Marketing How to Remove Negative Guest Reviews on Google You’ve received a dreaded negative guest review on Google—now what? These tips from MyVR will help you turn a negative review into a positive customer experience.
Marketing How Google My Business Can Put your Vacation Rental on the Map Vacation rental property managers and owners can use Google My Business to boost their business’s organic rankings. Follow these tips from MyVR on how to setup your Google My Business profile.
Marketing Email Marketing Tips that Are Sure to Convert Leads into Guests Unsure of how to get started with a newsletter for your short-term rental business? Check out our vacation rental property email marketing tips.
Marketing How to Optimize Images for SEO on Your Vacation Rental Website Image optimization is a growing priority for the property manager who wants to improve SEO. MyVR walks you through optimizing images for your business’s website.
Marketing How to Attract Business Travelers (and Turn Them into Repeat Guests) As the corporate traveler segment grows in the vacation rental industry, it is becoming more important for property managers to attract business travelers to their vacation rentals and to turn them into repeat guests.
Marketing Learn How to Create a Facebook Page for a Vacation Rental MyVR takes property managers through the process of how to create a Facebook page for a vacation rental.
Marketing Do You Know How to Write Great Headlines for Your Vacation Rentals? MyVR shares powerful tips to teach property managers how to write great headlines. For your vacation rentals to stand out, a catchy title is invaluable!
Marketing 5 Reasons to Build A Great Vacation Rental Website (and SEO Isn’t One of Them) People are often surprised when I say they need to stop stressing out about search engine optimization (SEO) because it may not even be right for their vacation rental marketing strategy. “Jonathan, don’
Marketing Stressed About SEO? Why It May Not Make Sense For Your Vacation Rental I often find myself in conversations with vacation rental owners of just one property—or perhaps a few—about whether SEO should be a part of their marketing strategy. For many larger, professional
Marketing Putting Autoresponders to Work for You This topic recently came up in Matt Landau’s Inner Circle forum, and these two posts are based on information I shared there. If you aren’t already participating, connect with Matt Landau’
Chamber of Commerce Are you missing out on vacation rental referrals? Referrals are a common way for businesses to grow, and rent-by-owners (RBOs) aren’t any different; you likely already know that word-of-mouth marketing from happy guests can be one of your most powerful
Marketing Why Your New Vacation Rental Website Isn't Showing in Search Results Launching a new website for your vacation rental business is an exciting event…that can quickly deflate when nothing seems to happen. Where are the website visitors? Where are the new bookings? Like
Guest Experience “Living Like A Local” Made Easier with Travel Apps and Websites Once they decide where they want to go, travelers want to know what they can do when they get there, relying on the Internet and a sense of exploration to serve their needs.
Customer Corner Advice From A Vacation Rental Owner: Easy Guest Surveys Are Invaluable When it comes to guest surveys, the old “K.I.S.S.” motto works best—”Keep It Simple” and you just might get a few insightful comments in response. Make it complicated and,
Marketing Attract Travelers By Pairing Your Blog With Pinterest While sharing interesting content via a blog can support your vacation rental business, adding images—and taking advantage of an image-based social network—can improve the experience exponentially. Like the adage goes, “a
Marketing Choosing The Best Thumbnail For Your Vacation Rental Listing It was three weeks ago. Well, maybe just two weeks—but it seems like an eternity. No emails. No phone calls. Just a message from “Marie in NY” that was obviously a phishing
Marketing How To Turn Hollywood Hits Into Reservations Having your city or neighborhood featured in a movie, TV series or book can bring a sense of pride—even some residual acclaim—to the people who live there. A new report from
Marketing Photo Staging Tips for Vacation Rentals Whether you’ve hired a professional photographer—one of our top tips!—or prefer to take your own photos, staging your property can have a positive impact on your booking results. Staging your
Guest Experience Many Travelers Prefer Guidebooks! What That Means For Your Marketing There’s no question that online marketing matters when promoting your vacation rental; Google’s report, “The Traveler’s Road to Decision,” found that the vast majority of business and leisure travelers plan
Marketing Create Facebook Posts That Get A Reaction You diligently post to your vacation rental’s Facebook Page on a regular basis, and you know many of your Page’s fans are seeing your posts. So why don’t they do
Marketing Growing Your Website: 5 Things Your Guests Want To Know About You know your website is key to attracting bookings and making money. But how do you keep a website fresh and growing? The more information you provide, the better prepared your visitors will
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 Why Getting More Links To Your Website Is A Good Idea If you’ve researched how to market your vacation rental online, you’ll be familiar with search-engine optimization (SEO) — the process of influencing the many factors that can impact where your website will
Marketing Tools That Help Make DIY Video Clips Easy If you caught MyVR’s presentation at the HomeAway Summit earlier this year, you’ll know I’m a fan of video; we included it on our list of minimal-effort activities that can
Marketing Why Facebook Cover Photos Are Now A Lot More Useful A lot of Facebook Page owners ignore the rules, but if you’ve been trying to keep your vacation rental Page on the straight and narrow, there’s good news: recent changes to
