Vacation Property Marketing Tips

Why do we write blog posts? Hint: Listing independence. It used to be you could have a property listing and if the listing site had a lot of traffic your listing would be found.

an image with a listing number, a bland slideshow, or a video mixed with text, photos with attractive transition effects, video, and thematic music?

We wanted to find a special way to connect you to what drives us as owners and property managers, and what makes the locations where we have vacation property so special. Enjoy!

Although my wife Elizabeth and I are fairly new to Houfy, we are neither new to property ownership, management or technology. My wife initially created Houfy listings for each of our properties and when I saw that she had completed it, including photos, synchronized calendars and reviews without asking me for assistance I wondered, "what is this remarkable solution that turned my wife into a technology guru?"

In this marketing tip I will discuss how you can leverage some best practices for creating Posts for your Google My Business account.

If you haven't seen this Houfy story, you will want to save it and take action to sign up for Google Analytics and begin tracking website traffic.

If you're a fan of Houfy as we are and want to get the word out, then we have an idea that will do all of the following:

Last year around the #BookDirect movement we gave consideration to what kind of video we might want to create to evangelize booking direct with a focus not on property photos but on the locations and the types of experiences they provide vacationers.

I enjoy tech toys. My vacation rental properties have provided me the opportunity to invest in a few of these toys to which I try to put to a practical purpose. However, I'm also frugal and so I'm not the sort of person to invest in expensive solutions. And it isn't necessary as you will learn.