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Regaining Control (aka Listing Sites Independence)
What are you struggling most with when dealing with listing sites and OTAs? Learn how Vince Perez from FetchMyGuest found a great recipe for independency.
Your #1 Asset (and the top 3 tools nobody is telling you about)
In your Quest for independence from OTAs and listing sites, your own website plays a fundamental role. Vacation Rental Website design and 3 great tools nobody is telling you about is what the first session of the Vacation Rental World Summit will focus on.
Disrupting an Industry that’s not going where its base wants
If you are the kind of person who likes to have control over your Vacation Rental Business, then you may want to follow us this year.
We’re putting together the second edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit! And we aim to making it even more impactful and successful than last year.
We’ll focus again on the 3 core pillars of the Summit:
Where is the VR Industry heading to?
I recently had the pleasure to interview Andrew McConnell from VacationFutures.com, who shared some pretty interesting data on the current state of the VR Industry for the upcoming Vacation Rental World Summit.
You can view what Andrew shared at http://vacationrentalworldsummit.com/industrytrends
Can You Guess Who ‘Mister X’ Is Going To Be?
We like surprises, especially good ones. We decided to leave the last speaker of the Vacation Rental World Summit uknown until the very end. Can you guess who he/she is?
Signals – How To Know If Your Prospect Opened Your Mail
On a previous article we mentioned the existence of a pretty cool new tool released by Hubspot called Signals: a free script you install in one click, which allows you to track all your email messages and find out when they reach your targets and what they do with your content.
Extend Your Booking Season
A questions we get asked more often at the events we speak to is the following:
“How Can I Extend My Booking Season”?
It is a pressing need of most property owners and we found a pretty interesting solution!
7 Quick Stats To Fine Tune Your Strategy in 2014
On our last post I told you I’ve been crazy busy researching the latest industry trends over 2013.
I also told you I was going to let you know how to take advantage of “A Black Friday No Brainer”…
Well, before I share the deal and since I am known to over deliver, I’ve got a little surprise for you that can pave the way to the best advice you are going to get from me on “Black Friday” for your 2014 booking season!
Click on the ‘Read more’ link below to access the “State Of The Industry (Condensed)”…
Are You Ready For 2014 Booking Season?
As you well know, next year’s booking season is quickly approaching and there is no better time than now to grab a one time only exclusive deal we are willing to share with you to allow you to maximize your rental income even more in 2014!
We’ve been crazy busy researching the latest industry trends, implementing new secrets strategies to address more and more vacationers online and increasing enquiry to booking conversion rate like never before. And we came up with substantial results after lots of testing…
How To Know If Your Prospect Opened Your Email?
“How Do I Know If My Email Reached My Prospect?”
This is a big issue for all of us, property owners and managers who often wonder whether our reply to an enquiry ever made it through the spam filters and into our prospect’s inbox.
We developed a pretty simple, yet really powerful workaround, which enabled us to check what happens to our emails 98% of the times and therefore allows all our next moves, which are the core of our winning formula for getting an enquiry to conversion rate of 60-70% when the industry average is roughly 10-15%!
Want to know what we do?
20 Tips Under 20 Minutes – Double Your Results
When Matt Landau dropped us an email a few weeks ago to share a promo of his latest ebook with us for our perusal, we couldn’t but say “Awesome stuff!”.
Matt is another very dedicated, professional owner who turned his passion into a lifestyle and made a wonderful living out of it just like us. He is a deep connoisseur of the VR market a reputable guy who knows the dos and don’ts of the VR industry and shares lots of good advice, so when he talks, we listen!
Click the ‘Read more’ link to grab your complimentary copy of 2 ebooks at once!
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to Automate Social Media Marketing
No doubt, many social media managers are still on the brink about the effectiveness and ROI of spending time creating content and managing numerous social media accounts. If my previous blog post, Vacation Rental Marketing: 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Ignore Social Media, still didn’t convince you of the importance of being active on social media, I am pretty certain this blog post will.
SEO Basics for Holiday Home Owners
SEO Basics for Home Owners
SEO is a virtually unknown world for non techy people like most of us and even if we constantly hear how important SEO is in determining the success or the failure of your website we either get disheartened by the simple awareness that we don’t know how to master the art of SEO for we don’t understand a single thing about SEO or we start thinking that it’s going to be an everlasting, costly battle for survival for which we may need to hire an expert we can comfortably rely on.
Vacation Rental Marketing: 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Ignore Social Media
Here is a fun fact of the day for you: 144 Million emails are sent every day. That is a whole lot of email exchanges. So why is this an important statistic for marketing?
Tripadvisor Review: Here Comes Review Express!
Tripadvisor Review – What Is Review Express? Tripadvisor Review Express may change the way you deal with your business… The idea behind Tripadvisor review tool seems pretty interesting and luring, given the fact that we can personally confirm how lots of (positive), genuine and recent reviews get you more enquiries and help you out converting […]
Seminar: Optimizing Your Advert Online
HomeAway.co.uk and Owners Direct holiday rental owner seminarHomeAway.co.uk and Owners DirectThursday, March 21, 2013 from 2:45 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT)London, United Kingdom Ticket Information TYPE REMAINING END QUANTITY Admits 1 person Sold Out Ended Free Sold Out Event Details This event is now booked up! To be put on a waiting […]
Happy Vacation Rental Owners & Managers Say:
Antonio helped me turn my vacation rental property - Casita Sitges - into a profitable business. He has shifted my vacation rental knowledge from amateur to professional level. I achieved that through the two modules of the Fully Booked Formula training program he teaches and I attended online, through some individual consulting and through the design of the web for Casita Sitges (http://www.casitasitges.com)
Besides the subject matter of vacation rentals that he masters extremely well, Antonio has a very strong work ethic and he gets things done quickly sticking to the deadlines formerly agreed. I do recommend Antonio's work or products if you want to stand out from the crowd and you want to stretch your profits further.
Antonio is an excellent public speaker, trainer, and event organizer. I attended the Vacation Rental World Summit that he produced this year and it was a fantastic learning experience. I was very impressed with the high-tech applications he used for the event, the seamless delivery of every facet of the program, and the ultra-rich content that was provided by the experts who he invited to participate in the Summit. I gained scores of sales, marketing, and management tips that have already helped my vacation rental business, and I have been able to successfully apply some of what I learned to another one of my businesses, too. Before the end of the Summit I decided to purchase Antonio's Fully Booked Formula training program, and I am equally impressed with that. I look forward to whatever Antonio offers up next -- I am very sure that whatever it is, it will be exceptional.
Wow, thank you for putting together this wonderful resource of information and knowledge from the industry leaders to help all VR owners alike. What a line-up of events you had. Got on to watch the first sessions on day 1. Boy did I feel cheated, I wanted my guest/s to go home so I could continue to watch the video's but that was not an option. So I spent the whole weekend trying to get a minute to watch another 5 minutes. Anyway by the time they left Sunday night, I had managed to watch the first 2 sessions on day 1 and thought it was that good I just will have to buy the program.
I am SO glad to have come across your Vacation Rental World Summit - you have opened my eye to so many things!!! And I have to give you my thanks for introducing me to such valuable learning tools, gurus etc.
I absolutely loved the Vacation Rental World Summit this year and I am so happy to know that there will be another in 2015.
Kudos for your Summit. Very well done. Excellent seminar. Much to think about. Much to do. Because I'm new to taking a professional approach to managing my 3 properties in Guatemala, I have much to see, learn, and absorb. My notes make up a pile of paper 1/2 inch thick. I ran my computer out of ink, and finished off a brand new gel pen! Ten days ago I returned to Guatemala for the half year, and brought all those notes and copies with me. United Airlines was pleased too: $40 for the extra luggage. Still there is much to process and to implement in building my rental business. Again, Muchas Gracias Señor for this opportunity.
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