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Hi all,

Are you a Florida Villa Owner?

If you’re answering yes, then have you added your property to bargain villas?

At present bargainvillas.co.uk is offering free advertising on its site to all usrentacar customers, with no commitment to future advertising.

How to sign up

To take advantage of this offer simply

1. Visit www.bargainvillas.co.uk
2. Click on the advert stating “Advertise for free“
3. At the bottom of this page click on “Click here to sign up“
4. Fill in the form.

About bargainvillas

For Holiday Makers;

Bargain Villas are able to dynamically intergrate your property catelog into our search results - click here for more details

Bargain Villas is focused on providing the best quality properties for the best possible prices. Our portal provides customers with a unique mix of Privatley Owned and Company owned holiday rental properties. Because we work with both companies and private owners we give you access to both markets allowing you to compare prices all in one place. \our chice to work with both Companies and Private owners means that Bargain Villas are able to offer a much wider choice of holiday property all here on one easy to use website!

Start your Bargain Villas search today – we have over 45,000 holiday properties across the world!

For Private Villa Owners

For Holiday Property Companies

You dont have to be a massive holiday property company to advertise here! Bargain Villas also work with private owners with individual properties too. click here for more details

Regards,

James

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• USA Car Hire Revenue Increase For Alamo, Budget, Dollar and Hertz
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Here are the top five viewed blogs on usrentacar.co.uk® in November.

• NEW!!! usrentacar.co.uk® Competition
• Harry Potter Waiting Times
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• Dollar Car Hire Confirm Customer Choice For US Rent A Car Clients
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• Cheetaka The New Ride At Busch Gardens
• Walt Disney World Wait Times On Your iPhone
• When Is The Best Time To Visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter?
• The Sorting Hat At Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Disney Dream Makes First Public Appearance in Papenburg, Germany

NEW!!! Top Five blogs this week from Villa comparison specialist Bargain Villas

• Gatwick Snow watch – 5 day weather forecast London Gatwick
• Vehicles currently clearing snow from Gatwick Airport runway
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• Latest London Gatwick Airport Flight Delays and Cancellations
• Take care this Summer Holiday and avoid Sun burn

Hi all,

usrentacar.co.uk owned Villa and holiday home specialist, bargainvillas.co.uk has extended its special offer for a years free advertising.

Any accommodation owner can sign up for free by visiting this link http://www.bargainvillas.co.uk/oadmin/signup.aspx or clicking on Free Villa Advertising.

Benefits Include

Your property details
Fill your advert with lots of information on your property, its location, local attractions and any special offers you might have.

Upload images
Upload up to 9 images of your property free.

Upload movies
Upload movies of your property free

Your own online booking/invoicing system
Your bookings are managed by you using our booking and invoice system. Make reservations and process payment, let customers leave a deposit and the system will remind you when the balance is due.

Functional availability calendar
Not just any old availability calendar. Perhaps the most advanced calendar of its type. Our system will show booked dates, available dates, special offers added by you and even allow you to earmark special dates throughout the year with notes and messages for your perspective customers to see.

Create your own printable brochure
A valuable tool which helps you promote your property. Our system allows you to make an online brochure of your property which you can email or print off and send to customers.

Your own guestbook
Find out what your customers really think of your holiday home. All customers are asked to leave feedback or comments about your property and give it a rating for future customers to see.

A knowledge base of FAQ’s
Keep getting asked the same questions about your property? We can help! Our system will allow you to create you own knowledge base of frequently Asked Questions for your online property advert.

Your own newsletter
Keep your customers up to date with all the latest developments and special offers at your property. Collect your own database of customers to help you build your business.

Your property advert & booking statistics
What’s been going on? Our system will provide you with accurate data about your property advert. We’ll tell you how many visitors you have had, how many bookings and quotes have been made. You can even generate reports for your own records.

There’s no catch, it is totally free for a year. No  contract, you can remove your property when ever you like.

Regards

James

Bargain Villas are pleased to announce the integration of Hoseasons properties into the Bargain Villas search results. Hoseasons currently control over 12,000 places to stay in coastal, city and countryside settings throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe.

The integration will prove a significant boost in product offered and ensure that Bargain Villas is able to service a wider variety of customer requests.

Karl Hendrie, Managing Director Bargain Villas said “The association with Hoseasons is another step in a move to incorporate major property brands into the Bargain Villas network. By working with established and trusted brands our customers are assured of quality and confidence when buying”

On further expansion of Bargain Villas Hendrie stated “We are currently in the process of rolling out several keyword heavy TLD’s (Top Level Domains) to not only increase our organic search results but also to expand our web presence and brand visibility. Our aim is to offer our visitors an impressive portfolio of quality property options available throughout the world”

For more information on this article please contact karlh@bargainvillas.co.uk

Hi all,

We are now three years in to our  Villa project www.bargainvillas.co.uk and today we have launched a new revamped look and feel to the site.  The new look gives the site a fresh and modern appearance and the new layout, I believe makes searching for a holiday home a lot easier and clearer.

At present advertising for private villa owners is free of charge and this represents an annual saving of over £100.00 based on other UK holiday sites.  This offer is valid until the 01/08/2010.

Since taking over as managing director in 2009, Karl Hendrie has over seen the impressive increase in sign ups, bargain villas now boasts over 45,000 properties and has gained a reputation for innovation within the market place.

To sign your property up for free please visit http://www.bargainvillas.co.uk/oadmin/signup.aspx or click here

Hi all,

Just had a very interesting meeting with Karl Hendrie, MD of www.bargainvillas.com. Anyone who knows Karl will know he likes to do things slightly differently, hence why this meeting took place at his local gym, and for someone who struggles with fitness it was quite an ordeal.

Karl has been MD of bargain villas now for 2 years, and has been the driving force behind the redesign and Ajax upgrade, he has embraced social media, mostly via Twitter (@bargainvillas) and has now made his biggest impression on the company by signing a deal to incorporate interhome in to the bargain search results.

Interhome

Interhome are one of the largest and most respected holiday rental accommodation agencies in Europe. Interhome is based in Switzerland with offices in most European countries. The company is owned by the Hotelplan Group, one of Europe‘s leading travel companies

The deal adds a further 46k holiday homes in 24 countries to bargainvillas already impressive content.

Karl assures me that this deal will not stop bargainvillas from allowing holiday home owners to sign up for free independently, which in a recession hit UK is good news.

I look forward to meeting up with Karl again to see what else he has in store, however this time I’ll chose the venue…. a pub or cake factory.

Regards,

Gavin

Hi all,

Behind the scenes our tech guys have been busy re-designing our FREE holiday home owner advertising site www.bargainvillas.co.uk.

Its still in beta stage but please take a look and let me know of any idea’s or feedback you have.

Remember it costs nothing to register your holiday home…ever.

Regards,

Gavin,

U.S. Rent A Car.co.uk

I don’t normally allow “free” advertising for businesses on Joe… however I’ve made an exception in the case of James Thomas of BargainVillas.com, firstly, he’s a mate, we worked together at a few travel companies, and secondly his service is free.

Q: Hi James, tell me about www.bargainvillas.com ?

A: Hi Joe, bargain villas is simply a holiday home advertising site that allows home owners to advertise their property for free. We started in Jan 08 with a beta version, lucky we did as well, as the site was some what image heavy, which made it slow to load. We also had some issue’s with our colour choice.

Q: Issue’s with colour?

A: Yeah, we went for magenta! With the idea of standing out in the villa crowd. On the first round of feedback from owners the criticism thrown time and time again was the colour. Perhaps we were looking to stand out a little to much.

Q: Why did you start bargainvillas?

A: We have always had the domain name waiting in the wings but the original idea came from one of our directors, he has a property in Tenerife and was not impressed at the amount of money he was paying to advertise for very little return, so why pay when you can do it yourself, and if you can’t do it yourself sign up for free at bargainvillas and we’ll do the rest.

Q: Why not simply undercut your competitors, why offer it for free?

A: Well to be honest Joe, we don’t really need the money that the advertising charges would bring in, we operate several other travel brands which provide enough revenue to run this company without having to ask owners to pay more. We also quite like the idea that perhaps owners can offer discounts to help them get valuable rental time booked. As previously mentioned we wanted to build a community and of course, we always like to upset the big boys, giving away the advertising for free perhaps will make villa owners wonder why they are bothering paying to advertise at all.

Q: How have owners reacted to bargainvillas.com?

A: Well to be honest a lot of them don’t believe we could possibly be offering this service for free. I think owners are thinking its to good to be true. Once we have convinced them though they are of course very happy with the result.

Q: So what is bargainvillas aim?

A: To be the first port of call for anyone wishing to rent a holiday home, simple as that.

Q: Thanks James. Good luck.

You can sign up for free at bargain villas by clicking here

For those of you who maybe don’t know, last year we launched www.bargainvillas.com, a dedicated holiday home website. The idea behind it is to offer home owners the opportunity to advertise their properties for FREE.

Bargain Villas.com version 1

Like all great projects we have hit a few snags, the homepage is very image heavy which make’s the load speed very slow, we also received feedback from our audience that they didn’t like the colour (bright pink) and trying to convince people that we actually are giving the advertising away for free is harder than it sounds.

So in Decemember we took the brave (and costly) decision to redesign the website. The idea being very simple, alter the colour to a more generally accepted colour and to speed the website up.

We hope we?will manage to fulfil all these criteria and hope that villa owners and customers alike will see the benefits of the altered website.

We predict that the new site will be up and running by the beginning of April until then you are still welcome to sign up? to add your Villa, apartment or hotel by visiting http://www.bargainvillas.co.uk/oadmin/signup.aspx or clicking here

I would still love to here your feedback regarding our new project. Do you have any ideas on how to improve the site?

Thanks,

Gavin