Marketing your gîte
& communicating with your guests
Marketing on booking sites
We have an overview of 60 websites and booking platforms for marketing your property. We will discuss the pros and cons of each of them in detail, how much they charge, how they work, how they dealt with the pandemic etc.
We will offer you a tailor-made plan of where to advertise in order to get as many bookings as possible, without paying through the nose.
Your website and social media
Direct bookings are the holy grail, which is why your own website and social media are so important. We can plan your website or test your existing website out to make sure it motivates and enables guests to book.
Content
All the different communication content you need to convince a potential guest should stay at your property, This includes unique selling points, photography and videos.
How are you going to stand out from your colleagues, per-empt their questions and show your property off to its best?
Your communication journey with your guest
We can share template communications which you can adapt for every step of the journey you embark on with your guests. From their initial enquiry to your request for a review after their holiday. Please contact us for more information.
Publicity
Free publicity is hard to find and good PR consultants shy away from gîtes. We can explore if you have any leads or opportunities. Get in touch for more information about marketing.
Partners
We recommend using Holiday Villa Marketing. They can photograph your property (including styling the shots) and create lifestyle videos of property with the use of drones. They offer Gïte Guru clients, introduced to them by us, a discount.
Through their sister company, Dragonfly Media make the footage for Christies’ Real Estate around the Bordeaux area. They understand perfectly what type of photography you need to market your property to its full potential.