Timeshare Brokers

Let’s dispel the notion that it is impossible to resell timeshare. In 2009, the websites for Sell My Timeshare NOW generated 61,743 offers to buy timeshare resales and 85,949 offers to rent timeshares. That’s a lot of activity in any market, but especially during a time when consumers are evaluating expenditures more carefully than ever.

Yet even with the outstanding global visibility of the Sell My Timeshare NOW websites, there is still no one-size-fits-all option when it comes to selling timeshare. We’ve always offered timeshare owners the option to sell timeshare, advertising it by-owner, on our well-positioned websites. (That means websites that show up in all the search results, no matter which timeshare or timeshare-related words you may type into your computer.)

However, not everyone is comfortable with or has the time to handle their timeshare sale themselves, connecting with prospective buyers, negotiating the contract, and contacting the timeshare resort. That’s why it is important for us to bring our timeshare broker services, (which we have offered for years) into a more prominent role in our discussions with owners.

Timeshare Resale: You Have Choices

If you choose to sell your timeshare by advertising it on the Sell My Timeshare NOW website as a by-owner resale you pay $599 in a one-time fee and your timeshare ad is marketed until it sells. If your timeshare sells via some other outlet first, we refund the money you paid to advertise it with us.

But if you want a broker managed timeshare sale, you can turn the entire process over to a licensed timeshare broker who is part of Timeshare Broker Services. You timeshare broker will take care of everything—start to finish. For this ‘turn-key’ service, you will pay nothing up front, and then either a 15 percent commission or $2,000 (whichever is greater) when the sale of the timeshare closes.

Yes, you really can resell timeshare and now, you have even more choices about how you do it.

Read our latest media release to learn more: Timeshare Resales Leader Steps Up to Expand Timeshare Owner Options

Brooke Doucha, senior manager of corporate communications at Orange Lake Resorts offered some very sound insights in an article that appeared last week in RCI Ventures (Alert! Alert! Positive timeshare positioning is just 5 steps away.)

Like all search engine optimization-savvy businesses, Holiday Inn Vacations monitors Google Alerts, to stay current on what is being said and written about their resorts and other aspects of timeshares. Brooke wisely points out that many of the negative comments about timeshares that appear in the media are based on perceptions, while comments based on experience with timeshares are generally positive. In other words, some of the criticism you hear of timeshare has more to do with perception than with reality. Timeshares are not the right vacation choice for everyone, yet year after year, industry research validates that roughly 86 percent of timeshare owners are highly satisfied with vacation ownership.

In the end, no matter what the cause, everyone in the timeshare industry—whether they are timeshare sellers, developers, management companies, marketing companies, timeshare brokers, timeshare resales, or timeshare rental companies—shares the responsibility for changing any poor image that people may have about timeshares. And the only way to do this is to conduct business in ways that are transparent and above reproach and then to keep sharing that message in every possible way.

As Brooke points out, listing five ways that the timeshare industry can foster positive impressions, “we can make a difference and overcome these impressions.” Be sure you read her article at www.RCIVentures.com

This week, Sell My Timeshare NOW announces that it has become the Authorized Reseller for The Crane Resort in Barbados. This is a great development, expanding timeshare resales opportunities for timeshare owners at The Crane Resort and market presence in the Caribbean for Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Kim Goddard, sales director at The Crane Resort explains, “We are excited to enhance our resale program by partnering with Vacation Property Solutions, the Resort Services Division of SellMyTimeshareNOW.com and Timeshare Broker Services, the company’s brokerage organization, to best represent the weeks that The Crane owners may desire to sell. SellMyTimeshareNOW.com is the only authorized resale company for The Crane Resort.”

The Caribbean Timeshare and Hotel Known as the First Resort

The Crane Resort is a very special place with spectacular ocean views and a pink shell beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1887, The Crane Resort is often described as the Caribbean’s “first resort”. Although fully updated, The Crane retains the original styling that is so much a part of its charm and elegance.

As Jay Bade, RRP (an ARDA recognized Registered Resort Professional) and VP of Business Development for SellMyTimeshareNOW.com says, “Although The Crane Resort has a successful resale program in place, affiliating with Sell My Timeshare NOW increases visibility for The Crane Resort resales, driving traffic and additional buyers through both www.sellmytimesharenow.com and www.thecrane.com. Sell My Timeshare NOW is thrilled to be recognized as an authorized reseller for The Crane Resort’s active resales program and to represent current owners at the resort when they want to sell vacation ownership and fractional weeks.”

Click here to read the full media release: Sell My Timeshare NOW Named as Authorized Reseller for Luxury Barbados Resort

Business today recognizes that it is no longer enough to attract consumers and customers to your stores and websites. Instead, to serve people in the way they want to be served, you must actually go to the places where consumers already are. And in many cases, those places include Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and a host of other social media platforms.

With this objective in mind, always seeking to be the most consumer-friendly, service oriented company in timeshare resales, timeshare rentals, and timeshare brokerage, Sell My Timeshare NOW is working to develop our face and our place in the world of social media. In order to offer the most readily available, easy-to-access inventory of timeshares on the secondary market, we want to be “found” wherever consumers are looking.

Here are a few of the places to look for information and updates from Sell My Timeshare NOW:

• Our Twitter accounts: @JasonTremblay_ and @VacationHotDeal
• You will find us growing our presence on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/in/ceosellmytimesharenow and SellMyTimeshareNOW, LLC
• Look for downloadable reports on Scribed www.scribd.com/SellMyTimeshare

But this is only the beginning. We are growing, reaching out, and connecting. Please check out these sites above, but also come back to them often to watch us grow and improve.