Ok let's say you already have decided whether you want to advertise on a free vacation rental listing site or a paid site.
What's Next?
How to market it? How to list it? How to take a picture of it?
Let's see...
7 ways to promote your vacation rental
This is a great resource, it includes this great table and other awesome tips
Methods to promote my vacation rental property
| Method | Cost | Time | Return |
| National paid listing sites | High | Medium | High |
| Local paid listing sites | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Free listing sites | Free | Medium | Low |
| Personal property website | Low | High | Medium |
| Local property management companies | Free to Low | Low | Medium |
| Email newsletters | Free to Low | Medium | Medium |
| Local Search Listings | Free to Low | Medium | Medium |
| Facebook page | Free | Low | Low |
| Google AdWords | Medium | High | Low |
How to Advertise your Vacation Rental property?
This post includes more details about other tips like craiglist, postcards and their own data from testing.
Business Cards and Postcards
Classifieds
Donating to Charity
Free Listing Sites
Paid Listing Sites
Own Web Site
5 Must-Follow Tips for Marketing Your Vacation Rental on Facebook
The people from flipkey nailed it with those facebook tips, this is a realistic way to do it when you already have a base of friends/fans.
Cottage Blogger
Even this is a podcast version, Heather Bayer, always have great advice and insight from the vacation rental world.
What Sells Your Vacation Rental Home?
From HomeEscape I found this great tool called Smart Host to calculate best price for your vacation rental. They also have Top 10 Tips to Market your HomeEscape Listing but it's more specific for your listings at HomeEscape.
Seven Vacation Rental Marketing Tips That Can Boost Your Bookings
- Track & Test
- Find a Niche
- Email Marketing
- Website
- Social Media
Diversify your Paid Advertising
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