Getting A Shitload Of Traffic To Your Vacation Rental Website Published on November 26, 2018 by alan egan Getting a shitload of traffic to your vacation rental website There has been a lot written about vacation rental marketing and how to increase traffic to websites. There’s no shortage of posts about SEO, blogging, content marketing and the like. In this article, I’m going to talk about something that’s not been...
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January 31, 2019 Alan Egan
What’s cooking? #vacationsoup update. I’m happy to announce that the vacation soup learning centre is now officially open. You can access it at https://learn.vacationsoup.com As well as our free website creation course and the blogging and VS plugin course there are over 400 videos (see the ‘more resources’ section) on all sorts of subjects including SEO for beginners, WordPress tutorials, Facebook marketing, Google analytics, Instagram for beginners, Brand Storytelling, Social...
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December 19, 2017 Alan Egan
#vacationsoup What’s cooking, update. I just wanted to thank the 100’s of you that have signed up for free websites and free plugins. I also wanted to let you know that the new free website and video course will roll out next week. We will start with 10 owners (just to check that everything is working as it should) and invite everyone else the following week. You can see a...
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October 14, 2017 Alan Egan
I’ve just spent a great weekend at the Vacation Rental World Summit in Florence. I was fortunate enough to be asked to present a session on ‘the future of vacation rental marketing’. Here is a video version of my presentation which is a prequel to more videos and links that I will be sharing throughout the coming weeks. Destination marketing is here – Listing site interdependence is coming. Please take...
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September 29, 2017 Alan Egan
Everything That You Every Wanted To Know About Airbnb But Were Afraid To Ask We came across this very interesting thread on Reddit where an Airbnb case manager was answering questions anonymously. There are a huge amount of questions and answers here but the insight is quite fascinating (case manager’s notes are in blue). I am a case manager with Airbnb, go ahead and ask me anything, even if you...
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September 22, 2017 Alan Egan
People are starting to realise that Airbnb aren’t what they say they are. We came across this story on Buzzfeed and thought that we would share it here. We’ve have been saying for as long as we can remember that Airbnb is misleading people with it’s core messages. This company isn’t about a sharing economy, it’s all about Airbnb’s economy. 11% of every transaction. It certainly isn’t about living like...
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June 12, 2017 Alan Egan
5 PR Goals for Your Vacation Rental Generating publicity for a vacation rental business is a goal that most vacation rental owners and managers would agree that they would have. But, how do you go about actually achieving this? PR is a skilled profession usually left in the hands of professionals, however there are certain actions that you can take that can make your vacation rental business a little more...
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April 11, 2017 Alan Egan
Laughable Best Match Video From HomeAway In my opinion this sort of sums up Homeaway – A badly made video – badly trying to be funny (why?) – A multi billion dollar company, a five dollar video (oh look, Bob’s in the photocopier room, that’s just hilarious). Anyway, this video is meant to explain best match to owners and managers. Bob walks us through the 7 points of best match...
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February 26, 2017 Alan Egan
By Mercedes Brennan [su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” divider_color=”#fa692b” size=”2″] TRY THIS DANISH STRATEGY TO INCREASE WINTER VACATION RENTAL BOOKINGS When temperatures drop, the low to non-existent bookings season begins for many vacation rental properties. It’s winter and people like to stay at home and drink tea and putter. There are two approaches to this scenario: 1) You accept that bookings are thin and take a break from the short-term...
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December 21, 2016 Mercedes Brennan
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionBrian Chesky’s AirBnB has more than three million locations listed so far What started as literally an air bed on the floor in Brian Chesky’s apartment has blossomed into a service that has more than three million locations listed around the world. AirBnB, the site that lets you rent out your spare rooms, or indeed your entire home, to tourists, is one of Silicon Valley’s brightest start-ups...
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November 18, 2016 Alan Egan
