EP210: How To Manage Multiple Listings with AirGMS
Summary
This article is a collection of insights from the "Get Paid For Your Pad" podcast. It covers topics like revenue management routines, CEO strategies for STR businesses, the differences between hotel and STR revenue management, and how to avoid operational overwhelm, offering hosts valuable advice for improving their STR business.
Key Insights
- •Early bookings can indicate underpricing or upcoming events, and consistent routines matter more than any single pricing rule in revenue management.
- •STR pricing is dramatically harder than hotel pricing due to product uniqueness and operational constraints, like cleaning and minimum stays.
- •Smaller markets like Kansas City, Boston, Seattle, and Philadelphia may outperform larger cities during events like the FIFA World Cup.
Action Items
- ✓Review every booking to reveal pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify and address the biggest bottleneck in your STR business to improve efficiency.Effort: mediumImpact: high
- ✓Prepare for the booking surge and be aware of potential pricing mistakes during events like the FIFA World Cup.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry.
Watch Out For
- ⚠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.
- ⚠STR operators stay stuck in the hectic host stage even as they grow.
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