Share VRS075 – Pesky Vacation Rental Owners and Social Media Tips with Lynn Abaté Johnson The title of this episode refers to a recent Skift article that pointed to a challenge that’s been in front of the big listing sites and OTAs from the outset: “Major players from Airbnb and HomeAway to the Priceline Group and TripAdvisor have tapped into only about one-fifth of the addressable $100 billion vacation rental […]
Share VRS059 – Make Video For Vacation Rental Your Goal for 2015 with Lou Bortone One of my goals for 2015 is to create video content for my agency site. I want to help guests make great vacation choices and provide information to our owners on how to make their properties even more welcoming. But….I have been putting it off, because it seemed way too complicated and my perfectionism is […]
Share On the Plus Side – A look at Google+ with Alan Egan Guest post by Alan Egan – RentMoreWeeks.com In this article we are talking social media and Heather has asked me to share some tips on the ins and outs of Google plus. There’s a lot to Google Plus so I thought that I would share some basic reasons for signing up and getting involved and […]
Share VRS040 – Affordable Design, Sexy Bedrooms, and Vacation Rental Branding with Mercedes Brennan When I first started in this business the overriding attitude seemed to be that the rental was the last resting place for everything no longer wanted in the primary home. It was where mattresses, old sofas and relics of yesteryear went to die. Sadly, a short time spent looking at listing sites shows these properties […]
Share VRS019 – Sue B Zimmerman the Instagram Gal My guest today in episode 19 is Sue Zimmerman – a social media powerhouse, entrepreneur extraordinaire, and thoroughly nice person! Since starting her first business at age 13, Sue’s passion and drive for helping others to achieve success has had her founding eighteen separate businesses which made me ask which hour of the week she […]
Share Marketing Yourself and Your Vacation Rental on Twitter – Making Connections in 140 Characters I make no secret of being a Twitter user. In fact if you take a look at my profile it won’t be long before I cross the 8000 tweet mark, which isn’t a big deal if you look at the likes of Perez Hilton at nearly 180,00 but for someone in a small niche (vacation […]
Share VRS007 – Mastering social media for vacation rental with expert Evelyn Gallardo In this session of Vacation Rental Success, I’m delighted to welcome Evelyn Gallardo who I met for the first time at the Home Away Summit in Phoenix. She was a member of a panel delivering a social media workshop over the afternoon on the first day, and had my attention from the get-go after getting […]
Share Keep Them Engaged: 3 Social Media Networks for Vacation Rentals Guest post by Matt Smolsky of Perfect Places.com Social media figures heavily in the plans of many cottage rental owners and managers in 2013. In fact, according to a survey conducted by Perfect Places Vacation Rentals, social media is a respectable 3rd to paid and free listings as a marketing tool. Social media even […]
