RENTAL NATION AT RISK! BLOCKADE IN PLACE! It looks as though the rental industry is shaping up for a battle royal, fighting over a nation, who so far hasn’t had a say in their own destiny! We are beginning to get the distinct impression that this nation of home owners, managers, agents and support services [...]
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Our Mobile Apps for Holiday Rentals. This month we have launched our first mobile apps for Discovery Holiday Homes. Like most apps, websites and marketing tools, they are work in progress and will continue to be so, for ever, no doubt. It has been a great learning curve and as the apps are developed by [...]
View Post Apps Android, Apps IOS, Chrome, Holiday Homes, Holiday Rentals, IE, Mobile apps, Mobile browsing, Safari
The mobile market has been lauded as the future of browsing, data access, payment systems, targeted marketing and much more. There has been a massive uptake of smart phones and everywhere we look, iPAD’s and tablets abound. We thought it may be helpful to other rental companies to publish a few stats from our own [...]
View Post android, browsing stats, ipads, iphones, mobile, mobile device trends
Christmas is a time that conjures up all sorts images and is a time of festivities, with much of this based on personal reflections and experiences. Christmas therefore means many things to many people, but we do like the ethos of “Peace and Goodwill to all Men” and we hope that all your wishes for [...]
View Post Christmas Card, Happy Christmas, Joyeux Noel, Xmas
The baby boomers are travel hungry and taking a leaf out of their children’s travel diaries. Many of these 50+ couples and individuals never had the chance, the inclination or the opportunity to travel the world, see strange new lands and experience how other nationalities live. Apparently older holidaymakers are turning their backs on the [...]
View Post 50+, Australia, baby boomers, gap years, going grey, grey haired brigade, New Zealand, retirement, Silver surfer, thailand
Some while ago I blogged on the importance of addressing foreign languages for organic listings. We have started a campaign to hotspot one of our areas in Italian and German. This is Comersee (German) and Lago di Como (Italian) on Lake Como. Our current offering discovercomo receives a substantial amount of traffic each year from [...]
View Post Comersee, Comersee Italien, Foreign Language sites, Lago di Como, Tedesco
“FACEIDIOUS” Part of Speech: adjectiveDefinition: Online Social Entrapment How many words can you come up with to illustrate the very nature of a social networks future intent and how it will affect your life? Why do I think this and why do I want to buy and island in a huge lake and invite [...]
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