Last week, Sell My Timeshare NOW released its 2010 HOT 100 List, and we want to make sure you didn’t miss it. This free, downloadable report gives you valuable insight into which timeshare resales and timeshare rentals people are genuinely interested in buying or renting.

Covering the “hottest” 100 timeshares, this report ranks from number one to number one hundred, the timeshares that are advertised and marketed on the websites for Sell My Timeshare NOW, and that receive the largest number of offers to buy or rent in 2009. When you read the report, you are no longer relying on information from a timeshare sales company or timeshare developer to help you evaluate the popularity and resale demand for a resort, you are able to assess for yourself recent consumer buying patterns in timeshares.

The Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List is import to you because:

• As a prospective timeshare buyer, you get an authentic sense of which timeshare resorts others have picked as their favorites.
• As a timeshare owner you can gage demand for your timeshare should you want to use it as a timeshare rental or timeshare resale.
• As an interested timeshare renter, you can determine whether to look for rentals at the most popular destinations, or to consider renting timeshare at a resort where demand is lower.

Click here to download for the 2010 Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List.

When you see the executive team at Sell My Timeshare NOW don chef’s aprons, you know we have to be cooking up big things. Here’s a photo from our “Ice Cream Social” this week, held at our Dover, NH headquarters following our Sell My Timeshare NOW companywide update.

Left to right, wearing “custom designer aprons” you’ll find:

Leslie Martin, Vice President Operations; Jacqueline Russ, Chief Financial Officer; Jerome Bocquet, Vice President Timeshare Broker Services; Jason Tremblay, CEO; Jay Bade, Vice President Business Development; and Chris Ownby, Chief Technology Officer.

This is a great photo; you can tell it captures the fun and smiles that are so much a part of working at Sell My Timeshare NOW. And dressed in white, it’s a good reminder that we are the ‘timeshare good guys’ even if we are wearing white aprons instead of white hats.

And in addition to ice cream sundaes, we did talk about all the things that are moving and shaking around here. After sharing with the Sell My Timeshare NOW team more information about the growth funding we received from our partner, Edison Venture Fund (Sell My Timeshare NOW Receives Growth Funding-Exciting Things on the Way) we also looked at our company’s vision for the future—both short-term and long-term.

We’ve got big plans for growth in our Orlando Sell My Timeshare NOW office, as well as other exciting areas of expansion we’ll be announcing in the future.

Sell My Timeshare NOW has announced new business expansion being funded by $1.6 million in growth funding from partner Edison Venture Fund and existing investment partners. The company is moving forward with some exciting plans that include expansion of marketing and sales, new services, and enhanced customer support services. What was very, very good in timeshare resales and timeshare rental is about to be even better.

With over 2 million page views monthly, the websites for Sell My Timeshare NOW deliver 61,000 offers valued at $338 million for timeshare resales and 86,000 offers valued at $88 million for timeshare rentals to timeshare owners and developers.

Michael Kopelman, Principal of the Edison Venture Fund, hints at some of Sell My Timeshare NOW’s expansion plans, when he says, “The company is currently in negotiations with many of the timeshare industry’s most prominent brands.”
Sell My Timeshare NOW is appreciative of the strategic counsel and commitment of its investors and deeply appreciative of the ongoing customer support that continues to make this company one of the best places possible to buy, rent, or sell timeshare on the secondary market.

Follow this link to read the media release in entirety: Timeshare Resale Leader, Sell My Timeshare NOW, Receives Growth Funding of $1.6 Million

Timeshare Broker Services is a division of Sell My Timeshare NOW, where Vice President Jerome Bocquet provides experience and leadership in a timeshare broker company dedicated to honest business practices and integrity.

Jerome Bocquet’s background is both international and extensive, having studied and worked in Paris, France, and run companies in Santiago, Chili and Lima, Peru. His hotel and timeshare industry executive experience includes depth and breadth, as past Director of Sales and Marketing for Holiday Inn, Paris; Sales Director with Hilton Grand Vacations Club in Orlando; Real Estate Agent GMAC Real Estate Timeshare Division, Orlando; and Sales Executive with Marriott Vacation Club, Orlando.

Jerome Bocquet is a tremendous asset to Timeshare Broker Services and the team at Sell My Timeshare NOW, skilled in timeshare sales and hospitality sales; key account management; new business development; consultative solution sales; contract negotiations; networking and relationship building; and entrepreneurship.

Jerome and his wife are the parents of a son, age 13, and 10-year-old twin daughters.

Not only is the staff at Sell My Timeshare NOW and our affiliated company, Timeshare Broker Services outstanding in the professional service they provide in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, but they are some pretty interesting individuals, as well.

Take Jerome Bocquet, for example, Vice President of Sales for Timeshare Broker Services. Jerome was born in Lima, Peru to French parents. He lived eleven years in Latin America, and then moved to France. He holds an Account degree from IPF in Paris, a degree in Business Administration in Hotels from the EPCV in Paris and he served military duty in RPIMP.

More about Jerome Bocquet of Timeshare Broker Services

Fluent in French, Spanish, and English, Jerome Bocquet played rugby in France for 15 years, loves scuba diving and playing chess. A lifelong travel lover himself, Jerome has been in over 40 countries around the globe. Today, he and his family make their home in New Hampshire, where Jerome Bocquet provides visionary leadership for Timeshare Broker Services, a partner company of Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Jerome says one of his most important focuses at Timeshare Broker Services is to build and maintain a loyal base of timeshare customers, clients, and industry partners. We think Jerome Bocquet of Timeshare Broker Services is accomplishing that goal quite well and are we are extremely proud that he is part of our partnership team at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

We didn’t really know what to anticipate.

After all, most of our clients and potential clients at Sell My Timeshare NOW —some 2 million plus each month who come to our website — are looking for great deals on vacation ownership and vacation rentals or they are timeshare owners looking to sell or rent timeshare they no longer use. They come to us because they want to take advantage of by-owner ads on Sell My Timeshare NOW’s high-visibility websites but prefer to manage their timeshare sale or timeshare rental themselves.

Some timeshare owners need or prefer turnkey service for their timeshare sales transactions. For this reason, we added timeshare broker services and licensed real estate agents to provide sellers who go this route, the comprehensive services they seek.

We also recognized that if some people preferred turnkey services for selling timeshare, there might be timeshare owners who wanted turnkey services for using their timeshare as a rental, too. With this in mind, late in 2007 we launched Rental Assist. In 2008, it was a small effort and it wasn’t really until 2009 that the program began to get its legs and take off.

A Highly Successful Timeshare Rental Solution

Sell My Timeshare NOW is proud to report that the brokerage team of trained professionals at Rental Assist completed $2.6 million in timeshare rentals in 2009. Lucas Lanigan, Rental Sales Director, says, “With Rental Assist, our team of experienced timeshare real estate professionals match timeshare owners with timeshare renters, handling every detail of the process—turnkey service for the timeshare owner. In 2009, 1,450 timeshare owners rented their timeshare through this program for an average weekly rental rate of $1,808, which is more than triple the average owner’s maintenance fee.”

Lucas goes on to explain, “1,450 families enjoyed timeshare rental vacations last year because our Rental Assist team was able to get them the destination and price they wanted for their vacation during the dates that matched their schedule. Personalized service for the timeshare renter and worry-free, comprehensive service for the timeshare owner, and we are just getting started. In 2010, we expect to see timeshare Rental Assist soar, as timeshare owners recognize its value.”

The results of Rental Assist are very exciting. Imagine getting a weekly rental rate of $1,808 for your timeshare. This is easily more than enough to pay most owners’ annual fees for maintenance and to even let them put some money in their pocket.

Click this link to read Sell My Timeshare NOW’s most recent timeshare media release about our exciting results at Rental Assist. And contact our timeshare rental specialists to learn how you can take advantage of this new and exciting comprehensive timeshare rental service.

Sometimes at Sell My Timeshare NOW and The Timeshare Authority, we talk too much about what we do, and what we can do for you, and we forget to tell you who we are. Over the next few months, I am going to change that, telling you about some of the very special people who work extremely hard, every day, to make it easier for you to buy, rent, or sell timeshare.

And the beautiful smiling face, and warm personality of Angela Cantanzaro, Customer Care Manager for Sell My Timeshare NOW, seems like a great place to start. Here is Angela’s story, in her own words:

The Christmas tree is down (or will be soon), a new year beckons, and many people start to think about giving their homes or offices a facelift and a fresher look. Will the same thing be happening at timeshare and vacation ownership resorts that are part of the Interval International network of timeshare exchange?

Robb & Stucky Resorts, a division of the Ft. Myers, Florida-based Robb & Stucky Interiors, has a new alliance with Interval International, making its turnkey design services and one-stop shopping available to Interval International member timeshare resorts.

David Gilbert, Interval International’s executive vice preside of resort sales and marketing says, “The alliance with Robb & Stucky will give our developer clients and homeowners associations access to an exceptional level of service and value.”

What’s the Real Advantage to Timeshare Resort Developers and Timeshare HOA’s?

Co-branded alliances can work in many ways, but in the case of Interval International timeshare exchange and Robb & Stucky Resorts, the benefits look something like this:

Timeshare developers and HOA’s benefit because …

• Dealing with a respected furniture vendor, that offers a quality line, adds instant upgrade appeal when used in timeshare units, timeshare condos, and common areas of timeshare resorts.
• Robb & Stucky is a start-to-finish company, meaning that it manufactures, warehouses, delivers and installs all of its own products. The process of decorating or re-decorating timeshare resort properties is streamlined and simplified because the timeshare or Home Owners Association can deal with one vendor that offers a cohesive plan, décor themes with interchangeable parts, and the simplicity of one-stop shopping.

The furniture manufacturer benefits because its products are exposed to the many people who own timeshare or rent timeshare and make use of the timeshare resort each year. Not only is this a good market for the company’s residential line of furnishings, but as has already been demonstrated, consumers frequently want to add to their homes the same products they enjoyed during luxury resort vacations. (Think of the number of hotels that now retail their mattresses, bed sets, and toiletries to the public, purely in a response to consumer demand for these products.)

This alliance seems to be a win-win for the brands involved, meaning that it should also turn out to be a good thing for the timeshare owners and their guests who visit Interval International timeshare exchange resorts.

It’s Christmas Eve. This traditional holiday may or may not be one you celebrate and you may be with the ones you love or far away from home. But no matter where you are or what you believe, we hope you are able to capture at least a little of the childlike joy that is so integral to the real meaning of Christmas.

All of us at Sell My Timeshare NOW hope you can, for at least today, set aside your worries, your challenges, and those pressing matters that can so easily zap your spirit and drain your strength.

• If you can find a way to make someone else’s life a little brighter,
• To reflect upon your blessings, and see the good that overshadows the bad,
• To lift up your chin with optimism for tomorrow,
• And to throw back your laugh like you did as a child…
• Then you will have found the very truest meaning of Christmas Eve.

Warmest wishes to you and your family, from our hearts to yours, at their very special time.

Jason Tremblay and All of Us at Sell My Timeshare NOW and The Timeshare Authority

When you are ready to sell your timeshare, you don’t want to become involved in a process that slows you down or leaves you in limbo. Whether you are trying to eliminate the cost of annual timeshare fees, have found that you no longer use and enjoy your timeshare, or you are ready to buy a new and different timeshare, you want to be able to sell timeshare in an efficient, safe, and uncomplicated way.

Many factors enter into timeshare sales and timeshare resales. The desirability of the timeshare interval you own, the appeal and amenities of the resort, and even the size of the timeshare unit all factor into how easy it will be to sell your timeshare. Above all other aspects, however, here are the two most important, top critical factors in selling your timeshare: price and visibility.

You must price your timeshare to sell. You must price it competitively so that people have a reason to buy your timeshare instead of buying a better priced timeshare at the same resort or a resort with similar amenities. No, it is not necessary to give your timeshare away. But if your timeshare resale is priced higher than others on the resale market, you could be left holding on to for a long time, and that is just common sense.

The second critical factor in selling timeshare is that you must advertise it in a global marketplace of interested timeshare buyers. Not a neighborhood market; not a bulletin board at the grocery store; not a webpage you put up yourself or even your average timeshare resale website—why? Because traffic is the key. Lots and lots of people who are interested in buying timeshare, renting timeshare, or becoming timeshare owners. Worldwide traffic, from consumers in all parts of the globe.

Now you’re talking. Pay attention to these two critical factors and the opportunity to sell your timeshare improves considerably.

Follow this link if you are interested in receiving a free Timeshare Valuation Report.