With homelessness and poverty levels increasing at alarming rates, many families must choose between buying food or paying for rent and utilities. Often food is the last choice. Sell My Timeshare NOW, its affiliate companies and corporate partners are combining forces to help change this situation … at least for the holiday season.

According to Jason Tremblay, founder and CEO of New Hampshire-based Vacation Hotdeal Companies, Inc., SellMyTimeshareNOW LLC and Timeshare Broker Services LLC, “Although New Hampshire has one of the lowest poverty levels in the US, the state ranks #7 in the number of homeless children, many of whom still go to bed hungry. For most of these families, having food for the holidays is the greatest gift they could receive. Knowing this, we decided by joining forces with other good community citizens to help bring smiles and a hot meal to some of these families in need.” 

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Sell My Timeshare NOW, LLC, the global leader in online timeshare resale and timeshare rental marketing, has recently announced an alliance with John Locher RRP of Locher & Associates to provide consulting services.

According to Jason Tremblay, founder and CEO of SellMyTimeshareNOW.com, “Our relationship with John developed as the result of a long-standing mutual professional respect. We anticipate that this alliance will add a new dimension to our company as we move forward into totally new sales and marketing territories. During the process, we will take advantage of John’s promotional and strategic online experience.”

Also a veteran of the online marketing of vacation ownership resales and rentals, Locher endorses SellMyTimeshareNOW and is excited about its vision and growth.

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When Sell My Timeshare NOW, a company recognized as a leader in by-owner timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, launched a full service timeshare Rental Assist program, they started small. As CEO Jason Tremblay admits, the timeshare company was not sure if its market would be interested in assisted timeshare rental services. Many of the 2 million-plus consumers who visit the company’s websites each month do so because they either are timeshare owners wanting a low cost way to sell or rent timeshare or are vacationers looking for great deals in vacation ownership and vacation rentals. Most timeshare owners using their properties as timeshare rentals buy ads on the company’s high-visibility websites and handle the timeshare rental process themselves.

Tremblay says, “Over the years, Sell My Timeshare NOW has added timeshare broker services in response to buyers and sellers who want the assistance of a licensed real estate agent in the timeshare sales transaction. Our timeshare Rental Assist program began as a pilot to see if timeshare owners would also be interested in professional help with the rental process.”

With more than $2.6 million in timeshare rentals completed last year by the Sell My Timeshare Rental Assist brokerage team of trained professionals, the company is confident it has developed a program that successfully fills a targeted need. Lucas Lanigan, Rental Sales Director, says, “By-owner timeshare rental is an excellent way to rent timeshare. But for some timeshare owners, there is a better solution. With Rental Assist, our team of experienced timeshare real estate professionals match timeshare owners with timeshare renters, handling every detail of the process—turnkey service for the timeshare owner.” In 2009, 1,450 timeshare owners rented their timeshare through this program for an average weekly rental rate of $1,808, which is more than triple the average owner’s maintenance fee.”

Lanigan, who heads the Rental Assist program, was a top producer for New England’s InnSeason Resorts in-house sales division, Project Director at the Harbor Ridge Resort in Southwest Harbor, and a leader in sales and marketing for Festiva Resorts in Orlando, Florida, selling RCI Points. Like others on his team, Lanigan knows the timeshare industry inside and out and understands how to serve the needs of both timeshare owners and timeshare renters. Lanigan explains, “1,450 families enjoyed timeshare rental vacations last year because our Rental Assist team was able to get them the destination and price they wanted for their vacation during the dates that matched their schedule. Personalized service for the timeshare renter and worry-free, comprehensive service for the timeshare owner, and we are just getting started. In 2010, we expect to see timeshare Rental Assist soar, as timeshare owners recognize its value.”

ABOUT: With offices in Dover, New Hampshire and Orlando, Florida, SellMyTimeshareNOW.com offers proven success in timeshare resale and rental advertising and timeshare brokerage. The company was recognized in 2008 and 2009 by Inc.com as one of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the US. SellMyTimeshareNOW also offers resorts, HOAs and developers a new and effective channel for rental.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, the global leader in the online advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, announces the hiring of Jacqueline Russ as the company’s Chief Financial Officer.
Jason Tremblay, CEO and co-founder of Sell My Timeshare NOW, says, “Jackie is a tremendous asset to our executive management team. She brings -targeted expertise to our fast-growth company, which is especially important as we expand into new markets.”

Tremblay explains, “The economy is challenging industries, including the long rock-solid timeshare industry, to reevaluate products and services. Even companies like Sell My Timeshare NOW, with consistently high marks in customer satisfaction, are developing new ways to deliver more and serve our clients better.”
Jackie comes to the timeshare resales marketing company with twenty years experience in successfully leading start-up companies through periods of rapid growth. Her background includes having most recently been the President for Home Brands, Inc., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire based company where she helped double revenue and grow the company into one of the industry’s most successful home installation programs.

Prior to being with Home Brands, Jackie was the Chief Financial Officer for MicroArts Corporation, an online and offline marketing and brand strategy company, which was acquired by Cordiant Communications Group. She is also the former Chief Financial Officer for Newmarket International, provider of group sales and automated solutions in the hospitality industry. Jackie began her professional career with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Boston. She has a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire in Durham and is a Certified Public Accountant.

“The timeshare industry is changing with emerging new business models for timeshare sales and the marketing of timeshare resales. I am excited to join Sell My Timeshare NOW at this time of growth in the company and change in the industry,” says Jackie.

About: SellMyTimeshareNOW.com, the company’s flagship website, offers internet advertising and marketing solutions and timeshare brokerage services for timeshare owners. With over 160 employees and offices in Dover, New Hampshire and Orlando, Florida, the company was recognized in 2008 and 2009 by Inc.com as one of the fastest-growing, privately held companies in America. To learn more about Sell My Timeshare NOW, visit the company’s website at www.sellmytimesharenow.com.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, a global leader in the online advertising and marketing of timeshare resales, is expanding its senior management team with the addition of Chris Ownby as Chief Technology Officer. Ownby’s responsibilities will include managing Sell My Timeshare NOW’s IT department and extensive website improvement, development and interface projects.

Chris Ownby comes to the Dover, NH-based timeshare resale and timeshare rental advertising company from Sapling Systems, where he was the CTO and the Vice President of Product Development. Prior to joining Sapling Systems, Chris Ownby managed the development of Harcourt Assessment’s online platform, which provided formative and summative testing for the United States’ K through 12 education system. He is the past Director of Application Development at CreditReport.com, the market leader in providing B2C and B2B online, highly secure credit services and was a founder of Trapdoor Net Systems, an internet software development company that was successfully acquired in 2002.

Sell My Timeshare NOW CEO Jason Tremblay says, “We are pleased to have Chris lead our talented IT team. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the software development industry and his skill in building and managing both small and large technical teams and architecting large service-oriented enterprise systems is going to help us take Sell My Timeshare NOW to higher levels of performance and service. Our goal is to truly differentiate our company from others in our industry; Chris will play an important role in helping us achieve that goal as we enhance and improve the functionality of our website.”

Ownby, who holds a BA from California State University at Fullerton, has written and lectured on the future of software, the software industry, and on the role of the internet. He is currently working on a book about how to run a successful software business.

About: SellMyTimeshareNOW.com provides internet advertising and marketing solutions for timeshare owners seeking to sell timeshare or rent timeshare, while providing an extensive inventory of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals for the secondary market. For the second consecutive year, Sell My Timeshare NOW has made the prestigious Inc. 5000 List, ranking 21 among the top 100 privately held US real estate companies.

For the second year in a row, Sell My Timeshare NOW has made the prestigious Inc. 5000 List, which recognizes the fastest growing privately held companies in the US. The timeshare resale and timeshare rental advertising and marketing company ranked 21 nationally among the top 100 real estate companies on the list and 1599 out of the top 5000 companies to make the list across all industries.

Recognized worldwide, the Inc. 5000 List (Inc. Magazine) provides credible, third-party rankings of the top privately held companies in the US, both overall and as categorized by geographic area and by industry. Sell My Timeshare NOW, which is based in Dover NH and has an office in Orlando, FL, ranked 51 among the fastest growing Top 100 Businesses in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metro area and ranked 13 on the list of fastest growing companies in all categories in the state of New Hampshire.

In business less than six years, the timeshare resales advertising and marketing company began with a staff of three and today had more than 160 employees. As CEO Jason Tremblay explains, “Collectively, the companies on the Inc. 5000 list are responsible for creating more than 1 million jobs since their founding. Last year alone these companies realized $214 billion in aggregate revenue. It means a lot to us at Sell My Timeshare NOW to be part of this positive contribution to the US economy; to know that we are part of the solution.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW is a recognized global leader in the online marketing and advertising of timeshare resale and timeshare rental. The company has seen revenues triple between 2005 and 2008 (the period evaluated for this award) and has experienced a 200 percent growth rate, exceeding the median growth rate of 189.9 percent for other companies making the 2009 Inc. 5000 List.

Despite the challenging economy, companies making the Inc. 5000 List saw revenues increase by $29 billion collectively. Inc. Magazine describes the list as perhaps the best example of the impact private, fast-growing companies can have on the economy and the most comprehensive look at America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs.

About: SellMyTimeshareNOW.com provides internet advertising and marketing solutions for timeshare owners who seek to sell timeshare or rent timeshare.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, the global leader in the online marketing and advertising of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, has released a promising midyear report marked by both expansion and strong numbers. In addition to opening a new Orlando timeshare advertising sales office, Sell My Timeshare NOW has seen year-over-year increases in both website traffic and offers to buy or rent timeshare resales and timeshare rentals. CEO Jason Tremblay explains, “A tough economy brings an excellent challenge to business to step up your game, deliver more, and work smarter. We think our growth and continued strength verify that what we do works for the timeshare owner and the timeshare industry.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW is a privately held company and not required to release annual or quarterly reports. However, they routinely make a business synopsis available to provide the timeshare industry and people who want to buy, rent, or sell timeshare with updated information about the company’s business. Their July 2009 Business Synopsis shows continued growth in all areas of business with the strongest gains being in timeshare rentals.

Year-to-date, Sell My Timeshare NOW has received nearly $240 million in offers to buy or rent timeshare, marking a 15 percent increase over figures through June 2008. Offers to rent timeshare have shown a 140 percent increase over year-to-date timeshare rental offers for 2008, and a 79 percent increase in the amount of these offers.

Director of Communications Steve Luba explains that people appreciate the vacation value of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals and that more timeshare owners are realizing how easy it is to rent timeshare. Luba says, “As Sell My Timeshare NOW continues to grow, and now with our new Orlando timeshare call center, we are expanding our services and making all our products more customizable to better meet the unique needs of each vacationer or traveler.”

The Sell My Timeshare NOW July 2009 Business Synopsis is available for download by visiting the company’s website at www.sellmytimesharenow.com

SellMyTimeshareNOW.com provides internet advertising and marketing solutions for timeshare owners who seek to sell timeshare or rent timeshare. In addition, the company also offers success-based brokerage services through Timeshare Broker Services.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, a leader in the advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, is ramping up its social marketing commitment, providing more outlets for consumer interaction through widely available, internet-based relational media. Already using Twitter, blogging on its popular corporate blog The Timeshare Authority, and interacting with the marketplace through the SellMyTimeshareNOW Forum, the company will soon launch a Facebook fan site, as it continues to expand its social media presence.

CEO and founder Jason Tremblay says, “Sell My Timeshare NOW has always led the industry in using cutting-edge internet marketing strategies to create maximum visibility for timeshare owners who want to sell or rent timeshare. We take the same forward-thinking approach to social media marketing, using it to expand our relationships with timeshare buyers, renters, sellers and everyone who wants to know more about enjoying timeshare vacations.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW utilizes Twitter as a way to update consumers about timeshare resale and timeshare rental opportunities and offer personable insights about timeshare and vacation ownership. The company tweets here: @JasonTremblay_; @VacationHotDeal; and @SteveLuba.

Sell My Timeshare NOW’s blog, The Timeshare Authority, was one of the first publications to serve both timeshare owners and the timeshare industry. Tremblay explains, “When we started writing The Timeshare Authority blog nearly five years ago, many people really didn’t understand what a blog was or why we were going to the trouble of doing it. Now we publish Monday through Saturday and have thousands of readers each week.”

The company’s Forum is an online discussion board that provides consumers a place to interact with Sell My Timeshare NOW and with each other regarding timeshare ownership, selling or renting timeshare, or buying timeshare resales. Director of Communications Steve Luba says that although some timeshare companies maintain websites, these sites are limiting because they do not look at the industry as a whole. Today’s timeshare resale buyer or timeshare renter wants to know the bigger picture and to be able to compare options and make decision that are best for the way he and his family vacation. Sell My Timeshare NOW is committed to expanding its consumer education and communication, seeking to fill the need for timely, meaningful industry-wide timeshare news and updates.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, the global leader in the advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, is expanding with a new office at 400 South Park Center, 8415 South Park Circle, Suite 110, Orlando, Florida. Operations have begun with the hiring and training of six employees, ultimately looking to create 100 jobs at the Orlando location. Sell My Timeshare NOW CEO Jason Tremblay noted that while one administrative employee was transferred from the company’s Dover, New Hampshire headquarters, all other employees will be new hires from the pool of experienced timeshare talent already available in Central Florida.

“In opening an office in Orlando, it is important to Sell My Timeshare NOW to be recognized as a reliable resource for people who want to buy, rent, or sell timeshare, but equally as important to hire locally and be known as an employer that contributes stable jobs and a positive workplace to the local economy,” Tremblay says. Sell My Timeshare NOW, recognized in 2008 by Inc 5000 as the second fastest growing privately owned company in New Hampshire, was also ranked number 44 in the Inc 5000 Top 100 Advertising & Marketing Companies nationally.

Aramis Cherrington has been appointed as the Senior Director of Sales for Sell My Timeshare NOW, and will be based in the Orlando timeshare office. Cherrington is the former Call Center Sales and Operations Director for Westgate Resorts and prior to that was Marketing Director for Sunterra’s Western Region call centers. Cherrington says, “The Orlando Call Center offers highly experienced timeshare veterans to professionally service our customers, offering them the best options for renting or selling timeshare. Central Florida is an excellent source for attracting talented timeshare professionals with bilingual skills, to help us better serve our international market, especially Spanish speaking timeshare sellers and buyers.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW maintains a brokerage office in Orlando on International Drive under its brand, Timeshare Broker Services, a TBS office in Tampa, and corporate headquarters in New Hampshire.

In 2008, Sell My Timeshare NOW received over $460 million in offers to buy or rent timeshare resales, providing marketing solutions for timeshare owners seeking to sell timeshare or rent timeshare and opportunities in timeshare resales for buyers.

Sell My Timeshare NOW is making it easier than ever to book affordable timeshare rental vacations. Already the global leader in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, Sell My Timeshare NOW has added a user-friendly, real time feature to its website, enabling consumers to select timeshare rentals from available dates and locations and then “Book It NOW” for their next vacation.

Company CEO Jason Tremblay explains, “Timeshare rentals have always offered the best opportunities in vacation accommodations. With our exclusive ‘Book It NOW’ feature, a timeshare rental can be booked online with the same ease people are accustomed to when making airline reservations.” Tremblay adds that Sell My Timeshare NOW is the only timeshare resale and timeshare rental advertising company to offer this service. “Real time reservations, the luxury and spaciousness of a timeshare unit, and the amazing savings found in timeshare rentals make ‘Book It NOW’ the breakthrough vacation solution that hardworking people need and deserve.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW, recently mentioned in TIME Magazine, has seen timeshare rental offers increase dramatically in 2009. During the first quarter of this year, the number of offers received through the company for timeshare rentals increased by 146 percent over those made in the first quarter of 2008. Quarter-over-quarter, the dollar amount of rental offers through Sell My Timeshare NOW increased by 125 percent, reaching nearly $35 million.

The company’s website, www.sellmytimesharenow.com, has three different ways for vacationers to enjoy the affordable luxury of a timeshare rental. They can search the “Book It NOW” properties and book and confirm a timeshare rental reservation online or search the company’s full inventory of timeshares rentals and then contact the timeshare owner directly to negotiate a best-price rental rate. The third approach is to take advantage of Rental Assist by Sell My Timeshare NOW and let a vacation specialist find the rental property to fit the renter’s vacation needs and preferences.

SellMyTimeshareNOW.com is the flagship website for Sell My Timeshare NOW and offers internet advertising and marketing solutions and success-based timeshare brokerage services for timeshare owners, timeshare buyers, or renters. In 2008, Sell My Timeshare NOW was recognized by Inc.com as one of the fastest growing, privately held companies in America.