Selection of Client Projects Managed, Co-ordinated & ‘Brought to Life’
I have been fortunate to have been able to work on some very enjoyable and rewarding projects. It has been fun seeing them come to life, evolving customer interaction, ranking in Google and performing well in their respective markets.
View some of the marketing projects and website consultancy design services that have been co-ordinated and managed by TRW Marketing Services.
I have had great pleasure in working alongside various web designers, booking agencies, photographers, PR companies and various business partners to help owners with their marketing and develop their businesses and profitability.
Various Marketing Activities Have Included:
Marketing Plan, Reviews & Strategies
- Produce tailored marketing plans & implemented agreed actions
- Review current marketing activity, website effectiveness & producing recommendations
- Marketing strategies to generate new business opportunities & expand business
Creating New Websites & Booking Systems
- Sourcing and co-ordinating projects with selected web designers
- Producing and writing effective & descriptive content
- Implementing and integrating on-line availability & booking systems
- Pricing strategies, seasonal trends, optimising short breaks
Promotional Video & Photography
- Promotional videos, property showthroughs & location photography
- Producing destination videos to promote locations & regions
- Aerial photography & drone videos to bring locations to life
Interactive Maps & Digital Guest Guide
- Producing informative local interactive maps & visitor guides
- Co-ordinating design elements for websites & point of sale
Manage Google My Business / Google Business Profile Management
- Set up & maintain Google Business Profiles
- Google Reviews & set up independent customer reviews
Google Adwords / Facebook Advertising & Social Media
- Set up and manage Google Adwords Campaigns & Facebook Advertising
- Social Media projects & co-ordination with expert agencies
Promotional Video for Isis & Windrush Lake Holiday Home Development
Client: Orion Holidays - Location: Isis & Windrush Lakes, Cotswold Water Park Objective: To showcase the range of activities, facilities, and natural surroundings available to guests staying at Orion Holidays' properties on Isis & Windrush Lakes. Outcome: The final video presents a dynamic and visually engaging overview of Isis & Windrush Lakes, helping Orion Holidays promote the development as a desirable and activity-rich destination for short breaks and family holidays.
Aerial Photography for Holiday Cottages
Objective: Create headline-worthy imagery that instantly brings each holiday cottage—and its setting—to life. Scope & Approach: Deployed drone platforms to capture high-resolution aerial photographs of every property. Framed shots to reveal the cottage’s scale, orientation, and relationship to lakes, woods, trails, and other local highlights. Delivered a curated “library” of hero images for use across websites, booking platforms, social media, and print.
Bring Your Holiday Home to Life with a 'Property Video'
Objective: Bring holiday properties to life through short video walkthroughs that help potential guests better understand the layout and location. Overview: Many holiday home listings fail to give a true sense of the property's layout or surroundings. Guests often struggle to visualise key details—like how rooms connect, where the bathroom is located, or how close the cottage is to a lake or road. To solve this, we produced a series of short property 'showthrough' videos designed to offer a clear, immersive look at each cottage.
Marketing Overhaul for Kingfisher Lodge
Objective: Increase Bookings and Profitability Overview: Kingfisher Lodge, a beautifully located holiday home on the shores of Isis Lake, was underperforming in both occupancy and revenue. Despite its prime lakeside setting, key holiday periods remained unbooked, and the property was operating at a financial loss. Actions Taken: Conducted a full audit of the lodge’s online presence, including listings on major holiday rental portals. • Identified weaknesses in photography, descriptions, pricing strategy, and booking calendar management. • Developed a collaborative marketing plan and budget with the property owner to reposition the lodge competitively. • Revised listings with improved visual content, keyword-optimised copy, and dynamic pricing to reflect demand. Results: Booking volume increased by over 400%, with strong uptake during key dates and holiday periods. Impact: A clear marketing strategy, stronger online presence, and a targeted pricing model turned Kingfisher Lodge from an under-booked asset into a high-performing holiday let.
Destination Video for the Cotswold Lakes
Objective: To produce a dynamic destination promotional video that captures the unique charm, activities, and appeal of the Cotswold Lakes region—enhancing Orion Holidays’ marketing efforts and increasing guest engagement. Overview: The goal was to create content that immerses viewers, stirs emotion, and inspires bookings. Static images and text can only go so far—video has the power to transport potential guests and showcase the experience of a stay. Outcome: The final video acts as a powerful marketing asset for Orion Holidays, helping potential guests visualise their stay and discover what the wider Cotswold Lakes area has to offer. It strengthens the brand’s positioning as a gateway to lakeside relaxation and adventure, ultimately supporting increased bookings and guest interest.
Aerial Property Photography for Newton Rowe Estate Agency
Project Type: Aerial Photography for Property Marketing Objective: To enhance property listings and sales materials with high-impact aerial imagery. Overview: Newton Rowe Estate Agency required a set of aerial photographs for newly instructed properties across Berkshire to elevate their marketing materials and provide buyers with a clearer sense of each property's setting.
Direct Booking Strategy for Pepperpot Lodge
Overview: The owner of Pepperpot Lodge, a lakeside holiday home, sought to move away from a local agency that was charging 30% commission per booking. The goal was to establish a more profitable, self-managed booking process—giving the owner full control over pricing, availability, and guest communication while maximising rental income. Impact: This project demonstrates the value of taking control of your own holiday let marketing. With a targeted strategy, well-presented listings, and a shift away from commission-heavy agencies, owners like those at Pepperpot Lodge can enjoy higher profits, greater control, and long-term booking success.
Destination Balcary - Dumfries & Galloway
Lovely converted farmhouse holiday cottage overlooking the Solway Firth near Castle Douglas. Writing regular new content, generating guest testimonials, creating guest guides, interactive maps and regular local interest blog articles about the area, experiences, things to see and do, eat and drink and more. Bring the area and location to life to encourage new guests to book this superb holiday home.
Website & Marketing Refresh for Wyvern Shipping Canal Boating Holidays
Project Type: Website Redevelopment & Integrated Marketing Support: Objective: Enhance user experience, improve booking functionality, and increase customer engagement across digital channels. Overview: Wyvern Shipping, a long-established provider of canal boating holidays, approached us to modernise their digital presence and improve online performance. The project focused on refining the website layout, strengthening visual content, and implementing a more cohesive marketing strategy to drive bookings and engagement. Results: The updates led to a noticeable increase in website engagement, booking enquiries, and social media activity. The refreshed digital presence now better supports Wyvern Shipping’s positioning as a leading provider of canal boating holidays in the UK.
Bumblebee Escapes - Luxury Coastal Escapes on Yorkshire Coast
Skipsea Luxury Glamping Pods & Holiday Cottage East Riding of Yorkshire. Create a brand new website with online booking system including area highlights, things to see & do, why choose us options. Create seasonal weekly and short break pricing Set up & integrate various booking portals including Booking.com & AirBnB and encourage generating direct bookings.
Lake Breeze Lodge - Cotswold Water Park
Create a new website so they can generate their own direct bookings rather than rely exclusively on AirBnb & Holiday lettings. Add new Bookalet live availability booking system with secure payment options. Co-ordinate new internal imagery including aerial photos of location and lodge. Include useful local area information for guests to explore and enjoy and help bring the location to life.
Kirknewton House Stables - Wedding venue near Edinburgh
Create a new website for this wonderful country house wedding and event venue in Scotland and bring it all to life again. The original website had become very out of date, lost Google ranking and bookings were slowing down. There was little flexibility to update. The challenge was to showcase the wedding and event venue using lovely and evocative imagery sourced via various wedding photographers and event organisers to highlight how future events and weddings could be set up. Source new imagery, fresh content, include testimonials, 'why choose us' & guest reviews. Create Google My Business listing & update all directory listings and referal websites.
Banlicken Arran Farmhouse - Isle of Arran
Secluded Holiday Cottage Farmhouse that sleeps up to 12 in 4 Bedrooms - Owners wanted to have their website refreshed and generate more direct bookings than be reliant on agency bookings only. Set up various new booking portals, added new imagery, content and local area information to help the website work harder and generate direct enquiries and bookings. Set up new secure booking system with live availability with Bookalet and integrate with booking portals
The Barn at Rigg End - Holiday Cottage in North York Moors
Create a new website with secure online booking system that integrates availability with online portals such as AirBnB & Booking.com. The client moved from a holiday cottage agency that was no longer performing to taking control of their of their own bookings. This required setting up a more direct booking model. Set up new online portals via Booking.com & AirBnB. Create new seasonal, short break and weekly pricing and uplift pricing for the booking portals to cover commissions charged. New photography was required including aerial imagery to showcase the immediate setting. Update and freshen up the local area guide and 'Why Choose Us'.
Orion Holidays - Local Visitor Guide App to the Cotswold Water Park
There are so many great places to visit, excellent restaurants, cafes and pubs and things to do in the local area. Orion Holidays wanted to offer their guests an easy to use and accessible guide to the Cotswold Water Park. The guide brings the local area to life. It gives guests the freedom to plan their staycation with an easy to use digital welcome guide with local recommendations and services that answers all their questions about the Cotswold Water Park and surrounding area. A simple local guest guide that can be added to guests mobile phone homescreen or favourites. It can easily be accessed wherever they are and help them plan their day, find what they need and be shared with their family or friends.
- Best Places to 'Eat & Drink', 'See & Do' etc.
- Local Recommendations – Favourite pubs, restaurants, places to visit & hidden gems)
- Exclusive ‘Guest Offers’ – Local discounts, special offers available for your guests
- Book Optional Extras - Early check-in, champagne on arrival, breakfast pack, fresh flowers, birthday balloons, etc.
- Important Arrival Information
- Map Directions & Useful Information
- Local Services - Doctors, pharmacy, groceries
Windrush Turret Lodge - Guest Guide to Local Recommendations
A Simple & Effective Digital ‘Guest Guide’ that Makes Happier Guests.
Easy access to all the local knowledge including, recommendations and the best places to go to.
Answer all those questions before they even get asked. See Windrush Turret Lodge’s Guest Guide for the Cotswold Water Park.
- Best Places to Eat & Drink, See & Do – the Best local activities, places to visit, pubs, restaurants & cafes, great views, etc.
- Local Recommendations – Favourite pubs, restaurants, places to visit & hidden gems
- Exclusive ‘Guest Offers’ – Local discounts, special offers available for your guests
- Add to guests smart phone for easy access to information during stay
Lash Holiday Cottage Website & Booking System
Refresh website with new content, imagery, activities & places to visit. Include an online secure booking system & availability calendar for guests to book end to end. Reduce owner administration & increase direct bookings. - Installed Booking system via Holiday Bookings Online - Secure Stripe payment system to enable card payments - Automatic guest emails set up - Booking confirmations, payment reminders, deposit paid, - Guest details securely held for future correspondence - New imagery, web content, photo gallery & additional web pages added - Created 'Google My Business' Listing to increase visibility
Orion Holidays - Your Welcome Visitor Tablets
Create an interactive guide to the local area on in-house 'Guest Information Folder' tablets for use when staying in Orion Holidays cottages. Create an interactive map and information guide, provide local recommendations, property guides & daily essentials. Make life easier for guests to source local information. These include:
- Guest Check-in Screen & 1st Impressions
- Ability to promote local services
- Promotional banners
- Area Guides & Local Recommendations
- Guide to the Property – e.g. How to User Guides e.g appliances, entertainment, etc.
- House Rules, Terms & Local Site Guidelines
Cotswold Lakes Trust - Interactive Visitor Map
Create a custom designed interactive map & guide for visitors to the region. To include a simple and informative directory of all the local businesses, activities, watersports, places to eat & drink, visitor attractions, accommodation, etc. These include
- Paid for detailed premium business listings
- Two map variants – Google Maps & Custom Image style map
- Browse by categories option
- Contact information, web links and directions via Google Maps
- Back links to individual business websites
Hunters Moon Retreat, Glastonbury
A magical and exclusive holiday home that has been successfully booked via local agents for a number of years. Owners wanted to be able to take control of their own bookings, have direct customer contact and reduce agency booking costs.
- Exclusive luxury & contemporary styled holiday home in Somerset
- Implement website so owner can take bookings direct (moving from using agent)
- Set up secure online booking system with SuperControl
- Establish Google presence, Google Reviews and listings
- Establish new pricing structure for weeks and short breaks
- Review and recommend new booking referral sites
- Implement Social Media presence
- Website designed by Web Design for Accommodation
Ross Bay Retreat, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
4 lovely 5* holiday cottages on a working farm the on the Southern coast of Scotland. Very well booked and winners of VisitScotland Thistle Regional Awards 2019. Want to keep ahead of their competition. Fully booked Summer and 2021 getting well booked already.
- Website evaluation & recommendations
- Write a series of blog articles
- Research local activities – ‘See & Do’ recommendations
- Google My Business updates
Argyll Chalets, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland
Four lovely lochside holiday lodges in wonderful highland setting – Website had no worthwhile SEO ranking and owners were wanting to reduce reliance of 3rd party bookings and expensive commissions. Wanted more independence and online presence so guests can find Argyll chalets directly than via agencies. Website now very well ranked for location and lodges.
- Generate more business direct to the owner
- Set up Online booking system – ‘Free-to-Book’ calendar
- Re-evaluate website design and implement recommendations
- Set Up & manage Google Adwords advertising campaigns
- Social Media, Google Page listings and Customer Reviews
- Review pricing strategy
La Sérénité Farmhouse, Aveyron, France
Stylish and luxurious farmhouse holiday set in beautiful French countryside – Owner had been using exclusive agency to take bookings but wanted more control of their own bookings.
- Bring ‘property to life’ using evocative photography and descriptive content
- Design build & co-ordinate a brand new website to reflect the quality of the property
- Research region for ‘Things to See & Do’, Eating Out & Local Activities
- Set up secure on-line booking system, availability & pricing
- Google maps, Customer reviews and Google My Business
- Website designed by Web Design for Accommodation
Helmsley Hideaway Holiday Cottage – North York Moors, Yorkshire
New holiday cottage in pretty little village near the North York Moors, website had just been set up but needed to generate new direct bookings and increased web presence. 100% booked out this season until late Autumn.
- Establish new website and create new web content
- Series of blog articles to put cottage on the map
- ‘See & Do’ – Outdoor Activities, Where to Eat & Shop, Places to Visit etc.
- Google ‘My Business’ set up reviews & content
- Set up Social Media – Facebook & Instagram
Windrush Turret Lodge, Holiday Cottage, Cotswold Water Park
Lovely lakeside cottage with hot tub in popular region, most bookings came from agencies and Online Travel Agencies – Needed to have website completely refreshed, pricing established, on-line bookings and to be able to take direct bookings. 70% of bookings are now all direct via website.
- Generate bookings direct for cottage owner to reduce reliance on AirBnb & Booking.com
- Re-design out of date website & content for each property – Wordpress Website
- Re-structure pricing & terms for short breaks & seasonal demand.
- Update the online booking system – ‘SuperControl’
- Implement SEO strategy to increase bookings direct
- New website gallery & photo-shoot
- Set up referral websites for new booking opportunities
Orion Holidays - Specialist Cottage Booking Agency, South Cerney, Cotswolds
Successful and busy cottage booking agency wanted have a completely new re-design of their website, create a new marketing approach, develop new business and increase their bookings directly via their website.
- Position as no 1 cottage holiday agency on the Cotswold Water Park
- Co-ordinate complete new customer website with simple content management
- Implement a simple ‘view & book’ user experience to increase online bookings
- New marketing recommendations to increase direct bookings
- Set up SEO strategy to increase organic Google activity
- Set up & run a Google Adwords Campaign to generate targeted bookings
- Co-ordinated SuperControl booking system integration
- Interactive Map of the Cotswold Water Park
- Created new content including ‘Top 10’ listings
- Social media activity
- Website designed by Jazz Bones Creative
Nyhavn Lakeside Holiday Cottage, Cotswold Water Park, Cirencester
Cottage owner previously was heavily reliant on Booking.com & AirBnB, keen to take booking directly and have more control over pricing and guest contact. Wanted own website and bookings.
- Set up a web presence so owners can take their own bookings directly
- Co-ordinate web design, imagery & web content
- Online availability chart and direct booking enquiry system
- Facebook & Google Listings
- Set up Customer Reviews
- Pricing proposals to help increase revenues
- Website designed by Web Design for Accommodation










































































































