5 Ways to Promote your Holiday Rental Offline
2 May 2012 , at 3:22 am
Whilst most holiday rental owners will focus their energies on promoting their holiday home on the internet - via their own website and dedicated holiday rental home channels such as Getaway Earth - o...
Making Holiday Rentals 10 Times Better
25 February 2012 , at 6:14 pm
Many years ago I read Guy Kawasaki's book "The Art of Start". It wasn't the inspiration for Getaway Earth holiday rentals but it was the kick start we needed. The overriding message was simple: Just start. Forget trying to perfect, forget writing beautifully crafted business plans, forget financial ...
Vacation Rental Search
22 May 2010 , at 9:02 am
So a renter arrives on our site, how do they find the right vacation rental? Until now we've focused on a map based search but, after a recent overhaul, we have some new and exciting ways for a renter...
Help us Create Our Tagline
21 February 2010 , at 3:48 pm
"The Future of Holiday Rentals". Anyone noticed that this is our tagline? No? Take a look at the top right hand corner of our vacation rental homepage. We're not convinced it says what we're about. We...
Vacation Rentals Go Mainstream
13 February 2010 , at 10:17 am
So most of us have seen the HA ad and webisodes featuring the Griswolds. We know, without doubt, that it reached a lot of people and created a lot of traffic to their site. Will it be a long term success? Will it be good for the owner? The renter? Homeaway? Of course it's too early to say, especiall...
The Power of Feedback
8 February 2010 , at 10:53 pm
Since posting about the Getaway Earth story so far we have been blown away by the response we've had. Aside from the comments left on the blog page we've received a number of emails and messages via owner forums. Most have been very positive but there are a couple that challenged us. The question is...
