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Using Your Vacation Rental Owners to Engage New Tenants

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 26, 2014 4:28:00 PM

By understanding your vacation rental owner base, you will derive some important clues
and demographic information about your potential tenant profile. After all, your property owners we

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Tags: Vacation Rental Industry, How to market vacation rentals, Marketing Vacation Rental, Rental Management CRM

Why Vacation Rental Management Companies Should Use Press Releases

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 19, 2014 10:41:00 AM

Everyone sees how videos and pictures go viral on the internet but did you know articles go viral as well? It does happen.  Most of the time, it is because the article was generated as a press release and submitted to digital press release services like PR Web. 

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Tags: Vacation Rental Industry, rental marketing, Property manager marketing

Barefoot Is Growing Again... Welcome Sean Woodie to our Support Team.

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 14, 2014 1:17:00 PM

We wanted to introduce a new member of the Barefoot team, Sean Woodie. Sean will be joining the leading customer support team in the vacation rental management industry.

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Tags: Vacation Rental Software, Barefoot Technologies, Barefoot support staff

Barefoot Announces New Vacation Rental Management Customer Debordieu Rentals

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 13, 2014 10:15:00 AM

Barefoot Technologies is delighted  to announce a new partnership with Debordieu Rentals of Georgetown, South Carolina. Debordieu has decided on the Agent 3.0c system to run their systems for their vacation rental and property management business..

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Tags: Vacation Rental Management, Vacation Rental Software

Barefoot Technologies Forms New Partnership with AlwaysOnVacation

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 8, 2014 7:57:00 AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Tags: Vacation Rental Industry, OTA Portal, Press Release

Beyond Social Media… Let’s Talk About Social Reach

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Aug 5, 2014 10:30:00 AM

If you’ve read one blog about social media you’ve read five. I’ve even written about social media before for the Barefoot blog. But what if we thought about social media and its channels as just a small piece of the puzzle for vacation rental management companies. These are just the tools that you might use to really leverage the actual goal of gaining social reach.  

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Tags: Vacation Rental Management, Rental Management CRM, Rental Management Company

New Customer! Atlantic Realty of the Outer Banks

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Jul 31, 2014 9:15:00 AM

 

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Tags: Vacation Rental, Vacation Rental Software, Vacation Rental Partnership

Implications for the Vacation Rental Industry in Zillow’s Acquisition of Trulia

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Jul 29, 2014 1:12:00 PM

Zillow announced the acquisition of Trulia yesterday in a stock exchange deal valued at 3.5 billion dollars. Both websites will continue to operate separately. Together they account for about 48% (not including local websites) of listings web traffic. These two portals are the biggest names in the online real estate market. Combining forces might have some unique implications for those agencies and brokerages that are currently serving both the real estate and vacation rental markets and for those companies that are only serving the real estate market in vacation rental hotspots.

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Tags: rental industry, Property Management, Rental Industry Changes

Announcing Integrated Partnership with HomeAway's Transactional Model

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Jul 18, 2014 8:20:00 AM

Barefoot Technologies is pleased to announce the continuation of their commitment to innovation in the vacation rental management industry through its integrated partnership with HomeAway’s transactional model. Barefoot customers now have access to transactional technology that automatically creates bookings from properties listed on HomeAway, the world's largest vacation rental network.

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Tags: HomeAway, HomeAway.com, Barefoot Technologies, HomeAway Portal

Cultivating Delight: Customer Service in Vacation Rental Management Software

Posted by Claiborne Yarbrough on Jul 9, 2014 10:36:00 AM

This is the second of Barefoot’s blogs about cultivating delight with a focus on a huge part of the customer lifecycle, customer service. I have been doing some research on how vacation rental management companies can provide outstanding customer service.

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Tags: Vacation Rental Management, vacation rental customer support