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Why You Should Be Asking for Guest ID After Booking
Requesting an ID from guests is actually quite easy, and one of the many benefits of booking travelers directly. Remember, this is your business and you have every right to know who is renting your vacation rental property.
First, let's clear up a common misconception hosts have in regards to verifying IDs.
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Compare Your Options - Is It Time to Houfy Yet?
Houfy is it! Houfy is a new site, with great functionality, clean looks, thousands of listings, around the world, and it is free! It works like the OTAs of the past. Your listing is a money maker for you, not for the site! You decide how much you charge, when you collect funds and when you charge for damages. Your business. Your rules. Your decisions.
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Where do I add my city permit or tax identification number/code?
Many cities require property owners to showcase a unique identification number - commonly referred to as tourist ID codes, registration numbers and transient accommodation tax numbers. It's an important piece of information that ensures the safety and security of locals no matter where they are in the world!
The Top 10 Viewed Houfy Posts/Stories:
The Top 10 Viewed Houfy Posts/Stories And What You Can Learn from Them So you want to write some stories (or posts) on Houfy to get views? You know when you make a quality post, with information that people want or need, you will get “eyes on” your listing!
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Why I Write Stories on Houfy?
Tiki House Pensacola Beach is a beach rental home that hosts large families for family vacations, reunions, weddings, and other events that make great excuses for several generations to get together . This multi-generational group we cater to, more and more, includes the tech savvy generation that expects information at their fingertips. Before Houfy, this meant keeping and updating an on-property Welcome Book, sending a HUGE PDF, and getting tons of texted questions that required me to share a picture, file, or refer back to the Welcome Book that seemed to be AWOL.
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Get started with Google Analytics for your Houfy account including your listing
Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications. We have connected Houfy for you to track analytics for all your Houfy activity. (Including post/guide/listing views etc.)
What Vacation Rental Owners Want You to Know
When an individual or family decides to share their home on Houfy or another listing site, their first concern isn't whether others will love their home as much as they do. They are concerned whether others will take care of their home as well as they do. With stories in the press of trashed vacation homes, owners are terrified that the guest they turn their home over to will turn out to be the worse type of renter imaginable.
5 min read
Using Instagram for Your Vacation Rental
While talking to my Social Media Coaches (aka my 20 something children), I was told Facebook was for old women. That explains all the shared pictures of grandchildren I see! But if I wanted to reach real people (translation: anyone under 50), I needed an Instagram account.
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Practical Steps for Responding to a Negative Review of Your Vacation Rental
It is natural for any vacation rental owner to lose his cool some time when a negative review of the rental emerges. But the real winner is the one who recognizes the issue, deals with it calmly and converts the unhappy past guest into a satisfied one.
OTA Association Slams Direct Bookings
OTA association slams direct bookings Share this post on LinkedIn By this point, the number of studies testifying to the positive impact of direct bookings - and the sometimes harmful influence of OTAs - is approaching too many to count. In case you need a refresher, we've included a list of the most pertinent at the bottom of this article.
How to Maximize Your Facebook Reach
Is declining reach impacting your Facebook marketing ROI? Looking to improve your Facebook exposure? Organic reach has become harder to achieve on Facebook and marketers are turning to creative ways to get their messages seen. In this article, you'll discover how to help your Facebook posts go further.
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