Marketing Your Vacation Rental

The Dynamics of Effective Marketing

More than ever before, a successful sales and marketing program must be constantly adjusting to the reality of a rapidly changing marketplace. While we maintain many tried and true programs, we are spending a great deal more in the world of online marketing and carefully measuring the results and shifting dollars to the most cost effective initiatives. We are geo-targeting online efforts to get our message before parties and families planning inter-generational gatherings.

Collectively, we have been marketing the East Islands, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island and Wild Dunes, for over 32 years. We have a past guest database of over 160,000 mailable addresses and nearly 100,000 e-mailable addresses!

Online Marketing Strategies

In addition to continually enhancing an entirely new website with more content, and an all new state-of-the-art booking engine, ResortQuest has helped us develop market-leading partnerships with the airline global (reservations) distribution (GDS) to capture consumer-direct and travel agency bookings, many of which now occur online. We also have a very strong partnership agreement with Expedia, America’s largest online travel retailer. Just try an Expedia, Travelocity or Hotels.com online search for Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island or Wild Dunes and see what brand shows up at or near the top of the listings!

We also have access to many thousands of past guests within the broader ResortQuest family of resort locations. With that said: we are constantly testing, evaluating and rolling out new marketing initiatives designed to maximize occupancy at the highest possible rates. Additionally, we are continually one of the top ranked Management Companies when searching for the East Islands and Charleston online. We get a great deal of domestic and international web traffic from ResortQuest’s portal website, www.ResortQuest.com.

ResortQuest East Island's local marketing initiatives and highly experienced “WebTeam” are constantly seeing new methods and sources with which to extend a strong presence and exposure online. Visitors to the website can search the entire database of properties and truly pick and book the individual property they prefer right online, without ever picking up the phone. Clearly, this combined marketing and sales expertise cannot be equaled in this market.

ResortQuest East Island’s team of highly trained professionals will exceed your expectations from the moment you speak to ResortQuest’s Owner Liaison about joining the rental program, to the time you choose to retire to the East Islands permanently — and every moment in between. Representing over 650 properties in the Charleston area and a repeat guest list of over 100,000 guests speaks of the trust and loyalty placed in capable hands every day.

To learn more about the marketing program and exciting enhancements, please email Michele Lemmon, or give her a call at 1-888-299-8165 or 1-843-886-9704.