So you have signed up for all of the holiday rental schemes you can find. You are paying memberships to them all but still you are still accepting last minute prices. Would you prefer early bookings, deposits in the bank, full prices and the security that the weeks are already booked?

Of course you would!

Believe it or not, it can be just as frustrating for the people advertising your property as you that bookings are not coming through. The advertisers might be losing the booking from you to other properties on their books, but if they are losing bookings to other sites then they also are losing out.

The first step to more bookings - be available

Have you asked the owners of the website directories some basic questions about their service? Not the obvious ones, but some that can tell you how well they do and how well you are performing within them