Tuesday, November 24, 2009

New and Improved Website by LiveRez

Well we did it! At long last we're live on our new and improved website. We loved our former website, looked great, won an award, and the webmaster was great to work with. The problem is that it wasn't a connected website, meaning we had a website, a booking engine, and a database management system, and the three didn't talk to one another meaning they weren't inter-connected. When someone went to our website and wanted to book a reservation, they clicked on the Bookit button, which sent them to another website that handled our booking engine. Once the reservation was "booked" we received an email announcing the new reservation. We then had to log in to their system, print out all of the reservation information, and re-enter all of the information into our database system. Very, very inefficient, and since our volume doubled this past year, the system was bringing us to our knees. We knew we couldn't handle another year under the old system. There were several other issues that were problems, and our owners didn't particularly care for the system, so here we are.

We are now with LiveRez, with all three systems wrapped into one, website, booking engine and database management system. We have been working on the system now for three months and today we launched 11/24/09. www.easystreetvacationrentals.com. Check us out and let me know what you think rick@easystreet-rentals.com

In the next Post I will tell you some of the neat things we have included in the new website that I think makes it extremely easy to use and very informative.

Rick Scali


Rick Scali is the Owner of Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals in Destin Florida. Whether you are a family looking for a squeaky clean Destin Rental Home with a Private Pool or a couple looking for a romantic getaway in a Destin Beachhouse, Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals will exceed your expectations. Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals has the largest selection of quality pet friendly homes in Destin, Florida and throughout the Emerald Coast. Call us toll-free today at 877.432.7978 or email us at info@easystreet-rentals.com - we would love to welcome you, your family AND Fido to join us at the beach.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Destin's Holly Burke dies after long fight with cancer.

It saddens me to report that Holly Kaitlyn Burke, 19, of Destin, passed away Oct. 30, 2009, surrounded by her loving family, fiance and caring medical team, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tenn.

The following article was published in the Destin Log, on October 14, 2009 shortly before her passing.

http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/holly-11498-destin-form.html


Rick Scali


Rick Scali is the Owner of Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals in Destin Florida. Whether you are a family looking for a squeaky clean Destin Rental Home with a Private Pool or a couple looking for a romantic getaway in a Destin Beachhouse, Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals will exceed your expectations. Easy Street Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals has the largest selection of quality pet friendly homes in Destin, Florida and throughout the Emerald Coast. Call us toll-free today at 877.432.7978 or email us at info@easystreet-rentals.com - we would love to welcome you, your family AND Fido to join us at the beach.