0 Shares VRS192 – 10 Sure-fire Ways to Upset Your Guests at Check In In this solo episode I’m getting back to some basics as I talk about the first 30 minutes your guests experience at your property, and why that is so important to the overall enjoyment of their vacation and to the review they subsequently may write. There is a magic that accompanies arrival at a vacation […]
0 Shares VRS190 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part Two Part 2 of the Adventures of Travelling Matt (Landau) takes us to Italy, and Matt’s journey to Rome, the Umbrian town of Guardea and Le Marche in the eastern Italian region of Ancona. Matt’s telling of the trip takes us to out of the way places and shares his experiences of visiting a renowned silversmith’s […]
0 Shares VRS189 – Wicked Awesome Vacation Rentals with Maria La Barbera Lamb This episode in our Successful Owner Series introduces the owner of Wicked Awesome Maine Vacations – a small property management company comprising the owner’s three houses, one belonging to a cousin, and two third party homes. When I heard that, it reminded me of how my own property management company started – three of my […]
0 Shares VRS188 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part One Have you ever been a guest in a vacation rental in a location you are unfamiliar with? I’ve asked this question of many home owners to find that most have never experienced what it’s like to be a guest. And you should do this, at least once. Owners will often say they’ve stayed in their […]
0 Shares VRS187 – The 2017 Vacation Rental Hospitality Survey with David Jacoby of Hostfully The death knell of property managers may be sounding if some vacation rental experts are to be believed. Martin Picard of VReasy talked of this at a VR Tech conference in Rome earlier this month. OTA’s are taking over much of what a property manager does, from marketing properties to an array of consumers; offering […]
0 Shares VRS186 – Vacation Rental Marketing Automation Explained with Jason Beaton of Airtight Marketing I’m joined today by Jason Beaton of Airtight Marketing to talk about jargon in online marketing. As we build our vacation rental businesses, most owners realise that simply listing isn’t enough. We’re at a time in our industry when control over how we market and advertise has been wrestled from us, and without being overly […]
0 Shares VRS185 – Are you planning on building a new vacation rental website? Are you planning on building a new website, or want to make some changes to your current one? If so, this episode could be for you. The topic came about in response to a request from Sanjiv Sandhu, a member of our Vacation Rental Formula Facebook Group (VRF members only), and at the start seemed a […]
0 Shares VRS183 – Why Content Will Win For Your Vacation Rental Business with Alan Egan There’s two types of vacation rental owners. Those that accept bookings, and those that make bookings. So says today’s guest, the one and only Alan Egan. For those of you who know Alan, he has been in and around this industry for over two decades and was one of the first owners/managers blogging about how […]
0 Shares VRS182 – How to Create a Vacation Rental Mastermind Group With Ellory Wells As we saw at the recent Vacation Rental Success Summit, getting together can be the start of something awesome. We saw owners and managers deep in conversation and hopefully they went onto exchange contact details and promise to stay in touch. We all know that when the busy-ness of business takes over, that these intentions […]
0 Shares VRS181 – Where to find knowledge in the vacation rental business Where do you look for education and resources to help you manage your vacation rental business better? Maybe you have a go-to expert, or regularly visit a Facebook group or forum, or you’ve bought a book from Amazon that claims to be the A-Z of the industry. Wherever you go, it’s clear that education in […]
