Franks Ramblings...
Well winter finally arrived after the big fire in the Carmel
Our cockatiel is sitting out on its stool on the porch in its cage chirping away as happy as can be. Birds are amazing creatures. This one has the mental ability of a dog, just in a different way. It’s a very social animal, it will sing along to any song that it hears on the radio or one that you whistle to. It bends its head for a scratch just like a dog will do and gets rather upset if you don’t scratch exactly where it wants you to. We call him sweetie. My friend Myer who has the bird farm around the corner tell me that with proper care they can live till 20 or so.
The tzimmer has been a learning experience for both of us. We started to operate it late last summer. We were and I guess still looking for our target market. Hopefully we are targeting tourist from outside the country who are looking for a slow tourist experience in the Nazareth Europe . Our site is I thought well designed, short, and to the point and full of information. Our number one daughter Tiah who is on her way to Aussie land to get an MBA. has shown us how wrong we were.Shes done it all before and its interesting to learn from your own.WWW.cactustzimmer.com is well on her way in being redesigned and re targeted. As soon as we put up our signs at the entrance and the street near us with our two telephone numbers we started to receive calls. Yes sir I replied , we are open for business,- how many nites would you like to stay? About two hours came the terse reply. How much do you charge?
I can tell you that we were unprepared for the two hour business proposition, and we must have received thirty or so calls in the first couple of weeks before word got around that we don’t do it. I spoke to other operators on the Moshav who run tzimmers and the overall comment was that it pays the bills. Our tzimmer is on the second floor of our home and not in a separate cabin 50 meters away from the house.
My friend Mitch who runs a very successful tzimmer and has room for up to 50 people on his site taught me the art of listening carefully on the telephone for the nuances of speech and how to say NO in a nice way.
We have had some very interesting people stay including one couple in there late sixties who this weekend have returned for the third time. I gave him a special rate as he said he would come twice a month. He usually comes late Friday evening and leaves Sat in the early afternoon. I haven’t looked to closely to see if it’s the same girlfriend each time. But he does send me a cheque on a regular basis and stays longer than two hours.
Stat tuned for more Frank
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