Today I amended our terms and conditions to show the new way our villa website works. There are NO charges at all for either registering on our website or when any bookings are made. Renters and owners will communicate directly. I know this will appeal to our faithful band of villa owners but also will encourage the hundreds of registered property owners to at last list their many properties.
Trawling through newspaper adverts, especially on a Sunday in the travel sections, I used to think this was the way to advertise my villas. About 3 years ago when bookthatvilla was in its infancy I thought it would be a great idea to take out an ad every Sunday in one of the important Sunday newspapers - a small box. I bet no one who reads this could guess how much that advert would cost (6 months only?). Well I expect you are sitting down if you are reading this which is just as well. The total quoted was £27,000 plus VAT!! The girl on the other end of the phone was so chirpy I think she thought this was a bargain. I could probably just about still buy a villa for that in one of the Eastern bloc countries! Anyway I decided against it.
Our wonderful programmer, Pete, advised me well when he said you can get all the coverage you need for your villa business on line if you know how to use the internet well. It is great to have a whizz on our ever expanding team.
Our stats are growing daily and the choice of villas is expanding and some absolutely stunning villas are making me wish for more sun.
Look forward to hearing any comments to my first post.
Diana
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