The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Coponis is just the best thing you can put in the hands of the guests who visit your holiday home-via an app on their mobile phone, it’s a complete management and information tool for the safe and smooth running of each guests stay.

You add all the information about your holiday home from keys to how the washer works, safety info, location info, weather, security, things to do, cash points, local parking, local shops, everything you could possibly want your guest to know in the palm of you hand.

Freeing up time for you, increasing their enjoyment of their stay with you and even following up with texts and asking for feedback after the holiday! It’s cheap and easy to implement, yes there’s some typing to do but no more than creating the essential welcome pack for your guests that you would do anyway plus Coponis connects with google and draws in local info and weather details, saving you even more time-Amazing!! I use it in my holiday home and I love it and so do my guests.

 You can hear my interview with Dan Whiting of Coponis at www.holidayletsuccess.com

This is the first episode of the Industry News Blog which is just going to be short little dittos of pieces of information that I have found which are going to be really really relevant to our world as holiday home owners | vacation rental owners. I'll be bringing news updates, trends from the worldwide travel industry.  I'm doing this because I am slightly obsessed with the travel world and particularly in the holiday lets | vacation rental industry but a lot of things that go on in the entire travel industry as a whole around the world, whether it's directly within the holiday let | vacation rental industry will affect our particular area so I have started to collect and notice some trends and I think it be useful for them to it to come across you and I hope they are useful and it may well affect the way that you continue to build your business as a holiday home owner for the future and hopefully this will show you little piece of information you can just tweak the way you run your business or you market your business or systemise your business how you interact with guests and how you attract people to your business and that ongoing contact with them, So this first short ditto we are talking about mobile and how things are changing rapidly.

Get the free ebook '25 Top Resources for Holiday Let Success' at www.holidayletsuccess.com

Systemizing is one of the most important things you can do for your business and one way of doing this is through a management system that tracks the entire process.

Websites and the importance of your own when dealing with your holiday let business is something else we chat about, the templates available from HLS Solutions and their useability plus the Free management system they come with.

We also chat about keeping in touch with your guests and postential guests and how to keep in touch once you've extablished a connection with them along with some of the providers out there that can help you do this

Head on over to www.holidayletsuccess.com to read the show notes and check out some of the providers we discuss.

Has Facebook become a slightly worrying, unknown area for you as a Holiday Home | Vacation Rental Owner?

The answers to all your Facebook worries and concerns such as

How to get more likes?

How to get more engagement?

How to use groups?

Paid or unpaid adverts?

What do I do with my likes after I get them?

All these and more questions are answered in this episode with the undisputed Queen of Facebook Valerie Shoopman. Valerie is a regular guest in a Vacation Rental herslef on a yearly basis so we truly see how Facebook can work for you from a guests point of view, so you can add value to them and their stay with you!

Have you ever considered podcasting to add value to your holiday let/vacation rental business? 

Either as a holiday home owner or as a Holiday letting/vacation rental agent?

Listen to some great info on what we got up to at the Ukpod14 get together, where we discussed podcasting for business and how it can help you, plus how to start!

If you want to find out a little more about how podcasting can help you, contact me at www.holidayletsuccess.com and go to the contacts page!

Hear Alans guiding principals that he teaches to all his Holiday Home owners taking his series of courses 'BookingPlus4G' 

Hear how to increase your online presence, website views and ultimately bookings, for FREE!

Bringing a whole new angle to advertising vacation rentals..

Informed = Booked, check out the show notes at www.holidayletsuccess.com

Gay Friendly Vacation Rental Accommodation-It's the attitude that counts.

www.holidayletsuccess.com for the show notes and links to Louises article

You never get a second chance to make a first impression

What makes accommodation gay-friendly? Is there a distinction? Louise and I discuss these questions and more so that we as holiday home owners are able to offer the best of the best to our audience of guests, and do it right!

Industry Expert-Director and founder of New Mortgage Solutions, Francis Worman, joined me to discuss the importance of preparation and research when considering finance for a Holiday Let Property.

Find out what your options are for financing your new venture.

Micro subletting and AirBnB are a huge topic of conversation and are really shaking up the Vacation Rental/Holiday let scene, and giving hotels a run for their money.
Mikey is turning his extra livable space into extra income and it's not just a bit more income for now, he's paving the way for a long term financial plan based on his Blueprint for Success in AirBnB. Having gone on to buy a second property and plans for a third, all from the income he's made from micro subletting!

He's here to share exactly how he’s doing it and you can do it too! head over to www.holidayletsuccess.com and listen in!

From Property investor to Overseas property investor to Vacation Rental owner to podcast host. Taylors history and experience across these ever changing property markets is clear in his interview, he thinks a little differently and that's why he is able to make his investment work in the market he has invested in.

Since launching his podcast, The Overseas Property Investor Insider, Taylor has got to know some of the people at the top of the Vacation Rental | Holiday Let game and he shares some of their lessons here: From Jasper Ribbers to Thibault Maisson, past guest Heather Bayer and John Grey of HomeAway.

The future in the industry is as exciting as ever!

Read back through what we discussed at www.holidayletsuccess.com there's a lot to handle!