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Part Thee of a Series.
The way in which you set up your online listing for the world to see is often pivotal to your home exchange success. You need to clearly describe your home and the amenities it has to offer, then you need to introduce your family, your children, teens and give their ages. […]
This is part two of a series I’ve been asked to write covering successful home exchange procedures.
In my last post I began working on the process of selecting the home exchange club you decide to sign up with. Here are a few more thoughts about that same subject:
A Genuine Home Exchange Businesses should be […]
This is part one of a much requested series I’ve been asked to write covering successful home exchange procedures.
The first thing you will need to do is select a club. It’s very inadvisable to even think about cutting out this comparatively small expenditure and go it alone with classified advertisements or an ad on Craigslist, […]
Despite the fact that ExchangeHomes.com has always offered what we call our “Hints and Advice book” in PDF format, for either reading online, or downloading to your computer, where it can be printed, if desired, I’m still frequently asked to include some clear directions for locating and arranging a successful home exchange in this blog.
Of […]
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We make a point of recording all the activity of our members in various administrative logs. Not for any purpose other than to record how they navigate and use the web site. It has often proved to be a very useful tool when planning site improvements. One very useful record the logs do […]
With the launch of our brand new web site, one new feature we’re offering is the opportunity for you to ‘rate’, or leave feedback on your past home exchange partners. When you think about it, cumulatively there must be many thousands of completed home swaps that can be rated. All you need to do is […]
With the launch of our new home exchange web site, we introduced a new search option that allows both visitors and members to search our database of listings and specify that their results should only show listings that have photographs. We included this option because many people had requested it. They did not want to […]
Recently I’ve noticed a few negative conclusions an associate company has arrived at regarding multiple year and lifetime memberships. I agree wholeheartedly with every observation she has made, unmanaged and unsupervised any membership that extends beyond an initial year can quickly become outdated, both in its descriptive text and the published home exchange dates. More […]
Yesterday our latest Newsletter, (The December / January edition), was distributed to our mailing list. I was dismayed this morning when I viewed the list of non-deliveries—
A total of 189 emails had bounced for the following reasons:
Non-existent address— 88
Mailbox Full— 57
Blocked by ISP— 29
Other— 15
All these have […]
Oh dear, yet again with newcomers visiting the ExchangeHomes.com web site I find myself having to explain the difference between join and expiration dates versus requested home exchange dates.
Since I started this home exchange blog, I believe this is the third time I’ve written a post dedicated to the subject of published dates, but unfortunately […]
Today I continue with an ongoing series of posts covering all the major features included in our pending ExchangeHomes.com web site upgrade.
Today I will concentrate on how your photographs will be displayed on the new web site—
Currently, members are limited to a maximum of six photographs. The new web site will have no limit. Members can […]
I heard this week from a somewhat disgruntled member from the US who had returned recently from an exchange with a family in the UK. He was delighted with the home he and his family had exchanged with, but he had been horrified when he climbed into the exchange car and discovered it was equipped […]
