If you are a vacation rental or small business owner, chances are you’d like to increase your sales and improve customer loyalty. Here’s the secret: give your customers free vacations! We’ve partnered with almost FREE travel premiums for hotel nights, promotional plane tickets, 2-for-1 cruises, and discount golf memberships. Sounds expensive, right? Well, not here. We’ll have your marketing promotion on its way for much less than you’d expect.
We have many people asking if they need “incentives” for their vacation rental business. My answer is always the same, “what do you think”?. While we are vacation rental owners, we do not have a direct pulse on the whole U.S or foreign vacation home market.
If you are asking, then you must feel that there is a need for one reason or another. Some of the reason that I use travel incentives are.
Offering free incentives for joining my email subscription list
As giveaways for local Chamber, CVB and charity events (see related story)
In exchange when someone asks for a discount on rates
To put together vacation packages
Increase “off season” vacancies
If you are in a competitive vacation rental market, say Gatlinburg Tennessee that you may offer travel incentives to increase your bookings and set yourself apart from other property owners not offering travel incentives.
Travel incentives play an important role in my vacation rental business and we use them on a regular basis. You to can incorporate travel incentives in your business to increase bookings, eliminate reducing your rental rate and use for external reasons.
We have used several travel incentive providers in the past and will continue to do so, but in keeping with our FREE slogan, we use and recommend Almost Free Travel (http://www.almostfreetravel.com/) and encourage you to give them a try.
If you couple travel incentives with all the other FREE vacation rental marketing advice found on this site, you can dramatically increase your bookings and profitability. See our other vacation rental marketing articles.
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