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Summary
This article from Get Paid For Your Pad discusses revenue management strategies and CEO focus for STR operators. It highlights the importance of consistent pricing routines, recognizing market signals, and prioritizing strategic tasks over being overly busy. Hosts should review their pricing strategies and CEO focus to optimize revenue and business efficiency.
Key Insights
- •The article emphasizes that consistent routines and schedules for revenue management are more important than any single pricing tool or rule.
- •CEOs of STR businesses often waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities, which becomes more dangerous as the business scales.
Action Items
- ✓Review bookings daily and weekly to identify pricing and demand signals, and adjust pricing accordingly.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓STR CEOs should re-evaluate their priorities to ensure time is spent on high-ROI activities instead of reactive tasks.Effort: mediumImpact: high
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Freewyld Foundry is mentioned.
- →Get Paid For Your Pad: The article mentions Get Paid For Your Pad as a source.
Watch Out For
- ⚠CEOs getting bogged down in low-value tasks that slow growth.
- ⚠STR operators underperform because they lack consistent routines to review data, or don't know what to look at, when to look at it, or how to interpret booking behavior.
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