Targeting Facebook users can seem daunting if you’re unaware of their travel interests. Vacation rental companies once targeted potential customers based on audience demographics,...
If you are seriously considering selling your vacation rental business and you want to garner maximum value, there are several steps you should take...
Property managers (PMs) traditionally provide a wide range of activities, including design and listing preparation, competitive benchmarking, pricing advice, marketing, distribution, guest screening and...
How VRMs Can Embrace Change and Ride Both to Success
Millennials, people between the ages of 18 and 34, are currently America’s largest generation, numbering...
Building a Relationship Through Social Branding
Brand loyalty rarely exists in today’s culture. In the vacation rental industry, we see people changing where they stay...
Nearly 70 percent of all reservations are driven by online channels, an incredible statistic from Phocuswright. From what we’ve seen, this change in user...
“I can’t get in. The door won’t unlock.”
“Did you turn the deadbolt after entering your code?”
“No…I have to turn the deadbolt?”
<Head slap>
And another documented...
Today Bluetent, the vacation rental industry’s largest provider of website development and online marketing services, announced it has acquired Visual Data Systems (VDS) for an...
Vacation rentals and real estate are two massive industries worth billions that have long existed parallel to one another. The juxtaposition of the two...
In its blog post, “10 Eye-Opening Email Marketing Stats You Need to Know,” Constant Contact estimates that for every $1 spent on email marketing, companies...
This week vacation rental listing site Vacayrx launched a crowdfunding campaign and plans to use the funds to promote an initial coin offering (ICO) later this...
The reactive maintenance approach, or “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is expensive and inefficient. Vacation rental property managers wind up spending more...
HomeAway remains the undeniable leader in delivering third-party revenue for core vacation markets in the United States. Expedia’s purchase of the company in late...