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| Second Porch and LiveRez Partner to Socially Activate Vacation Rentals Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:00 AM PDT Second Porch, the social vacation rental marketplace and LiveRez, a leading online vacation rental property management property management solution, have partnered to enable thousands of professionally-managed vacation rentals for searching and online booking at SecondPorch.com. In addition, past guests of each home can easily rate and review the vacation home they booked, and enable that information to be highlighted to their friends, and friends of friends with Second Porch's social search capabilities, which are fully integrated with Facebook. (PRWEB) September 1, 2010 -- Second Porch, the social vacation rental marketplace, and LiveRez, the fully-hosted integrated platform for vacation rental property managers, today announced that professionally managed North American properties using the LiveRez platform are now searchable and bookable at SecondPorch.com. In addition, past guests of each home can easily rate and review the vacation home they booked, and enable that information to be highlighted to their friends, and friends of friends with Second Porch's social search capabilities, which are fully integrated with Facebook. With the staggering growth of social network participation, vacation rental property managers are finding that Facebook offers a compelling and logical new channel for building awareness of, and driving bookings for the homes they manage. With the industry's first "social search" capability, Second Porch extends those Facebook initiatives by offering property managers a new social "word of mouth marketing" capability, which will become unrivaled in its ability to bring "peace of mind" to travelers. Second Porch's social vacation rental marketplace enables travelers to easily search for vacation homes which have been rented, rated or reviewed by friends, and friends of friends. This social search capability solves one of the vacation rental industry's most critical issues in driving online bookings: travelers' reluctance in renting a home purely based on an online listing with or without reviews from unknown, inaccessible people. This partnership enables LiveRez customers' vacation homes to participate in this new social search channel. In addition, by integrating with LiveRez's new online booking portal, RezSecure, visitors to SecondPorch.com can now book these homes online just as easily as a hotel. Second Porch searchers will see a clickable button that indicates when a property can be booked directly online with RezSecure. "The team at LiveRez has been watching Second Porch since it launched a year ago. We believe that our property managers will see value from a partnership which makes it easy for them to list and publish in Second Porch and thus, into Facebook. Participating in this increasingly important social word-of-mouth marketing channel for the long-term is the goal," said Tracy Lotz, CEO and founder of LiveRez. "We have spent months getting to know the LiveRez team, and have found that they thoroughly understand the potential of the emerging social channel as an essential new opportunity for their property managers," said Brent Hieggelke, CEO and co-founder of Second Porch. "This partnership brings significant value to both of our customer bases, and we are excited to offer travelers thousands of new high quality, professionally-managed homes from the forests of the Pacific Northwest to sunny Florida." About Second Porch About LiveRez ### Second Porch This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Win a Miami Stay & Caribbean Cruise with Marriott Rewards and CruisesOnly Posted: 01 Sep 2010 09:15 AM PDT Press Release Source: Marriott International, Inc. On Wednesday September 1, 2010, 12:15 pm EDT BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- CruisesOnly, a cruise provider for Marriott Rewards, Marriott International, Inc.'s (NYSE:MAR - News) award-winning guest loyalty program, is giving away a two-part land and sea vacation to one lucky Marriott Rewards member. The sweepstakes, which begins September 1 and runs through October 31, 2010, is open to all Marriott Rewards members in the U.S. The winner will be chosen in a random drawing. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090217/MARRIOTTINTLLOGO ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090217/MARRIOTTINTLLOGO ) For more information, complete terms and conditions, and to enter, visit http://mr.cruisesonly.com/promotion/marriott_rewards/sweepstakes/epicgetaway.asp . The grand prize includes: 7-night stay at the JW Marriott Miami
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