Marketing 4 Ways To Avoid Bad Guests Not every vacation rental owner has a tale to share about The Nightmare Guest – but plenty do. While most guests come and go with few if any issues, owners occasionally find themselves facing
Marketing On The 12th Day: Reach Out To Past Vacation Rental Guests For the twelfth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, start the New Year by getting in touch with people who’ve rented from you in the past. If you haven’t already been collecting
Marketing On The 11th Day: Test Your Vacation Rental Listing on Craigslist For the eleventh day of MyVR Marketing Tips, give Craigslist a try — or another try, if you’ve tested Craigslist postings in the past. Craigslist is a free classifieds website, and people often
Marketing On The 10th Day: Pin Your Vacation Rental On Pinterest For the tenth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, give some love to the millions of Pinterest addicts and build up your Pinterest profile. Don’t have a profile yet? These five steps will
Marketing On The 9th Day: Update Your Facebook Page For the ninth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, navigate through the distracting YouTube videos and pithy quotes on Facebook to update your vacation rental’s Business Page. Word-of-mouth recommendations and referrals are key
Marketing On The 8th Day: Find New Sites To Promote Your Vacation Rental For the eighth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, your mission is to search for new places to promote your vacation rental website online. Photo by Pankaj Patel / Unsplash You’ve already updated your
Marketing On The 7th Day: Update Your Existing Vacation Rental Listings For the seventh day of MyVR Marketing Tips, take a tour of vacation rental websites where you’re listed and either add or revise your listing information with your newly-updated description. Armed with
Marketing On The 6th Day: Review What Advertising Works (And What Doesn’t) For the sixth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, you’re going to have a look at what worked — and what didn’t — for your 2012 marketing efforts. Photo by Jonathan Petersson / Unsplash Use
Marketing On The 5th Day: Plan to Update Your Vacation Rental Photos For the fifth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, schedule a photo shoot for your rental property — with yourself or somebody else behind the lens. Photo by JESHOOTS.COM / Unsplash You should already have
Marketing On The 4th Day: Update Your Vacation Rental’s Local Guide For the fourth day of MyVR Marketing Tips, either research or take time to reflect on some of the great experiences you’ve had in your vacation rental neighborhood recently. Then, add this
Marketing On The 3rd Day: Refresh Your Vacation Rental Sales Pitch For the third day of MyVR Marketing Tips, have a fresh look at the way you describe your vacation rental, and the headlines you use to try to grab attention. Next to having
Marketing On The 2nd Day: Review Your Vacation Rental Rates For the second day of MyVR Marketing Tips, it’s time to review your rates. Changing your rates isn’t something you need do today — for example, you don’t want to unexpectedly
Marketing On The 1st Day: Get Your Administrative Tasks Up-To-Date For the first day of MyVR Marketing Tips, your mission is to make sure your administrative tasks are up-to-date. It’s easy to let administrative tasks build up “until you have more time”
Marketing The 12 Days of Vacation Rental Marketing (Stay Tuned!) Grab some eggnog and your laptop, and join us over the holidays for 12 Days of MyVR Marketing: 12 ways to get your vacation rental marketing revved up for 2013. Just 10 minutes
Operations 6 Ways To Handle Rental Requests from Friends and Family When it comes to cutting friends and family a good deal for your vacation rental, ground rules aren’t the only thing to pay attention to. Before you start filling your vacation rental
Operations Vacation Rental Policies To Consider Thoughtful policies and procedures for your vacation rental are your first line of defence against disagreements with renters and other awkward or upsetting situations. A real estate lawyer will walk you through the
Marketing Top 10 Facebook Marketing Stats Every Vacation Rental Owner Should Read With nearly 1 billion users on Facebook, chances are you’ve got a personal profile already — even if it’s just to check out your grandkids photos and find your long-lost high school
Operations Tips for Picking Your Vacation Rental Website Domain Name You come up with a clever name for your vacation rental property and immediately jump online to buy the website domain name. But wait – someone already has! With over 100 million “.com” domains
