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Rental Places expands in several national and international markets

June 20, 2014 โ€“ย  Performance Development Corporation (PDC), a Hilton Head Island โ€“based marketing and software development firm, announced today the expansion of Rental...

Investment research firm comments on HomeAway

By David N. Frazier HomeAway (AWAY) is one of those small-cap, growth stocks that appreciated sharply during 2013, rising by 85.8 percent from Dec. 31,...

NAVIS launches new products at HITEC

Bend, OR - June 16, 2014ย - NAVIS announced it will formally launchย NAVISย Reachย at HITEC June 24 - 26 in Los Angeles. NAVIS Reach is a...

Don’t Stalk Too Much: Vacation Rental Retargeting Tips

If you've ever shopped for anything on the internetโ€”and I do mean anythingโ€”you've probably been retargeted.   This article is courtesy of DwellableTrends. Want toย see all...

Survey results capture sentiment towards listing sites

NeedMoreRentals released the results of their independent surveys of vacation rental home owners and managers relating to their use of listings sites titledย Listings Sites,...

A lesson in pay per click from a hotel marketer

How does the use of pay per click (PPC) for vacation rental managers compare and contrast to that of hotels? With the proliferation by...

TruPlace virtual tours featured on Today Show

HGTV'sย  "Power Broker" and long time TruPlace client Mike Aubrey appeared on the Today Show this morning to discuss the importance of using quality...
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5 year trends in Memorial Day/summer travel

Each year TripAdvisor releases results from its annual summer travel survey which measures travel intentions for Memorial Day weekend and the upcoming summer. We...

Will Villas.com affect the vacation rental distribution landscape? Part 1 -Background

Earlier this month Priceline-owned Booking.com launched Villas.com, a stand-alone vacation rental distribution website with a little over 150,000 listings. How will Villas.com affect vacation rental...

VDS launches loyalty program for vacation rentals

For years other industries including hotels/resorts, rental car companies, airlines, supermarkets and restaurants have implemented loyalty and guest retention programs while the vacation rental...

What is a virtual tour, floor plan tour, 360 tour, etc.?

Virtual tours, 360's, Panoramas, floor plan toursโ€ฆthe terminology used to describe ways to showcase properties online can be unclear and confusing. VRM Intel decided...

TripAdvisor Acquires Vacation Home Rentals

NEWTON, Mass., May 1, 2014 --ย TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP), today announced it has acquired Vacation Home Rentals, a Massachusetts-based vacation rentals website. Vacation Home...

HomeAway Q1: 8 things we learned from HomeAway’s earnings call

HomeAway's stock price fell April 28 to $32.60, down from $48.90 in February of this year. However in last week's earnings call HomeAway reported...

Is rate parity coming to the vacation rental industry?

What is rate parity? In short, โ€œrate parityโ€ is offering the same rate with the same conditions for a particular room type, regardless of the...
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Do Interactive Floor Plans Impact Bookings?

TruPlace, the vacation rental industry's leading provider of interactive floor plans, recently commissioned VRM Intel to conduct a 3rd party study designed to determine...

Google AdWords Strategy: Using Competitors’ Brand Names to Drive Traffic

Is using your competitors' brand name unacceptable in your Google AdWords strategy? Airbnb doesn't think so, andย Google agrees. According to Googleโ€™s current policy bidding...

OTA’s aren’t the enemy

There are multiple opinion pieces pushing ways in which hoteliers can free themselves from online travel agencies and increase their own direct bookings. NB:ย This is...

Fortune Looks at HomeAway and Airbnb

On March 12, 2014, an interesting article released by Fortune titled Quietly Growing Up in Airbnb's Shadow, provides a unique perspective on the similarities...

Rel=”Canonical” Tags: Saving SEO for Vacation Rental Managers?

Rel="canonical" tags are used when duplicate content is present to let search engines (e.g. Google) know that the content on a page is not...

Why professional photos of your vacation rental are worth every penny

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people are drawn to pictures and will judge their rental prospects predominantly on...

4 Easy, Inexpensive Marketing Tactics to Help Gain a Competitive Advantage in 2014

Itโ€™s a game of inches. It's an industry of pennies. These are two comments often made by professional vacation rental managers, who recognize that...
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HomeAway Acquires Glad to Have You

HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), the world's leading online marketplace for vacation rentals, today announced that, through an all cash transaction, it has acquired Glad...

Maxxton Drives Vacation Rental Reservations with its Direct Connection to Booking.com

Maxxton, the largest provider of Hospitality Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for the vacation rental industry, supports Booking.comโ€™s length of stay pricing tables to increase...

Big Changes at NAVIS

NAVIS has made recent changes which are designed to both allow for rapid expansion and provide more specialized and personalized service to clients in...

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