Fifteen Secrets to Successful Timeshare Management

About the Book

“I like what you’ve done. Very Professional,” Perry Snyderman. “Timesharing is a complex business model and for someone that has little or no experience and wants to better understand the fundamentals, this book works well to fi ll many of the information gaps,” Bob Miller According to the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), the timeshare industry is a $10 billion per year business in the U.S. alone and supports 565,300 jobs. By my estimation, more than 50,000 of these jobs are people working directly in the industry. Until now, no book has been written for this group of people that explains the functioning of the timeshare business. This book is written for those who want to fully understand the timeshare business from the inside out or who are in the business and want to be promoted to management positions or are already managers and want to become better. This book begins with how strategies are developed by senior management, continues with many important operating practices and metrics and ends with a series of bonus secrets to help a timeshare company reach its optimum performance. This book explains many of the common terms used in the industry as well as providing high level models to help timeshare management put all the components of this complex business into proper perspective.

About the Author

Charles Patton began his writing career with a screenplay that qualified him for a Master Screenwriter’s class at Maine Media Workshops. After honing the screenplay in the class, he won the Florida Motion Picture and Television Associations’ award for year 2000 for the best unpublished screenplay for the state of Florida. He also wrote a column for five years for the monthly entertainment newspaper, Focus-In. His first book, Colt Terry, Green Beret, was published by Texas A&M University Press in October 2005. His second book, Storming the Castle Bridge, was published by Xlibris in 2007. He was recognized by the University of Illinois for his biography of Colt Terry. In addition to his writing career and a full time position as an executive in the resort development industry, he has climbed mountains, attained the rank of 4th degree black belt and Master Instructor in Tae Kwon Do, trained scuba instructors, and led the design and development of five large real-time, online computer systems. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in Marketing and Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from University of Illinois. With his beautiful wife, he has a great daughter and son-in-law with two granddaughters and a wonderful son and daughter-in-law with three grandsons.