0 Shares The Power of WOW – 30 Seconds to Increasing Revenue Studies by neuroscientists have shown that ancient neural circuits in the brain are activated when decisions are made on the importance of objects in the environment, allowing us to make rapid assessments and judgements. This is what we know as ‘first impressions’ and this work has shown how we form them within the first 30 […]
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 How to Create ‘WOW’ Moments in the Kitchen It’s less than a week now until I head off to Phoenix to speak at the Home Away Summit, and I’m getting really psyched up for it. I love talking about this business and I’m so looking forward to a whole weekend of immersion in vacation rentals, with lots of vacation rental people. There’s a […]
0 Shares Second Best Can Be First Class – Tips For Second Bedrooms We see so many vacation homes during the course of a year and one thing that has struck me is that owners seem to pay far more attention to the master bedroom than the others. While these rooms are larger and often have ensuite bathrooms, there really is no reason to downgrade the second and […]
0 Shares 50 Flipkey Reviews – Our Vacation Rental Success! This week saw a landmark for us as the 50th Review was posted for my own Osprey Cottage on Flipkey, I’m bowled over by the success of this because: · We don’t promote the cottage · We don’t have an active website for as it’s advertised on our agency listing site · It’s not […]
0 Shares Staying Competitive in the Vacation Rental Market – the WiFi Connection I would not rent a property without Wifi. That is one of my ‘must-have’ criteria. Others will not consider places unless they are pet-friendly, and there are many more who are not interested in staying in a place that doesn’t offer post rental cleaning, either included in the rental rate, or offered at an additional […]
0 Shares Why More People Should Choose Vacation Rentals I know I’m preaching to the converted here, but having just spent a night in a (not inexpensive) Nassau hotel/resort, it just struck me that this is why vacation rentals are so much better than the old alternatives. We’ve just left our beautiful rental home with a full kitchen (with decent sized tea mugs), luxury […]
0 Shares It’s the Little Things that Make a Vacation Rental Perfect We’ve been at Pura Vida a week now with a few more days to go, and like most guests in a vacation rental, are fully settled. We know where stuff is in the kitchen, we have our own favourite spots to sit and enjoy the sun or shade, the fridge is stuffed with food 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 How We’ve Made $30K/Year Renting Our Primary Residence as a Vacation Home This is the first in a series of guest posts by owners sharing their unique stories. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, created a bit of controversy when he said that a home is not an asset, but a liability. This is because your home doesn’t make you money each year, but actually […]
