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Buy Your Holiday is a website designed to advertise holiday properties worldwide. It’s free to register a holiday property on the site and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Using an off-the-shelf script as a basis, Gandy-Draper have customized the look and feel, thus reducing the build costs.

The sites database is designed to make it as easy as possible for property owners to add their properties and allows direct links to their own websites or other sites for booking, for instance Owners Direct, as well as allowing enquiries direct from their listings.

So far the sit has properties available in the UK, US, Spain, France, the Caribbean, Australia and other countries and the number of listings is growing.

lanzaroteshop4me.com is a new website Gandy-Draper made for the owners of lanzarote-hireme.info. They provide a shopping service to both holidaymakers, villa owners and residents, delivering British and other produce direct to the door.

Utilizing existing off-the shelf software, coupled with custom design Gandy-Draper provided a website that whilst, new retained some of the original look and feel of their existing hire me site, and incorporated a shopping cart so that users can place an order prior to travelling to Lanzarote.

The site achieved the goal of providing a fully functioning shopping cart feature, and allows the users to update the product list and other pages easily themselves, whilst also being produced within a tight budget.

Already a client of Gandy-Draper through the Canary Nightlife website, Paddy Macs Irish Pub in in Playa Blanca approached the company to provide a full website. Having just completed some work within the bar, Fergus and Hazel were keen to reflect the traditional feel they have worked hard to create.

Paddy Macs were keen to create a site that provided comprehensive information about the bar including information about their regular entertainment, and their full menus which vary throughout the day.

Bar owners in the Canary Islands commissioning a website through Gandy-Draper are provided with exposure on Canary Nightlife free of charge. The site has approaching 1 million hits a month, so generates additional traffic and assists with the sites SEO placement.

Paul and Sally Cook of Atlantic Islands Sailing S.L. contacted Gandy-Draper, before moving to Lanzarote, to set up their business so their new website would be ready in time for their launch on the island. Wanting an attractive and informative website, they provided some examples of existing yacht charter sites around the world, to demonstrate their taste and illustrate their aims with the site. The company offers bare boat yacht charters in Puerto Calero. Their aim was to promote the family nature of their business, and provide a level of information slanted towards the sailing fraternity.

The finished site,  in addition to details of their business, includes information on Lanzarote, Puerto Calero and a number of Google Earth links so prospective clients can explore the sailing possibilities around Lanzarote and the other Canary Islands.

Canvas Lanz sells specialist printing services including transferring clients pictures to canvas, canvas prints from their selection of images and promotional banners using their state-of-the-art printing technology. Canvas Lanz can usually be found either at Teguise market, or on the market at the Rubicon Marina in Playa Blanca. Wanting to extend their market Canvas Lanz naturally looked towards using the Internet to get the message out further across the island, and also enable them to offer deliveries also to the UK and mainland Spain.

They did have an original ‘home made’ site built by themselves but knew that to Internet sales they would need something that looked far more professional than they had created. The new site features a Flash intro, and links through to one of Gandy-Draper’s own sites which provides the client the opportunity to cost-effectively build up a gallery over a period of time.

Naturally Floors, one of the Canary Islands leading flooring companies, came to Gandy-Draper having seen and liked our work on a friends site we had previously completed. The client had an existing site created by a friend in England but felt it did not reflect their standing in the market. The brief was to create a clean and inviting site, reflecting their branding, whilst also including information on their suppliers, many of whom the company has exclusive distributorship deals with.

The resulting site is modern in style and uses a Flash intro to entice users further into the information provided and provides a wealth of links to the suppliers and ranges that Naturally Floors can provide throughout the Canary Islands. A contact form page displays on every page of the site to enable users to easily make an enquiry or request catalogues.

Gandy-Draper where approached by Costa Teguise business owner Paul Lonergan to provide a site which could offer villa rentals throughout the Canary Islands.

The resulting site canaryislandsdreamvillas.com answered all of the requirements at a relatively low cost compared to building the site from scratch. The adaptation of an out-of-the-box script to fulfil the brief ensured that the site was cost-effective whilst providing for all of the needs of the client. The site can be totally controlled by the owner from a versatile back-end administration system and offers a level of functionality not often available within the price range of this site build.

Fumiguard SCP is the only British owned pest control business in Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Las Palmas. As a long established business the company already had an existing website which they felt was outdated, and did not portray the business as best it might, so wanted to bring the site up-to-date, and to reflect the professionalism of their services. Giving examples of a few sites, that the owners of the business liked, helped to give Gandy-Draper an impression of the client’s tastes, and the result is a clean, but highly visual site in both English and Spanish.

We are seeking a self motivated and enthusiastic sales people with experience in direct sales. You will need your own transport, be contactable by mobile telephone, and be available for immediate interview.

You will earn the lion’s share of the sale value on a commission only basis – which for an experienced salesperson is more than achievable. This is NOT time-share or pyramid selling. This is straightforward sales of an established product on the Islands.

• Do you have direct cold-calling experience?
• Are you prepared to put time, effort, and enthusiasm into your work?
• Do you thrive on “getting that next sale”?
• Are you resilient?
• Do you have a proven track record in sales?
• Can you provide references?
• Do you already live in the Canary Islands… or have your flight booked?
• Are you prepared to accept nothing less than success?

Then contact us today.

However… if you are any of the following, then please do not waste your time or ours – we mean business:

• Is your direct sales experience only in “capture sales” ie “retail”, or “customer service”?
• Can you only spare a few hours when you have ‘nothing better to do’?
• Do you think clients should “come to you”?
• Are you easily put off by a “No” from a prospective client?
• Do you have a CV full of “6 months or less” jobs?
• Are you thinking that “The Canary Islands is just somewhere I would like to move to”?
• Are you easily put off?

This may sound harsh… and if you are offended by this advertisement, then you are not the person for us – and please do not take this personally. A pure hard salesperson will read this advert and smile (as we do) – because they have the experience and drive to make things happen. And we would hope that such a person would approach us for further talks.

For the right person, there is a lot of money to be made. If that is you… then get in touch. But if not, then we wish you the very best of luck in all your endeavours.

360 Turismo, operated by Paul Boden of Playa Blanca offers 360 virtual tours. Services include wide angle, panoramics, 360º movies and full virtual tours for website and CD presentations.

Constantly striving to work with the very latest in equipment and technologies, Gandy-Draper believes 360 Turismo to be the leading supplier of their type in Lanzarote, and have incorporated the work of the company in sites it has built, such as Mathparri, where a 360º movie has been used to give the viewer an experience of visiting this Hair and Beauty salon in Puerto del Carmen.

The company’s products are ideal for:

• Real estate companies looking to show off their listings at their best
• Owners of luxury holiday villas and apartments who wish to give potential guests a true impression of their properties for rent
• Shops, bars and restaurants for online promotion
• Hotels
• Theme parks
• Excursion providers

The list really is endless…

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Why not visit the website of 360 Turismo and have a look around some of their previous projects?

The suppliers listed in our partners section are here because we regularly work with these individuals or companies. There are no financial or other reciprocal arrangements, this is not paid for advertising – these listings are here as we believe these suppliers can provide services related or complimentary to our own, and we know they deliver what they promise.