Devices required to use mobile broadband abroad

Mobile broadband services have become increasingly popular over recent years, and are now regularly used by both casual and business users who need to get online whilst out and about. In the past getting online often meant being tied to the home or office where you could use your fixed line broadband service, but mobile [...]

Written on December 14, 2010 | Posted in Photo Gallery,Tools and Software | 1 comment

SEO 101 For Marketing Your Vacation Rental

It can be amazing to me how few people know how to really use SEO in their website content.  Just a few basic techniques can really help you get your vacation rental content noticed, both by search engines and humans. So, let’s take a mini course on SEO 101 for marketing your Vacaton Rental. First [...]

Written on July 10, 2010 | Posted in Online Marketing,Tools and Software | 7 comments

Getting Your Own Vacation Rental Website

You have listed your vacation rental with the big websites, and you are getting success in renting your property. But what do you do now? Getting your own vacation rental website may be just the trick. It is worth noting that you are not necessarily trying to compete with the big vacation rental websites. Your [...]

Written on April 11, 2010 | Posted in Tools and Software,Website Reviews | No comment

Reviewing Aximize Web Tools

The internet never ceases to be a brilliant, ever evolving world of innovation. This is evident through the display of the various industries positively impacted by the development of online web tools. One area where this is somewhat surprising is visible in the availability of web tools to help vacation renters. Actually, it is not [...]

Written on February 13, 2010 | Posted in Photo Gallery,Tools and Software | No comment

The good, the bad, and the ugly: How social networking sites are affecting small business

My name is Shannon Russo – and I’m a recovering social network-aholic… The Ugly Yes, I admit it. After losing my job and deciding to make a go of freelance writing from home, I realized – a couple of months later – that roughly 3 hours of my day went into my socializing: catching up [...]

Written on December 7, 2009 | Posted in Advertising & Networking,Advice,Tools and Software | 1 comment

Two not-so-new Google web tools that keep vacation rental home and portal owners at the forefront of the industry

Google Alerts Google Alerts allows users to easily receive customized email or RSS feed alerts for free based on keywords entered and the type of alert selected. Excellent for tracking the competition, following industry news, monitoring the appearance of your own website’s online exposure, and much more. Why use it? For maximum benefit, sign up for [...]

Written on November 30, 2009 | Posted in Advertising & Networking,Advice,Tools and Software | No comment

Two new Google web tools to improve your vacation rental marketing results

Rich Snippets Google’s latest experiment, Rich Snippets, captures a web page’s structured data and displays it as snippets within the Google search results listing. Using microformats and RDFa open standards, webmasters can mark up Google-provided templates to aggregate their page’s own structured data. Currently Google is only capturing data on People and Reviews, and not [...]

Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in Tools and Software | No comment