We can add your property to this website for just £140
* New Page Fee: £140 in UK Sterling, or 210 Euros.  

• Your page will be here in the Cottageguide for 12 months.
• Your page will be fully referenced from the relevant index, map sections, county directories etc within this website.
• Excellent value for 365 days of advertising

* £140 is an all-inclusive fee which covers your 12 month Cottage Guide Membership Subscription, together with the fees for setting up your new page in this website - and this also includes the features described below.

What do I get?   
 

• Included on your page are four photographs and up to 300 words of text to describe your property. This 300 words is in addition to your contact details and the 'summary information' stated in the top section of each page.
• You can add additional photos at £10 each if required (or 15 Euros).
• During your 12 months you can have 3 FREE updates to your page.
• If appropriate (see notes below), on your page you can have one link to your own website, and your e-mail link, as well as your contact phone numbers, fax, mobile etc.
• The price also includes your own 'Noticeboard' page which is separate to your main page (just described), and which can be updated by you online whenever you like using your own password. This can be useful for special offers, further information about your property etc. You're in control!
• Also included is a 52 week calendar and prices chart which offers a useful and convenient way for you to display this information clearly to the site visitor.
• Also included are visitor statistics so you can see how many people are visiting your page, at what times etc. These are customised to show you just the results for your own page, and though similar in function to the Visitor Logs shown for the whole site, they contain far more detail.
• Also included is a Late Availability facility, and this allows you to enter your availability situation covering a period of the next 6 weeks (the calendar is scrolled forward each week so that it always shows the next 6 weeks). When you submit this information it is held in a searchable database so that site visitors can find you more easily if they are hunting for a week in the near future (they do this using the Quicksearch - in the menu above).

NB. Website links:
We offer owners one link to their own stand-alone web page (or website) but not to adverts or pages which are considered inappropriate or which are part of other organisations' websites, eg members of county directories, webrings etc. In fairness to other members of the Cottageguide we can not offer links to the kind of pages which offer an exit route by way of links to tourist boards, accommodation directories, or to other properties not owned by you. We do not offer links to any website which is not completely owned and controlled by you, nor to 3rd party availability/reservation sites. Links to owner websites work in a standard way throughout this site, and will open the owner's website within a frameset. Such website links are provided on an 'as is' basis and cannot be adapted or changed to suit individual requirements.

NB. Email links:
The purpose of this guide is to benefit individual cottage owners who handle their own bookings direct with holidaymakers. We therefore do not offer email links to booking agencies (nor agency phone numbers, names, contact addresses etc).

• We include these Visitor Logs because people keep asking how many 'hits' we get.
• 'Hits' is a misunderstood term which does not tell you very much at all - and unfortunately many web sites quote 'Hit' numbers hoping that you'll think a hit equals a visitor. A 'Hit' does not equal a 'Visitor'.
• We therefore prefer to show visitor numbers - ie the number of unique individuals making use of this website.
• Note: Thirty or forty thousand people will be visiting the Cottage Guide during a typical week, and though many would say that's impressive (or interesting), we would much prefer you to look at what our self catering owners are saying about the response they receive from this web site:

Testimonials

• Owners sometimes ask us what sort of response level they can expect if they join this website. To be fair, the enquiry levels you receive will depend upon what exactly you are offering - where you are located, the facilities offered, the prices you are charging etc.
• Your enquiry level may depend partly upon the care you have put into describing your property, and how enticing your photographs. A photograph taken on a grey day in the middle of winter may not be the best way to promote your property.
• Your success rate will undoubtedly depend on the speed, manner and tone with which you answer your enquirers (some of whom may have emailed the same enquiry to many different owners).

Frequently Asked Questions?

FAQs

• If you have a question but can not find an answer under one of our FAQs, please feel free to email to questions@cottageguide.co.uk

What do I do now?

Order Form

This is the Order Form which can be printed from your browser. If your printer's having a bad day, we'll gladly post one to you.

Complete the details requested on the form and return to us together with the following:

• A cheque in the appropriate amount payable to:
  ASH MACKENZIE PUBLISHING LTD
  (we send receipted invoice as soon as your new page is complete).
• Your photos and description text should be emailed or sent on disk, as detailed on the Order Form.

So I send you all the above, and then what happens?

• Within 14 days of receiving all your items we will have created your page and added it to this website.
• We send you a colour printout of your page (this is for your reference and to make it easier if any complex adjustments need to be made).
• We also include a receipted invoice for the amount you have paid.
• When you have had a look at your page please let us know any changes or corrections necessary (an email is fine), and we can carry those out within a few days.

If you have any questions please ask Adrian Bennet

E-mail: mail@cottageguide.co.uk

Telephone Helpline: 018907 61766
Telephone hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 2pm.
(not Bank Holidays, Public Holidays, the period between Christmas and New Year etc).

Fax: 08700 940504 (National rate)

Address:

Ash Mackenzie Publishing Ltd
The Loaning
Reston
Eyemouth
Berwickshire
TD14 5LD

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