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Video Marketing: Rent It Today Launches its YouTube Channel

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YouTube LogoBelieve it or not, YouTube has become the number two search engine onThe World Wide Web. According to comScore in November 2009, 146 million Americans watched videos online, streaming a total of 12.6 billion video clips.  Those are some big numbers which will certainly continue to rise, as gadgets like iphones wind up in the pockets of just about everyone.  People are searching YouTube for anything and everything.  If you are looking for the latest news clip or information on a random topic odds are you can find the broadcast or a short video about it.  From rental property tours and company profiles, to the endless “how to” videos including topics like food recipes and “how to tie a fishing knot”,  you can search and watch it on YouTube.  With this in mind and plans in the works for Rent It Today to launch its video marketing services, we thought it was a good time to officially introduce Rent It Today’s YouTube Channel.

Here are a couple of nice videos, produced by Roger Akers, explaining Rent It Today’s philosophy and background that we used to launch the Rent It Today YouTube Channel:

Why Choose Rent It Today?

How We Got Started.

In 2010 Rent It Today will start producing informative videos featuring our rental categories, along with entertaining and funny videos intended on creating “viral” content to help brand our name.  In addition several video marketing services will become available to individuals and companies that wish to create video content to market their rental inventory.

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Seaside Linen & Rental Company

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With the increase in baggage fees at the airport, shortage of space in the car or just the added headache of traveling with more then you need to, why not leave those extra items at home and instead travel a little lighter with just your personal items. Sounds good doesn’t it?

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That’s where Seaside Linen & Rental Company steps in to help you out. In 2001 Seaside Linen began as a supplier of high quality linens and luxurious towels for the privately owned vacation and rental properties in Southeastern North Carolina. Since that time Seaside Linen has developed into Seaside Linen & Rental Company.

Today Seaside Linen & Rental Company is a full service supplier of not only bed and bath linens but also baby and beach equipment rentals. The steady pursuit of quality products and service has made them an industry leader in Southeastern North Carolina. In a given week during the summer more than 2500 people sleep on their sheets and use their towels, their Jamis Beach Cruisers can be seen up and down the beach strip, and many parents are happier and able to enjoy their vacation knowing their baby is safe and sound sleeping in the crib they rented from Seaside. Seaside Linen is the exclusive supplier of linen services for 10 of the leading real estate management companies in Southeastern North Carolina, with a service area stretching from Ft. Fisher, NC to Atlantic Beach, NC. The convenience of having your baby and beach items waiting for you to arrive and the finding your beds made and your towels laid out at your vacation cottage makes your travel more relaxing and worry free. When you are ready to go home just leave everything behind where you found it when you arrived and Seaside Linen & Rental Company will pick everything up for you—how simple is that?

For more information you can call them toll free 1-866-615-4636, visit their site directly or check out their listings on Rent It Today.

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Customer Spotlight: JD HOMES in the Atlanta Metro Area

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We continue our series called “Customer Spotlight” in which we take random businesses in our network and ‘put them on a pedestal’ for a bit.  You’ll see each of our categories covered over the course of the series so please enjoy!

Get ready for a dose of some “Southern Hospitality”! Today we shine the spotlight on JD HOMES in Georgia.

House for Rent in Atlanta, Georgia

 

JD Homes is a leasing & property management company in the Atlanta Metro Area in Georgia.  Founded in 2002, they have a wide-array of residential Atlanta homes, condos, and apartments available for rent. JD Homes, understands the most important quality a residential property management company can offer its clients is quality customer service.

If you are looking for an Atlanta house for rent then contacting a property management company in the area is a must. JD Homes specializes in home rentals and residential rental property management in the Atlanta, Georgia, including: Atlanta, Covington, Alpharetta, Austell, Avondale Estates, Chamblee, Clarkston, College Park, Conley, Conyers, Cumming, Dacula, Decatur, Douglasville, Duluth, East Point, Ellenwood, Fairburn, Fayetteville, Forest Park, Grayson, Hampton, Hapeville, Jackson, Jonesboro, Lawrenceville, Lithonia, Locust Grove, Loganville, Macon, Marietta, McDonough, Morrow, Norcross, Powder Spring, Rex, Riverdale, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Snellville, Stockbridge, Stone Mountain, Tucker, Union City, Waleska, Winder, Winston and all of the Greater Atlanta Metro Area in Georgia.

Whether you want acozy, convenient 2 bedroom apartment or a luxurious 5 bedroom house in Ellenwood, you’ll find them all at JD Homes.

For more information about renting a house or property management services you can visit their site or check out some of theirAtlanta home rentals on Rent It Today. Additionally you can view every house for rent in Atlanta, GA Metropolitan area at RentItToday.com.

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Going to Utah Soon? You Should.

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The winter months are slowly approaching and we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to highlight a ski vacation resort area and tourism juggernaut:

Utah Vacation Rentals and Travel Resources

Utah is famous for it’s year-round activities and attractions.  They have 5 national parks, 6 national forests, and 2 national recreation areas.  Utah is extremely well known for its winter activities.  Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics where it has seen markedly increased tourism because of it.

Want to plan a vacation to Utah? Rent It Today can certainly help.

Let’s focus on Salt Lake City and the surrounding areas.

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Since you need a place to stay while you’re out there, you should check out some affordable vacation home rentals.  If you want to mingle with the locals and have easy access to the night-life, check out some vacation homes in the Salt Lake City metro area. As the commercial says: Want To Get Away? Consider the mountainous seclusion of Park City vacation rentals, giving you easy access to the multitude of ski slopes surrounding you.

Renting makes it affordable to completely optimize your entire vacation.  Obviously, you’re not going to just sit in the home you just rented and watch the Food Network.  Get a little adrenaline in your life and take to the slopes with a snowmobile rental in Salt Lake City, UT. Want to go off-road where it isn’t quite as slick? Look into renting an ATV Quad or Dirtbike. Want to cruise the city in style? Rent a motorcycle during your stay. Hey! If you’re an angler or want to take to the Great Salt Lake at high speeds, rent a boat, tour, or a jet ski!

*deep breath*

As you can see, renting opens up opportunities in an inexpensive way to make your vacation as convenient as possible.  Perhaps you or someone you’re traveling with has a medical condition and can’t get all the necessary health-care gear on the plane.  You can rent the appropriate medical equipment when you get there!

If you’re going to Utah for an extended stay, consider renting an RV or motor-home so you can absorb the scenery, comfortably.

That wasn’t hard was it?  I can’t emphasize enough how rental options will maximize your fun and overall experience of a vacation.  I hope you enjoyed this post about the wonderful state of Utah and specifically, Salt Lake City.  I also hope this gave you vacationers some ideas that you may haven’t thought of.  Eureka!

Make renting simple, folks. Rent It Today.

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Help us, Help You. Install the Rent It Today Badge on your Website.

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In an effort to increase our marketing efforts, we are unveiling a Rent It Today badge our customers can install on their website.  We’re asking all of our clients in the Rent It Today network to consider installing this badge for many reasons such as:

Link Building.
Link building is the process of creating inbound links to ones own website.  Since we offer multiple backlinks to our customers, installing this badge will create a reciprocal link between us and them.  Reciprocal links ( link exchanges) is the process where two webmasters agree to show the other’s link on their website.  This process greatly effects search engine ranking. (Better for us, better for you)

Advantages of Reciprocal linking:

  • Helps getting quality traffic from relevant sites which increases sales.
  • High quality incoming links show the site as a valuable resource.
  • It helps in creating awareness, visibility and credibility of both sites.
  • The sites also obtain wider search engine exposure.

Cross Marketing
Rent It Today’s mantra. Since we have an infinite amount of rental categories, this badge will steer potential renters to our customers website from a unique perspective.  For example,  if a boat rental website in Orlando, FL installs the badge along with Vacation rental property website in Orlando, FL, it will will widen the avenue for potential renters to find the complimentary rental category.  This helps us, the boat company, and the vacation company in a unique cross-marketing circle.

In the end, this badge will ultimately help all of Rent It Today’s customers by leveraging traffic from multiple categories while increasing their rankings in search engines.  Help us, help you by showing you’re part of the Rent It Today community.

Copy & Paste the code below to install on your website.

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Search Rentals

 

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Surveillance Tasks using Motion Tracking Technology

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Surveillance Equpment and Spy Camera Rentals
*CUE BOND MUSIC*
When thinking of surveillance equipment, it’s easy to immediately think of Hollywood.  You know, 007 needs to disguise himself as a janitor in order to break into the villains office to install a covert camera, perhaps one that looks and functions exactly like a ball point pen. While obtaining such a pen is a distinct possibility, some people wonder what the practical, everyday use of surveillance is.
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior.  Whether you want to  keep tabs on people or objects, surveillance equipment can be instrumental for business owners to protect their store from theft or keeping an eye on unruly employees.  Parents can use ‘nanny cams’ to make sure their children are safe at home.
The following was written by DPL Surveillance Equipment highlighting (detailing) some of their motion-tracking surveillance equipment:
DPL Surveillance Equipment Rental and SalesWhy bother with hiding or wiring coax cables, programming time-lapse recorders or dealing with poor wireless signals (transmitting your images all over the neighborhood!) preventing you from getting the critical video evidence you need?These are just a few of the choices now available:
  • IPOD DOCKING STATION HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR* Time/Date Stamp (when played back from unit on TV/Monitor)
  • Uses windows media player on SD card playback (PC)
  • Supports up to 16Gb SD card

Don’t make your surveillance tasks any more complicated then they need to be! Ask for the new line of hidden cameras that feature built-in motion-activated digital video recording capability!

  • MAIL BOX HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR
  • ROCK HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR* SURGE PROTECTOR HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR
  • AIR PURIFIER (IONIZER) HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR
  • MOTION DETECTOR HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/BUILT-IN DVR
  • WALL CLOCK HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/ BUILT-IN DVR
  • CLOCK RADIO HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/ BUILT-IN DVR
  • EXECUTIVE CLOCK HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA W/ BUILT-IN DVR
  • TOUCH LAMP HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA WITH BUILT-IN DVR
  • MANTEL CLOCK HIDDEN NANNY CAMERA WITH BUILT-IN DVR

Day/Night Operation: Automatically changes from Sony Ex-View Color to Sony Ex-view ultra low light (.0001 Lux) when light levels fall below .05 Lux.High Resolution Video at 12 fps: (640 X 480) High Resolution fluid motion recording capability. (user adjustable from 1 to 12 fps)Medium Resolution Video at 30 fps (320 X 240) (user adjustable from 1 to 30 fps)32GB SDHC Card Support- Up to 80 hours recording at full 30 fps- (records 5 hours per GB on lower capacity SD cards) Hundreds of hours possible with lower frame rate selections.

Firmware Upgrade – New firmware can be quickly installed via USB port.

Embedded Time/Date Stamp – Embedded in video- Time/Date stamp is seen on both playback from unit and PC via SD Card.

Enhanced Motion Activation: Not only is sensitivity adjustable, but also features a “grid” setting with multiple blocks to eliminate unwanted triggers in the camera view such as a computer screen or rotating fan.

Multiple Playback Speeds: X1/ X2/ X4/ X8/ X16/ X32/

Schedule Recording: Record time can be set to record at only times of interest.

Event Search Function: Property and fist image of selected file is displayed to quickly find a particular event.

IR Remote Control: For setting system parameters and arming and disarming unit.

Two Playback Options – Recorded images/video can be played back directly from the unit by simply connecting the included RCA cable to your TV/Monitor and touching the play button on IR remote control. SD card can also be removed from unit and played on your PC via included SD card reader. No additional PC software needed.

Everything Included:

No extra costs! Our system includes the DVR/Camera, Two SD cards (1Gb), USB SD card reader with extension cable, RCA video connector cable for use with your TV/Monitor, IR remote control, and instruction manual.

Filter Masking: 5 Different Sensitivity Levels! Choose where you want motion detection and where you don’t!

These systems are expertly built into more than a dozen different everyday items commonly used in a household or business environment. A wide selection insures that a product is available for most any security application without raising suspension from anyone. This is the ultimate spy gadget of spy-gadgets.
DPL offers Surveillance Equipment, video camera monitoring systems, and a just about any type of electronic security device imaginable. They service the entire United States and are able to ship video camera surveillance equipment throughout the entire country. DPL is based near Los Angeles, CA. See DPL’s Los Angeles Surveillance Equipment Rental Store at RentItToday.com.
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Apartment Rental Agencies in Oregon Report Rising Number of Vacancies

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Greg Stiles of Southern Oregon’s Mail Tribune is reporting that SOROA (Southern Oregon Rental Owners Association) is seeing the highest level of vacancy in the 20 years they have surveyed it’s members.  At a 9.4 percent vacancy rate, the report states “people who lose their homes move in with families instead of renting apartments.”

Per the article:

In the report for June — the most recent month for which figures were available — SOROA members said they had 414 vacancies out 4,392 reporting units. One year earlier, the vacancy rate was 5.5 percent. It was 5.9 percent in the summer of 2007 and 2.3 percent in 1999.

The local vacancy report represents only the owners who reported figures for the association’s June meeting.

Nationally, rental owners are finding themselves with even more empty units. The vacancy rate increased to a record 10.6 percent in the second quarter, according to the Census Bureau.

Read the full article here. (Courtesy of Southern Oregon’s Mail Tribune)

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Photo Equipment Rentals

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CSI Rentals wrote the following piece discussing the merit of renting photo or broadcast equipment in today’s ‘need-it-now’ lifestyle for the professional photographer.

 

Sony PMW EX3

 

In keeping with today’s convenience oriented lifestyle,  many services are offered to fill many varied needs ASAP, whether  for personal or business  purposes.  And there are new services and web sites popping up daily.

The upside of this new trend is that almost everything under the sun is available for rent and there is no need to stretch your budget in order for you to enjoy the latest technology and equipment.

This holds particularly true in the world of photography and video equipment, where the photo industry is experiencing a major shift, what with digital technology taking over the photo / film industry at a very fast clip. It is becoming increasing more difficult, and expensive, for photography professionals, as well as amateurs and photography buffs, to stay up to date with the latest and newest equipment on the scene.

We all know that in order to do a good shoot, you need the right tools to get the job done. Whether it is the latest digital SLR, or just the right lens  or flash for your project, you need the right equipment, and you need it now.

Rent It Today has simplified finding the right tools NOW, right when you need it, by directing you to the Photography Equipment Rental Connection in your area.  CSI Rentals, in tandem with Rent It  Today will get you what you need, when you need it.  Give us a try and search Camera Rentals at RentItToday.com.

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Rent It Today Blog Launched!

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Rent It Today is excited to launch our new rental blog!  This blog will act as a portal to all of our social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, and many others.  In addition to the blog being a central hub for social media, we will also be promoting our clients and bringing you applicable up to date news on the rental industry as a whole.  This idea has been a work in progress from the beginning and we look forward to creating a platform that gives the rental community an opportunity to interact.

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