Friday, June 29, 2012

Ivacationonline.com is already the best vacation property management website and it is a fantastic way to find a deal on a vacation rental in a travel destination city that you are looking for. Whether it is the easy access to travel insurance for yourself or your renters, or the Travel Guard accidental damage insurance available right on your live booking page it is hard to beat the industry leading options that ivacationonline offers.
As all great businesses do we are not setting back on our achievements and basking in the glory of watching the other vacation rental websites try to play catch-up. We are constantly and consistently moving ahead. As the internet changes and our customer base grows we want to stay ahead of the curve and make our great website even better. That is why we would like to hear what our customers and members have to say about what they like about our site and tings that they would like to see changed or made even better.
You can do that several ways, email us at info@ivacationonline.com, visit us on Facebook, or leave a comment right here on this blog.
Our goal when we set out to change the world of vacation rental property renting nearly a decade ago was to make the process simple and easier for the property owner. That is still our goal and we work every day trying to make the process of renting, booking, communicating, and managing your condo, townhouse, 2nd house or investment property even easier.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Getting the maximun from your vacation property.

So you now have a ivacationonline.com property management software website and you have turned you once money pit vacation property, 2nd home, beach front condo, mountain chalet, or ski lodge cabin in to a profit center. So what do you do now? Just sit and let the money roll in? Sure you could do that but if you follow Joe Godar’s marketing plan, you should be buying listing on VRBO, HomeAway and other vacation rental listing websites. They are great websites and get you plenty of inquiries, but they do cost money. They certainly more than pay for themselves but any expense eats in to your bottom line. If you do not have the time to spend on marketing your property yourself they are a absolute necessity. However if you do have time to work on marketing your property there are steps you can take to possibly eliminate a few of your paid listing.

In the next few series of blog posts, we are going to show you a few of the ways to market your property that are low cost or even better, FREE!
Today we are just going to focus on Facebook. If you have not visited the Ivacationonline.com’s Facebook page please do so here and give us a LIKE while you are there. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/ivacationonlinecom/295440638931
Facebook will allow you to stay in contact with current customers, past customers, and reach new customers. One of your goals as a vacation property owner is to get your guests to return. Returning guests are easy to work with, take less time to explain the process and do not need to be sold again. On Facebook your existing guests share pictures and links with each other about your home and potentially can bring you new renters. This is great because it costs you nothing to market your rental property.
You can update pictures of your property, announce sales, invite others, it is one great to help you get more and keep more renters.