aggressive marketing campaigns for villa owners and vacation rental homes

If you don’t rent your villa out to renters you may find yourself on the side of the road, with other homeowners who have put to rest their dreams of owning a successful vacation rental and have crashed and burned on the road to their rentals success.

These days the competition is pretty fierce and you need to set yourself up to be successful, if you don’t your dream of being a villa owner will die.  Don’t buy your investment home and think your property manager has it all covered for you.  A manager is a good idea for your home but they got a lot of homes to keep after and many other vacation rental owners to satisfy,  so don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  Get out there and let other people know you have a wonderful vacation home for them to rent.  By marketing your home on your own or getting help from others will give you the security you will need in this aggressive field of vacation rentals and villa advertising.

Let’s face it, there is a lot of money that can be obtained from renting vacation homes,  the thing is other owners have realized this as well.  So as villa owners we have to be sharp and ready to compete.  Once you set up your marketing strategy it will be much easier to maintain.  The problem is most homeowners never take their villa marketing seriously enough and wind up in financial trouble because of it.  So play it safe stay alive and advertise!

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This is a rental home located in Davenport Florida. The Holiday villa is a 4 bedroom vacation rental for rent near Disney Wold Orlando. As many villa home owners are realizing the power of rental advertising and video marketing with YouTube and the hundreds of other video websites. Owners now see that video marketing for their villa gives them the boost they need for their vacation rental advertising. As more Internet users are becoming familiar with video, its clear that video marketing is on the rise. It will soon come to a point that if you don’t have a video for your vacation rental advertising you’ll fall short in your marketing. When it comes to SEO and Internet marketing you have to stay ahead of the pack and one sure rental marketing tool to do that for you is a video of your rental home or real estate property.

Vacation home owners need to know that their rental properties and vacation homes can be represented better than they currently are. Our villa video company will make your home irresistible to your rental clients and have an impact that will be felt in your home rental advertising.

Pictures of your vacation rental just don’t cut it anymore.
You should always have very clear pictures of excellent quality for your rental advertising. However, vacation rental owners are ordering  marketing videos and virtual tours for their villas and rental advertising, you just might lose some rental bookings if renters see your competitions villas video first.  Bringing stability and reliability to your rental advertising by adding this marketing must have to your marketing toolbox.  We have the best video and virtual tour services in town, better quality, better value, better service.

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6 Mistakes of vacation rentals and villa website design

Is your website for your vacation rental home bringing in the bookings for your holiday home? Are you needing to get a website designed for your vacation rentals or villa? If your villa website design  isn’t right it could cost you in rentals.

Your villa website design will have a major impact on your rentals for your vacation home. I have written about 5 common mistakes rental home owners make when they design their villas website.

1) Poor quality website design;  There are many reasons a villa website design can come out poor. I have seen them all. If you have a quality website design for your villa more renters will want to rent your vacation rental home.

If your villa website design looks cheap your villa overall runs the risk of being looked in that light and it may lead your clients to feel they can negotiate the price of your vacation rental. When you get your villas website designed don’t have one of your family members or friends design your villas website, unless of your friend is a website design and development company. The saying you get what you pay for couldn’t be more appropriate when it comes this. You don’t have to spend a fortune on your villa website. Warning to do not attempt this at home.

2) It’s too flashy.  Too much flash on the villas website design.
I have seen vacation rental owners attempt to make their website dazzle the visitors to their website, however in the process they go about it all wrong.
You have seen Flash I’m sure when browsing the web. Its usually a motion presentation on the website that has images that move. Flash is very useful. If used in the right way. It can be an effective way of showing your website visitor the overall features, and benefits of your service, villa or company website.

If flash is not used correctly it will hurt your villas website traffic and you may become invisible to Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Flash is not good for optimization of your website (especially when its too heavy) so it is very important where you put it. Flash is important for the humans that visit it, but search engines could care less for it. I think its a must have for all villa websites, but you just need to know what your doing.
3)  Generic templates used for their villas website design.
I have had several home owners of vacation rentals contact Villa Marketers and asking for help with their villas website. When reviewing the website I have noticed some owners have used a template which is being used by hundreds possibly thousands of other vacation rentals. When using a service like this you will not get the rentals for your rental like you will need. Templates are just that a cookie cut presentation, that anyone can use. But not only is your site generic but it will be missing components that you cannot easily add. As it is a template you are restricted to what you can do with the website template. These limitations will not allow for you to be able to drive the traffic to the villa.

Think about it there all the same not one better than the other. If you have used a service like this I know you understand what I’m saying. You probably haven’t received many bookings from the website. If you design your website right it will work to help you make rentals for your villa and income for you. If not it will cost you money time and effort. So when you design your villas website do it right the first time.

4) The presentation of the website is confusing.

The villa website presentation should be easy and simple to navigate. If your website is too difficult to find buttons options and features your website visitors will click away in frustration and , you just lost a booking.

There should be some thought put into the design of the villa website design. There is something called conversion. Conversion is basically converting your visitors to your villas website into a booking for your vacation rental home. Its like leaving a trail of bread crumbs to where you want them to go. This can be the determining factor if your website visitors contacts you or not so make it easy for them to find your rates, availability and contact information for your villa.

5) No Contact Us Form:

This plays into point number 4 but should be addressed separately. I have seen many villa websites where you click on the contact us section and all you see is a phone number or an email address. I have experienced this myself for services I was interested in and when I clicked on the email address, an email program like Microsoft Outlook opens however I don’t use  Outlook and neither does many of your websites visitors . I have clicked away and tried to find some one else I can contact

quicker after all I can get through to someone else easier on the Internet using a form. Many times the website doesn’t have a contact us form because the owner tried to design the website themselves but didn’t know enough about website design and development to create a form or a website design firm didn’t offer it or it costs more.

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Wow! That’s what your potential renters might say if you create a professional video tour for your vacation rentals, villas, condos, hotel or resort.

Why? A video is an advertising presentation which will highlight your vacation rentals, villas, homes and resorts. With a video tour of your villa you have the ability to show only the angles you want to spotlight. Video tours are more forgiving when it comes to pointing out flaws in your vacation homes and resorts.

When- it comes to video tours renters tend to stay glued till the video is over, provided you created an appealing and quality video tour.  Using professional video editing tools and proven techniques you can captivate your potential renters with coordinating music to either sooth the listener or excite the listener.

Will- music on your video tour plus the video and images keep the viewer of your villa interested? Yes! Music and video images can trigger certain feelings in your vacation home renters, which will cause them to react and rent!

Wind= Videos tours show motion and some motion can cause a calming affect to people. For example if we see images of a hurricane with debris flying everywhere that feeling is something totally different than feeling transmitted with swaying palm trees or a swinging hammock.

Water- Ahh… water its so refreshing. What better way to show off your vacation homes pool than with a video tour zooming in on the moving current, waterfalls or the sun reflecting off the water.

Weather- A video tour should be shot on a bright sunny day. Weather can help paint a picture of a beautiful vacation in your holiday home. The, wind, snow or sun show in video tours can make your villa number 1

Website. Video tours can be added to your villas website, now you have a full presentation, get ready for more rentals!

Win- Video tours will give you the edge over your rentals competition. Through YouTube Vimeo and hundreds of other video websites you can increase the page rank of your vacation home or villa website. Video is viral and can get passed around a lot. So do your self a favor get a video for your rental property and just see how it will help in a rental marketing campaign, not to mention that your video will make the vacation homes of your competition look less attractive.

Contact us for a free video tour quote 407-749-8159 www.villamarketers.com

If you own a vacation home in Myrtle beach South Carolina you can attract more vacation rentals for your home by building a website for your villa or beach house. When you design a professional website for your vacation rental its like opening your store. If you don’t have a website for your vacation rental in South Carolina there is no question you are missing out on rentals for your business.

Myrtle Beach is a very popular vacation destination in South Carolina, so we know there are travelers going on vacation there. How is it that these people heading on vacation to South Carolina will find your vacation homes website?

Most travelers today are starting their search for vacation rental homes on the Internet. Its not enough to have your villa website online. In order to capture these renters you will have to do some advertising for your vacation home. Here is where many vacation rental owners fail to realize that if they don’t advertise their vacation rental home in conjunction with designing their website the villa will sit empty without rentals.

A nice website design is important as it will help you earn more rentals but if you want your vacation rental home in South Carolina or anywhere for that matter to stay rented, it is of the most importance to do some Internet marketing . If you are uncertain about where to begin when it comes to villa marketing, Villa Marketers can help you. Villa Marketers is the best advocate for vacation home owners. They are experts in vacation rental advertising and the good thing is that they make it easy for you the home owner. If you have a vacation home in South Carolina, let Villa Marketers create a custom solution that won’t break the bank.

However just creating a website for your vacation home is not going to bring in the rentals. You see, you will have vacation homes and rentals on the Internet they will have their website on the web, so it is natural to believe that as Internet marketing is how websites achieve higher ranks with Google and find favor in the search engines your competitions villas websites will have been marketed on the Internet too. They’re trying to bring in more rentals for their vacation homes.

So…..your villas advertising has got to be better! There are many places to go in South Carolina. When on vacation in S.C. like; Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island，Fripp Island, Isle of Palms, Surfside Beach or Folly Beach. If you choose to advertise your vacation rental you can be in your prospectives renters face first because your rental marketing is so aggressive, even if they started looking in a different section of town then your vacation home is in. Now if you have a professional website for your vacation rental home, with beautiful pictures which highlight your home and surrounding area and you have reasonable rates, you have a great chance to beating your rental competition to the punch. And you’ll need to, there a lot of options when it comes to vacation rentals in South Carolina. If your interested in getting your vacation home to the top of the list, contact us today.

There are many benefits of owning your own vacation home, condo or villa. If you like to travel yourself, you can use your vacation rental home to help you get to more places for less than non vacation home owners. If you own a vacation home in Orlando Florida, you can trade your home with another vacation rental owner who has a rental property in a different location than your villa. Of course the more popular the location of your villa rental the easier it will be for you to swap your home with a location you would e to visit. Vacation homeowners are all over the world and you can trade your Orlando vacation home for a villa in Hawaii, Aruba or Spain. Think of the possibilities now your accommodations are free. Usually you can work a deal for an even swap. Sign up for our free tips and updates to show you how you can do this.

The whole point of most vacations is to getaway, unwind and relax. So what amenity can you add to any vacation rental home that will help your renters relax, that won’t cost you a fortune? The perfect amenity you can add to your list of amenities that will help paint a picture of relaxation is a hammock. A hammock is a great marketing tool to use in your advertising for your vacation home or villa. Even if you have a condo you can add one outback between two trees or you can even add one on most private patios of a condo or town home. You can also purchase hammocks that do not need trees or post to tie them up. If you decide to get a hammock for your vacation home, make sure you mention it on your website and in your emails to potential renters. They will begin to imagine themselves relaxing in the hammock while on their vacation. The best part is you get to use it too.

Is your vacation home a smart home?

If your vacation home isn’t a smart home what is it?

Now that you have a vacation rental home, how will you protect your villa?

Have you ever wondered about the security of your vacation rental home?

Would you like to reduce the cost of owning a vacation rental?

Do you ever wonder if someone is using your property when it is suppose to be vacant?

If you have never considered these topics, we encourage to protect your investment property.
Many vacation rental home owners do not live in the same state or country of their vacation rental home. So how do you know 100% that your home is being properly taken care of? How can you ensure that your lawn has been cut, or that the pool was cleaned?

The answer is that you have to usually take someone elses word that these things are being done for you. With todays technology you can put your worries to rest. There are new developments in home technology that allows you monitor your vaction rental home from your residence remotley. The best part is that there are some very cost effective solutions that won’t break the bank.

Some of the possibilites of having a smart home sysytem installed in your vacation rental are; You can control your pool heat from home, administer an entry code for guests who are arriving and be alerted by an email or text message when they arrive in your rental. Reduce your electricity bill by eliminating wasted energy, when your villa is empty. You can monitor the exterior of your rental home for increased security. You can control lighting remotley to help deter any would be prowlers  and make your villa appear occupied. There are so many home solutions that you will benefit from with a smart home system. Get a free qoute for your vacation rental home.

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In whatever field of business  you are in, it is important that your potential customers trust you and your establishment. If you own a restaurant and there has been rumors of customers getting sick with food poisoning it will make sense to believe that you are losing business because of those rumors. If you own a hotel in a bad area of town it is likely that you will not receive the type of clientele you would hope for for your establishment, therefore losing money for your business. This is the same thing that can happen with your vacation rental home or condo rental.

Whenever there is an opportunity to earn income there will be people who will try to unlawfully take this money from unsuspecting victims. We do realize this is just a small group of people who actually do this. However as you know one bad apple can spoil the whole batch. There have been rumors all over the Internet and by word of mouth of people being scammed out of their hard earned money when attempting to rent a vacation home, villa or condo. This can be affecting you business, many clients I have spoken with over the many years have explained the customers are asking questions and that can be understood with these types of scams taking place in the industry. There asking questions to try to see if your are legitimate or not. However this is not an easy situation to face with a potential renter as they start of not trusting you and you can spend much time with the renter and through your persistence that you are indeed a legitimate vacation home rental, it may not send the right message to them and you may lose them as a rental because of their fear.

So how can you overcome this at the very beginning of the communication with this renter. Because this potential renter wants to rent your holiday villa for their trip or vacation they just want their worries put to rest. First I would say it is a very good idea and it is highly recommended that you have a really nice professional website that speaks quality and it doesn’t look like you just threw something up there to open your doors. This concept should be consistent all throughout your products , such as virtual tours, video tours, brochures, flyers etc. This will show your renters that you are very serious about your business and they should treat you as a professional.

The biggest tip to earn trust for you vacation villas, homes, condos and town-homes is to get yourself Verified. This is a major tool that will easily turn a hesitant vacation home renter to a customer for your rental business. So what does this verification do for you. The verification process is provided by Villa Marketers. When you become verified with Villa Marketers you receive a Verified emblem or logo on your vacation rental website, it can also be used on listings for your villas listings. However we take the security measure even further because if it is just a logo then anyone can take this logo and use wherever they want, even a potential scammer could use a logo. However what makes our verification effective is that we also issue an ID # that is associated with your vacation home or villas. When a someone is interested in renting your vacation home they can click on you Verified logo. The potential renter of your home will be lead to a dedicated page about your particular home. This is a separate page with information explaining to the potential renter of your home that you your villa or condo is verified. We also provide a contact number that the  renter of you vacation home can contact a third party (Villa Marketers) give the ID # of your villa and Villa Marketers will put your client at ease through explaining the details of your property and explaining to them that your home is a legitimate property. This has a powerful affect when renting your vacation rental buy owner.

Contact us today if your interested in building trust with your renters and

ultimately earning more business and rentals.

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When it comes to marketing there are many things that should be considered and one of the major things to take into consideration is your competition and your market. When marketing a vacation home you should come up with different ways to make your vacation home rental stand out from your competition. There are many tools and products that Villa Marketers offers that will help you do just that such as: Virtual Tours for your home or property, brochures designed to highlight your villa,business cards, and a professional vacation home website just to name a quick few. However there are many other eliminates when considering marketing your villa or vacation home in Florida that will help you stand out. The Florida marketing approach should be a bit more aggressive because many homes in Florida will be able to offer many of the amenities your villa will be able to provide for example many villas can boast of a short drive to Disney World, Sea-World and many great attractions. This is almost expected from visitors coming to the Orlando Florida area. So get creative when marketing your vacation home or villa. You may need to put certain things into your condo or villa to help your advertising and marketing approach. You should have an aggressive marketing campaign but consider placing somethings in the home such as WIFI a game system and other amenities that will make your Florida villa desirable above others that won’t provide all of the amenities your villa posses. Subscribe to this blog to keep your marketing sharp. We will be placing a list of items you can place in your villa to improve your marketing in an upcoming article for  Florida villa marketing

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