Timeshare Resales :: Timeshare Resales Internet History

As a licensed real estate broker and President and founder of the oldest timeshare website in the world, I have a unique perspective I can share with you on the history of timeshare resales marketing on the internet.

Back in 1991, which was before the Internet became popular, I was the only one marketing timeshare resales via electronic computer bulletin boards. Bulletin boards were a very important part corporate business for small and large businesses alike. Bulletin boards as they were used then have now disappeared with the advent of the internet.

But, I remember buying a book about a little known subject called the internet. It fascinated me.

As I read the book, it quickly became obvious to me that vacation timeshare would be the perfect vehicle to market to a worldwide audience, and the internet was a worldwide medium. After all, is there anyone in the entire world who doesn't like to vacation?

With computer bulletin boards, people had to place a long distance telephone call in order to connect and use the bulletin board. How marvelous it was that with the internet, the connection did not require payment of a long distance telephone call. I could see that my bulletin board would soon be moth-balled along with the several thousand dollars I had spent in programing the software for it.

The internet was developed and used only by the government for non-commercial activities, so back in those days it was considered an abuse to post anything of a commercial nature, and the internet purists predicted that commercial activity would be the end and downfall of the internet.


To be continued...

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Larry Hayden

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