EP226: This Week in the World of Airbnb
Summary
This article from Get Paid For Your Pad discusses revenue management strategies and CEO focus for STR businesses. It emphasizes the importance of consistent pricing routines, understanding booking signals, and strategic prioritization to avoid overwhelm and improve profitability. Hosts should review booking data, schedule revenue management tasks, and ensure their CEO time is spent on high-value activities to increase revenue and avoid getting stuck in the hectic host stage.
Key Insights
- •Being busy does not mean your STR business is progressing.
- •CEOs waste 30 to 50 percent of their time on low-value activities.
- •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.
- •Early bookings can indicate underpricing or upcoming events.
- •Small daily price changes can increase exposure on OTAs.
Action Items
- ✓Schedule revenue management tasks, rather than being reactive.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Review every booking to reveal pricing and demand signals.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Identify and address the biggest bottleneck in your STR business.Effort: mediumImpact: high
Tools & Resources
- →Freewyld Foundry: Learn more about Freewyld Foundry
- →Freewyld Foundry: Get a Free Revenue Review from Freewyld Foundry.
Watch Out For
- ⚠The biggest revenue mistake most STR operators make isn’t their pricing tool… but the lack of a daily and weekly pricing routine.
- ⚠CEOs often get pulled into low-value tasks, hindering business growth.
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