Share Do’s and Dont’s of Responding to Vacation Rental Reviews The use of live reviews is a controversial topic and this guest post from Dan Weisman at Flipkey is timely since a recent article on the Forbes blog highlighted […]
Share Is it Time to Update Your Welcome Manual? We all want our guests to be self-sufficient in our vacation homes; use them in a respectful manner and leave at the end of their vacation with minimal breakage, damage […]
Share Trip Advisor Vacation Rental Annual Survey There is no doubt that the market in vacation rentals is growing as it becomes more of a mainstream method of vacationing and not that quirky thing that the neighbours […]
Share 10 Free Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Vacation Rental Website Just having a vacation or cottage rental website isn’t going to get you visitors. It requires a lot of work to attract people to your site, to get it seen […]
Share 10 Signs Your Vacation Rental Website May Not Be Attracting Bookings I made up this list after spending an entertaining afternoon looking at the worst of the worst vacation rental web sites. I am not naming and shaminng, and this is […]
Share Free Internet Connectivity For Vacation Rentals Yesterday had a WiFi flavor on my Twitter stream as the argument against hotels charging for the service featured in a rant or two. This came at a time I […]
Share Toilet Paper Not Included – Cottage Rental Gone Minimal I consider myself a professional vacation rental owner in that I consider my guests to be paying travellers who deserve respect and trust. So it was with a degree of […]
Share Avoid Negative Trip Advisor Reviews With A Simple Changeover Checklist Every so often I spend an hour or so reading reviews on Flipkey and Trip Advisor and look at what vacation rental clients are griping about. We can learn so […]
Share Delight Your Guests with Beautiful Beds I wouldn’t normally blow my own trumpet but as a lead-in to a bit of a rant, I have given myself permission on this occasion. And anyhow, it’s my blog […]
Share 10 Super Easy Ways to Create Bad Vacation Rental Images I’ve been researching web sites and listings recently and have come across a significantly large proportion of howlers – those that turned me right off even thinking of renting a […]
