Mermaid Cottages Adds FlipKey Property Widgets to its Website – Increases Reservations
August 14th, 2008 by TJ MahonyMermaid Cottages – a Tybee Island, GA vacation rental company has recently added FlipKey’s “Property Widgets” to its website.
In their own words, Mermaid Cottages offers:
Whimsical, funky cottages, historic, classic homes, pet friendly, complimentary high speed and wifi internet, comfy, cozy, welcoming places to nest, relax, re connect and simplify. That’s what the Mermaid Cottage Vacation experience is all about.
With FlipKey Widgets, the Mermaid Cottages Vacation experience is being confirmed by their past guests. Mermaid Cottages has a history of happy and enthusiastic guests and is a pioneer in leveraging FlipKey guest reviews to harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing and trusted guest recommendations.
Click here to see a great example of the guest reviews featured for Doodlebug Cottage.
By adding the FlipKey Property Widget across its website for individual vacation properties, Mermaid Cottages is able to let their guests promote the Mermaid Cottage experience.
“Thank you for having this great service, I’ve already had a couple of guests reserve homes because of the great reviews!!”
- Diane Kaufman, Owner Mermaid Cottages
FlipKey Widgets are provided as a free feature to all FlipKey users to help vacation rental managers easily add guest reviews to their website to attract and convert more guests.
- 78% of consumers indicate they are significantly more likely to rent a vacation rental if they can read reviews from past guests that stayed in the property. (Source: FlipKey / Compete, Inc. Vacation Rental Research Report – Issue II)
- Hotel websites have documented a 100% increase in online conversation rates when website visitors read a guest review. (Source: TripAdvisor, Hayes & Jarvis Case Study)
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June 11th, 2009 at 7:38 am
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