CONTRIBUTORS
Mary White
Mary White is the CEO & Founder of BnBFinder.com and the author of Running a Bed & Breakfast for Dummies. A former securities broker, she decided to embark on a new venture – internet marketing – nearly 20 years ago and developed a user-friendly website that places B&Bs and inns on a competitive level with larger hotels and resorts. Today, BnBFinder.com earns the industry’s highest rankings and provides compelling content for guests. Mary has been named a bed and breakfast industry leader by Innkeeping Quarterly magazine and is the recipient of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International’s Award of Merit
Patricia Detwiler
Patti is an Innkeeper turned consultant and realtor and also the Managing Director for FBBI, (Florida Bed and Breakfast Innkeepers.) Patti is well versed in the innkeeping world especially in Florida. Patti offers seminars for aspiring innkeepers. She advises innkeepers preparing their inn for sale with tips for sellers. “ There are other items to gather together to be ready to put your inn on the market for sale. I’m more than happy to answer any questions you may have about preparing your Inn for sale.” [email protected]
Mary Lotto Ross
Mary Lotto Ross is a Life and Business Coach and consultant to the hospitality industry. She is the former owner and founder of Swann House in Washington, DC, a Select Registry member property. She can be reached at [email protected] or through her web site at www.winwithinlifecoaching.com
B&B Team, Peter Scherman & Rick Wolf
Peter Scherman and Rick Wolf lead The B&B Team® from their offices if Virginia and Maine. The B&B Team® was founded in 1993 with the goal of providing specialized consulting, educational, and brokerage services to the Innkeeping industry. Today The B&B Team serves innkeepers across the country and future innkeepers from around the world make informed decisions about their goals and objectives in the unique hospitality marketplace. The B&B Team® has worked with hundreds of current and future Innkeepers and would welcome the opportunity to help you reach your goals!
Carol Edmondson
owned and operated a 12 guest room Select Registry Inn on Cape Cod for 12 years. While they owned their Inn, Carol and her husband Tom, a commercial real estate broker, formed Innkeeping Specialists, a consulting partnership focused on finding inns for their clients and teaching innkeeping from their own experience. They developed the “Innkeeping From the Innside” seminar providing a comprehensive view of acquiring and operating a highly successful B&B business, which they have taught for the past nineteen years.
Part of Carol’s success and an Innkeeper was her Cape Cod Culinary Cooking School Weekends. Carol also wrote three cookbooks about breakfast and the Inn’s Cooking School.
Carol currently chairs the Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast Committee representing 250 Inns and is a proud Founding Member of AIHP