Successful Home Exchanging - Additional Listing Tactics
Part Four of the Series
It’s worth remembering that there are several ways you can “dress up” your basic home exchange listing. Here are some suggestions:
- Set up your own personal web site dedicated to home exchanging. Have sections devoted to your family, your home, pets, neighborhood and more general location. Describe any previous home exchanges you may have taken.
- Describe the amenities your home offers in great detail.
- Go to town detailing special features.
- Provide on-line links to any relevant manuals or fact sheets.
- Illustrate the information with photographs.
- Subscribe to one of the on-line photo albums such as PhotoBucket, MyPhotoAlbum or Flickr and pack it with lots of bright, cheerful, informative photographs.
- If you have a video camera, use it to make a video introducing your home, family, pets, car (if it’s going to be part of an exchange), and add it to your online photo album (see suggestion 2 above).
Include links to these features in your online listing and also in every contact email you send out.
These features will make your listing much more interesting to prospective home exchange partners, but remember, don’t ever make the mistake of relying upon them to convey your message. Your listing with your online club is what will attract initial interest and if you fail there no-one will hang around to see any amount of extra features you may add.
About Your Listing
- Successful Home Exchanging - Finalizing Your Exchange
- Successful Home Exchanging - Contacting Fellow Home Exchangers
- Successful Home Exchanging - Good Photographs Are Important
- Successful Home Exchanging - Additional Listing Tactics
- Successful Home Exchanging - Setting Up Your Listing
- Successful Home Exchanging - More About Selecting A Club
- Successful Home Exchanging - Selecting a Club
- A Guide to Setting Up Your Home Exchange
