Cannon Beach Vacation Rentals: Having Fun on the Oregon Coast
Cannon Beach Vacation Rental's LiveRez-powered website has helped the company get more website traffic and generate more online bookings.
Cannon Beach Vacation Rentals
Website: VisitCB.com
Location: Cannon Beach, OR
Quick Quote: “With LiveRez, our online bookings are up.”
For Cannon Beach Vacation Rentals and General Manager Brian Olson, it’s all about having fun.
The company, owned by Linda Beck-Sweeney, is just coming off its 13th summer and likes to spread that fun around to its owners, its guests, its staff and more.
“The bottom line for us is that we want our owners, our reservationists, house cleaners…everyone to have fun,” Olson said.
The “having fun” concept fits in perfectly with the company’s location in Cannon Beach on the gorgeous Oregon coast.
“We’re in one of the most beautiful places in the Northwest as far as I’m concerned,” Olson said.
And it’s not hard to find something fun to do there, either.
Online Booking: Top 6 Reasons Why It’s So Important
Does your website take online bookings? The ability to take online bookings (or web bookings) is an especially powerful tool for vacation rental managers.
One of the key things that sets LiveRez apart from its competition is that it offers a complete dynamic website with an online booking engine that is completed integrated with the back office (reservation system and trust accounting). One of the major inspirations behind LiveRez was to make vacation rental managers fully operational online and give them the ability to take online bookings (just like hotels).
We all know that online bookings are important and can help take a vacation rental business to the next level. But, it’s easy to forget the specific reasons that make online bookings especially important. Following are the top 6 reasons why the ability to take online bookings is so important.
1. Convenience – With online booking, travelers can shop AND buy right there online. With sites that do not take online bookings, travelers have to contact the management company to make the final purchase – an added inconvenience that in some cases can detour travelers from booking.
2. Available 24-7 – Because your website is up online all the time, travelers can make reservations at any point during the day, especially outside of your normal business hours. You and your staff have to sleep some time, right? Well, your website never does, so giving it the ability to take online bookings means at least one member of your sales team is working around the clock.
Plumas Pines Vacation Homes and Rentals: A High Sierra “Vacation Play Land”
Plumas Pines Vacation Homes and Rentals' LiveRez-powered website ranks No. 1 in three of the company's most coveted keyword searches.
Plumas Pines Vacation Homes and Rentals
Website: PlumasPinesVacationHomesAndRentals.com
Location: Graeagle, CA
Quick Quote: “We have 55 properties, and in our office we’ve got two people handling vacation rentals and one person doing accounting. And the reason we’re able to do it with a small staff is because of this program.”
The beautiful pine trees that line the vicinity of Graeagle, CA aren’t the only things that have deep roots in the area.
Plumas Pines Realty, which has been in the area for about 25 years, is a familiar face in Graeagle, and its vacation rental division – Plumas Pines Vacation Homes and Rentals – is no exception.
The company offers outstanding customer service, a large selection of vacation homes and an amazing backdrop for your next vacation. Nestled in the high Sierras of California, Graeagle and the surrounding area of Plumas County offer a wide variety of activities for visitors.
Whether you’re looking to enjoy the beautiful scenery, take in a round of golf, or enjoy fishing and boating on the many nearby lakes, the area offers unmatched recreational opportunities. In fact, co-owner Ellen Smith described the area as a “vacation play land.”
The Story Behind LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Integration
LiveRez.com's QuickBooks Connector is a one-of-a-kind integration of the company's robust reservation system with the industry standard in trust accounting.
Call LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Connector a matchmaker.
When developing its end-to-end solution for vacation rental managers, LiveRez understood that its expertise was in understanding the needs of vacation rental managers and giving them the tools to be successful online, with a robust, web-based reservation system that is completed integrated with an online booking engine and dynamic websites.
But, when it came to adding an accounting component to its platform, LiveRez was confronted with a choice: build its own accounting platform or adopt the industry standard trust accounting system. It turned out to be an easy choice.
Born of its desire to give its partners the best accounting software, period, LiveRez developed the QuickBooks Connector. This happy marriage has saved LiveRez.com partners valuable time and money, and today it’s a key reason why flocks of vacation rental managers are switching to LiveRez and leaving behind the cumbersome proprietary accounting systems that came with their old software providers.
Keefe Resort Rentals: Taking Its Expertise Online
Keefe Resort Rentals takes full advantage of its ability to update and add text and pictures to its website through LiveRez.com's content management system.
Keefe Resort Rentals
Location: Lake Geneva, WI
Website: KeefeRentals.com
Quick Quote: “Our continued growth with LiveRez has surpassed our expectations. Their support network is extremely optimistic with every request we send their way, truly allowing us to remain a leader in our region.”
Lake Geneva is 26 miles around – the length of a full marathon.
According to statistics from the International Association of Athletics Federations, the fastest time on record for completing a full marathon is 2 hours, 3 minutes and 59 seconds. But, in that same time you’d be lucky to make your way through the wealth of information available on Keefe Resort Rentals’ website about Lake Geneva and how you can plan your perfect getaway there.
You see, the staff at Keefe Resort Rentals are experts when it comes to planning unbelievable vacations at the popular Wisconsin lakes area, and their website reflects that expertise.
Suntide II Resort Condominiums: Something for Everyone
A LiveRez-powered website has given Suntide II Resort Condominiums a big boost in web presence.
Suntide II Resort Condominiums
Location: SouthPadre Island,TX
Website: SuntideII.com
Quick Quote: “LiveRez has really allowed us to expand our web presence.”
At Suntide II Resort Condominiums, there really is something for everyone.
Whether it’s relaxation, fun activities or even a quiet place to work, Suntide II offers a wide variety of options for guests traveling to South Padre Island, Texas.
Their 45 beautifully furnished, spacious condos all feature one outstanding view.
“As you open the front door, you’re facing the Gulf (of Mexico),” said Rentals Director Toni Munzesheimer. “And you can actually see that view as soon as you step in.”
Miss Our Webinar on Guerrilla Marketing?
Information presented in LiveRez.com's Guerrilla Marketing webinar is now available for download as a white paper.
On Wednesday, Aug. 31, LiveRez.com hosted a webinar entitled “Guerrilla Marketing: 5 Tactics to Grow Your Vacation Rental Business Now.” Nearly 180 vacation rental managers from across the nation signed up for the free educational presentation.
If for some reason you missed the webinar or want to brush up on some of the things the LiveRez marketing team went over, you can download the webinar as a white paper.
Download the white paper here >>>
During the webinar we received numerous questions, and many people were sharing their ideas for how to implement these Guerrilla Marketing tactics to help their individual businesses. If you have questions or want to share your ideas and brainstorm with other vacation rental managers, check out the discussion on our Facebook Page.
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