Grow Your Email Marketing Database
StayFi is a system I have been utilizing in my own rentals for just about a year now to help grow my email database. In the past, I would only be able to collect the email of the guest who initially booked one of our spaces but not all of the guests that were staying. […]
Host Survival Guide
What You CAN Do: The Host Survival Guide to Social Distancing Almost every person on earth has experienced some impact from the Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Depending what part of the world you’re in, the impact could already be months in maybe you’re just days into this. Here in Nashville, it started with the cancelation […]
Taking Care of Myself & My Home (during COVID-19)
As I mentioned in my earlier post, even before the Corona virus (COVID-19) took hold of our world, this has been a pretty rough year for me. It was also a busy year and I had taken virtually zero time for myself or my home. I’d even missed being able to do my annual “New […]
Coping in the Age of Corona
Typically, I am the kind of person you want around in a crisis/ urgent/ emergent situation because I’ve always been able to act quickly and logically under enormous amounts of pressure. However, as news about COVID-19 started hitting closer to home both figuratively and literally, it was all I could do to even go through […]
#BookDirect Day 2020
What is #BookDirect Day? Championed by Amy Hinote and the team at VRM Intel, the Third Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, is February 5, 2020 – and is recurring on the first Wednesday in February every year. With a multitude of new travelers searching for vacation rentals, vacation rental managers and homeowners will join forces […]
3- Months in to Airbnb Plus: My Take To-Date
In September of last year, several Nashville hosts got the long-awaited email announcing that Airbnb Plus was coming to town. At first, the invite seemed like a badge of honor. Hosts were buzzing and excited. Quickly, the excitement turned into skepticism. Stories began surfacing that included things like: “Airbnb Plus photographer was a no-show […]
5 Tips for Success on the OTAs
For many of us, we began our vacation rental journey using the OTAs such as Airbnb, HomeAway/ VRBO) and still market our homes there today. How to be successful on the OTAs is something that I get asked about often so I thought I’d share my top 5 tips for success. Assuming you’ve done your […]
#BookDirect Day: Why Every Host Should Care
What is #BookDirect Day? Championed by Amy Hinote and the team at VRM Intel, the Second Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, recurring on the first Wednesday in February every year. With a multitude of new travelers searching for vacation rentals, vacation rental managers and homeowners will join forces for one day with a singular message […]