If you're just getting started in this industry, you will find that you'll have an endless to-do list and lots of shiny objects around every corner that you feel you need to be capitalizing on right now. I know this because I was there when I entered this industry five years ago. But if I were just starting today, these are the exact things that I would first focus on. I know from experience how easy it is to want to do it ALL right away. At least, that's how it was for me. M

Were you aware that there are two very different sides to hosting? And, in order to be an awesome host we really must excel in both areas. As a vacation rental owner myself, I realized this about a year into my journey and once I really truly realized this, our overall performance improved significantly. In this post, I'm going to cover the two sides of hosting and how you can excel in each area. In order to really excel at vacation rental hosting, you'll need to be both a gr

On this blog, I talk a lot about what to do to optimize your listing, but today I'm going to talk about the five awesome benefits after you're optimized. As a vacation rental homeowner myself for over five years, I would say that I truly started to notice these benefits about a year or so after being completely optimized. You may be optimized today and not seeing all of these benefits, but a lot of times it just takes a little bit of time for those to really come through. Let

Last week, I talked a little bit about how in the early days of managing our vacation rental, I spent too much time focusing on the wrong areas of our vacation rental marketing strategy. I wanted our vacation rental to increase bookings as quickly as possible, so I was throwing everything against the wall to see what would stick. Luckily, I saw some big wins pretty quickly by making these marketing updates. However, I also spent A LOT of time focused on some other areas that