EP070: How to Get a Job at Airbnb with Nina Mufleh
Summary
This article discusses revenue management strategies for short-term rentals, emphasizing the need for structured routines, analyzing booking data, and understanding the differences between hotel and STR pricing. Hosts should focus on daily and weekly pricing reviews, understand booking windows, and recognize how operational constraints impact pricing. It also discusses the impact of the FIFA World Cup on STR demand.
Key Insights
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing due to product uniqueness, booking windows, guest behavior, and operational realities.
- •Countries such as Germany, Brazil, Spain, England and Argentina drive heavy international travel to FIFA World Cup host cities.
Action Items
- ✓Prepare for a booking surge from FIFA World Cup by analyzing potential ADR lift and focusing on the cities and matchups that will generate the strongest demand.Effort: mediumImpact: high
- ✓Review every booking to reveal pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com)
Common Mistakes
- ⚠Many 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.
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