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vacation rental marketing: Save Money with Fixed Rate Energy Plans for Your Vacation Home - 10/29/08 09:18 AM
Save Money with Fixed Rate Energy Plans for Your Vacation Home
Unless you've been living in the wilderness for the past few months, you may have noticed your energy prices are on the rise - and not by a small amount. Since 1999, natural gas prices have TRIPLED, electricity has DOUBLED, and in today's volatile market, energy prices fluctuate CONSTANTLY.
Rapidly growing wholesale costs of natural gas and oil have meant that the energy companies have scrambled to keep up - and that means increased bills for you. Let's assume you're doing everything you can to save money. You're only using … (0 comments)
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vacation rental marketing: "Vacation Packages" can increase revenue for Vacation Home Rentals - 10/29/08 09:15 AM
Traditionally in the travel industry, travelers are accustomed to seeing vacation packages primarily promoted by large resorts and hotels. A vacation package typically includes stay, meals and activities all for one discounted price.
Family travelers generally prefer vacation packages because they simply don't have the time to research restaurants and local activities to plan a successful family vacation and hope they made the right choices not being familiar with a desired vacation rental location. They just want to "get away" with as less effort as possible.
This same principle for "vacation packages" can be applied with vacation home … (0 comments)
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vacation rental marketing: How Can I Receive Additional Bookings for MY Vacation Rental? - 10/29/08 09:08 AM
When we entered the vacation rental business in 2005, we really did not know much about the vacation rental business, so I went out and purchased every book I could find on the subject.
What I learned was that I quickly needed to build a website to get my properties available on the internet. Upon doing so, I discovered that I need quality links to my website to get higher rankings.
Upon searching for high quality links, links that centered around my website theme, vacation, tourism and travel, I discovered the benefits of linking to my local Chamber … (1 comments)
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vacation rental marketing: Marketing Your Vacation Rentals - 10/27/08 09:19 AM
Using word-of-mouth marketing strategies and NO cost methods to effectively reach vacationers
The adage "you have to spend money to make money" does not have to guide a vacation rental owner's marketing efforts. In fact, the marketing strategy that produces the best results is word-of-mouth recommendations, also called viral marketing.
Want to get people talking about a vacation rental property? It's easier and less expensive than many people think. Skip the advertisements in the daily newspaper, which are usually costly and are recycled after one reading. Try a few of these low-cost methods:
List Your Vacation Rental on Our FREE Vacation … (2 comments)
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vacation rental marketing: How to Write a Traffic Generating Property Description for Your Vacation Rental - 10/27/08 09:16 AM
Renters will focus of many different aspects of your vacation rental listing, so writing a good property description is important. A good property description will give the owner an opportunity to sell the rental and answer questions that a potential renter may have.
Writing a property description that will rank your property listing higher in internet searches is the same concept, except you will utilize "Keywords" that will make your property listing easier to find when someone is searching for your property in the leading search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Keywords are words or phrases that a renter … (0 comments)
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vacation rental marketing: How to Use Articles to Promote Your Vacation Rental - 10/27/08 09:14 AM
Writing and submitting articles about your vacation rental is the cheapest and most cost effective form of advertising a property owner can do to increase traffic to his/her property listing.
Article writing increases traffic to your listing as it is picked up by several travel and vacation websites and blogs through our RSS (really simple syndication) feed and creates quality back links to your property listing, which is important in increasing organic web traffic (search engine optimization).
Article writing is also very cost effective as you can write your own vacation rental articles for FREE or hire a freelance … (0 comments)
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