Have you ever thought about using Twitter to help market your property?
Fresh statistics from Twitter found that 100 million people worldwide are using the famous micro-blogging site. With millions of these users in the UK your holiday cottage could easily reach a huge audience of people currently unaware of your property. Hundreds of holiday cottages already have profiles on the website but is it for you?
How does Twitter work?
Once registered you can ‘Tweet’ 140 character messages about what your up to. You also have the freedom to follow other people whose tweets you find interesting and in return they may follow you back to read your tweets. If they particularly like what your tweeting, users can re-tweet your messages sending your tweet onto their followers, potentially transmitting your message to thousands of people.
So what’s so great about using Twitter?
- It’s free. With the exception of the time you have to put in there are no costs involved in getting your message across to a huge amount of people.
- You can connect to like-minded holiday cottage owners. See how they’re marketing their property and what they’ve been up to, making it an ideal way to share ideas.
-Post Late Availability deals. If you’ve had a last minute cancellation, simply tweet about it. If it’s Re-tweeted your tweet can easily be picked up by someone searching for a last minute deal.
-Build up a rapport with local businessness and organisations. Recommend them via a Tweet to people looking at your page, build up a working relationship and they can recommend to their followers that your an ideal property to stay in.
-Connect with anything your interested in. With such a vareity of people on Twitter there are thousands of people tweeting about their interests. Keep up to date with the latest industry developments, local news and anything else you’re interested in.
Registering on Twitter is quick and easy, but a great article which is very throourgh on the Twitter basics is from Mahalo HERE
Once signed up here are some excellent holiday cottage Tweeters who you could start to follow:
-Devon Willows Holiday Cottages
-and to stay up date with our latest tweets you can follow us HERE
