If your business involves the ownership and management of rental property, it is really vital to choose the most appropriate theme for your property website design. This is particularly the case for vacation rentals websites, which should have the ability to entice and enchant visitors in order to maximise the number of bookings received. What are the best themes for vacation rental websites? The most perfect vacation property website design will enable you to showcase your holiday homes and...
For holiday rental owners, it is important to remember that the appearance of your website could affect your conversion rate and, subsequently, your revenue. As such, you must ensure that you have a highly responsive and reputable web design to attract visitors to book your property. If you don’t have one yet, you can use the services of property management software, like 365 Villas, which build custom-designed websites for property rental businesses. To guide you in the process, here are some...
In a few short years, having a business website has gone from being a ‘nice to have’ to being an essential requirement for any modern business looking to attract and engage with prospects. Today’s modern websites, not only need to look great, but they must include the tools you need to convert visitors into leads, prospects and clients. Your website is the starting point of the experience that you provide for guests; helping you showcase your properties, providing an easy and convenient way...
How to tell if your vacation rental website is fit for purpose Websites have changed dramatically in recent years. Good ones are no longer just collections of static pages in cyberspace. They are high performance tools that help you get more bookings, generate trust from visitors and integrate with everything from your social media channels to the software you run to use your business. What we call ‘integrated websites’. Not sure if your website is fit for purpose? Ask yourself the following…...
LATER THIS MONTH NEW EUROPEAN GDPR REGULATIONS COME INTO FORCE, WHICH WILL AFFECT THE WAY THAT YOU STORE AND PROCESS THE PERSONAL DATA OF EU CITIZENS. TO BE COMPLIANT THERE ARE SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES THAT YOU’LL NEED TO MAKE TO YOUR WEBSITE. Let’s start by reminding ourselves what GDPR is all about… The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to give people more control over how organisations use their data. The regulations overlap with with The Privacy and Electronic...
Online marketing for vacation rentals. We will not stop talking about this, because we believe it is one of the most important ways to make your business grow. Whatever you do online should (and will) eventually be connected to your website. Our goal is to help all our clients understand how their website can be the single best tool for transforming their vacation rental business. What story does your website tell? 50/50 chance your website is the first impression of your business. Within...
Google started warning the world back in 2014 about its plan to ensure the protection of information shared on websites. Everything began when one of the members of the Chrome Security Team sent out a proposal to mark all HTTP websites as “Not secure”. Now, this is a reality. From October 1st, Chrome will show the ‘Not secure’ warning in two additional situations: when visitors enter data on an HTTP page, and on all HTTP pages visited in Incognito mode. So what does this mean? Property...
If you’ve heard of Wix, it’s probably through their massive advertising campaigns. You will have an idea of their platform as fast, fun and flashy. In a way, they’re quite like the Apple of web builders. Today, we’ll look at which platform is best — the Wix vs. WordPress comparison that’s been a long time coming. By the end of this article, we’ll have answered a key question: After knowing the special needs of this industry, which one is better for your vacation rental business? There are...
We may not judge a book by its cover, but we always judge a business by its website. As the web has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades, site design and functionality have changed massively, too. Unfortunately (and surprisingly) there are some websites that are still stuck in a bit of a time warp, with mid-nineties designs, an overload of information and poor-quality images. We understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to learn how to properly design a website, but...