Many parts of the United States are approaching Pre-Peak rental season.  It’s about the time for emails inquiries to start coming back to life for many owners and managers.  Before your inbox maxes out,  be sure to update your personal vacation rental site, vacation rental listings and email responders and check your rental rates.
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The numbers in this video presentation are Real and Crazy!
No matter if you have just one or multiple vacation rentals or corporate housing rentals, you may want to consider targeted Facebook advertising campaigns.  I’m not a Facebook advertising expert, but before you jump in or hire one check out this video.
Why Facebook?  Facebook is now the LARGEST [...]

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As the chief bottle washer at Furnished Rentals dot com I get to see many, many vacation rental websites.  They range from awesome to awful!  Let’s look at a couple of awesome sites and forget about the awful – because that’s what people searching the internet are going to do too!
 
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FurnishedRentals.com, Vacation Rentals by Map website added new owner manager profiles to all listings.  This feature enables owners and property managers to post an avatar, picture or logo to their listings.  If you have multiple rentals then travelers will see all of your listings in your profile. 
Here’s a nice example for an owner profile.  This new feature [...]

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Not now, it’s too late. 
Once you have subscriber revenue it’s really, really hard to stop taking the money.  It’s even hard to start taking a little less money.  Virtually impossible to give it away for free.  Kind of like charging for software for a long time and then being able to get it online for free.  Ring a bell? 
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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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