Lay My Hat

All great ideas. Thanks.

Can anyone offer some ideas on a marketing strategy for me? It's clear from reading all these posts that vacation rental listing sites are effective, and that I'm going to need a personal website, but does anyone have a suggestion for alternative locations to advertise on the internet? I've learned ...

Peter, your formulas certainaly make sense, but how do I determine what % is acheivable? As Susan mentions the volume of similar properties in my area should be considered, and fortunately for me there aren't that many. There weren't even enough, in fact, to anticipate occupancy from them alone, I h...

That's great. Thank you both for your reply. I can appreciate that one site may not work for everyone, but I was concerned that online advertising may in itself not be enough. I'm not so skeptical now. With so many free trials and free sites I've already calculated a combination of free and paid sit...

Right on Brooke, thanks for that. I was thinking of going about it that way- figuring out my costs and determining how many nights I'd need to book to break even, but I never thought of using the booking calendars. Any thoughts on how much exposure my advertising on such sites is really going to get...

I'm just writing up a business plan to examine how viable my idea is, and am at a loss as to how I can forecast how much business I might do. I'm scared that I'll buy a flat, get everything in place and then get no business whatsoever. Would anyone care to disclose how much response they get from th...