Posts Tagged ‘property’
Holiday cottages website
Paul and Angela had recently acquired a holiday cottages business in Herefordshire and needed to update their website.
The website was well designed visually, but was very slow, making the user experience (UX) difficult and damaging bookings. They also wanted it to emphasise ‘dog-friendly’.
They needed someone they could trust to update it, whilst they learned to manage the site and booking system themselves. Having seen the work completed for another property rentlal site, HappenOak treehouse, they asked me to speed up the site and help them learn how to manage it.
I moved the site to new hosting, removed unnecessary WordPress plugins that were slowing the site down and renamed key landing pages to improve search performance.
After initial reorganisation and upgrade of the site, I support the owners as they manage all day-to-day operations themselves.
White House Cottages: Holiday cottage in Herefordshire
House share website
Co-founders Nick and Eva wanted to offer the over 40s better access to house share opportunities. Leading house share sites were dominated by young professionals and millenials who were not interested in older housemates, making it difficult to find a place. Live-in landlords and lead tenants can advertise a room where prospective housemates can search. People looking for a place can search by location, sharing preferenes and keyword.
Features: User management; Ecommerce; ; Advanced search; Advertising – GoogleAds and FB Ads; Search marketing; Content management;
Tree House Holiday website
Bruce, a master builder by trade, had built a luxury tree house for personal use, which he then started to rent out during lockdown under the name Happenoak. He wanted to establish his own website rather than rely solely on property marketing platforms which controlled visibility and took a large fee. The site would show off the luxury treehouse features and allow users to check availability and book online.
Features: Design; Booking system; Online payments; Integrated newsletter; Online gift vouchers;
Bedü communications
Property developer Bedü (named after a nomadic people, whose self-reliance and territorial approach to land ownership reflected the company values) delivered innovative low-cost accomodation and wanted to give users of their hostels a ‘sense of being’, where the occupier enjoys enhanced autonomy and a sense of dignity.
The problem was that planners, influenced by local residents, were slow to approve plans for new properties or expansion of existing sites.
I worked with the Development Director and CEO to explore how attitudes could be changed and planning advanced using communications in the broadest sense.
Features: A media ‘eco-system’ of integrated media, all based around key messages.