0 Shares VRS008 – 10 Things We Learned from a Summer of Rental Well, I finally got to Episode 8 after a long hiatus over the summer and into the fall. It seems there is no stopping this runaway train that is the business of vacation rentals and we felt it in our agency as many others have experienced too. The busy summer of rentals took all our […]
0 Shares VRS007 – Mastering social media for vacation rental with expert Evelyn Gallardo In this session of Vacation Rental Success, I’m delighted to welcome Evelyn Gallardo who I met for the first time at the Home Away Summit in Phoenix. She was a member of a panel delivering a social media workshop over the afternoon on the first day, and had my attention from the get-go after getting […]
0 Shares VRS006 – Getting Analytical with VR Marketing Expert, Matt Landau I’m still buzzing from my trip to Phoenix to the HomeAway Summit which was an amazingly valuable weekend. The best part of the trip was the networking and the tremendous professionalism and enthusiasm shown by the 350+ vacation rental owners who attended. I talked to owners with properties in Costa Rica, Panama, British Columbia, and […]
0 Shares VRS005 – Creating Family Friendly Holiday Success With Wendy Shand In this session of the Vacation Rental Success Podcast, I’m excited to have a chat with successful holiday rental entrepreneur, Wendy Shand of UK-based Tots To Travel. Launched in 2006, Tots to Travel has grown to be one of the UK’s leading agencies focusing on safe family-friendly accommodation in the UK and Europe and has […]
0 Shares VRS004 – Vacation Rental Success Story with Lisa Sedore of Sunshine Villa Orlando This week’s guest thought she was pushing the envelope in setting a goal of 24 weeks of rental in the first year (the industry standard in her area is 17). The property was rented for 48 weeks! In this episode we hear from Lisa Sedore – a Canadian who has made a huge success of […]
0 Shares VRS003 – Being a Vacation Rental Guest In this session I explore the experience of being a guest. With a recent vacation in a Bahamas villa fresh in my mind, as well as the memories of many previous rental home holidays, I wanted to share some of my insights of what it’s like. From going through the selection process to booking, and […]
0 Shares VRS002 – Getting Started in Vacation Rental with Mike Bayer In this episode of the Vacation Rental Success podcast my son, Mike Bayer, shares his experience of buying and setting up his Lake Ontario cottage for rental, and what he has learned in the first 18 months of business. Mike has been involved in vacation rentals for over ten years, from running a property management […]
0 Shares VRS001 – Launching the Vacation Rental Success Podcast Well, after weeks of learning, setting up a mass of equipment with more knobs and dials than I’ve ever seen outside of Blake’s Seven (that’s a reference to a show that was on UK TV in the late 70’s, better known as the Shaky Spaceship Show), and gearing myself up to talking for 40 minutes […]
