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How to Increase Your Bookings

Use a special offer to make your property easy to find and increase bookings.
 

Add a Searchable 'Special Offer'

Special Offers Increase Bookings!

  • Travelers search for “Special Offers”
  • Special Offers make your listing stand out
  • Advertise reduced rates during slower seasons
  • Offer Last Minute Discounts to fill cancellations

Searchable Special Offers make your listing Easy to Find:

  • Featured Special Offer links from home pages
  • Link at top of property listing pages
  • Special Offer icon on availability charts
  • Red type on rate tables for period of Special Offer

It's easy to add Special Offers

  • Log on to the owner/managers area as usual
  • Click "Edit Listing" link next to the relevant property
  • Click on the "Special Offers" input screen (on Listings Status Page)
  • Follow the instructions to create, edit, preview and place orders

Give your listing on CyberRentals, GreatRentals, A1Vacations and/or HomeAway extra promotion today with our unique "Searchable Special Offers" feature.



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