Advertising Your Properties

• On our website, we have a competition ‘Win a week’s free stay in Nerja, Costa del Sol’ – This is proving to be very popular with our viewers and is helping to bring more enquiries to our property owners/agents
• From January, we will be offering another competition, offering a 'week's free stay in Costa de la Luz'
• Regular newspaper and media press releases
• www.idealspain.com - We have a Logo link within 'Buying property in Spain' and 'Holiday Rentals - Mainland Spain' - 160,000 unique visitors a month. www.spanishholidayguide.com We have fantastic display and link advertising on this guide, including some property listings for special deals that we can utilize.
• You only need to add your properties to our site, and we do the rest, including upload of all properties onto 2 major web directories:
• www.kyero.com – Our entire database is advertised on this site, property by property, giving you enhanced, direct enquiries – Very popular Web Directory
• www.selfcateringbreaks.com - Our entire database is advertised on this site, property by property, giving you enhanced, direct enquiries – Very popular Web Directory
• We are, at present, testing the services and enquiry/booking levels of 7 other web directories (applicable to Gecko's FULL MARKETING PACKAGE ONLY), so that we can pass only the best services on to you, the advertiser. At present, Owner's will receive a FREE property listing on www.holiday-rentals.uk.com within the full marketing package
• We were finalists in the Southend District, Essex Business Awards for two categories ‘E-Commerce’ and ‘Business to Business’
• Spain Magazine - monthly glossy, sold mainly in Sainsburys and WH Smith for Spain lovers, which has publication of 40,000 copies per month - £10K of which are distributed on Monarch airlines as the in flight magazine to Spanish destinations. In the October issue, which comes out at the beginning of September, we have a second colour advert in there promoting The Canaries for Sales and Holiday properties (they are doing a special on the Canaries that month)
• Advertisement throughout 2005 inside the Daltons Weekly pubilication 'Ideal Holidays 2005' This has a 100,000 print run and will be distributed around major supermarkets, in Daltons weekly and from Dalton's stand in 8 high profile holiday exhibitions, including Viva Espana in Olympia, London
• Everything Spain - We have a brochure panel in the holiday section - distribution of 20,000 copies a month
• Window Advertising to attract local browsers
• Regular networking, newspaper PR editorials and 'getting out there'
• Our web experts are also doing a very good job of optimising our site to be further up the listings for the major search engines
• http://www.menorca-net.co.uk/geckogetaways Popular forum and informational website about Menorca
• http://www.thetravelbrand.com/gecko.htm ‘The Travel Brand’ - All round holiday booking website, incorporating our entire portfolio of properties

• Today's Golfer (UK's biggest selling Golf magazine) - we have separate advertising in there for Sales and Rental properties - 100,000 readers
• A4 flyer drops
• Friday Ad's - We cover a large area, nationally, with this magazine - up to 64 regions of the UK.
• Sponsored links with Google - these are managed on a daily basis by our web development company. They use key words which relate to the regional and type of content on our website, more than the generic links. i.e. 'holiday apartment in mallorca'
• Daltons Weekly publication advertising on a fairly regular basis
• Living Spain Magazine - a bi-monthly glossy, sold Nationally in WH Smith and newsagents - we have advertising in there for Holiday and Sales properties.
• Viva Espana Magazine – the magazine of the exhibitions! Monthly publication all about Spain
• ‘Google Adwords’ – We utilise these sponsored links, especially for special campaigns
• Prime magazine - New publication, aimed at the over 50’s distributed free all over Essex