Sunday, 28 March 2010

Waters-Edge Properties Go Online


Waters-Edge Properties is a relatively new company with waterfront properties in Dolphin Quays, Poole, and Swanage, Dorset.
BRIEF:
Design and build 3 websites, photograph properties, graphic logos and web site optimization.

Recommendation
"I approached ARE Creative to help me launch 2 properties that were holiday rentals on the Dorset coast. I wanted 3 websites, all linked and comparative in image. Previous websites had failed to capture any market. I had spent £1000 on one site alone and I couldn't change it to add in special offers and new pictures so was thoroughly dissatisfied. I didn't want a commercial site that looked 'big business' just a low key, colourful and eye-catching site that did the job.

Rachel focused on my first site and it was up and running within 5 days, including all her photography, with web hosting a week later. We have had our sites for a year and I have had 3000 hits on the Swanage site alone, my apartment has been fully booked for the last 9 months and I am taking bookings for next year. My second property at Dolphin Quays is catching up also.


ARE Creative have also purchased a domain name and linked that through to my blog, set up email hosting and shown me how to use it, so even though my official address is a blogspot.com, my clients get to me via www.accommodationswanage.co.uk.

I subscribed to a monthly plan for unlimited text and photo updating. I can email the team and they will take my suggestions, give their opinion as to the marketing approach and have the amendments made within 24 hours, start to finish together with any graphical work. I am supplied a list of how many visits to my site and how long they stayed.

I can recommend an blog site as the way forward and the team at ARE Creative have been 100% pro-active in making sure my sites were just as I wanted, and together with their marketing techniques, I am thoroughly impressed.

In summary, worth every single penny".