2014 Review

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1. HL 43%
2. Repeat 20%
3. OD 14%
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1. HomeAway (including OD) 35%
2. Repeat 23%
3. HL 13%
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Unspecified 45%
Website 21%
Eurekaski 10%
Paws Abroad 7%
Holiday Lettings 5%
France Voyage 5%
Abritel 2%
Chalet Montagne 2%
Google 1%
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1. OD 46%
2. Repeat 22%
3. Recommendations via friends 13%
4. AirBnB 9%
5. Paris expat forum - 4%
6. Wimdu - 4%
7. Friends and Google - 1% each
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HomeAway - 47%
Owners Direct - 20%
Spain Holiday - 18%
Repeat - 15%
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OD 64%
Own Website 26%
Unknown 7%
Repeat 3%
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Included in "Website" are 8 reservations from repeat guests.

I also keep information on the number of nights booked and the party sizes - this year I have a roughly 50/50 division between couples and familes of 3 or 4 members. Most of the couples book using my own website and tend to have shorter breaks at a higher cost per night.
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I wonder what this is telling us ?

Certainly the big 2 work for most people a lot of the time, but which one of the two is quite arbitrary. Apart from that it looks pretty mixed up to me.
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e-richard wrote:I wonder what this is telling us ?
They're statistics Richard, they tell you whatever you want them to tell you :wink:
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:D :lol: :D
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1: Repeat: 37%
2: OD 26%
3: HA 16%
4: EBay 16%
5: Own website 5%
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7 Aspire wrote:
Sam V wrote:1: Repeat: 54%
2: Own website 33%
3: OD 19%
4: HA 18%
5: EBay 10%
54+33+19+18+10=134% :?
Oops! Thanks Aspire! Totally wrong figures that time!
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A difficult year, yet revenue was up about 25% on 2013 and advance 2015 bookings are the same as for 2014 before the curse of 2013/4 UK Christmas floods hit.

Google Adwords, twitter, goodwill, word of mouth, holiday lets for sale and Facebook were our main sources. It is quite hard to identify how many came from what source but they are listed in order of sensed importance.

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