home owners area

[honeybee]

I cannot get into the home owners area to read or to respond.

Hey what is in that area! It's not the bermuda triangle is it?

honey bee

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

The home owners area is specifically for villa owners who have an advert on Orlando Villas (www.orlandovillas.com) to talk amongst themselves. If you are an advertiser with us, let us know your villa reference number and we'll add you to the list of those allowed access.

John & Sarah Rooke
Orlando Villas

[carole7007]

John or Roger

Can you tell me what PPC means

I have just been on owners area to update our villa and saw PPC.

Thanks
Carole

Carole & Keith

[blott]

It was there for a few days but now it's disappeared! Bit like being in the Bermuda triangle (as honeybee has mentioned!). <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Blott

Edited by - blott on 09/04/2002 18:17:51

[roger]

PPC stands for 'Pay Per Click'.

It is something we are considering offering in the future, whereby villa owners can feature their villa either on our homepage, or at the top of all search listing results (rather like John and my villas are now). This is still only under consideration and we may not even do it. We are just testing the system now. The idea would be that we either charge a monthly fee for these 'featured homes' or we may charge per extra click (or page view) that the owner gains as a result of the increased exposure. As I say, it is nothing more than an experiment at present.

Roger
www.orlandovillas.com

[orlandobabe]

I don't quite understand this new 'pay per click' system that you might be implementing.
Surely if it is going to cost 'potential guests' money every time they click to view -it will discourage them from using the site.

Also won't it involve you taking credit card details and again a lot of 'potential guests' are going to be put off by having to give them.

I know I won't put my credit card details on the net-so I just don't buy anything-I much prefer to shop where you can feel and touch.

However-my personal habits to one side-I just feel a bit concerned that having built up a great site and with all of our contributions etc- viewing traffic is going to be slowed down because people won't pay when they can browse around other sites for free.



Orlandobabe

[steph_goodrum]

The idea Orlandobabe, is that we the owners "pay per click" I think, basically if someone views our page we are then billed, but I don't like that system, as how many of the page views are actually turned into bookings, I know it is usually only pence but it all adds up.

Babblin Boo

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

HI from a rather dark and early morning Florida (can't sleeep - jet lag)

You mis-understand - it's not the viewer who has to pay. As you rightly point out, that would discourage renters from using the site which is against all that we are trying to do.

If we go down the PPC route (only for the Featured Homes and we have not decided if we want to do it anyway yet) then the villa owner who wants their home featured will lodge, say £15 with us. Each time someone clicks on their featured home, it will cost the vila owner a set amount, say 5p, that will be deducted from this £10 until the time comes when the owner either needs to replenish this £10 for more clicks or relinquish their Featured Home spot.

We've been approached by several advertisers about getting their villas on the FEatured Homes and we are thus running a trial with our own homes to see what kind of click rate we get on the Featured HOmes. This will then give us a better understanding of how we proceed with this idea.

Rest arrured the normal adverts will continue to work in the way they always have done - we are not thinking of PPC for them!

Hope this puts your mind at rest.

John & Sarah Rooke
Orlando Villas

[orlandobabe]

I'm so pleased you can't see my red and embarrassed face!

I'm now going to throw myself under a mars bar!

Tim- nice but dim!

Orlandobabe

[roger]

Don't be embarrased orlandobabe! I probably didn't make it very clear.

I know Steph, you say you don't like the idea of PPC, but it will ONLY be for people who want the extra level of exposure. Having your villa featured in these key positions could potentially result in several direct enquiries to your villa per day, on top of whatever you currently get - this is clearly worth paying extra for, but this is what we are trying to work out! Whatever we charge, it will be an amount the we feel any villa owner will happily pay for the number of extra bookings this will bring. Using the phrase PPC is probably not very accurate anyway, as I guess we will end up just charging a flat monthly fee - even so, for that fee, owners will want to know how many extra views of their page they have received as a result of taking the service.

I personally have booked out my 5 bed and 6 bed for ALL YEAR this year (apart from an 8 day gap in September in my 6 bed and a 4 day gap in 5 bed) and over 22 weeks in each villa for next year. This is purely from my positions on Orlandovillas. I do not have another website of my own, so this highlights the benefit of the home page and search page features homes position.

If we decide to go ahead with either option we will let you know. We do currently have one owner acting as a guinea pig with their villa, and I know they are receiving more direct enquiries than most other owners at present, as well as the usual general enquiries.

Roger