Advertise for free with the Owners Abroad Group

1. Utilise the power of the Owners Abroad Group network of websites

Advertise on the Owners Direct Group of websites for free and boost your bookings. We can provide you with bookings from our network of various marketing sites for a very low commission rate. In other words, no booking - no fee! If we don't get a booking for you, it will cost you nothing.

We do not ask you to sign any exclusive marketing agreement - you are free to market widely and wherever you want to.

Your advert will appear on a number of top sites including www.owners-direct.org, www.owners-directgroup.com, www.ownersabroad.org and other top performing sites.

You'll be able to accept credit card payments and run a fully automated booking system

2. What you do

Set up your rental business and advertising using our easy-to-use system. Just fill in the details and upload photos. Ofcourse you must supply the accommodation as described and arrange cleaning and maintenance, organise key collection and any meet and greet arrangements and deal with all issues relating to your customers in a professional way 

3. Our advertising packages

Basic: Place your free advert. Your advert will appear on www.owners-direct.org, www.owners-directgroup.com and www.ownersabroad.org as well as other top performing sites. We charge 10 per cent commission on any bookings generated through these sites. There is no guarantee in what position your advert will appear under your country/region heading

Silver: Enhance your booking potential by appearing on the first page of properties in the region where your holiday home is located on www.ownersabroad.org. Adverts appearing on the first page generally attract more customer interest. Your advert will also appear randomly on www.owners-directgroup.com and www.owners- directgroup.com.

     Your advert will be highlighted in bold with a longer description.

     For instance, if you owned a rental property in Benalmadena on the Costa del Sol, Spain then your property would feature on the first page at the Benalmadena heading on www.ownersabroad.org. It would also appear randomly on the Benalmadena pages of www.owners-direct.org and www.owners-directgroup.com and other top performing web sites. The cost of this enhanced advertising is £40/year $80/year.

YES - I would like the Silver advertising package

Gold: Even more chance to get bookings! Your property will appear on the first page of the region your home is located on www.owners-direct.org, www.owners-directgroup.com AND www.ownersabroad.org as well as randomly on other sites. That is a massive audience for your holiday rental.

      Your advert will be highlighted in bold and carry TWO photographs instead of the normal one. For an example, look at the adverts for Villa Aurora and Buttsbury House at www.owners-direct.org/barbados.html And the cost of this is only £50/year US$100/year. That's less than £1 or US$ 2 a week!

     So if you owned a property in Benalmadena on the Costa del Sol in Spain, your holiday home would appear on the first page of the Benalmadena section of www.owners-direct.org, www.owners-directgroup AND www.ownersabroad.org . And, ofcourse, your advert would also appear on other top performing sites. That represents amazing value for money. 

YES - I would like the Gold advertising package

Extra: If you own a holiday property in Spain, France or Portugal your should consider adding an extra to your advertising package. This means you will also appear on the first page of your region in either www.owners-in-spain.com, www.owners-in-portugal.com or www.owners-in-france.org. The cost of adding this extra to either a basic, silver or gold package is just £10 a year.

YES - I would like to add an Extra to my Gold advertising package

YES - I would like to add an Extra to my Silver advertising package

4. What do I do next?

For your free advert, just click here and start filling in the details of your holiday property

To increase your chances of booking and sign up for a Silver, Gold or to add an Extra, just click here to email us which advertising package you want and start filling in your details.

Payment is accepted by Paypal or £ sterling cheques. We will email back to you details of how to pay.

5. Your automated booking calendar

You'll be able to mark up prices for each week including extras and discounts, set up availability and preferred booking start days. Just cllcking on your calendar starts the booking process
You can link to your booking calendar from any web page you already have or copy and paste the code provided when you become a member and insert the whole calendar within an existing website

6. Accept on-line credit card payments

All payments are held securely in a separate client account until the booking is complete giving the customer confidence to book and making the process safe and secure. You have your own online account statement. Once the booking is completed you'll be able to transfer your payments to any bank account worldwide, wherever you are whenever you choose.

7. Add testimonials

You can add testimonials from your clients to encourage prospective customers.

8. Dealing with your customers

Everything you need to communicate with your customers and administer your rentals is in one central place. You can view reports of current and new bookings; you can view completed, cancelled and new bookings separately so that when you get busy you can manage bookings easily and check the status of bookings including overdue, those paid and awaiting payments

9. Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do I get paid for a booking?

2. How does a customer pay for his booking?

3. How do I update availability and prices on my calendar?

4. I have updated my property photos but the photos on my property have not changed?

5. What credit cards can my customers pay with?

6. The basics/ charges explained/ creating your on line business/ uploading and creating your property listing/ photographs and videos/ payment services/

7. Search our knowledge base for answers to your questions

Login to your members console and go to Property Listings section. Find the property you want to edit.

Either

Click on the button 'calendar set prices and availbility

or

Click on the link Edit Listing. Click on Step 3 'Set your prices per week  and date availability'. 

Select the dates you wish to work with by clicking on the calendar or selecting from the drop down box. 

Then select the currency, enter the price per week and click on 'Set Prices' OR click 'Make unavailable' - this is a simple way of blocking out dates for family and friends and your own use.

If you want to edit a specific part of the property then please before clicking on Edit Listing look for it on the property listings page, you might be able to go to it straight from there.

Its also a quick way of setting up your calendar when you first join Rentalsystems and inputting bookings that you received prior to joining.

related links

When web pages are viewed the images that are downloaded are often stored on your PC as "Temporary Internet Files" ready to be used the next time that particular webpage is viewed again. This helps to speed up the loading of the page as the images are already in your system the next time you view it. A good way to get around this problem is to do the following after you have changed your photos.

• Open the advert webpage where you can see the old images.
• Right click the page (not on an image though). You should then see a list of options.
• Select "Refresh" or "Reload".
• This then makes a new request for the entire webpage and replaces any temporary internet files.

If this does not work then try then following
(Browser means the program you use to view websites)

For Internet Explorer browsers...

• Click Tools > Internet Options > from the General tab click Delete files
• When the pop up appears tick the "Delete all offline content" checkbox
• Click OK
• Click Settings > make sure the item "Every visit to the page" is selected

For Firefox browsers...

• Click Tools > Options
• Click the Privacy icon
• Click the Clear button next to the word "Cache"

For Netscape browsers...

• Click Edit > Preferences
• Click the Advanced link
• Click Cache
• Click Clear Cache
• Make sure "Every time i view the page" is selected

Finally close and reopen your browser

If you are an AOL user...

• Click on keyword a-z
• Scroll down to preferences
• In the Essentials folder click internet (web browser)settings
• There is a tick box - optimise web browser using topspeed technology - turn it off
• Restart the browser

AOL 9.0

• Click on the TopSpeed^TM icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your AOL browser screen
• In the browser window that appears click on the settings button in the top right-hand corner
• Untick the 'optimise web browsing using TopSpeed^TM technology' box, and click save
• Close the TopSpeed^TM window.

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