The Follow Twitter button makes it simple for your website visitors to start following you. It’s a simple way to generate new followers, and ultimately, increases the social reach of your rental. You can see my button on the right (my Twitter page is Mad About Renting). It’s a single click install and your visitors [...]
If you can speak to your potential customer by telephone, so much the better – it’s faster, more intimate and you get to better understand your customers needs and answer all their concerns (and all the evidence points to more bookings by responding by ‘phone). But we can’t always do this, and some owners feel [...]
There’s a trend, and it’s growing. It’s called ‘experiential’ holidays. Put in simple language, customers are booking holiday rentals but instead are booking an experience. Look at Apple, Disney or MacDonald’s. Love them or loathe them, they deliver memorable experiences. And as a holiday home owner you should be no different. That’s why boutique hotels [...]
I think I’m a fairly savvy owner, as well as an experienced traveller – and I’ve spent a career in business focussed on serving the customer. So I think I pretty well know what’s good and bad, what works and doesn’t, what’s needed and what isn’t. I’m also pc literate, and have embraced the instant [...]
Here’s the thing: you have to do a lot of things well to rent your holiday home, but to be really successful the key is marketing. Contracts, payments, arrivals, departures, damages deposits, cleaning, maintenance and a whole host of other activities count for nothing without bookings, and bookings flow from your marketing. Marketing isn’t advertising [...]
For customers of the scam site Force Travel & Leisure, owned the the infamous Eric Omerod, now bankrupting, here’s his contact details: (UK) 01772 641808 office, and (UK) 07860 610748 mobile. For a full history of how he and his companies have duped thousands of holiday home owners, follow this link
Home Away, the global rental website, reports listings up by 22%, and revenue up by 37% for Q3 2011. it has also introduced ‘pay-for-performance’ pricing on HomeAway.com, aloowing owners to pay more for better rankings. HA’s websites include VRBO and Vacation rentals in the US and Holiday-Rentals, OD and Holiday lettings in the UK as [...]
Complaints from multiple property owners that prices are rocketing. 10 properties cost 12% more, 6-7 properties nearly 50% more according to some reports.
Traffic Update November 2011 Holiday-rentals.co.uk is ranked #9,776 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings to November 2011. The site has attained a traffic rank of 947 among users in the UK, where about 37% of its audience is located (and it’s reducing comparted to 2010). Visitors to them view an average [...]
