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Prince Madoc boat share

Prince Madoc will have identical sail pattern & masts to Vixen II, shown here

An interesting boat share ad was posted on yours2share over the weekend.  The Prince Madoc, a 65 foot stays’l schooner, is being lovingly restored by Dave Denning down in Cardiff, Wales.  The restoration has so far taken ten years, and he [...]

Horse share case study

Here’s a great new horse sharing case study: a result from yours2share.  I’ve been talking to Georgie Lynch for a few months, when I first spoke to her she thought she’d found a sharer, but then this rider didn’t have enough experience.  A couple of months later Georgie emailed me to tell me that she [...]

High performance newsletter

I use Constant Contact (and they’re great) to handle all yours2share‘s newsletters and I’ve just found some pleasing information.  They have a section detailing the aggregated response rates for the vast numbers of newsletters they send out and yours2share’s compares really favourably with them on every count.

Overall yours2share is currently averaging a 33% open rate, [...]

Change your world

Sustrans , the sustainable transport charity, is running a novel variation on the “be good” day, by holding a “Change your world” week from the 29th June to the 4th July.  In this case the form of “being good” is agreeing to swap a car journey for another means of transport (walking, cycling or public [...]

Barclays Trading Places awards – last 100

I’ve just been told that yours2share has been selected as one of the Top 100 businesses going forward to the next stage of the Barclays Trading Places awards. I am naturally delighted, having overcome my intial thoughts ” did only 101 apply” and “could only 100 understand the exam questions”.

The entry will go before the [...]

Fractional rent in The Field

yours2share had a good mention in this month’s edition of The Field in an article called Staying Afloat – surf the let.  Here’s a some more explanation about fractional rental and a case study about Sheldon Manor in Wiltshire where several cottages and a wing are now let to several tenants who each rent for [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Family house sharing

A few weeks ago I met Gemma Thompson, a life coach and owner of a local Suffolk magazine Roundabout at a WiRE business networking meeting in Suffolk.  I explained what yours2share is all about, as one does, and she surprised me by saying that she had bought a house with her parents and sister’s family, [...]

Monday to friday lettings

The last yours2share newsletter had a piece about Monday to Friday rentals and this generated the highest number of click-throughs from the newsletter by a very big margin.  So I thought I’d have an overhaul of the weekday lettings guidance pages.

The information is split into three sections: for landlords, for tenants and for companies with [...]