List Your Whistler Condo with AlluraDirect.com!

List your rental home for one full year and pay only + 4% per online reservation transaction (includes all credit card and bank fees). Learn how to self-manage and market your rental home and enjoy these other all-inclusive benefits:

• Increase reservations from your existing reservation channels and learn about new ones!
• Increase your reservations through this new Whistler accommodation directory
• Reduce your vacation rental management time, booking risks and costly mistakes
• Maintain your peace of mind and enjoy world-class Owner and Guest customer support until 11 p.m., seven days per week.
  

"Within the first two months of launching my site, I have taken in $15,000 in bookings...." Read more from AlluraDirect.com Owners

Owner Listing Referral Bonus: Refer new listings for any AlluraDirect.com destination and extend your subscription by three months per referral. Refer four new listings and extend your subscription for an entire year! There are no limits on the number of extensions you can receive.

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How it Works

How We Help You

AlluraDirect.com is a flat, annual, fee-based and search-driven direct rental directory and community.

Since 1997, our all-inclusive services have created staggering commercial success for nearly 800 independent homeowners and small managers in Whistler, Big White and Sun Peaks ski resorts.

Our tested and successfully proven services help you in two ways:

1. We create and aggressively market distinct online destination directories and communities. These destination sites attract travelers and help them book your direct rentals and organize their vacations. You will obtain more bookings from this community-based Whistler directory.
2. We develop web-based software, create resources and services, and offer expertise that helps independent accommodation suppliers like you increase reservations through all of your online marketing sources. This service is suitable for the experienced Owner, the or novice trying direct rentals for the first time. If you can type, surf the web and read, you can use our tools.

How it Works

Guests search, view and book accommodation directly and instantly with homeowners or small independent rental managers on the web. Guests and Owners avoid the expense and interference of using an intermediary. We make it possible for Owners to self-manage their homes from anywhere in the world, irrespective of their Internet skills.

Owners and small independent rental managers control their business rules, prices, policies and web site content, while retaining all of their rental revenue, minus a 4% credit card processing fee. Your money is deposited in your bank account in four days or less, depending on the date and time of the payment.

Why Does it Work?

You will obtain more bookings on AlluraDirect.com AND achieve better results from ALL of your other marketing efforts because we help you offer the services that Guests value, while allowing you to maintain your independence:

• Extremely accurate, fast, fun and easy search tools and search results via AlluraDirect.com
• Highly descriptive property page content on your AlluraDirect.com property web site and the private property web site, which is also included with your subscription.
• Consistent customer service and emergency back-up support, even when you are unavailable
• Instantly confirmed, live reservations based on your published policies

AlluraDirect.com differs from most other direct rental, flat-fee services because we offer all four benefits.

Our unique and composite services make these important reservation-generating benefits possible. They also help Owners create private and independent non-AlluraDirect.com personal property web sites or improve their existing personal web sites. This increases bookings from all marketing sources with time-proven strategies and tools used on AlluraDirect.com itself.

What's in it for You?

AlluraDirect.com's composite program benefits mean more reservations from all of your advertising venues, including this one, and the discovery of new reservation channels. Collectively, our services help you achieve your goals with confidence, convenience, freedom, and control.

Detailed Services & Fees Description

Costs & Fees

$795* CAD Per Year + 5% GST
*Yearly subscription prices are determined according to destination rental performance

List your property on AlluraDirect.com for one annual fee and enjoy the following tested, perfected and proven all-inclusive services to help you achieve your goals:

1-Marketing & Bookings from the Whistler Marketing Directory: Get More Bookings

Obtain more bookings with the inclusion of your property on this Whistler accommodation directory. Guests can search, view and book accommodations on AlluraDirect.com. You do not have to pay a commission other than a 4% all-inclusive credit card processing fee. Search results appear based on matching the property to the guest search preferences and price per night.

Enjoy the following marketing services:

• Diligent search engine marketing. Type in a Whistler accommodation-related keyword into Google and we will likely be within eye-view*
• Newsletter marketing to over 9,000 total newsletter subscribers
• Marketing from important and highly visible ski portals and web sites

2-Expert Independent Marketing Advice: Improve Results from Existing Channels & Discover New Marketing Avenues

We share tried, tested and successful vacation rental marketing strategies, which include:

• Learn where to advertise on the web and how to find new marketing channels
• Learn how to effortlessly increase bookings (sales conversion) from your leads
• Learn how to tweak your web site content and improve the appeal of your ads
• Learn how to be the early bird, and immediately and automatically capture more business leads from your other online marketing ads. Avoid sitting by your computer day and night, worried that you might miss an opportunity!
• Learn how to implement strategies for staying competitive in the travel industry

New Owners and seasoned pros alike benefit from our full time research, testing and extensive user and Owner feedback insights.

3-Personal, Private & Unbranded Property Web Site-Convert More Lookers to Bookers from All Your Marketing Channels

Once you have discovered where and how to advertise, how are you going to handle all the business leads?

AlluraDirect.com's service includes an extensive, private property web-site creation and reservation management system that easily handles all of your business leads. Our system is successfully used by over 800 Owners and small managers to increase their reservations from all of their marketing sources.

There is no relationship or access from your personal property web site to AlluraDirect.com. Consequently, you will not lose business leads to other property owners on the main AlluraDirect.com directory.

If you already have an existing personal web site, learn how our service can also help you improve your existing property web page.

If you can type, read and write, you can produce your own property web site. It's that easy. We are here to help you seven days per week, should you run into any difficulties.

Features and benefits include:

• Easily create, manage and edit your personal, content-rich web site from anywhere in the world at any time of the day. You always control your content
• Enjoy extensive descriptive content that has been tested to inspire confidence and increase reservations
• Control your rates, policies and reservation rules
• Post up to 30 images at no extra cost
• Obtain your own personal and independent web site address under the DirectVacations.com domain name. Send all of your inquiries from independent marketing efforts to your private web site to quickly capture more reservations with better information and a confidence-inspiring representation of your property
• Enjoy the most inclusive and easy-to-use, owner-customizable, web-based reservation management software available. Our system has been tested and used by over 800 owner clients!
• Check out a sample private site: www.bigwhitechalet.directvacations.com

4-Improve an Existing Private Property Web Site: Get More Bookings

If you already have a pre-existing web site, you can improve it by using our web-based reservation management system to increase your bookings with an easy browsing and booking method. You'll also reduce your administration time by 90% and can manage your personal site content from a single central location.

Your calendar, reservation system, photo gallery and many other functional and components can also easily and quickly plug in to an existing site to give it more content and functionality. This allows you to update multiple sites, including those you already maintain, from a convenient and central location.

5-AlluraDirect.com Property Web Site: Get More Bookings from AlluraDirect.com & Save Time

Your AlluraDirect.com property page listing appears on the AlluraDirect.com vacation rental directory as an exact duplicate of your private and personal web site.

• The property page is an exact copy of your private site but includes AlluraDirect.com branding. It handles all of the reservation leads generated by AlluraDirect.com. Use the same centralized web site publishing and reservation management software as your personal site, but have it listed on and affiliated with AlluraDirect.com
• Your private site and your AlluraDirect.com site automatically and instantly update each other without your intervention, in order to simplify your reservation management, minimize mistakes and saves you time.
• Manage content and reservations for both sites from a single location to minimize errors (no accidental double bookings) and save time.

6-Easy Reservation Management System: Capture More Bookings from all Marketing Channels, Reduce Risks and Errors, Save Time and Retain Control

It's not enough to have a great personal web site if it doesn't help Guests book when they want to!

Your site must make it easy and obvious for people to make an instantly confirmed reservation based on your rules, otherwise you risk losing them to someone who is ready to take their money! The site should also protect you and your renters from liability and human error. Finally, it should automate routine administration, and ensure that critical tasks are completed to assure complete reservation competency.

Receive a tested and centralized web-based reservation management system that reduces liability, mistakes and overall administration time to five or 10 minutes per day. It also increases reservations from all sources by making it easier to book your vacation property. Our web-based system is used by over 800 ski resort homeowners like you.

Nearly all pieces of the components (rates table, calendar, booking process, templates, etc) can be easily and independently plugged in to pre-existing personal web sites that you may already have.

Features and benefits of the web-based reservation system include:

• Configure your reservation rules based on your preferences. You are always in control. Bookings cannot occur unless they meet your policy requirements and agree to your legally binding policies.
• Automatically accept instantly confirmed reservations with automatic calendar updates and credit card payment from each of your marketing sources, based on your reservation rules.
• Use and display a central Availability Calendar, which can be applied to other ads and web sites, and will also allow you to easily update any of your other third party calenders from your central system.
• Create a reservation email template library and automatically and instantly create customized emails unique to each new reservation, including booking and guest details.
• Automatically schedule and distribute guest and owner self-reminders and reservation correspondence based on your preferences. Don't drop details and make costly mistakes!
• Automatically track reservation and payment status. Receive late payment alerts.
• Create reservation and revenue reports within seconds in order to track your progress and ease the yearly book-keeping process.
• Save time and easily manage your private web site and all of your reservation leads from a single centralized location.
• Automatically generate vacation receipts, including GST numbers for non-residents of Canada.
• Attain peace of mind with built-in check-points, reminders and risk-reducing elements to protect you and your guests.
• Use your web-based reservation management, communication and payment processing software to instantly capture confirmed bookings with online credit card payments from any other marketing channel!
• Manage your reservations from anywhere in the world.
• Easily transfer your entire web-based rental business, web site, operations and rental records to a new owner, all within 15 minutes.
  

7-Credit Card Processing Services: Get More Bookings

Wouldn't you prefer to pay by credit card when making a reservation? How comfortable would you be sending complete stranger a personal cheque?

Your biggest business barrier is customer confidence.

Accepting credit card payments increases your reservation frequency by making it easy to book your home, and making you look more legitimate. From the guest's perspective, paying by credit card is also an insurance policy in case you're fraudulent and the property does not really exist. Many guests need to pay via credit card, or simply want to capture more loyalty points - like Airmiles.

Credit card processing fees are a cost of doing business that you must factor in to your rates.

In our experience, trying to avoid them by badgering or pressuring to pay by cheque simply results in earning less money and creating greater hassles.

• Don't block off your calender and lose sales while waiting and worrying for a cheque in the mail. It might never come, and it might bounce. In the meantime, you will have lost business opportunities. Receive instant notification of a successful payment and receive your money in your bank account in four days or less, depending on the date and time of the payment.
• Credit card fees amount to only 4%, including direct deposit and processing fees. All fees are used to cover the costs and risks of the credit card processing program.

**We realize that using our credit card services is not ideal if you are already your own merchant. Look for service enhancements this will enable you to use your own existing merchant account at no extra cost in 2009!

8-Expert Vacation Rental Business Advice from Experienced Owners: Learn How to Rent Direct, Increase Guest Satisfaction, Reduce Errors and Risks, and Increase Your Personal Enjoyment

• Learn how to quickly configure your business and property logistical operations from scratch
• Learn about the tested policies that protect you and your renters
• Learn how to build a long-term customer base that increases the value of your real estate investment
• Learn how to achieve a rates and occupancy equilibrium
• Learn how to manage cleaning and maintenance
• Learn a consistent and fool-proof method for running your business in less time, with fewer problems, risks and human errors
  

9-Unlimited Owner, Guest and Emergency Support Seven Days Per Week: Enjoy Peace of Mind and Get More Bookings

Your biggest business barrier is a lack of guest confidence.

What happens if something goes wrong and they cannot reach you? What if they're locked out and you are not around? What if they're having problems making a reservation on your site, but you are unavailable?

Your vacation rental property is not your full-time job. Moreover, it doesn't have to be. Even if you have lots of time on your hands, there are probably more meaningful ways to spend it than sitting by your computer, waiting for an inquiry or emergency phone call.

Increase your service performance and peace of mind with the following service benefits:

• Receive unlimited customer support for you and your guests seven days per week, until 11 p.m. PST, including statutory holidays.
• If your guest is locked out and you are unavailable, we will help them.
• If a guest is having difficulty with your site or booking and you can't be reached, we will help to make sure that you do not lose the reservation.
• If you need help with your web site, we are here to help when you need it the most: when you are not at work!

The customer support service is unlimited and extensive.

10-Property Services Supplier Network

• We supply a directory of in-resort suppliers such as cleaners who can help you run your small business
  

11-Guest Services Supplier Network

• We provide your guests with exclusive activity discounts offered only through AlluraDirect.com

Program Benefits

Subscribe to AlluraDirect.com and enjoy the following net benefits:

1-Learn How to Take Control of Your Real Estate Investment

If you are new to vacation rental management, we will show you how to start your business from scratch and reap financial rewards in its first year.

2-Get More Bookings From All of Your Independent Marketing Efforts

Potent marketing advice, combined with a private web site or the ability to improve your existing personal site, an easy reservation system, online credit card payments and extensive guest and owner support act to boost your bookings and your return on investment.

3-Get More Bookings Through the Whistler Directory That Speaks Your Unique Voice!

Your Whistler directory is an established and successful marketing channel that has, and will continue to deliver outstanding results.

4-Increase Your Personal Enjoyment by Reducing Your Rental Administration Time, Risks and Costly Errors

Many owners keep their properties for five years or less before selling them. Selling early was never in their plan so, why did they sell?

Self-managing their rental business was eating up their time and money due to ineffective small business practices.

Our program will significantly increase your personal enjoyment and significantly reduce human error when used properly.

5-Increase Your Peace of Mind, Customer Service and Satisfaction Levels

If you are not worried about guests who forgot their check-in information, you should be!

We will help in most emergency situations.

Don't be chained to your rental business. Obtain peace of mind, freedom and commendable customer service levels with our extensive Owner and Guest support program.

6-Control Your Cherished Real Estate Investment

Seize control over your home and manage rentals based on your personal preferences.

Our program allows you to set the rules, rates, policies and content.

You can manage your home easily and affordably with our flat-fee program.

7-Stay Ahead in the Competitive Travel Industry

The travel industry is competitive and fast-paced.

Our company is the only company in the world offering detailed accommodation searches and live reservations on a direct rental directory. Many companies list properties, but their searches are slow and inaccurate. Stay ahead of the competition with our many important innovations by listing with AlluraDirect.com.

Check out our services to learn specifically how we deliver these benefits.

8-Increase Your Real Estate Investment Value

Our services help you develop a viable, easy-to-run and easy-to-sell business with an established customer base, around your real estate investment.

This increases the value of your property by lowering purchaser risk and assuring ease in the process of transferring your rental property operations to a new owner. In a hot market, you will increase your sale price. In a slow market, your property will be sold before your neighbour's.

How do we know?

We have bought and sold two properties with the AlluraDirect.com system. Both properties captured top price/square footage in both resorts at the time of sale. One of the properties captured its buyer through its AlluraDirect.com listing.

It takes about 15 minutes to transfer your business operations to a new Owner!

Contact Us

Still deciding? For more detailed information about joining, please visit our website.Have questions about what AlluraDirect.com can offer? Please don't hesitate to contact us should you have any further inquiries or concerns at 604-707-6700 or ownerrelations@alluradirect.com

List Your Property On AlluraDirect.com

To list your Whistler property you will need the following:

• Proof of Ownership (e.g. utility or cable bill, tax notice or any other formal documentation with the owner name and address, and the property address). To increase reservations, listed properties are first authenticated to inspire guest confidence and reduce the risk of fraud).
  
• Banking Information (where should we deposit money?)
• Property Address and Phone Number Information
• Property Title Information
• Property Strata Information
• An Internet Connection
• Agreement with our Subscription Agreement
• Approximately ten minutes to complete online joining.
• Approximately three hours to completely build your web site and email templates.

Privacy Guarantee: We will not rent, sell or make known to any third parties your personal information except under order of law. Your personal information is kept on a secure and protected network. All sensitive information supplied to us by paper or by fax is promptly destroyed.

About AlluraDirect.com

We have been serving independent owners and small rental managers since 1997. Our company is founded and owned by property Owners and small managers like you. We walk in your shoes and are trying to blaze new trails to make your journey easy and safe.

Our unique services, software and resources have made over 800 owners and small independents like you commercially successful in Whistler, Big White and Sun Peaks ski resorts. We are also committed to helping guest services and owner services businesses in the mountain communities in which we operate through free exposure on our sites.

Using AlluraDirect.com is your is your first step towards building a high profile directory for like-minded and independent accommodation, guest services and owner services businesses that will be cherished by thousands of destination visitors.

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