I am speaking at the VRMA (Vacation Rental Managers Association) Western Seminar in Las Vegas.
This is the 21st year of this annual event. VRMA Western Seminar will take place at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 1.

This VRMA event will feature educational sessions on Owner Relations, Employee Development [...]

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Universal Search is the blended results Google announced last year. The official announcement was May 16, 2007. The new search results blend listings from news, video, images, maps, and the traditional “blue links”.
Google’s Universal Search has still not exploded on to the travel segment as I expected it would 6 months ago, but that [...]

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I will be speaking at the VRMA Eastern Seminar in Myrtle Beach next week.
The 17th Annual Vacation Rental Management Association Eastern Seminar focuses on providing information to improve the operation of a vacation rental management company.

My session will be a SEO Site Clinic. I am joined by Trent Blizzard, Blizzard Internet Marketing. We will [...]

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VRMA Eastern Seminar will be in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Wednesday, April 2 and Thursday, April 3. The VRMA announcement came last week. Although many other details are still pending, this VRMA conference is sure to be a great gathering.
VRMA, Vacation Rental Managers Association, represents over 125,000 vacation rentals.

This VRMA conference, like the previous [...]

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Just in time for the ski season, vacation rentals have surpassed hotel in search popularity.
Hitwise numbers shows for the past 6 months, vacation rentals have consistently remained behind hotel searches. In mid-October vacation rentals passed the hotel demand.

This seems to be an obvious connection with ski season starting. For families on a ski vacation, [...]

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