Thanks to Gary Hibbert from Smart Home Choice Inc. for a great interview, it was so much fun talking to you and sharing my story!!
I appreciated sharing my story with you. It brings back such great memories. #ShortTermRentals, #Airbnb, #VRBO, #Expedia, #Booking.com, #MariaRekrut, #GaryHibbert, #SmartHomeChoice, #BedandBreakfast, #VacationRentals, #Condo
Kind Regards,
Maria Rekrut
How to Be Successful with Short Term Rentals
5:00 – 7:00 PM
8444 Lundy’s Lane, Niagara Falls, ON (map)
Spend some time together celebrating your Real Estate Achievements in 2016 and making plans for 2017 Real Estate goals.
Network, chat and mingle with local real estate investors and business professionals for FREE on the last Thursday at the Boston Pizza located in the Americana Hotel.
This event is FREE and pizza will be provided, you can purchase your own drinks. Bring plenty of business cards to hand out.
Please sign up to attend at: https://www.meetup.com/Niagara-Real-Estate-and-VacatioHospitality-Tourism-Meetup/
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Spend some time together celebrating your Real Estate Achievements in 2016 and making plans for 2017 Real Estate goals.
Network, chat and mingle with local real estate investors and business professionals for FREE on the last Thursday at the Boston Pizza located in the Americana Hotel.
This event is FREE and pizza will be provided, you can purchase your own drinks. Bring plenty of business cards to hand out.
Women, Entrepreneurs, Real Estate, Women Entrepreners,
I’ve specialized in #VacationRentals since 2000 and I’m going to look at my next purchase, I’m meeting an #appraiser this week to look at a house I’m going to purchase this fall.
It’s a beautiful, old #heritagehome that I’ve had my eye on for many years. I can see the potential of it becoming another #VacationRental #MoneyMaking machine.
I’m looking for #investors who would like to be a partner in this new #realestate #investment opportunity.
Anyone interested in investing in real estate without the daily management hassles should call 289-273-5681 or send an email to realwealth@live.ca, to find out how you can get involved.
Hi Everyone,
Well another month has passed and here we are again meeting in March 2016!! Can you believe we’re 3 months into 2016 and Spring is around the corner!!
I’m excited to see all of you this Friday, March 18th, 2016 from 5-7pm at the Great Ocean Restaurant at 153 Hartzel Road, St Catharines, Ontario.
Please bring plenty of business cards to hand out, let’s get Networking with each other to build a great group of Real Estate Owners, Suppliers and “Wanna be’s” for Vacation Rental/ Bed and Breakfast Owners ( we all start from “Wanna Be’s”, I was a “Wanna Be” in 1988 and didn’t start until 2000)!! So don’t be shy.
Bring your wish list of what you’re looking for and who you want to network or do business with….remember we’re never more than 6 degrees from the person you want to meet and let’s hear about your best accomplishment that you want to share at the “table” sort of speak this Friday.
Also if you have Real Estate problems or issues bring them to the “table” and let’s share and “MasterMind” a solution for you. Please sign up on Meetup and join us as we move forward together to real estate success!
http://www.meetup.com/Niagara-Real-Estate-and-VacatioHospitality-Tourism-Meetup/
See you all there.
Cheers,
Maria
Hi Fellow Real Estate InvestorsI’ve wanted to start a group in Niagara for Real Estate Investors for a number of years. It seems that all the groups that I used to go to in Niagara have stopped their meetings and I feel that we need, as investors, like minded investors to network and share experiences.
This month I’ll be discussing how to use Social Media to market your Real Estate business.
I really enjoy informal get togethers where we, as investors, can meet over a glass of wine and chit chat and share what’s happening in our real estate world. No pressure, no speakers, nothing formal, just professionals getting together to share their real estate monthly adventures.
I’d like to meet you all on Friday, November 27, 2015 from 5-7pm at the Pillar and Post Hotel – Inside the Bar area. Free Parking is both at the back and side of the property.
If you need to speak to me you can leave a voice message at 289-273-5681.
Please email janico1@live.ca or leave a phone message if you’ll be coming, so I can look out for you.
Just look for me with my name tag at a table in the bar area, you can always ask the serving staff to take you to me.
See you all in November
Happy Investing,
Maria Rekrut
Hi Fellow Real Estate Investors,
I’ve wanted to start a group in Niagara for Real Estate Investors for a number of years. It seems that all the groups that I used to go to in Niagara have stopped their meetings and I feel that we need, as investors, like minded investors to network and share experiences with.
This month I’ll be discussing how to use Social Media to market your Real Estate business.
I really enjoy informal get togethers where we, as investors, can meet over a glass of wine and chit chat and share what’s happening in our real estate world. No pressure, no speakers, nothing formal, just professionals getting together to share their real estate monthly adventures.
I’d like to meet you all on Friday, October 30, 2015 from 5-7 pm at the Pillar and Post Hotel, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada – Inside the Bar area
Free Parking is both at the back and side of the property.
If you need to speak to me you can leave a voice message at 289-273-5681.
Please email janico1@live.ca or leave a phone message if you’ll be coming, so I can look out for you.
Just look for me with my name tag at a table in the bar area, you can always ask the serving staff to take you to me.
See you all in October,
Cheers
Maria Rekrut
Marketing for Vacation Rentals, Bed and Breakfast, Inns, Accommodations, 2nd Home Owners in Real Estate, Motels and Hotel Owners.
Marketing in the 21st century for Vacation Rental Owners has gone through so many profound changes that it’s difficult to keep up with, especially business owners who were in business before the year 2000. I happen to be one of them.
I started my first business in 1982 in New York City and at that time I had a hard time using the answering machine! Boy have a lot of things changed! I can hardly believe it and I can hardly recognize my own business. From the way you do things globally and socially, to the way you get information across to your end user.
Having a business website, I had one in 1993 and that was a first for many businesses. Now you can’t function without a website. The other big change is reaching out to your customer via social media, something we like to call ‘social media marketing.’ Social media marketing has been around for years, maybe even decades—but, it has changed drastically. Newsletters, or mailing out ads to get your business out there, is now done from your computer. I remember receiving newsletters via snail mail or via the fax. Nowadays, you put your ad on socially used websites, so the current era can see them faster and easier.
The modernized era is the internet era, teens and twenty-year-olds spend quite a bit of time on the internet, as well as websites such as Amazon, EBay and most importantly Google. You even have the use of blogs such as WordPress, which is becoming popular by the second.
Remember that our future vacation rental guests will be these very same Millennials who will be trying out our vacation rentals. How do we reach them? We go to where they are, which is, on the web and on the social media sites.
Speaking of WordPress, which brings me to the blogging aspect of the modernized era. The importance of social media marketing is also in tune with blogging. A blog means writing an article or a weblog and what a blog essentially does is create a faster revenue for word-of-mouth for marketing and businesses.
The modernized era’s word-of-mouth tactic has been used widely since the beginning of the era. The current era talks a lot about what they see, what they hear and if it catches their interest they tell other people to check it out as well; which, leads to more people getting information and the cycle continues.
Blogging can also be noticed easier by the media, which can lead to interviews by well known people. Such as, if you aren’t in any sort of business and you are just starting out, a major company may see your blog and you could potentially have a job lined up.
You don’t want to come off on your blog as if you’re preaching to your audience, it’s more on a friendly chat level instead of a client level. One important aspect about blogging amongst many other things is the fact that search engines use blogs for key words, meta tags and tags on a specific topic content. Blogs are read generally, by a community of people with similar interests, it allows people to comment on what you say and therefore create a conversation from it.
There are some cons that come along with blogging, as with most things in life. Blogging needs constant attention, it’s required that you spend and take your time to create daily postings.
You don’t want to clutter your blog, but you also don’t want to make too few postings on the opposing end either. In the marketing of the current era, blogging seems to be the top runner when it comes to marketing other than internet ads. So maybe this is the route to start taking. It will take some time and much needed research, but we need to adapt nonetheless to the present-day’s media marketing adventure. For vacation rental owners you can blog about upcoming events, activities, shopping and restaurants.
Yes, I know it takes time to blog, but since google is looking for new material, you can add an activity blog on your vacation rental’s website, that way your website will move up Google’s listing.
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What is branding and how can it work for business owners? How can effective branding help businesses reach out to the tech-savvy Generation X?
Brand Advertising is essentially the process of making the public aware of a particular brand, so that consumers will continue to buy it. With that being said, it has changed drastically since the start of the 21st century. The start of this era began when technology came into play and declared its importance. Digital and online advertising are important in the new era, because mostly everyone nowadays is in front of a computer screen for endless amounts of the day.
For Vacation Home Owners, what is your brand saying about you and your business? How are you standing out against your competition and how unique is your brand?
This new era is a multi-tab browsing, multi-screen viewing and multi-task distraction generation, and for the ones that weren’t born in the new era have a hard time adapting to that. The rules are simple, all you need to do is: define your brands direction, remap your brand, and keep on track (your brand needs to be trusted, relevant, essential). The reason you need to know where your brand is headed because the new era wants something straightforward, they don’t want to have subliminal messages. Create a story with your brand, such as Apple and Nike. There’s a story behind it.
On the topic of digital advertising it drives with word-of-mouth. Tweeting, facebooking and using social media to tell others what a great product it is. It is said that 92% of consumers believe recommendations from friends and family and now in the Vacation Rental daily business, our guests can leave recommendations or complaints publicly on public listing sites such as TripAdvisor, VRBO, FlipKey, and AirBNB. That statistic is important, because that means if a friend or family member runs by your ad and they like it, they’re going to tell everyone they know essentially getting you more traffic from all angles.
Traditional media is going downhill, most of the 21st century consumers don’t watch television. Most of them simply watch Netflix or Hulu. They have other outlets to watch these shows online and they never even turn on a television in most cases. That is saying something about traditional media, there’s a few that still watch television, but even then are commercials still affective? Personally, commercials are a time where you go and do what you need to do before the show comes back on. With the new era, you want to reach certain audience, and digital can do that for you in many cases.
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