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Is Expedia about to sell?

Expedia is trading up today as unconfirmed rumors circulate about a possible bid by Alibaba, who last week raised over $22 billion in their...

Tweaking your homeowner acquisition strategy: PMs give advice and lessons learned

Weโ€™ll cut your commission rate in half! $5,000 sign-up bonus! $10,000 interior design credit! 20% payout to realtors for referrals!   It is contract renewal time for many vacation...

LiveRez Conference Wraps Up in Boise

The inaugural 2014 LiveRez Partner Conference wrapped up in Boise, Idaho last week with new friends, new product announcements and a newfound sense of...

Trulia CFO talks vacation rentals and long term rentals

By Sean Aggarwal, Trulia CFO In April, Airbnb raised a $475 million round of financing, which valued the company at an impressive $10 billion. Some...

FlipKey Partners with TruPlace to Offer Interactive Floor Plans for Listing Pages

TruPlace, the leading provider of interactive floor plans in the vacation rental industry, is partnering with FlipKey, TripAdvisorโ€™s vacation rental website, to offer floor...

Priceline.com CMO talks vacation rentals

Today Priceline.com CMO Brett Keller addressed attendees at the 2014 LiveRez Partner Conference in Boise, ID and talked about branding, increasing conversion rates, creating...

Rental Guardian Responds to the Opt-In vs. Opt-Out Travel Insurance Debate

In the vacation rental management industry, there is a current debate centered on the decision to sell travel insurance online through an Opt-In or...
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Priceline.com CMO on Villas.com and Airbnb

Priceline.com CMO Brett Keller described Villas.com as a marketing campaign for Booking.com in a session for vacation rental managers at the 2014 LiveRez Partner...

STRAC parent Travel Tech talks ancillary fees with DOT

Note: HomeAway, Airbnb and Flipkey recently joined Travel Tech and put the Short Term Rental Advocacy Center under the Travel Tech umbrella. The following...

Hawaii Economic Impact Study to be Released: 26,500 Vacation Rentals in Hawaii

Hawaii has about four times as many vacation rentals for travelers than the stateโ€™s tourism agency previously believed. A new study indicates there are about...

UNO Releases Vacation Rental Findings in New Orleans

The University of New Orleans and the Alliance for Neighborhood Prosperity have released findings in a survey that looks at the economic impact of...

Vacasa makes Inc.’s 10 Fastest Private Growing Companies in the U.S. List

Portland-based Vacasa landed in the No. 9 spot in the U.S., in the coveted 2014 Inc. Magazine 10 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America....

HomeAway invests in HotSpot Tax to encourage vacation rental tax compliance

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2014 --HomeAway, Inc. announced an investment in HotSpot Tax, Inc., the only automated, web-based tax filing solution for state and...

LiveRez Adds Olympic Gold Medalist Dick Fosbury as a Keynote Speaker for the 2014 LiveRez Partner Conference

EAGLE, Id. โ€“โ€“ LiveRez.com, the industry leader in cloud-based software for professional vacation rental managers, today announced Olympic Gold Medalist Dick Fosbury as a...
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Ebook: Building a National Brand in the Vacation Rental Industry

All predictors pointed to success in building a national brand for the fast growing vacation rental segment, so why did ResortQuest fail? And is...

Thank you for purchasing “Building a National Brand in the Vacation Rental Industry

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Teeming Vacation Rentals goes from 0 to 100 in first year in St. Petersburg/Clearwater

(Clearwater Beach, FL) โ€“ Teeming Vacation Rentals just celebrated its first year in business and already has more than 100 properties under management in...

Priceline.com Chief Marketing Officer Brett Keller to Give Keynote Speech at the 2014 LiveRez Partner Conference

The chief marketing officer for the worldโ€™s largest travel company set to speak at the vacation rental technology leaderโ€™s inaugural partner conference   EAGLE, Id. โ€“โ€“...

Travel insurance: VRMs told “opt-out” not an option

Commissions from selling travel insurance products provide a significant source of ancillary revenue for vacation rental managers. Over the last decade, travel insurance representatives taught...

Milne resigns from Wyndham, Marriott exec named President Vacation Rentals North America

Earlier this week Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) ย named Marriott's Mary Lynn Clark as President, Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America following the resignation of current...

Beach Vacation Rentals wins White Glove Award for third year straight

Across Florida, thousands of lodgings offer 370,000 rooms to Floridaโ€™s 95-million annual visitors. Last year, only 132 lodgings, including all of Beach Vacation Rentalโ€™s properties,...
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Identifying data fields for vacation rental managers

Vacation rental managers who collect accurate data and learn to use their data in real-time for marketing, reservations, rate management and intelligent business decisions...

Under the Hood with Vantage Resort Realty

Brad Callahan, founder and president at Travel Advantage Network (TAN), needed vacation rental inventory in Ocean City, MD, to meet membership demand. After working...

Vacation Rental Industry Ripe for Acquisitions

2014 has already seen key acquisitions by growing vacation rental management companies, with several big announcements on the way. Late last year, Wyndham purchased...

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