You will want a PayPal account for many reasons, including setting up a storefront or to accept or make payments.

Goggle (adsense, adwords, analytics and web master tools) Free business tools that are a must! Adsense you can use to earn income from your website by running content ads. Adwords, you use to promote your website. Analytics is use to track your traffic sources (invaluable) and conversions for your adwords account. Web master Tools is used to optimize your website and make it Goggle friendly.

Vacation/Rental  Directories, a list of about 50 travel, vacation or vacation rental that you can use to start promoting your business in just minutes and build quality links.

Expedia and Hotels.com listing information for hotel, motel, B&B, vacation rental and resort owners, have your property accessible to millions of travel booking sites and thousands of travel agents.

Vacation/Rental Affiliate Programs,

Yahoo Vacation Rental Group, The web's largest group dedicated to the discussion of Vacation Rentals. Topics include: where to advertise, where to go, deposit policies, leases, cancellations, Room and Sales Tax, early check-out, keeping renters happy, calendars, guest books, and much more.

Vacation Rental Forms, a Free collection of forms to help you manage your vacation rental business from sample leases, conformation letters, guest departure forms, booking forms, housewares inventory sheet and refund/feedback form. You will need to edit these forms!

Where to get a Logo  You may want to consider a professionally designed logo, stationery and promotional items for your new business or website.

Vacation Rental Software, I think all that you need here (for the average vacation rental businesses) Quick books or Quicken, something you may already have. If you have just 1 or 2 vacation homes, you will not need to spend the extra money.

Links, you will not need to pay for any links, if someone says that they can get 1000's of links, run and run fast. These are usually link farms and are usually looked down on by the search engines and they use unprofessional tactics to get you links. Here is a free link service that I use and would recommend, Changing Links.

Peak Impact, National MLM leads, a must have to improve your chances of success. Better Leads... Better Service...Better Results...

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