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The travel buying cycle. Stage #3: Booking
10th June 2013So far in our blog series ‘The Travel Buying Cycle’, we have looked at Stages #1 and #2 (Dreaming and Planning); now it’s time to…
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Psst … interested in Instagram?
14th February 2013So you’ve got your website up and running, online booking and availability is sorted, and maybe you’ve thought about social networking – probably Facebook, perhaps Twitter, you might be a…
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Value for money
18th December 2012As we continue the Positioning for Performance series for self-catering accommodation owners, it’s time to look closer at value for money. We should call it perceived value for money, as…
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To list or not to list?
24th July 2012Although in places we’re seeing some great occupancy rates, there’s no doubting that the reality for many operators is a noticeable downturn due to the continued squeeze on disposable incomes…
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Social networking: what can Google+ do for your self-catering business?
23rd April 2012What is it? Realising the value of social networking, Google’s latest dip into the market is its most complete offering yet – seeing massive sign-up figures over the last 12…
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Social networking: what can Flickr do for your self-catering business?
17th April 2012What is it? Flickr is a photo management software owned by Yahoo! with two main uses – it’s a place to share photos (/videos) and also to organise and store…
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Social networking: what can YouTube do for your self-catering business?
10th April 2012What is it? If you’ve spent any time in front of a computer over the last few years, the chances are you have been on YouTube at some point. Possibly…
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Social networking : what can Pinterest do for your self-catering business?
3rd April 2012What is it? Pinterest is a virtual pinboard (or boards) – the idea is that you ‘pin’ things you spot on the web to your board(s) for others to see. …
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Social networking : what can Twitter do for your self-catering business?
27th March 2012We’re being bombarded with hash tags and @ signs aplenty. The news programmes are asking us to “Tweet” our views and a whole host of “Twitterese” has entered the dictionary. …
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Social networking : what can Facebook do for your self-catering business?
9th March 2012Please note: to use the Facebook integration with SuperControl you must have more that 2000 likes – this is a rule set by Facebook. Our new blog series looks at…