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Follow Friday: @Traveldudes

@Traveldudes

Location: Around the world

Website: http://traveldudes.org

Bio:  I love to travel, to discover the world, to travel free and untroubled and still be informed like an insider. My motto: For Travellers, By Travellers!

Followers: 11,500+

Tweets: 4,300+

How To Create The Ultimate Home Listing (Part 1 of 5)

One of the questions most often heard from iStopOver Hosts is how to improve their listings in order to better attract guests and increase their visibility on the website. Whether it’s tweaking small parts of their listing to better convey their message, or a step-by-step guide on how to create the ultimate listing, every host should be thinking of ways to improve their listing. This is a fairly complex question and I will be tackling it in 5 steps.  
 
Achieving success on iStopOver is an incremental process. Hosts should be mindful of the fact that their listing exists within a marketplace that also contains competing offers from other hosts - because of this, it tends to be all of the little things, that, when added up, can really put you ahead of the other listings in your area. Over the next few weeks I will be going through the 5 main categories to think about when creating a listing in order to maximize your chances of success: 

1. Title
2. Listing Description
3. Taking Great Photos
4. Host Information
5. Price

All of these points are important, and none of them should be overlooked when creating a listing. We will begin this series by looking at how a good Title can increase the number of hits your listing receives, and conversely, how a poor title can reduce the amount of traffic directed to your listing. 

Follow Friday: @Travelography

Photo by Si Jobling

If you don't already know, 'FollowFriday' is concept inspired by Twitter . The point of FollowFriday is to pick people you are following on Twitter that you feel your friends should know about. Just tweet #FollowFriday and include the person's Twitter name and a short description of what makes them great!

For example:

#FollowFriday @istopover @istopoveroffice -- Great tips on renting out your excess space.  

Each week we will pick one Twitter account that we feel has caught our attention and informed us about something cool within the travel Industry, and if you like what they have to say, then go right ahead and follow them!

This week's pick is 

@Travelography

Website: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/

Bio:  Alan A. Lew's Travelography World Travel + Tourism News Podcast

Followers: 3,000+

Tweets: 1,750+

iStopOver in the Press: BusinessWeek

Press has been picking up lately! This past week iStopOver was covered in the technology section of BusinessWeek's website. 

Here is an excerpt:

So, what’s a company to do with all that extra space? Brightspark has come up with a way for companies to rent that space directly to others for short-term use. The company created a Web site called iStopOver that lets people rent excess business space such as cubicles, offices, meeting rooms, boardrooms, presentation centers, warehouses, studios and even parking spots.

Click here to read the full article, 'Renting Office Space on the Cheap' »

Top 10 Cheap Eats Near The US Open

Greetings Fellow Travelers,

Photo by wallyg

With the arrival of the US Open, Queen's will be the center of the tennis universe. This event draws tennis fans and sport enthusiasts from around the world to The Big Apple. Being an avid tennis fan, watching it on television does not compare to seeing the pure brilliance of live tennis. The tournament is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Park in Queen's NYC. The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament running from August 31 through September 13.

In honour of the US Open, I have compiled a list of delicious, yet affordable, nearby restaurants. So whether you're at the US Open, a Mets game, or just chilling in the Park, try any or all of these delightful places. Hopefully this will help you find another reason to return to Queen's, NYC.