If you use a booking system and you would like to see your villa on the important first pages on our websites and receive preferential ordering when we show clients villas, then the "Booking System Preferential STO" option is for you
Offer us an STO above 20% and our system automatically places your villas in higher positions in our searches and you receive a bonus attribute score within the "Value" field. In addition we will have the capacity to present your villa to our clients with a larger discount that most and as such the chances of a booking are greatly increased.
Please read the points below to see the many advantages of choosing Cape Town Luxury Villas and one of your primary booking agents.
'Real Time Payments,' you receive payment within 5 working days of our receipt of the initial deposit and final balance.
Villa Secrets Sales, specialists in the “love buy”
In addition to first page placement on Cape Town Luxury Villas.com, exclusive collection villas will also feature on the homepage of www.CapeVillas.com. Cape Villas.com is the sister, or may be better put, parent website to Cape Town Luxury Villas.com. When it comes to positional placement and priority renting both sites work as one.
Included together, being on the front page of Cape Town Luxury Villas and Cape Villas is package that can not be equalled by any other company. Indeed if you combined any other two companies, they would not compare.
*Note, once the first eight exclusive collection slots are taken, villa owners must choose to specialize on one of the two websites.
Cape Town Luxury Villas and Cape Villas are both members of the Villa Secrets Network.
Launching soon the website www.VillaSecrets.com will champion the villas from the exclusive collections from its members. All homepage positions on www.CapeTown.VillaSecrets.com will be prioritized by its members.
In time Villa Secrets will become very prestigious and powerful, a true champion of what a villas company should be and a hallmark for luxury.
The villa secrets Network has an economic business model which can afford a very progressive advertising strategy. One quarter of all revenue, is allocated to advertising or the support of systems that assist marketing.
As a result, Cape Town Luxury Villas will expand its on line advertising reach to fight for the number one positions for hundreds of extra keywords on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn, bringing Cape Town Luxury Villas to the front page for thousands of searches on different search engines and social media websites.
In conjunction with affiliate marketing to the travel industry, we will also create additional leads and exposure via a set of free to advertise and low commission based websites such as www.privateproperty.co.za and FlipKey by Trip Advisor.
Photography is a passion at Cape Town Luxury Villas, our founder, Nick Ray Ball having a collage diploma and much experience in the subject. Its amazing how few people bother or know how to get the right photographs, but have no fear our photographers have the right experience.
In addition to an initial photo shoot of the house in the daylight and a t sunset, we have friendly deals with local fashion photographers, who in down days will photograph test shots, and model portfolios in the villas in exchange for re-photographing the villa and allowing us photos with the models to use as lifestyle shots.
Over time building to a large portfolio of hundreds of quality photographs painting the dream.
In 2008 Nick Ray Ball art directed and produced the Cape Villas coffee table book, of which 30,000 copies were distributed to Condé Nast Traveller subscribers. The book was so successful that one single booking paid for half the cost and in addition BULGARI jewelers, arguably the wolds most exclusive brand, certainly the most expensive called up our offices to say "Wow, we did not know you had such luxuries in Africa" asking to sponsor the next edition.
At the time it was decided that the next edition would cover more than Cape Town, and hence the Villa Secrets network is expanding internationality and will bring out its own quality magazine in 2015. Only Exclusive Collection villas will feature.
In addition for Jet Set Villas will be the Experience Africa oversized Art book with plinth and Film, due 2015-2016. For villas priced in excess of R60,000,000 inclusion within that book could well significant value to your home, at it is a sign of the very best Africa has to offer.
At any time, on your laptop, tablet or cell phone, view all your bookings and get details of same, simply and easily.
Use the calender app, to instantly block out times you or you may wish fiends and family may wish to visit your villa. Or block of times for maintenance or spring cleaning. Your bookings will enter the system as "Owner Bookings."
Canceling an "Owner Booking" is a simple click of a button and your villas back in the calender available to book again.
We are developing a revolutionary pricing tool, where you enter just one price, and six different pricing states are created, which can be adjusted as a percentage. This tool follows the holidays and weekends and changes peak time prices accordingly, year on year.
At Cape Town Luxury Villas we offer "Total Transparency"
The financial suite, currently under development shows all payments, as and when they happen, fed into the system strait from the bank via spreadsheet, thus there is no margin for error.
You will see payments to yourself past and up coming, you will see the payments to us from clients and all payments that transpire from the payment, from affiliate partner commissions to property management payments.
Also available on line will be your villa report, showing a summary of bookings past, present and future, a financial statements and via our Google Analytics API, you can see how many people have visited your web pages and websites each month.
Soon Villa Secrets will sell properties though there network, it’s well known within the industry that the best way to sell luxury proprieties is to take the longer term, “wait for love buy” approach, and with Villa Secrets “For Sale” we specialize in such a sale.
In this case, the individualized website, magazine placements, portfolios of pictures from fashion shoots and placement within the Experience Africa Art book and Film all play to the crowd, bombarding guests and visitors with great looking imagery.
In addition, the villa hotel concept, can only increase the opportunities and through the Villa Secrets network when a buyer comes on the scene, the property can be mentioned as a “off the books, invitation only” opportunity.
In addition, for a more direct approach, Villa Secrets is actively looking for whom we consider the very best in high-end property sales and will be releasing more information in June 2014.
* Points represented with a * are available on request, if applicable
