Stays & Retreats · 9-minute video

How retreat centers, lodges and campgrounds book more stays from the requests they already get

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0:00Who this is for

If you run a retreat center, a lodge, a guest ranch, a campground or a bed and breakfast, this is for you.

I'll show you how to book more stays from the calls, emails and booking requests you already get.

Without hiring another person for the front desk, without buying more listings, and without learning a complicated new system. You just talk to it.

You'll simply be the first one to answer every group with a real price, day or night, and the one who follows through until the stay is paid.

0:27Why I built it

How do I know this works?

My name is Kevin Penner. I've run service businesses all my life. Powerland Computers. Wilderness Edge. And a few that flopped, which taught me more than the ones that worked.

And for years, we lost work the same way you do. Requests sat overnight. By the time we called back, they'd already booked whoever answered first.

We were paying for ads, then losing those leads to slow callbacks. Not to better places. To faster ones.

0:54Where the work is really lost

Everybody tells you speed wins. Answer first and you get the booking. That's true, but it's only the first five minutes.

Think about where you really lose stays. The group quote that takes two days because someone's counting beds and meals by hand. The dietary question nobody answered. The group that toured and went quiet. The reunion that came once and went somewhere else next year.

The first reply gets you in the door. The place that handles everything after it wins the booking. And the one that keeps showing up gets the same group back every year.

Everyone has access to the same AI. The difference is what it's connected to.

A chatbot knows your website and your rules.

Ours knows that too, plus your rooms and beds, your calendar, your invoices, and every call, text and email, in real time, twenty-four seven.

A chatbot guesses. Everybooking knows.

Let me show you three things that make that possible.

1:471. Your quote funnel, everywhere you get found

Number one. Think about where group organizers find you. A Google search. An ad. Your Instagram. A colleague's text. Every one of them lands in the same place: a contact form, or a chatbot.

The form says, we'll get back to you. The chatbot asks for the best email and offers a call back. They still haven't seen a price, or whether their dates are open, so they keep searching.

An instant quote funnel replaces both. It goes on your website where the form was, behind a Get my price button. And every link you share opens it: your Google listing, your ads, your emails, a QR code in every cabin.

Three or four taps. A team, a group, or just the two of them. Dates and numbers. Where everyone sleeps, eats and works. And every step sells what makes you different: your lake, your trails, and your quiet.

Seconds later, they see a real price. You choose how much to show. And they book the next step you want: a deposit to hold the dates, a call, or the quote by email.

You get the lead, with everything they picked. And you can see which link or ad it came from, so you know exactly what's working.

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2:592. Priced in seconds

Number two. Right now some of you are thinking, that's fine for a simple business. Mine's different.

You've got lodges at different rates. An adult rate and a youth rate. Meals by the person, by the day. Seasons and minimum nights. Meeting rooms by the day. And groups whose headcount changes every week until the bus pulls in.

Most owners believe only they can price that, with the bed chart and a calculator. So the quote takes a day or two, and the organizer keeps calling around.

Everybooking prices it in seconds, and gets it right, because it works off the same rates, beds, calendar and rules you do.

You sell four kinds of things, and it tracks all four. Rooms and beds by the night. Meals and extras by the person. Meeting rooms by the hour or the day. And your rules, the same on every quote.

It never promises a bed you don't have, and it never double-books a lodge because nobody checked the calendar.

And it doesn't stop at the first quote. They ask about the Lakeview Inn instead, it sends a second option. They say yes at eleven at night, and the deposit is in your account at five past.

So no, your place isn't too complicated for this. Your place is exactly what this was built for.

4:053. Your office, done by talking

Number three. The paperwork after the guests check out: final invoices, rooming lists, headcount changes, the numbers your bookkeeper wants.

Now you just talk to it like you'd talk to your office manager, and it does the work. Move Grace Church to Sycamore Lodge and email the pastor. Send the Ostrander reunion their invoice with six more dinners. Give me next month's bookings by lodge.

Not advice. The actual work. Like an office manager who knows every bed, every rate and every group, and never goes home.

It even answers your phone when you can't. It takes the message and puts it on your dashboard as a new inquiry.

Turn on auto-reply, and it gets back to them with a price they can book and pay. You choose which stays it handles on its own, like anything under five thousand dollars.

And you stay in charge. Turn on approval to see every quote first. The tricky ones, like a cancelled bus or an unhappy guest, come straight to you.

When it needs an answer only your team has, it asks the right person. Your kitchen manager replies from her phone between meals, and the organizer gets a proper answer.

When the stay's over, it keeps showing up. A thank-you. A follow-up to the group that toured and didn't book. A reminder when it's time to hold next year's dates. One retreat becomes a group that comes back every year.

5:22One job, start to finish

Let me show you one booking, start to finish, in a demo retreat center set up like yours. Ten fifteen on a Wednesday night, a youth pastor is home from youth group and wants a weekend in May.

She taps youth group retreat, enters twelve adults and twenty-eight youth, picks Sycamore Lodge, and hits get my price.

Seven seconds later, she has a real price for the whole weekend, the beds are open, and they're held for her.

She asks if the kitchen can do gluten-free for six of the kids. Everybooking asks Maria, Maria says yes, and the pastor has her answer.

At ten thirty-four, she holds the dates and pays the deposit. Nineteen minutes from a question to a booked, paid weekend on your calendar. You were asleep for most of it.

The week before, she gets a reminder with arrival times and what to bring. On arrival day, four more kids get off the bus. Your coordinator adds them from her phone, and the pastor approves the change right there.

At checkout, the final invoice goes out with the deposit taken off and the four extra kids added, and she pays before the bus leaves. Form to paid, and nobody in your office touched it.

6:26Where it came from

Now, where did all this come from? I own Wilderness Edge, a retreat and conference center. So I know your world.

I used to be on call from early morning until late at night, so I could be the first one to answer every inquiry with a real quote. Today, I have my mornings and evenings back. The first answer goes out without me. Our instant quote funnels and our AI answer nearly every first inquiry, twenty-four seven.

But that was only the first hard part. Once a lead is warm, they have questions. Changes. Details my staff have to check. That used to take me anywhere from twenty minutes to three hours, building spreadsheets, updating the quote, and chasing my team for answers.

Now the twenty-minute ones take one to two minutes. The three-hour ones are done in under ten.

Because I just talk to it. It knows every detail of every deal, and it has over a thousand different tools inside the system to get every detail of every stay right.

I built Everybooking to fix my own problem first. My venue or yours, the problem is the same. The first real price wins the booking, and the fastest follow-through keeps it.

7:29Your math

Now let's do your math, not mine. For example, say your average booking is fourteen hundred dollars.

If Everybooking turns just two more requests a week into stays, in this example that's over twelve thousand dollars a month, before the groups that come back next year.

Compare that to hiring someone to answer every call and inquiry: about fifty thousand dollars a year with wages and benefits, and they still go home at five.

There are really two ways to grow a place like yours. Buy more ads and listings that still sit for hours. Or win more of the requests you already get, by being the first to answer with a real price.

8:04How we work with you

Here's how it works. We build it with you, in two stages.

Your instant quote funnel is answering requests within days. That's the same funnel you can start with on its own. Within thirty days, your foundation is running. Then we connect the rest of your business, every piece agreed in writing. Outside services you choose, like texting, calling or your AI assistant, are billed separately.

And you can start completely risk-free, with just your instant quote funnel.

If you don't feel the difference in your first thirty days, for any reason at all, we'll give you a full refund of everything you paid for your instant quote funnel. No forms, no friction, no questions asked.

8:41Book your call

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We'll look at how your inquiries come in today, where bookings are slipping through, and show you Everybooking set up with stays like yours.

We only take on a few new businesses each month, so each one gets done right.

Worst case, you leave knowing exactly where you're losing bookings. Best case, your first funnel is answering requests within days.

Not ready for the whole system? Start with just the instant quote funnel. It's ninety-seven dollars a month plus a one-time setup. It's up and running within a few business days, and the same thirty-day refund applies. The button's right below.

Book your call below. I'll see you there.

Businesses, prices and conversations in the video's examples are illustrations. Wilderness Edge is our founder's own venue. The 30-day money-back guarantee is on the instant quote funnel, as our terms explain.