Category Archives: Owner's Blog

Reinventing The Wheel #bookdirect day won't bring you direct bookings - This article will Tomorrow (February 6th) is #bookdirect day but there's a lot more to getting direct bookings than sharing an image on your website or social media once ... Read More

Three or four years ago, when vacation rental owners started to become unhappy with the major listing sites, many owners turned to Facebook to supplement their marketing and booking opportunities. This worked… For a while But the bad news is ... Read More

Here is the proof, with actual stats, that writing blogs will boost your bookings. We have been crunching numbers from the last 9 months and provide detailed evidence that it writing high quality blogs will bring you travellers that want to book. This article goes through the detail of why you need to blog and what results you can expect from doing so.

There is always a lot of chatter about the pros and cons of local listing sites. I’m asked about them all the time, so I thought that I would share my thoughts with you here in this short article. Owners ... Read More

A tale of two rentals – A modern marketing fairytale Believe it or not, I wrote this article 5 years ago this week but it's even more applicable now than it was then. The amount of competing properties has more ... Read More

The Vacation Rental Owners Christmas List Where does the time go? It’s December already and no sooner has the last year of business almost nearly ended, the next is about to start. So, what’s on your Christmas list? If you ... Read More

The Plight Of The Average Vacation Rental Owner The law of averages… If I were to ask any vacation rental owner if they think that their property is above average, then pretty much all of them would say a resounding, ... Read More

Getting a shitload of traffic to your vacation rental website There has been a lot written about vacation rental marketing and how to increase traffic to websites. There’s no shortage of posts about SEO, blogging, content marketing and the like. ... Read More

The vast majority of personal vacation rental websites don’t rank in Google and they don’t see much, if any, site visitors or direct bookings. In this article, I’ll outline what you need to do in order to change that for ... Read More

Vacation Rental Marketing - Size Matters As many of you reading this will know, we have been giving away vacation rental websites to owners and small property managers for the last 2 years. We’re helping people build their brand. One ... Read More