0 Shares VRS100 – From the VRMA 2015 Conference in New Orleans Wow. Episode 100 and in the same week the Vacation Rental Success Podcast surpassed 100,000 downloads. Its a big week but since I am in New Orleans for the VRMA conference this episode is a little shorter than most and covers some of the highlights from the seminars and the Vendor Showcase. Mike and I […]
0 Shares VRS099 – The Digital Handshake With Will Franco It’s no secret that video will give you an edge in social media marketing. Stats from Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus suggest that a short video can boost engagement and increase traffic to a website. So why aren’t more people using it? Most would argue that the cost of equipment, time involved in editing, and […]
0 Shares VRS098 – Choosing the Right Vacation Rental Reservation System with Seb Grosjean One of my favourite parts of interviewing vacation rental professionals is that they are from around the world. And today’s guest called in from Greece so that’s another country to add to my geographical portfolio! Seb Grosjean could be called a hybrid developer because he’s a mix of software engineer, property manager and vacation rental […]
0 Shares VRS097 – Vacation Rental World Summit 2015 with Antonio Bortolotti Mark the 6th – 8th November in your calendars for the Vacation Rental World Summit 2015 and settle down for 3 days of VR immersion. That is what Antonio Bortolotti, the creator and host of VRWS15 would like you to do, and he is here to tell us why in this episode of Vacation Rental […]
0 Shares VRS096 – Regaining Control of Your Vacation Rental Business with Vince Perez I met Vince Perez in San Diego at the 2014 VRMA conference and was immediately taken with his passion and enthusiasm for the vacation rental industry and particularly some of his ideas for bringing control back to owners and managers. Since he is also a speaker at this years Vacation Rental World Summit, it was […]
0 Shares VRS095 – Hooking Your Guests with Great Copywriting with Jessica Vozel If you think about the last time you read a good novel, it probably wasn’t the story that got you immersed in the book to start with, it was the opening lines; the way the writer drew you into the narrative, and the descriptive text that had you identifying with the characters from the get-go. […]
0 Shares VRS094 – Vacation Rental Pros With Steve Milo This week’s guest tells the story of how he went from a handful of properties under management to 950 over a period of 10 years. At one point he was managing 125 single-handedly. Like many people, Steve Milo started in the business with just his own vacation rental property in Florida. At that time the […]
0 Shares VRS093 – What’s Going On With Trip Advisor with Amy Hinote On August 15th, an open letter was delivered to the CEO of Trip Advisor, Steve Kaufman, outlining a multitude of issues property managers were experiencing with the Flipkey/TA platform. Endorsed by over 100 vacation rental managers the letter covered 5 areas managers were struggling with: Technical issues of inaccurate listings, non-functioning API feeds, expired listings […]
0 Shares VRS092 – Buying and Selling a Vacation Rental Business with Ben Edwards President of the VRMA Ben Edwards was one of the first people I met at the Vacation Rental Managers’ Association conference in San Diego last year, at the meet and greet. As President of the Association he has a lot of insight into the vacation rental industry; as a manager at Newman-Dailey Resort Properties he’s got hands-on experience of […]
0 Shares VRS091 – Eric Mason From Vacation Rental Professionals Group Today’s guest is a vacation rental industry professional in the widest sense. Having honed his skills with some of the biggest names in the business, Eric Mason brings all his multi-faceted skills to the industry and is impacting it in many ways, from advising dynamic start-ups to moderating the largest LinkedIn group in the vacation […]
