Aside from listing your property on a free or low-cost vacation rental directory such as www.free-rentals.com, the key to marketing your vacation rental property can be summarized as follows:
1) Use the signiture of your email to market your rental in every email you send. At the bottom of each message of your email, contain a […]
Is Spain an attractive vacation home locale? It used to be, but for those interesting in perhaps investing in Spain’s vacation rental property sector, you may want to wait and see how the market fairs over the next 12 months before getting in.
Spain’s construction industry fell by 3.9 percent between October and November 2007, the greatest […]
Looking like a cheap stripped down version of Craigslist, HomeAway’s VRBO still leads the pack of HomeAway Inc’s portfolio of web properties with nearly 1.8m unique visitors per month, which is more than the traffic they get on HomeAway.com, CyberRentals.com, GreatRentals.com and A1Vacations.com combined.
VRBO is driven by 6,240 keywords while HomeAway is driven by 2,094 […]
HomeAway Inc’s portfolio of vacation rental websites has seen flat traffic over the past 12 months. CyberRentals.com has gone from 400k unique visitors per month to 350k. GreatRentals.com has gone from 375k to 250k, and A1vacations.com has stayed flat at 185k unique visitors.
Compete.com lists CyberRentals.com as having 1,354 keywords driving traffic to the site while GreatRentals.com has 1,035 keywords […]
Here are 5 general tips for avoiding internet scams in general, not just vacation rental scams.
1. Beware of the danger signs. Don’t get pressured into a deal you’re not comfortable with. If a merchant tries too hard to convince you about the value of the company’s product or service, what it’s presenting is probably not […]
Mark Cuban makes an terrific point in his blog about the problems with free products and services. He says…
“We dont want to waste our time with a product or service if its not worth anything. We want things of value, and we dont want to waste of lot of time trying to determine if what […]
We’ve dished out some harsh criticism against the country of Nigeria. Some people felt we were being too harsh, so we’d like to address that concern.
In our recommendations concerning how to avoid scammers, we recommend to avoid dealing with Nigeria completely. We’ve also not minced words when calling Nigeria a shitty hell hole of a country.
There’s no […]
There are several things you should take into consideration when booking a vacation rental unit direct with the owner, as opposed to through a management company. The important thing is that, unlike a hotel booking, where it’s typically a take it or leave it rate… with a vacation rental, you have a lot of room for […]
The information provided on the advertisement should give you a good idea of the quality of the vacation rental before you arrive. If the rental fails to live up to your expectations, then the problem is either due to the owner not having filled out enough or accurate information and/or you not having studied and […]
Before you make a booking, it is important that you read the vacation rental owners terms and conditions and cancellation policy. You should have a full understanding before you enter into a booking arrangement, exactly what the cancelation policy is. Then you simply contact the owner and tell them of the change you need to […]