EP182: This Week in the World of Airbnb
Summary
This article discusses revenue management strategies for short-term rentals, emphasizing the importance of a structured pricing routine. It provides insights into how hosts can leverage booking data, adjust pricing, and understand market dynamics to maximize revenue. Hosts should review their pricing strategies and routines to identify potential revenue opportunities and optimize performance.
Key Insights
- •Most STR operators make the biggest revenue mistake not because of their pricing tool but because of the lack of a daily and weekly pricing routine.
- •Early bookings can indicate underpricing or upcoming events.
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing, due to factors like product uniqueness and operational constraints.
- •Smaller markets like Kansas City, Boston, Seattle, and Philadelphia may outperform larger cities during the FIFA World Cup.
Action Items
- ✓Review every booking to identify pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Consider making small daily price changes to increase exposure on OTAs.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Prepare for a potential booking surge in the coming months due to the FIFA World Cup.Effort: mediumImpact: high
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Get a Free Revenue Review
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Watch Out For
- ⚠Most hosts underperform not because they lack tools, but because they don’t know what to look at, when to look at it, or how to interpret booking behavior once it shows up.
- ⚠Hosts make the pricing mistake when they try to fill early instead of letting demand mature.
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