Just a quick post to let you all know that although we were doing free advertising for owners on the site, we are going to have to bring this to an early end for a number of reasons.
We have been inundated with new registrations and have had lots of properties added. Unfortunately a lot of these have been of a poor standard probably due to the FREE nature. I feel that this can only reflect badly on the site as people want quality when looking for a holiday home and not some shack out in the boonies. Some of the ads that have attempted to be added have been almost laughable and I cant imagine that for one minute these people can truly beleive that they are going to rent them out.
It would seem that people only really value something when it costs them money.
So from June the site will paid only. The new price is going to be 75 Euro's per year for the initial property and then 45 Euro's per year for each additional property. This still represents great value for owners as we are still getting lots of traffic to the site. We are also creating more and more content on the site which should help to bring even more interest.
I wish you all a good summer and hope that your advertising is successful.
Rob
Monday, 26 May 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Update on free advertising
Thought I would make a quick post in order to give everyone and update on the state of play with Direct Holiday Lets.
Its only been a week or so but we have already been inundated with owners adding their properties which has been fantastic. Keep adding them, the more the better.
Don't forget that for just 20GBP you can make your property featured on the site, giving it lots of exposure.
Also, please, if you have your own website and are using my free service, please place a link back to Direct Holiday Lets. It is appreciated and will help us all. It doesn't take long to do, so please help us now that we are a free service.
I would like to say one thing though. If you think FREE means that you can just add any old crap then you are sadly mistaken. If any listings are not complete in any shape or form, for example, poor quality photo's, lack of info(one sentence followed by "take a look at www.xxx for further info", no rates and poor use of the English language, they will be removed in a HEARTBEAT!! You will recieve no explanation and no warning. Don't waste your precious time or mine.
Just because we are offering free advertising does not mean we want crap properties OR dirty old bloody caravans listed.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest 8-)
Its only been a week or so but we have already been inundated with owners adding their properties which has been fantastic. Keep adding them, the more the better.
Don't forget that for just 20GBP you can make your property featured on the site, giving it lots of exposure.
Also, please, if you have your own website and are using my free service, please place a link back to Direct Holiday Lets. It is appreciated and will help us all. It doesn't take long to do, so please help us now that we are a free service.
I would like to say one thing though. If you think FREE means that you can just add any old crap then you are sadly mistaken. If any listings are not complete in any shape or form, for example, poor quality photo's, lack of info(one sentence followed by "take a look at www.xxx for further info", no rates and poor use of the English language, they will be removed in a HEARTBEAT!! You will recieve no explanation and no warning. Don't waste your precious time or mine.
Just because we are offering free advertising does not mean we want crap properties OR dirty old bloody caravans listed.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest 8-)
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