forms to me.
  • A representative(s) from your association will need to input these application forms. In order to do this, you will need to be hooked up to the Internet. The data entry is done online by choosing the "Add Listing" option from the InnSite home page.
  • Your association will need to keep your members' information up-to-date. This would mean periodically checking the accuracy of entries in the Directory which you are responsible for. For instance, if there is an inn that has changed its name, you'll need to correct that (editing can also be done online.)

• If you are not representing a B&B Association:
  • On this web site is a printable application form for InnSite. Please print out a copy (requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader), make some photocopies and distribute them to fellow innkeepers and to your associations for them to distribute to the other members. Then fill one out yourself if you haven't already done so.
  • I need some representatives from each state/province to agree to do data entry for their region. In order to do this, you will need to be hooked up to the Internet. The data entry is done online by choosing the "Add Listing" option from the InnSite home page.
  • I need some representatives from each state/province to agree to keep the information up-to-date. This would mean periodically checking the accuracy of entries in the Directory which you are responsible for. For instance, if there is an inn that is out of business, I would need you to let me know that.

What's in it for me if I help?

• If you are representing a B&B Association:
  In exchange for your association's help with dissemination and collection of application forms, data entry and checking periodically whether the information for your member inns are complete and accurate, your association (as long as it represents more than 25 inns) may have a "home page" residing on my Directory -- offering details to the millions of Internet users such as the benefits of membership, contact information, etc. -- for FREE. You personally (with assocation affiliation shown) will also be listed in the Contributors and Volunteers section of the Directory.

• If you are not representing a B&B Association:
  In exchange for your help with data entry (with a minimum of 25 applications), your inn will be the "Inn of the Day," listed prominently on the main screen of the Directory, for at least one day per year. You will also be listed in the Contributors and Volunteers section of the Directory.

Ok, I want to help! How do I get started?

6. Why are you providing this service for free?*

* It's free if you enter your listing online and include no photos.

How can you offer this service for free?