The Story Behind 500 Episodes of Get Paid For Your Pad
Summary
This article is a collection of insights from the "Get Paid For Your Pad" podcast. It includes advice on revenue management, leadership for STR CEOs, and comparisons between hotel and Airbnb revenue management. Hosts can benefit from the advice shared in these episodes to optimize their business.
Key Insights
- •Being busy does not mean your STR business is progressing, and decision fatigue can pull CEOs into low-value tasks.
- •STR revenue management must be scheduled, not reactive.
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing due to product uniqueness and operational constraints.
Action Items
- ✓Review bookings as data to identify pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify the biggest bottlenecks in your STR business.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry
- →Freewyld Foundry: Get a Free Revenue Review from Freewyld Foundry
Watch Out For
- ⚠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.
- ⚠Trying to fix everything at once slows growth.
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