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Meet StayFi, a wifi and marketing solution for vacation rental management companies

Thibault Masson

How about a solution that could help you easily deploy and manage wifi across your properties, while enabling you to ...

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Syncing Airbnb, Booking and Homeaway calendars – it’s free and easy with iCal

Rex Brown

In a previous article I explained how you can avoid double bookings with a Channel manager – but there is another ...

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Airbnb Management Software for Multi-Property Owners:

Thibault Masson

You’ve got a few properties under your belt and are well on your way to running a successful property rental ...

Operating instructions – When less is more

Rex Brown

The Airbnb host thought she had it right for guest entertainment.  A massive TV, expensive surround sound system, Blu-ray player, ...

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Ending the double booking nightmare – via channel managers

Rex Brown

A double booking is the vacation rental owner’s worst nightmare. It usually comes as a confused call from a guest trying to ...

Humility – a cautionary tale about OTAs

Rex Brown

I was on a roll.  In the second half of 2018, my Sea Zen vacation rental calendars were blocked out ...

Getting the little things right – via feedback

Rex Brown

Are you leaving money on the table because the little things are wrong? We have all seen one vacation rental ...

Are you missing the obvious for your Vacation Rental?

Rex Brown

So your vacation rental listings are perfect, right?  But what if you are missing something? It is amazing what a ...

Six predictions for vacation rentals for 2019

Rex Brown

What will 2019 bring?  It’s time to take a deep breath and make some predictions. HERE ARE MY TOP SIX ...

Facebook marketing for vacation rentals

Improve your own Facebook ads by using this trick to discover which ads companies like Airbnb, Stay Alfred and Guesty are running

Thibault Masson

If you are running a growing short-term rental business, you may have tried several times to run ads on Facebook. ...

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Branding & Quality Consistency: What startup vacation rental property management companies can learn from Airbnb Plus, Stay Alfred, Tujia and others.

Thibault Masson

Brands, created by property management companies like Lyric, Sonder or Domio, as well as by OTAs (e.g. Airbnb Plus, Tujia ...

Predicting leading OTAs and laggards – the Trends tool

Rex Brown

HOW ARE YOUR OTAS PERFORMING? Where should you be putting your efforts into getting bookings for your vacation rental? Wouldn’t ...

The gift that keeps on giving

Rex Brown

The gift voucher Do you offer a gift voucher on your website? It is a very useful way of increasing ...

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How I can read 28 vacation rental blogs every day (sharing this tool with you)

Thibault Masson

How do you keep up with vacation rental news? It can be crazy: There are plenty of valuable blogs around, from ...

Professional Photographer advice for vacation rental owners

Rex Brown

How do you get the best professional photographs? Is it hit and miss – or is there a sure fire ...

Why I fired a good cleaner

Rex Brown

The cleaner I fired A few years back, I had to make a difficult decision  when I fired a good ...

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What’s in a name? You’d better care!

Rex Brown

There’s a great name game going on and it’s serious. This is the great name game: On the one hand, ...

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Is Facebook dead for Vacation Rental bookings?

Rex Brown

You might be wondering why I haven’t posted an article about social media rccently. It is because I haven’t seen ...

Optimizing your vacation rental for HomeAway

Rex Brown

We continue with our series on optimizing your performance on the big listing sites – this week HomeAway.  It has ...