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Next Big Marketing Tool for Holiday Home Owners?

ShareA recent statistic hit me in the face this week; FaceBook now accounts for 8% of all traffic in the US – which makes it busier than Google (who have 7%).  1 in every 4 pageviews is a Facebook view. On a year on year basis, Facebook gets 55% more traffic than the same time [...]

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Vacation Home Rentals

Share Free for the first 60 days with a no-risk trial. ($99 per year after the trial ends). 80% of their properties are based in the USA, and 30% of those are in Florida. These means that other destinations need more properties listed to benefit from good traffic. VacationHomeRentals.com claim 300,000 visitors and 15 million [...]

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UK Cottage Rental

Share As the name suggests, specialising in UK cottage rentals, and a sister site to Euroletting (also a free site).They claim high web-traffic from their search engine optimisation, with an expanding online and offline advertising programme.Free ads are small cut-down versions of the whole-page ads that cost, currently, £30pa and purchasing Homepage exposure adds another [...]

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the holiday let

Share Free for the first 12 months. Once this offer finishes the normal price for 12 months advertising is €30. A full page advert includes up to 16 photos, video clip, descriptions, facilities and location charts, Google map, availability calendar, guestbook, rates chart, and currency converter. Each property ad has its own statistics showing how many [...]

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eSelf-catering Directory

ShareThe e Self catering Directory The E Self Catering Directory offers information and contact details for Self-catering accommodation throughout the UK and eslewhere, including a few in Australia. They currently list about 1,500 properties, mainly from the UK but including around 400 in Europe. Holiday cottages to luxury villas, seaside apartments to country hideaways are [...]

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France – Gites

ShareFrance This Way specialises in Gites. Can be free, but as standard you pay a fee of currently €50. Free ads are limited to about 10% of their total listings  – this is what they say: ..’we get very many requests for free advertising and can only accept about 10%. We are unfortunately not able [...]

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Eurolettings.co.uk

Share ‘Free’ means free for the first year only, which means you have a risk-free try-out. Euroletting.co.uk advertises about 1,000 self catering properties across Europe. All properties are advertised directly by the owners. They have a sister for the UK here called UK Cottage Rental Page creation is quick and you can upload up to [...]

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Mimbeo

Discussion on Mimbeo, the new free listing site for holiday home letting and renting

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How Your Customers Search – and Find – You

ShareMost take their decisions in a series of logical steps. Typically, its choice of country, then the choice of holiday type – a hotel, a villa, or similar. Finally they typically decide the type of location – mainland or island, rural or tourist resort. Country followed by Property type followed by Location type.  For example, [...]

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