EP222: This Week in the World of Airbnb
Summary
This article from Get Paid For Your Pad discusses revenue management strategies for short-term rentals, emphasizing the importance of scheduled routines, analyzing booking behavior, and understanding the impact of factors like minimum stays and last-minute bookings. It also covers the CEO's role in STR businesses, identifying bottlenecks, and strategic focus for scaling.
Key Insights
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing.
- •Most STR operators 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.
- •Early bookings can indicate underpricing or upcoming events.
- •Small daily price changes can increase exposure on OTAs.
- •CEOs waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities, which becomes more dangerous as STR businesses grow.
Action Items
- ✓Review every booking to reveal pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Schedule revenue management; don't make it reactive.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry → https://www.freewyldfoundry.com(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com)
- →Freewyld Foundry: Get a Free Revenue Review → https://www.freewyldfoundry.com/report(https://www.freewyldfoundry.com/report)
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