EP214: This Week in the World of Airbnb
Summary
This episode of Get Paid For Your Pad dives into STR revenue management, emphasizing the importance of scheduled pricing routines, analyzing booking data, and understanding market trends. Hosts should create consistent pricing routines and analyze their booking data to optimize revenue and avoid common pricing mistakes.
Key Insights
- •Small daily price changes can increase exposure on OTAs.
- •The biggest revenue mistake most STR operators make is the lack of a daily and weekly pricing routine.
- •Reviewing every booking reveals pricing and demand signals.
Action Items
- ✓Adjust pricing based on weekends versus weekdays.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Schedule revenue management; don't be reactive.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Review bookings daily to look for pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com/)
Common Mistakes
- ⚠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.
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