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What's a fair price for listings
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:51 am
by Ted
Hi there,
New to this thing but hoping i Can get some opinions
I was looking around on where to put my property, but some of these places are charging £200 - 400 a year!!
I found this website called The Melrose Directory and they only charge £95 and they don't charge extra for photos or anything. It was a nice website too and easy to use which makes me wonder if we're all paying too much for these other ones???
What does everyone else think???
Thanks
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:43 am
by zebedee
The who???
Is it a household name? Would you think of them if you decided to book a holiday?
Re: What's a fair price for listings
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:13 pm
by jafa
Ted wrote:Hi there,
New to this thing but hoping i Can get some opinions
I was looking around on where to put my property, but some of these places are charging £200 - 400 a year!!
I found this website called The Melrose Directory and they only charge £95 and they don't charge extra for photos or anything. It was a nice website too and easy to use which makes me wonder if we're all paying too much for these other ones???
What does everyone else think???
Are you Ted from the Melrose directory by any chance??
Thanks
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:47 pm
by Cymraes
Well I've never seen or heard of them before. They don't come up whatever key words I use which would generally find cottages in my location.
They may be cheap but it's money down the drain if they don't send you any bookings. My first question to them would be how many hits they get on the site each day.
it also looks like they are using the standard off the shelf listing plug in ( Wordpress I think?) that most of these start up operations are using. It certainly looks like most of their competition.
The only advertising site I'm prepared to pay for is Independent Cottages which does get me bookings.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:30 pm
by greenbarn
Ted - don’t waste your money.
It’s a startup with a model of being worldwide and no niche or USP, therefore attempting to compete head-on with the megamillion dollar established outfits who own the playing field. The size of the portfolio they’ve built up so far isn’t encouraging.
If you’re looking for advice on where to list, let us know the area you’re in and the type of property, your target market, maybe a link to your website, and I’m sure people can come up with some useful suggestions.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:18 pm
by paolo
Ted,
I am guessing you are Alison from The Melrose Directory. Am I right?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:07 pm
by Bordering
This site requires visitors to register before they can enquire. I’d expect a decent directory site to permit quick and easy enquiry via a form, and also show the owner’s phone number(s), and link to website too, on the page. People responding via directory sites are often doing so because they want direct-with-owner contact.
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:26 pm
by kg1
paolo wrote:Ted,
I am guessing you are Alison from The Melrose Directory. Am I right?
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:17 pm
by russellt
Bordering wrote:to permit quick and easy enquiry via a form, and also show the owner’s phone number(s), and link to website too, on the page.
+1 +1 +1
(Yup! Sounds kinda familiar
Visitors can also view your most recent social media content inside your HVD listing, if you wish to link it)