Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The history behind my new site

Today I decided it is time to start writing my blog.
So much buzz about blogging and how it suppose to help your business, so I decided why not?
I will do it too.
I have to tell you, I am not English speaking born persona, I immigrated to USA 12 years ago I suspect that my accent is still very noticable. I am Russian inside out with a lot of American attitude now.

Anyway, I am here not to talk about me. I probably will start another blog and will tell about me. I might even like to talk about me.

The site.
www.VacationRentalsListed.com
It started very simple. 3 years ago we purchased a vacation rental house in Blue Ridge, georgia. Here is the house:
www.BlueMountainCreek.com

When I started renting it and doing all of the work I had to do, I came to realization that there are not much tools available for owner to operate vacation rental like mine. I happened to be a software developer. So I had no other great ideas then to create my own site for owners like me. Place where owner can do anything - from managing property on-line, taking vacation reservations, buy supplies, transalte to different pages, create ad for different places and much more.

I was overely optimistic (big mistake) and started doing it myself. Of course, it was a huge challenge with my work at work, with my work with rental cabin and yes, I wanted to have a little bit of life too. Quickly I hired software developers from Ukraine to help me when needed and my advernture started.

I will write about all my steps with creating the site, marketing and advertising. Hopefully someday it will be one of the best portals on-line. And then will have time to write a blog about myslef.