I like the Stripe API design, and as a follow-on, I tend to like their coding styles and structures. Here's their official Stripe dotnet library - https://github.com/stripe/stripe-dotnet. It's well organized and the code coverage looks good.

Does this, errr, do anything? If it's just a C# adapter for a web api, then it's extremely dull infrastructure code. All you get is code style opinions and folder choices.

Code style opinions and folder choices is vaguely what OP is asking for though, right?

I'd argue this library design is fairly ancient in C# land. The reliance on static configuration values goes against modern DI-centric design + integration patterns. It also doesn't have a central entry-point for discoverability and instead expects each internal client to be used directly.

This applies to their libraries in other languages as well, their Ruby one is a great reference too.

What convinced you? I'm also in the skeptical bracket.

Someone at my company drove a 10% increase in revenue by coming up with a new way to apply a model. There is nothing I can do short of creating a new product in my free time (which at that point I should be doing that for myself) that could drive that kind of revenue increase.

When viewed in IE8 or lower, it looks like the animation from season 1!

As an aside, I can't read this article on my phone, I get redirected to the mobile version of the frontpage. Very frustrating.

Wow. Can't believe that immigration officers go to such devious lengths to try and catch out unsuspecting, innocent people.

Pretty nuts, entrapment style.

It's hard to believe that there are so many unregulated medical apps in the various app stores. The internet opens up such a wealth of information (and misinformation) for free, HOWEVER one thing I'll always pay a premium for is advice from health professionals.

I think that it's a good idea - there are other aggregate sites out there but I like the idea of an e-book - nice (virtual) stocking filler!

Thanks for the feedback! Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

I'm not sure if you have seen our video on our website but we have certain features (e.g. - invoicing functionality and rooming list feature) in the group organiser's dashboard already. There are lots of features which we could potentially add down the line to add value to their overall offering.

We are essentially looking for an alternative revenue stream, because we are not converting enough groups through our website. We don't want to arrive at a situation where hotels aren't winning any business through our website. So we are essentially hoping to move away from commission to something else.

Offering a priority listing is definitely something we have being considering. Thanks for the suggestion.

Go with sponsored search, its way more above board, people recognize it from Google and its easy to integrate into the search results (usually). That way you get commissions from people who book, you get money from people bidding on ads, and hopefully you can get commissions as a travel agent when people click through an ad.

That's not a bad suggestion. However, it still doesn't overly help with conversions. If groups are coming onto our site for quotes and then going off directly to finalize the booking. We need to start increasing our conversion rate and thus increase the revenue we do generate through the site. However, a flat fee is not a bad idea as it does remove the issue of fluctuating numbers.

Yeah, my guess is your only focus should be on driving up demand. If you had thousands of people booking rooms it wouldn't be hard to make money off them. With small numbers it will probably never work that well.

Maybe you can come up with some new approach by just focusing purely on what it takes to get more people booking rooms. Maybe by offering deals (not just bidding), doing deals with conference organizers, etc.