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Arnaud and Junjun at Google HQ, Zurich

Hi everyone

This is my first blog entry since joining the HouseTrip team a few weeks ago, shortly after launch. And it’s been a hectic first few weeks! But the signs are really promising. The team is great: the organisation is very dynamic, and most importantly, everyone is extremely nice to work with! We’re now acquiring new properties quite fast – many of them are really quite special, do take a look – and there’s a lot of interest generally. I’ve spoken to quite a few of our new hosts personally and they’re really positive about the platform and the innovative features we offer.

We had a great day today! Arnaud’s been negotiating with Google for a few weeks now, after he met a Google high flyer at a CEO day who expressed an interest in collaborating with us to maximise our AdWords expediency. So today we headed up to Zurich, home of Google’s European HQ, for a meeting with two of their senior account managers. We had a very productive discussion, we learnt a lot about some of the secrets behind good AdWords campaigns, and best of all, they treated us to lunch! The office is amazing, lots of cool features and the vibe seemed quite laid back although we all got the impression that the employees were extremely high calibre. The working atmosphere seemed very positive, empowering and inspiring: exactly the kind of atmosphere we aim to cultivate and maintain as HouseTrip grows.

The people we met were very enthusiastic about HouseTrip, they thought it was a really great project and that it would be well suited to AdWords campaigns. So I’m really looking forward to working with the Google guys and over the coming weeks and months I think we can create some really powerful campaigns to spread the word about our great website!

I’ll post again soon with another update!

Ciao for now

Ben

The period auctioned runs from the 1st of October to the 30th of October and the minimum length of stay is 5 nights. The property is described this way: “Casa Verde sits in a beautiful exotic garden measuring almost one acre of private grounds. The three-bedroom pine wood house features breathtaking ocean and mountain views. Located only 5 minutes from downtown Uvita, the national park and beach of Bahia Ballena as well as Playa Hermosa and a fast array of restaurants and tourist attractions, you do not have to compromise on convenience while still being away from the hassle and amidst nature and tranquility.” You have until Wednesday night to make you bid: view the property and bid from here.