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A winding, empty North Devon country lane in high summer.

Rush Hour? What Rush Hour?

How to Use Photos to Get Bookers Dreaming of a Holiday in Your Cottage

If you like story-telling and want to harness its power in your holiday cottage marketing, exercise a little more imagination when adding a title to an image so that it stimulates the viewers' imagination and describes a benefit rather than a literary translation of an image. This is what marketers call 'selling the sizzle—not the sausage'.

The two images illustrating this article were part of a series used to illustrate the lack of traffic in North Devon during the summer - encouraging people to spend time in an area where traffic jams are  (almost) unheard of. So much more impact than 'An empty road on Exmoor'.

 

 

An empty Exmoor lane lined by high beech hedges and trees .
A snail crossing an empty country lane in North Devon.