– Holiday Home Websites –
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The Benefits of a Holiday Home Website
High Comission Costs on platforms such as Airbnb and HomeAway
Platforms such as Airbnb and HomeAway have quite high commission costs. Having your own Holiday Home website means that the you do not have to pay this commission. Especially when you have guests which know your place and book every year the amount you could save can be quite large. Owning a holiday home website is not exclusive. This means you can have it work alongside your Airbnb and HomeAway as an additional booking platform. You can divert customers to the website while still taking advantage of the publicity your Airbnb and HomeAway listings give you.
Take control of your business
Having a website means you can build and grow your business independently of platform websites such as Airbnb and HomeAway. It increases your independence. You no longer need to rely on other platform websites to bring you business, but can take control of it and grow your own client base. It also gives you more control over what people come to stay at your home,
Display your home in the best light
Having your own holiday home website means that the style, layout and design can be adapted to bring out the best of your home. Kugler Designs holiday home websites are image heavy websites, making it visually appealing to the clients. Information, highlights and pictures about the surrounding area is a great way to promote your home above others as it gives the clients a better understanding of the area.
Previous Holiday Home Project
The Web Design Process
1 – Get in touch with Kugler Design
Send us a message or call us in order to get in touch. Tell us exactly what you would like the website to do, or tell us your business goals and we can advise you to what would work best on your website. We discuss your target audience, your location and what you would like the website to achieve. We would then recommend the best holiday home package that suits your needs.
2 – Send Kugler Design information
The next step would be to send us information regarding your holiday home. Send us pictures and information regarding your holiday home. It can be as much and as little as you like, but more would always be better. You can speed up the web design process by collecting as much information and pictures as possible at this stage. We would require pictures of your home from the outside, of all the individual rooms, the garden, and any other facilities you offer, be it a pool, table tennis or even a hammock. Information and pictures of the immediate surroundings and sights would also be greatly beneficial.
3 – The initial design process
Before we start the initial design, feel free to send us any designs or elements that you enjoy from other websites so that we can incorporate them into your website. A deposit of typically 10% is also requested at this stage. Once deposit is received a domain name would be chosen. This is the website address, such as www.yourholidayhome.com We would start making an outline design of your website. There is a lot of room for big changes and alterations at this stage. After this stage, there would still be room to make small changes regarding style and colour but major changes may add extra working hours on our part and may be charged. Hence it is important to be satisfied with the initial design and let us know any thoughts at this stage. We then send you the design when the homepage and perhaps one other page are complete and you let us know what changes you would like if there are any to make.
4 – The main design process
At this stage we have the rough outline of the website completed, have received feedback from you, and are now starting work on the final design. Small changes are still possible and we create all the pages that are required on the website. Features are installed and styled. We near the finished product.
5 – Finalising and making the website Live
Up to now the website would be created under a subdomain of Kugler Design eg: www.yourholidayhome.kuglerdesign.com At this stage we would request the outstanding balance be paid in full and upon receipt the website is put Live on the domain you chose. Your website is now finished!
Pricing & Packages
Individual House Package
For individual Properties (one room/property to rent)- Website advice and design
- A booking system
- Home Page, Contact page, About page
- Booking page with gallery and information about property
- A single page outlining the area
- On-page Search Engine Optimisation
- Social Media Integration (for existing accounts)
- Ability to edit content yourself
This is a basic package designed for people who have one property available for rent. This package offers everything you will need in order to successfully receive and manage bookings online.
Multiple Property/Room Package
For 2 - 4 rooms/properties to rent- Website advice and design
- A booking system
- Home Page, Contact page, About page
- Main listing page
- Property/Booking page for every room/property including gallery
- A single page outlining the area
- On-page Search Engine Optimisation
- Social Media Integration (for existing accounts)
- Ability to edit content yourself
This package is designed for people who have several properties or rooms available for rent. It offers all you need to successfully have your business operate online.
Complete Package
Up to 6 properties/rooms. Includes Blog and detailed Area Information- Website advice and design
- A booking system
- Home Page, Contact page, About page
- Main listing page
- Property/Booking page for every room/property including gallery
- A single page outlining the area
- On-page Search Engine Optimisation
- Social Media Integration (for existing accounts)
- Ability to edit content yourself
- Area Information Pages (from Optional Extras)
- Blog Page (from Optional Extras)
Our most comprehensive and best-value package. This is for multiple properties, and includes two of our Optional Extras, the Blog Page and the Area Information Pages. Both of these will boost your visibility on all search engines, and hence can boost business through your website.
Optional Extras
Logo/Branding Development
It can be very beneficial to have a Logo linking to your property. This allows your clients to recognise your business quickly, and makes it easier to pass knowledge onto their friends and family. Kugler Design offers a Logo and Branding Development service. Prices depend on the full requirements that you may have, but start from as low as €100.
from €100
Dual Language Website
Offering multiple languages is one of the best ways to increase the potential customers you can reach. At Kugler Design, we offer holiday home website in multiple languages: English, German, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
Further languages can be catered for upon request.
from €300
Area Information Pages
This is a package to add some greater detail to the surrounding area of your property. It would consist of either multiple small articles (up to 15) about local sights with up to 2 pictures per location, or 3 large pages with lots of detail regarding individual areas such as nearby towns and a gallery of up to 20 pictures. These are in addition to the main page about the area included in our packages.
from €150
Blog Page
A blog is a great way to promote your business. By writing about holiday homes, your area and activities it can greatly boost your visibility on the google search engine and make your website more interactive. This can draw visitors to your page who were looking for different information and then ‘stumble’ on your beautiful holiday home. Kugler Design also offers a blog-writing service. See below for details.
from €100
Setting up Social Networking
Social media is more important than ever to boost business, and choosing the right social media and setting it up can be quite difficult. Kugler Design can advise you on the best forms of social media for your business.
€50/per Social Media
Recurring Cost Extras
Domain name registration
Securing and purchasing a domain name is the first step one needs to take on their journey to creating their own website. This is the name that people type in browser eg www.your-domain-name.com
This is offered as an optional extra as many may already own their own domain name. This is an annual charge and price can vary on a number of factors such as the name itself, and if you have a .com, .net, .de or .fr website.
from €20/per annum
Hosting and Maintenance
Hosting is an important service as this is what makes the website accessible. The Host is a server (type of computer) that has the website on it and sends people the website when they look for it.
Maintenance is commonly overlooked as many think it is easy to host a website. In fact, it is, and many will prefer to host it themselves. However, when something goes wrong, it can be very difficult and expensive to find out what the problem is in order to fix it. Kugler Design offers Hosting and maintenance, and this can also be purchased at an annual charge of €250.
€15/ per month
Managing Social Networks
Kugler Design can manage your social networks and submit weekly or monthly updates on any social media network. We create interesting and engaging content and bring customers onto your social media channels.
from €30/per month
Blog Updates
A blog is a great tool for bringing interest to your website. It transforms it from a static webpage to a dynamic website that continually has new interesting content. Kugler Design can create new content for your website on a weekly, monthly or bimonthly basis. We create content based on local events, sights, or general information on visiting holiday homes. We can also write about any topic you choose.
from €30/per month
Ad Campaigns
Online Ad campaigns are, after social media, probably the most effective methods of getting customers to view your holiday home whether they are searching google, looking at facebook, or browsing the web.
There are multiple platforms on which Ad campaigns can be run, and Kugler Design can create and manage your Ad campaings.
Price varies
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