Cancuntour.app
Vacation rental property owners get more money.
We have been adding customers every week, and now we have over 450 hotel/vacation rental property rooms using our apps.
We closed a good deal for the guests with Hertz, it's a 30% discount on the rental price.
With this partnership, Hertz gets a foot in the door with all vacation property rentals in Cancun and Riviera Maya (over 20,000 rooms) and our customers have another product to offer to their guests in order to provide exceptional value in their vacations.
So yesterday I had my first cancellation from a customer. She was never very convinced of using the app for her Airbnb, and after less than 1 month, she decided to cancel.
Checking the stats, she had less than 10 users in those 15-20 days.
I need to keep focusing on growing (that's why I launched the blog https://cancuntour.app/blog ) but also in delivering a lot more value to the customer and to the end-user.
I noticed a lot of engagement from the newsletter, but low conversions. Do people don't like to fill up the airtable form? I added the collect.chat widget, to user a conversation form, hoping it will get more engagement and customers will fill out the form easier this way.
We'll see.
So, now with 5 customers, it's SEO time!
I searched and looked at many options for the blog. I tried Ghost, Jekyll, Gatsby, Bloggi.co, and more... However, I felt the most comfortable with good, ol' WordPress.
I've made dozens on sites in WP, and actually I just wanted something simple, friendly and with good SEO tools, while being hosted in my own site and free.
What's better than WP? Nothing!
Without further ado, this is the first post (in spanish, since I'm targeting the Mexican market ATM:
https://cancuntour.app/blog/
A lot of customers were asking for a bilingual version of the app, since they have mostly spanish and english speaking guests in their vacation rental properties.
Today, I launched the bilingual version of the app (still using Glide!). I had a very interesting conversation with @iorna from Brazil regarding multi-lingual options using Glide, and he helpfully guided me to make this happen.
I hope that with this nice add-on, we'll get several more customers and end the month with 4-5 new apps sold!
You can check out the app at app.cancuntour.app
Cheers!!
So, last week there was a trade show for vacation property rental owners in Cancun, and I participated in it. Even though there are several hospitality apps and solutions for guests, none are personalized for each home.
I followed up with the must interested leads, and a week later we already have 3 apps sold!
1 of them is the cheap version @ 25/month, and 2 of them are the pro version @ 85/month.
It's a fantastic feeling! I hope I can close around 10-15 more apps before Christmas, and end the year with 500 MRR!
#lowcode #nocode #boostrapped
Finally launched the app.
bespokeyucatan.glideapp.io, and in an hour it will be available as well in app.cancuntour.app (as soon as the fine folks from @Glide set it up)
This week we have in Cancun a Vacation Rental Property trade show with companies like Expedia, AirBnB, Trip Advisor and many others attending. The trade show is catered for the owners and hosts of the 20k+ vacation rental properties available in the state.
We have a stand and our goal is to get 50 signed customers.
We have our marketing material ready, so wish us luck!
Today we're pre-launching our website. We ended up choosing a different name, since we want to be SEO-closer to our target. We ended up choosing cancunTour.app .
Since we'll be providing a webApp, we thought the .APP domain was consistent with our target, and we got free SSL for a year with the purchase of the domain.
We now need to revise copy, clean up the images and do the front end for customer onboarding.
Please take a look at our website and let us know what you think!
We need a couple more integrations with service partners, we're looking to do a soft launch in sept and an official launch during October. Our idea is to get 250 AirBNB hosts using/promoting the app by the end of the year. Still figuring out the price that we will be able to charge per host/property.
check out the app and let me know what you think!
https://go.glideapps.com/play/ygtbX1viuz0lJ822Pmhu
I came up with an interesting idea. Hotelier in Cancun and Riviera Maya moan every day they're losing the game vs uber and other property rental platforms. I've stayed at Airbnb's, and the experience is quite cold and you're on your own. What if your superhost or host had a bunch of tourist activities, fairly priced at the most competitive prices? What if you can eliminate the hassle of negotiating price of touring Chichen Itza, renting a yatch or swimming with dolphins with a street agent, and still get a much better price?
That's what I'm developing, an app where property rental hosts make some extra money, and deliver a LOT of value to the end customer, by providing a web-app with the house rules, recommended activities, local eats, tourist-free amazing places and more.
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