0 Shares VRS120 – Creating a Vacation Rental Travel Portal with David Angotti As a property manager I’ve always been curious to see how other companies brand themselves, and am constantly on the lookout for new ideas. Quite frankly I’ve found it fairly depressing to see the sameness in so many web sites, and that includes my own company. We’ve just created a new mobile responsive site, and […]
0 Shares VRS119 – March Mash-Up With Vacation Rental Marketing Expert Matt Landau The advent of booking fees has caused quite a stir across the industry in the past few weeks and I invited VRS regular, Matt Landau, to give his viewpoint on the topic and to share what he believes owners should be doing to adapt to what seems to be ‘the new normal’ in this business. […]
0 Shares VRS118 – Successful Owner Series – Dean Curtis I love to talk to owners who have been so successful with their vacation rental business, that it grows beyond one property, and sets them on a path they hadn’t envisaged at the start. That is the case with my guest on this episode. Dean Curtis and his wife (who is a realtor) wanted to […]
0 Shares VRS117 – The Vacation Rental Success Summit 2016 Next week I’m off to Barcelona to the VRMA Europe conference. I’ll fly from Toronto to Heathrow then onto Spain and spend two and a half days there before heading home again. It seems a long way to go for such a short time, but I’ll pack as much into it as I can. Will […]
0 Shares VRS116 – Digital Marketing for Vacation Rentals with Conrad O’Connell 0″ /> On my desk, there is a mighty tome called The Art of SEO. It is well used with highlighted sections, underlining and lots of notes in the margins. It’s an old friend because it taught me a lot about this weird world of search engine optimization and is always at hand when a […]
0 Shares VRS115 – Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates (AVROA) with Rod Fitts I last spoke with today’s guest a year ago and we discussed his passion for the vacation rental industry and the background to his fledgling community organization, the American Vacation Rental Owners Association. At that time, Rod was working on yet another iteration of his website, and although he had a lot of motivation to […]
0 Shares VRS114 – Channel Management Uncovered with Vanessa de Souza Lage When I got into the vacation rental business in the 1990s, it was simple. You just advertised in a local paper or put a sign outside the property. That worked pretty well. After all my place was one of a very few available for summer rental in our area. Most guests came year after year […]
0 Shares VRS113 – Accessible Vacation Rentals with Andy Renals Today’s guest lives in one of my bucket list spots – the Mediterranean island of Cyprus – and it is one of my destinations for 2016. In fact, we are booked into his Villa Carpe Diem for a week in September, and can’t wait. Apart from being beautifully located on the ancient island of Aphrodite, […]
0 Shares VRS112 – The Step by Step Foolproof Process to Delight Your Guests When I talk to an owner about delighting guests and what that means to them, they will invariably talk about the first impression their guests have of their property, the guest gift they leave, and the amenities they provide. But there is so much more to creating happiness than the origami towel in the shape […]
0 Shares VRS111 – Successful Vacation Rental Owner Series With Kim Bergstrom Today’s guest is the owner of three vacation rental properties in Oregon, one of which sleeps up to 20 people. She has remodeled all three homes and markets them successfully via a comprehensive website, a blog, and a powerful Facebook presence, alongside her third-party listings. Kim Bergstrom was brought up enjoying the northern part of […]
