Debunking Direct Booking Myths to Elevate Your STR Independence
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Explore how to build independence as a short-term rental host by unravelling the truths about many direct booking misconceptions that could be holding your business back from success in our latest roundtable with 6 industry experts. Including appearances from Boostly, Hospitable, StayFi, Bookster, The Book Direct Show and an Airbnb Coach.
Expert Tips on Fostering Guest Loyalty to Maximise Repeat and Direct Bookings
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Know Your Guest interviewed 6 industry experts to highlight the importance of direct bookings and all the ways you can foster guest loyalty and captivate your guests for endless return visits. Our inside look at how to attract repeat guests is loaded with industry tips and tricks to help maximise your direct bookings, deliver exceptional guest experiences and build your strategies for success.
How to Market Your Short-Term Rental Business on Instagram
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If you’re struggling to get to grips with your vacation rental marketing strategy and feel something is missing, Instagram could be your missing puzzle piece. With these valuable tips and tricks provided by The Short-Term Rental Hotelier, you can master your Instagram vacation rental marketing strategy and grow your business. The podcast episode is also available now.
10 Direct Booking Secrets OTAs Don’t Want You to Know
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watch our pre-recorded webinar with industry experts to learn how to target your audience, enhance your brand presence, leverage email marketing, drive website traffic, and more through direct booking strategy. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to take your vacation rental business to the next level. Unlock the OTA secrets now!
30 Must-Have Amenities For Your Airbnb
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You must go the extra mile to truly ‘wow’ your guests. With these top 30 essential Airbnb amenities, you can impress and delight your guests, win 5-star reviews and provide an unforgettable stay for all the right reasons. Invest in amenities guests want – Free WiFi – Hot Tubs – Smart Locks – Pet Friendly
The 10 Best Airbnb KPIs to Track as a Vacation Rental Host
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Key performance indicators also known as KPIs are useful metrics used by hosts and property managers to help measure, monitor and manage their rental properties’ performance. KPIs can be categorised by revenue, guest experience, operation and marketing metrics. Check out the 10 best Airbnb KPIs to track for your vacation rental property.
Know Your Guest for the Short-Term Rental and Hospitality Industry
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Know Your Guest follows a similar standard of risk management as the Know Your Customer global financial guidelines, ensuring hosts and property managers in the short-term rental and hospitality industry can verify their guests and assess the risk level of every reservation.
8 Hosting Tips For Spring Break 2023 to Prevent Parties and Damage
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Know how to stay safe during spring break 2023 whilst scaling your business and protecting your short-term rental properties from parties and damage. Here are Know Your Guest’s 8 hosting top tips. Host without trouble and stop unauthorised guests from entering your properties.
How to Have Good Guests by Being a Great Host – The Ultimate A-Z Guide.
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Discover the short-term rental algorithm for managing unmanageable guests with our ultimate A-Z guide on how to have good guests by being a great host, including vacation rental top tips, checklists, guides and risk management technology.
7 popular online short-term rental courses property managers and hosts should check out
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An overview of the vacation rental industry’s most recognised online short-term rental courses that will help boost property managers’ and hosts’ knowledge of the industry, technology and operations, and keep them up to date with best practices so they can stay ahead of the competition.