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Sales & Marketing Director at InterCoast Net Designs

Vanessa Humes is the Sales & Marketing Director at InterCoastal Net Designs (ICND) a website and digital marketing agency serving the vacation rental industry. She has over a decade of marketing experience in the Vacation Rental Industry. Prior she worked with major hotel brands in Myrtle Beach, SC on their direct marketing and advertising strategies. Her passion has been, and always will be, to drive more direct bookings for her clients through strategically built websites and marketing. She's spoken at numerous VR Industry events on the subjects of website conversion optimization and reducing dependency on using OTAs and is a thought leader in strategic marketing plans that lead to more direct online reservations. When she’s not working on building new relationships and strengthening existing ones, she’s working on making ICND the best it can be through new products, operations, and marketing campaigns.

Dec. 20, 2023

Holiday Bonus - Our Top Episode of 2023: How to Explain Changes in Revenue and Bookings to Your Homeowners

Join us for an exclusive throwback to our most viewed episode of the year with Ben Coleman - Founder of Rev & Research, Vanessa Humes - Director of Sales & Marketing at InterCoastal Net Designs and Lance Stitcher - Broker/Ow…
Oct. 25, 2023

Flashback: 5 Ways to Drive Direct Bookings Before the OTAs Put You Out of Business with Vanessa Humes

Join us today for a special FLASHBACK episode with Vanessa Humes as we explore the Top 5 Ways to Drive Direct Bookings! This episode originally aired in September 2022. Original shownotes from September of 2022: Vanessa Hume…
Guest: Vanessa Humes
July 5, 2023

How to Explain Changes in Revenue and Bookings to Your Homeowners

In this episode, Alex & Annie are joined by a panel of experts to help guide you on a pressing topic - How to Explain Changes in Revenue and Bookings to Your Homeowners. 2023 is not turning out to be as profitable as expecte…
Sept. 21, 2022

5 Ways to Drive Direct Bookings Before the OTAs Put You Out of Business, with Vanessa Humes

Vanessa Humes of ICND joins us today to share the top 5 strategies for building a book-direct vacation rental brand. As we often talk about on the podcast, building your house on someone else's land puts your business in a d…
Guest: Vanessa Humes