EP220: This Week in the World of Airbnb
Summary
This 'Get Paid For Your Pad' episode discusses STR revenue management, focusing on scheduling routines and analyzing booking behavior. Hosts should implement daily/weekly pricing reviews, paying attention to booking signals and market trends to optimize revenue. The episode also highlights the importance of CEO focus and avoiding the "hectic host" stage.
Key Insights
- •Early bookings can indicate underpricing or upcoming events.
- •Small daily price changes can increase exposure on OTAs.
- •Pattern recognition is becoming one of the most important CEO skills.
- •Hotels can rely on last-minute demand, but STRs cannot.
- •STR rate drops must be deeper near arrival than hotels.
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing.
- •CEOs waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities.
- •Weekends require different attention than weekdays in terms of pricing strategy.
- •Last-minute inventory tells you about demand and visibility.
Action Items
- ✓Review every booking to identify pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Rethink priorities and recognize patterns inside your business.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify whether a problem is worth solving right now.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Schedule revenue management routines, rather than being reactive.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify the biggest bottlenecks in your STR business.Effort: mediumImpact: high
- ✓Understand how booking windows shape revenue strategy.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com/)
- →Freewyld Foundry: Get a Free Revenue Review from Freewyld Foundry(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com/report)
Common Mistakes
- ⚠STR operators stay stuck in firefighting mode, rather than closing the root cause.
- ⚠Trying to fix everything at once can slow growth.
- ⚠Confusing action with momentum can stall growth.
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