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Oh this is exciting!

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Our website went live just over a week ago and we put listings with H-R and a couple of IOW listings up a week ago and we already have 5 bookings!

That said, managing the flow of enquiries is turning into a second job!
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Well done, Joyce... that's great news! Are your bookings coming from HR predominantly?
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BTW, your profile here links to theventnorhouse.co.uk and I think it's meant to be .com ...
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Well done - just hope your area on H-R is not overtaken by Sykes Cott as is the case in Conwy.
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Welcome to LMH Joyce, Ventnor House looks absolutely stunning! Website is clean and simple, congratulations on your bookings.
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kendalcottages wrote:Well done, Joyce... that's great news! Are your bookings coming from HR predominantly?
Of the bookings three are from H-R and two from our own website. The H-R enquiries have been good ones though- five enquiries to three bookings. Whereas from the website it has been more like 8 enquiries to 2 bookings.

Thanks for the tip off re the website addy on my profile- my husband was supposed to have done a redirect but I guess that is still on his 'to do' list!
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katiegirl wrote:Welcome to LMH Joyce, Ventnor House looks absolutely stunning! Website is clean and simple, congratulations on your bookings.
Thank you for the welcome Katiegirl. I've been lurking a lot over the past few months as the website has been an invaluable source of advice for a new owner :)
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apexblue wrote:Well done - just hope your area on H-R is not overtaken by Sykes Cott as is the case in Conwy.
I've just checked on their website and there are only 14 properties on the whole of the IOW, so fingers crossed!
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Welcome to LMH joyce and good luck!
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