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Summary
This article summarizes key takeaways from several episodes of the "Get Paid For Your Pad" podcast. It covers topics like revenue management, CEO strategies, and comparing hotel versus Airbnb revenue management. It's recommended for hosts to review revenue management routines and understand the strategic focus needed as businesses scale.
Key Insights
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing.
- •CEOs waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities.
- •Most hosts 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
- ✓Review every booking to reveal pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Review pacing on a weekly basis using Market Penetration Index (MPI).Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify the biggest bottleneck in your STR business and prioritize CEO-level attention.Effort: mediumImpact: high
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry
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