foxbox
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- Location
- West Northants
Holiday Cottage Marketing
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Better try this with our rep! They have reduced the commision on our second cottage and given us more owners booking too. Also we get a hamper with them at christmas!
- Location
- South Wales UK
Lots of 20% commissions buys lots of hampers ???
They tried that with me but I argued and they recinded The problem is that when you sign the contract they conviently forget to mention the get out clause
- Location
- South Wales UK
Small print every time
High on a hill
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- Location
- Loch Lomond
Thanks for the comments. Just trying to make extra income to keep farm going and after a bit of research thought 20% com just too high and their website not very good. Haven't heard back yet so just have to wait and see what they come up with. As some have said its all in the small print Don't know if I should carry on with my own website or wait
farmideas
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- Location
- Herefordshire and West Wales
I'm not dressing up as a maid!
Personally I find I'm quite far away for corporate and even weekends aren't an easy sell. Most people who come are English so the idea of a weekend in the far west of wales seems remote to them - I think. At the moment the key market seems to be "grannys 80th birthday" type people. School hols is easy sell.
Another thing I notice is that say you get a group of 6 people they all look for a place that sleeps 6 automatically whereas potentially they could have a bigger place with more space for not much more - I had a smaller cottage that slept 6 and it was full of pensioner groups/ older people/ retired from may-oct.
But possibly I'm being ignorant about the corporate and aiming too low, so I'll look into a bit more.- What type of customer is a corporate client? I don't really know what i'd be looking at.
I'm finding my small 2 bed slps 4 cott just by Dinas Island has really picked up now I'm doing short breaks. But bookings seem to happen last minute much more than they used to. Last min discounts? I'm not so fussed, I think it trains them into bad habits! Like feeding in the parlour, as I was told a while back.
farmideas
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- Location
- Herefordshire and West Wales
Be v careful of agencies. I've been fleeced three times by beguiling sales talk - the latest one got £70 off me with an agency attached to a number of airlines, or that was the story. Funny thing, after 6 months silence I can see how false the pitch was. Sucker #1 me!
- Location
- South Wales UK
Wasters out there - do it all yourself -yes maybe less customers but think of all the money going to others just to do a website that claims to attract huge veiwings ???
- Location
- Ceredigion
We have been lucky of our agency when we started our holiday business just over 4 years ago. The property was with the same company but the bookings were low, but we could see the potential for the property and it was next door to us to. For the last 2 years we have had an acupancy rate of around 80% which is very good for this part of wales, and I dought we would have that if we advertise the property ourselves. But now as we are geting more repeat bookings we are thinking of setting up a website are even a facebook page, the main problem is finding time to update the sites.