I recently finished reading: “Crush it”, I ran into this book on a blog post by Fred Wilson a highly respected venture capital in NYC, as soon as it came recommended by him, I bought it. I wasn’t able to get to this right away but when I did, it took me only a few commutes to finish it. It is a very easy read and the author is just a funny guy.

http://www.amazon.com/Crush-Time-Cash-Your-Passion/dp/0061914177

I shared this book as a recommendation to vacation rental owners on the vacation rental owners yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vacation_rentals/

I think anyone can really benefit from reading this book but vacation rental owners have a constant need to reach out to vacationers, to learn new ways to promote their rentals. I  think this book will bring a fresh perspective to many on how they can further leverage social media to optimize their efforts.  

If you get most of your bookings online and specially if you don’t, you should read this book. 

- Amin.

About a week ago we fully implemented facebook connect into our site. Now you can easily login using your existing facebook credentials: http://listedplaces.com/login 

We are already leveraging a lot of the benefits that this implementations gives us but stay tuned for more specific announcements on this regard.   

www.listedplaces.com 

Introducing listedplaces sites:

listedplaces-sites allows you to create a website for your vacation rental which runs independently from the main listedplaces.com website. On this website you may customize it, add a logo, use your own URL or domain, upload a custom background amongst other features. Additionally you may update your calendars, amenities and photos from a single administrative panel which will update both your listedplaces.com listing and its associated, independent listedplaces-site.

To find out more, click here.