Marketing Your Florida Vacation Rental
If you are a current vacation rental home owner or are planning on getting into the vacation rental business, you will soon understand the importance of marketing your Florida vacation rental.
With the present housing situation, now is an excellent time to pick up a home or two with housing prices so low. This is an investment as well as a business. You will most likely have to make repairs and upgrades to the property as well as completely furnishing the unit, maintaining and cleaning the unit and keeping the utility bills, mortgage and taxes current.
Keeping your vacation rentals booked year round keeps you from having to take money out of your pocket and bank account. How do you keep it booked and get it out in front of snowbirds and renters?
Here are a few marketing tips for vacation rental owners:
- You need your own website. It's not as expensive as you think and is a necessity these days. You can offer an abundance of information and details to prospective renters while avoiding a lot of repetitive questions.
I recommend HostMonster. They are very affordable and have fast and reliable tech support. - Once your website has been completed, you need to get it in front of people. There are some great free resources and some that require a fee. We highly recommend you use a combination of free and fee based vacation rental advertising.
Free Advertising
- Submit your website to the almighty Google
- Submit your site to Bing
- Promote your Business on Yelp - Free
- List your information on 10000Vacations.com
- Submit your site to Yahoo
Recommended Fee Based Advertising
- VRBO.com is the nation's leading vacation rental by owner network - join today for 12 months at just $279!
- VacationHomeRentals.com
- List on HomeAway - Get 5x more exposure than other sites. Pay 1 low price to be listed on 5 websites. - Finally, exchange links with other vacation rental owners and with businesses in the area of where your vacation rental is located.
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