What is FlipKey up to and when is it launching?
November 28th, 2007 by TJ Mahony tj@flipkey.comIt’s been six months since we launched the FlipKey Blog. We use the blog to share our thoughts and research on the vacation rental industry in hopes of supporting a broader discussion on how to expand the vacation rental market. To date, over 100 people subscribe to the FlipKey Blog’s RSS feeds and over 2,000 people visit the blog every month to see what’s going on.
With that said, FlipKey is soon releasing its highly anticipated vacation rental Reputation Service. We will soon feature posts specific to FlipKey’s service, ways to leverage the service and ideas for future enhancements.
OK, OK…. but when is FlipKey actually launching?
- In the next two weeks, FlipKey will be releasing access to the FlipKey service to a select number of property managers. Over 100 property managers have signed up as FlipKey Charter members and we have selected 50 to kick the tires before we release FlipKey publicly. If you are dying to check it out email us at chartermember@flipkey.com.
- In January FlipKey will be releasing a new research report on Marketing Effectiveness in the vacation rental industry. FlipKey surveyed over 400 consumers that evaluated a vacation rental home in 2007 and collected and analyzed their thoughts and opinions - the results are fascinating.
- FlipKey will then open up its doors to the public in January. We will keep our readers current on our progress via the blog in the interim.
The excitement and growth of the vacation rental market is exciting. Every industry trade show we have attended this year has attracted record breaking attendance. New services are being introduced every month and consumers are increasingly beginning to prefer vacation rentals over traditional accommodations. 2008 is going to be a great year!
November 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Looking forward to the launch guys. I was wondering if Flipkey was ever coming out of Blog mode.
Cheers from Maryland
November 29th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Very interested to see what you have to offer. Looking forward to it.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I’m very excited to see your service launching and think it’s going to solve one of the major problems with vacation rentals. I’m wondering what you all think of Homeaway (perhaps this deserves a full blog entry unto itself). Homeaway is quickly becoming a monopoly and they could come up with a reputation system on their site that becomes the industry standard since they are the 500lb gorilla. Personally, I’d prefer that not to be a monopoly as it’s bad for the whole industry.
Feel free to email me offline to discuss if you’d like.
I’m looking forward to having better tools to manage and rent my vacation rental properties.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Agree with you Tom, Homeaway is getting far too big