Share Capture off season bookings with niche marketing techniques I took up stand-up paddle boarding this past summer. It’s a cross between surfing and kayaking and I am hooked on this sport. When we were in Dallas a few […]
Share Why I Like Review Sites I realized recently how much I use review sites for anything from checking out movies on IMDB; books on Amazon; RV Sites on RV Park Reviews and of course vacation […]
Share Try Before You Buy – A Vacation Rental Loss Leader Strategy Capturing bookings for the low season is tough with a lot of properties competing for a smaller market. There are a lot of promotional initiatives you could test but the […]
Share A New Vacation Rental Niche Market – Stand Up Paddling I’ve been writing about niche marketing recently and keep coming up with new markets that would lend themselves well to a vacation rental promotion. In fact most interests that get […]
Share Make Your WordPress Site Security A Priority Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians – the sun is shining, the water on the river is sparkling and my kayak is beckoning – it’s a great day. The […]
Share What’s in a Listing Site? This seems to be the time of year when every day sees another email proclaiming the best listing site….ever….more features, more photos, reaching more renters, more bookings etc, etc, etc. […]
Share Tin Eye – Reverse Image Search As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about copyrighting images, I had a Tweet from Schofields in UK (they provide holiday home insurance for UK cottages & overseas property and blog […]
Share Are Your Photos Legal? Sometimes we’d love to include an image of something on a vacation rental web site to create more appeal and to attract visitors to explore further. We did this with […]
Share Top 10 Tips from Google Boot Camp for Vacation Rentals So, was it worth leaving the frozen north to battle through TSA checks, 4 flights, 2 kilometres of walking the concourse at Dulles International, and two days of really bad […]
Share 25 Ideas For Your Vacation Rental Blog Writing a blog can be a challenge particularly if you want it to drive traffic to your site, or your listing. You need to attract a loyal audience and people […]