FurnishedRentals.com announces free upgrades for all listings.  Add your listing for your vacation home, bed and breakfast, villa and corporate short term accommodation to the vacation rental map for free.  Add premium content to the internet for your vacation rentals – up to 24 images, link to your personal website, social media connections and more in a [...]

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FurnishedRentals.com is embracing social media by allowing owners and managers to connect with Twitter updates, Youtube videos, Google Calendars and much more soon!
Thought I would post this cool Youtube video about social media stats – if you have’nt had a chance to see it check it out.

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Conducting your vacation rental business online is about trust.  Advertising your vacation rentals online with FurnishedRentals.com is about mutual trust.  To that end we want you to know who we are, what we are trying to accomplish and how we can work together to drive results to your vacation home rentals and furnished corporate housing.
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FurnishedRentals.com launched new enhancements today.  The Furnished Rentals vacation rental by owner and manager site has always utilized Google maps technology to help travelers locate their next vacation getaway and now they are integrating Google Apps. 
Furnished Rentals preferred members can now post their Google Calendars and use Google Analytics to track results for their vacation rentals.  When Gmail [...]

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Just a quick follow up to Homeaway’s Superbowl ad.  Here is a link to Austin Business Journal and it shows success for Homeaway’s ad campaign. View more details and the full article here.  As stated earlier here the ad campaign should drive awareness for the vacation home rental industry as a whole.
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For current vacation homeowners and travelers who rent vacation homes it’s not really big news that there is much more value than staying in a hotel room.  In recent interviews with Homeaway’s leadership team they believe that there is still a huge market that is not aware of the distinct advantages of renting a furnished vacation [...]

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Yep – what type of beds you outfit your vacation rental with directly affect your bookings!  How is that you might ask?

Let’s take a look at several scenarios including 1, 2, 3 and 4 plus bedroom vacation homes.  Renters of 1 br furnished rentals will prefer a king size bed as opposed to a queen or [...]

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Photos, photos and more photos!  You can visit just about any vacation rental website and you’re bound to see some blurry and really horrible thumbnail images for listed homes.  How about the distorted and stretched thumbnail shots that make you want to get an eye exam?  Or how about the owner who decides to post a [...]

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Fantastic Views – Sedona, AZ Vacation Rental
 
Furnishedhomes.com – Vacation Rentals by Map is searching for your great travel and vacation rental images!  Our graphic design team is calling for some really great images that will appear on the “Home” page for Furnished Homes.  The image files need to be big and high resolution.  So if [...]

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Home Away – aka Homeaway.com, Vacationrentals.com, Vrbo.com, etc. announces that they will be advertising in February 2010 Super Bowl.  Vacation homeowners and managers report receiving emails advising them that Homeaway based in Austin, Texas will be advertising during Superbowl XLIV in Miami, Florida.
Great news for vacation rental owners and vacation rental directories as this will [...]

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