Fetch My Guest
Fetch My Guest is an intelligent marketing automation platform designed for vacation rental owners and managers. The company is based in Capitola, California and was created by local vacation rental managers out of a frustration at the current state of the vacation rental industry. It provides marketing and lead management services to vacation rental companies worldwide and serves as an alternative to other major vacation rental listing sites.
History[edit]
Fetch my Guest was founded in 2014 by CEO and Co-Founder Vince Perez. As a vacation rental manager and homeowner he was trying to combat the growing cost of advertising on third party booking sites and was looking for successful lead conversion and guest retention strategies in order to survive in the industry. With increasing costs on vacation rental listing sites, the traveler was paying more, and the vacation rental manager was seeing margins shrink. As a result, in order evolve from this setback, Fetch my Guest was created as a solution to the trend of vacation rental listing sites taking over independent vacation rental businesses brand and guest communications. With the Implementation of new fees, anger spread [1] to travelers and vacation rental managers alike due to the added 4-12% booking fees [2] developing on many popular listing sites, a decreased accessibility to the professional host, and a lack of location and concierge services.
Platform[edit]
The Fetch My Guest platform is designed to place the control back into property managers hands and to provide an easier way to manage incoming leads. The tool has an open API and allows vacation rental managers to work with any advertising source, it provides lead management, an optimization dashboard, an email marketing tracker, a guest retention tracker and performance reporting for all key metrics of business. Fetch My Guest has built their platform on the idea that the the professional vacation rental manager should be able to communicate directly with the raveler, this provides and opportunity for unique engagement with the traveler and gives the traveler an opportunity to build a relationship with a Brand.
Fetchmyvr[edit]
Out of Fetch My Guest, Fetchmyvr was conceptualized, it is a vacation rental listing site that puts the traveler in direct communication with the professional host. The company has been recognized as being one of the only vacation rental listing sites to encourage direct communication between traveler and host and to not charge an additional traveler’s fee. Fetchmyvr is the only branded meta site that serves as an alternative to the major vacation rental listing sites such as HomeAway, FlipKey, and Airbnb.
Recognition[edit]
In 2016 Fetch My Guest was named one of the top innovative services of the year by The Who’s Who of the Vacation Rental Industry.[3] The company has also been featured in TNooz,[4] the leading voice to the industry for all areas related to travel technology, and VRM Intel.[5]
See also[edit]
- HomeAway
- FlipKey
- Airbnb
- Booking.com
- Tripz.com
- CanadaStays
- Destination Club
- Fetchmyvr.com
- HouseTrip
- Peer-to-peer property rental
- TripAdvisor
- Tripping.com
- Vacatia
- Vacation house
- Roomorama
- Vacation rental
References[edit]
- ↑ O'neill, Sean. "HomeAway's new fee sparks some anger the company tries to quell", Tnooz, 15 March 2016. Retrieved on 21 October 2016.
- ↑ Gilbertson, Dawn. "Renting a vacation home online? 3 players add fees", USA Today, 4 March 2016. Retrieved on 21 October 2016.
- ↑ VRTech. "The Who’s Who of the Vacation Rental Industry", Rentals United, Fall 2016.
- ↑ O'Neill, Sean. "Statup pitch: Fetch My Guest help rental managers automate their marketing", Tnooz, 26 January 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016
- ↑ Hinote, Amy. "VRM Intel Fall 2016", VRM Intel, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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