The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Yvonne changed the face of her Bed & Breakfast business, from £10K to £50K profit in 1 year.

How did she do this? 

Join me as Yvonne shares how she used techonology, social media, automation, systemisation and good old fashioned customer care to change the face of her business and her life and how you can apply the same principals in your business.

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Thibault Masson joins me for a second time to share more of his 17 years in the Holiday Let | vacation Rental Industry:

We specifically cover powerful advice that you can apply in your own Holiday Let or Vacation Rental across areas such as:

*Managing your property from a distance

*Managing your team from a distance

*Collecting and using feedback

*Social Media

*Advantages of having your own website

*Business resources

*Antonio Bortolotti

*List building

Tibo's key advice:

"Your guests don't rent a bedroom, they rent a home"

Don't forget to head over to www.holidayletsuccess.com and click the 'Leave Voicemail' button on the home page. Share with me your comments and experiences and join me on a future podcast!

I absolutely loved meeting Mercedes and having her share her knowledge around the design of vacation rentals | holiday let homes. In the show, Mercedes shares powerful information on what can make or break a vacation rental and she's broken it down into an absolutely fantastic blog post which you can read below that shares her expertise.

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Are you still in 2 minds about whether or not to get a photographer in to show your holiday let | vacation rental off to it's absolute best?

Even though you know it could make a big difference to your business and the bookings you attract? I totally understand, it feels like a big spend, it feels like a lot of work to stage your place, how can you be sure it'll make a difference?

This may well be the solution!

Shootstay - Trade the open dates of your vacation home | holiday home for great professional photos or videos for free.

It's simple, straightforward and free.

Created by John McElligot, a professional photographer and lover of vacation homes, he noticed that not all properties had great photos and started asking what would make photography more accessible for owners and he found the solution in Shootstay!

Join me as I chat to Tony Raynor. Tony and his wife, Alison, bought and renovated Windermere Cottage in the Lake District here in the UK.

Windermere Cottage opened for bookings in February of 2014 and has been fully booked ever since.

Tony shares:

* Their biggest mistakes

* Their biggest successes

* Their marketing strategy

* Their social media strategy

* How they've used videography

* Research and how important this step has been in their rise to success

Read all about it and get in touch with Tony via www.holidayletsuccess.com

Gareth K Thomas of Reserve Apartments joins us today to share his knowledge and expertise on the front line, specialising in apartment lettings in the Edinburgh and Glasgow areas of the UK.

He shares:

*5 Key elements of your Holiday Let website

*5 Key elements of your Holiday let  Listing 

*How feedback has helped their business evolve and serve their guests

*Personal contact and it's importance

Learn all this and more is this episode over at www.holidayletsuccess.com

I'm hugely honoured to be joined by Thibault Masson, who is an extremely successful holiday home owner. He has focused solely on his vacation rental business full time since 2013, but he has been in the business for 17 years.

Thibault shares:

Today I welcome Ian Woolley from HLS Solutions, he joins us for a second time to introduce more services that benefit Holiday Home Owners | Vacation Rental Owners, their free advertising platform 'Holiday Letting Finder'  and the lettings agreements they have produced.

Listen in and learn how to get involved, access that big marketing budget and protect yourself and your business with the right agreements here:

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I'm a huge fan of systematising the running of your holiday let property, it's the fundamentals of any business and your holiday let property is a business too, and you are a business owner. I want you to enjoy your holiday let business, and implementing systems will help you to get to enjoyment as you'll know what is going on and when as well as who is doing each task at any given moment! Here's the basic list taken from my Maintenance system that I use in my holiday let property, here's to happy winters!

Listen in now at www.holidayletsuccess.com

Vicky Wilkins joins us from VK Colourworks, an interior design company from Devon over here in the UK.

Vicky shares some of the case studies of the holiday homes that she has worked on, changing the face of the business forever. Some going from failing desperately to thriving!

She shares some of her tips on where to spend your money when making over or doing up your holiday home ready for rentals from scratch. And of course where to save, their focus is on working to a budget so they are super switched on to this.

icky kindly put together a short breakdown of the brilliant formula she uses when decorating a holiday home, either for a complete redesign or when decorating and furnishing a holiday home for the first time you can download  '10 steps to interior bliss for Holiday Home Owners'

 www.holidayletsuccess.com/vicky-wilkins