0 Shares Attract More Interest In Your Vacation Rental With Mood Images We all know how important photos are to capture interest in our vacation rental properties, and that time taken over setting up and staging a photo shoot can pay dividends in enquiries. Since many listing sites have restrictions over the amount of images that can be posted, it’s worth looking at some alternatives to post […]
0 Shares You’ve Got To Be Different To Be Seen & NaBloPoMo Since I just signed up and committed to a blog post per day for NaBloPoMo ( National Blog Post Month) it seems a good idea to make my first post on blogging and a reflection on something I read this morning – on a blog, of course. With hundreds of thousands of vacation rental […]
0 Shares Making Your Vacation Rental Ads Stand Out Thanks to Tom Harris of Home Away Australia for this guest post. With the number of vacation rental ads growing every day, it’s easy for your ad to blend in with the crowd. However, there are some strategies you can use to help your rental ads stand out from the competition. Do you tell prospective […]
0 Shares How to Wow your Guests and Stand out from the Competition I’ve stayed in many vacation rentals over the past few years and find my tolerance levels to lower standards have dropped significantly. The days have gone when it was acceptable to have the cheapest appliances and kitchen equipment; uncomfortable beds with thin comforters and insufficient pillows, and bookcases filled with unwanted Readers’ Digest condensed books. […]
0 Shares Staging For Your Vacation Rental When professional stagers work on a home that is for sale and create a fabulous look for the listing, they know that after the home is sold, their job is done and they can move all the staging materials out, leaving it bare and ready for the purchasers to put their own mark on the […]
0 Shares Holiday Home Owner Uses Pinterest to Create Site Traffic I was on Twitter this morning, and came upon an owner who is using Pinterest in a really unique way to showcase her vacation home and drive traffic to the web site and listings for it. I’ve been struggling for a while to see how Pinterest can be used for owners in the best way […]
0 Shares Will You Rent During the Olympic Games? With London, and the world, gearing up for the Olympics this summer, many home owners may be considering moving out for the duration and renting out their space to make a little extra money. UK’s Daily Telegraph reports that prices have been massively inflated – up to 300% on regular rates – to cash in […]
0 Shares How Pinterest Can Boost Vacation Rental Buzz We all know the importance of the visual impact a vacation rental makes on a potential vacationer. With my Costa Rica holiday coming up, I’ve pored over images of beaches, monkeys, toucans, fabulously colourful flowers, as well as having the listing site photographs imprinted on my mind. It was the visual aspect that first attracted […]
0 Shares Chasing the Long Tail of Vacation Rental Keyword Research I’ve been doing some research this morning on long tailed keywords and how they impact traffic to vacation rental sites, for an article/ebook I’m writing for Renting For Profit. In the course of checking out material related to this I found a ton of resources on Aaron Wall’s SEO Book (which is a web site […]
0 Shares How to Rent More Weeks with Images that Sell In just a few weeks I’ll be flying to Costa Rica for our annual escape from Canadian winter and even though the snow and cold temperatures have yet to arrive here, it will be a welcome break from the dull colours of our seasonal landscape. We booked our stay at Flying Toucans in February and […]
