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USEFUL TIPS

If you use Italy Sea Side or another publishing service for holiday rental you may find useful some of the following marketing tips useful for holiday homes.

How to make more effective ads for your home rental

As an owner or agency you will have already gained good experience in home rental marketing this is why we will only provide some advice to increase the success, in terms of contacts received, of your ads on Italy Sea Side:

  • Professionalism
    • Create a professional and accurate ad.
    • Communicate the idea of having a good care of your home.
  • Pictures
    • Pictures are extremely important for a holiday home rental.
    • You can upload unlimited pictures and you should make the most out of it, a good image means much more than many words.
    • The picture quality is important, the program will reduce its size to allow easy upload automatically.
    • Enter the titles of the photos that complete the picture and help the search engines.
  • Descriptions
    • Write clearly giving a realistic description of the property and the area where it is located.
    • Although this is a promotional listing try to describe the facts and not your personal opinions.
    • Do not omit information like the distance from the sea, that it is recommended to know (about), in order to assess your rental offer at its best.
  • Completeness
    • Ads should not be short but too wordy either, the space available for your ad is big, but do not risk getting the reader bored.
    • Bear in mind that you are not placing a classified ad in a newspaper but you are creating a real website for the submission of your holiday home.
  • Validity
    • Keep the prices updated, in order to do so you have a broad descriptive area that you can change at any time.
  • Quickness
    • Once you create a professional ad you will receive several requests. Always give a kind and prompt response.
    • Please note that whoever gets in touch through this website - on average - send his requests at least to two houses.

Features of Italy Sea Side and best way to use it

Just above we have referred to "ads" but we would like to share the concept with you that in fact this is the website of your holiday home and we recommend you to use it this way:

  • Enter the house
    • Create on this website the internet pages of your home with accurate descriptions and a lot of good quality pictures; remember that the customer needs to see the house is going to rent for his holidays clearly.
    • These are your internet pages and they will stay there until you decide otherwise, it is not just ads limited in time.
  • Update your home
    • Keep yourself updated, rates especially.
    • The control panel is available 24 hours a day.
  • Get experienced
    • You will receive requests for further information from tourists. Make the most out of this experience to improve your page by entering the most requested information.
  • Be forward-looking
    • Consider this service a long-term solution that will provide greater results with time.
    • You will receive the number of visits to the site from search engines and advertising.
    • After about a year, since the length of your stay on the website is a parameter, the major search engines will send more specific visitors to the pages of your house.
  • Exhibition showcase
    • Consider the internet pages of your house as a showcase at your disposal.
    • Refer to your internet pages in any occasion - such as brochures, business cards, classified ads, free ads, ads on bulletin board and word of mouth - to provide the potential customers with information, pictures, availability and rates.
    • This way, keeping your pages updated on Italy Sea Side you will be helped to advertise your holiday home in other marketing channels

Simplicity and economy are the main features of the service offered by Italy Sea Side!

For owners or holiday homes brokers (i.e. advertisers), we have studied an easy and intuitive publishing tool that allows, following the various steps of placement, to publish and manage up to twenty properties.

Subscriptions and tailor-made rate plans to suit your needs, trying to maintain affordable and flexible prices depending on the properties and quantity of entries.

After each visit sent to your website (if you have one) thanks to the link posted on ItalySeaSide you will receive an emai warning. The first 6 months are absolutely free with no obligation to renew afterwards the service includes the following costs:

Annual fee (including VAT)
Number of
accommodations
included
Apartment/B&B Villa/Castle Hotel/Farm
1 120 € 160 € 180 €
2 220 € 300 € 340 €
3 300 € 420 € 480 €
Over 3 80 € 100 € 120 €
Spese di
dossier *
20 € 20 € 20 €