Julie George’s Takeaways from Coaching 52 Airbnb Hosts Through Legends
Summary
This article summarizes key takeaways from a coach who helped 52 Airbnb hosts scale their businesses in the Legends X program. It highlights the importance of dynamic pricing tools, focusing on a specific guest avatar, and creating systems to remove yourself from the day-to-day operations. It also covers revenue management routines and the CEO mindset needed for scaling an STR business.
Key Insights
- •The coach, Julie George, built and scaled a property management business of 130 listings and generated $8M in income in two and a half years, starting with one property in 2016.
- •CEOs waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities, which is dangerous as STR businesses grow.
- •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.
Action Items
- ✓Hosts should focus on using dynamic pricing tools for optimizing revenue.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓STR managers must think differently if they want to win in today’s market, as the pricing is much harder than the hotel industry.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Take yourself out of the day-to-day operations by creating systems and processes.Effort: mediumImpact: high
Tools & Resources
- →Pricing Optimization Tools: The article mentions the use of pricing optimization tools.
- →Minut: The article mentions the use of sensors to monitor noise, such as Minut.
- →Get Paid For Your Pad: The article mentions Get Paid For Your Pad and their podcast episodes.
Common Mistakes
- ⚠STR operators may make the mistake of having a lack of a daily and weekly pricing routine.
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