The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Rod Fitts is the President of AVROA, The Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates, which exists to form an allegiance within our Industry. Their mission statement says it all: To be the place where owners, managers and companies affiliated with VR industry can connect and take advantage of the benefits that naturally occur when people and organizations work together.

In this episode I talk to Rod Fitts of AVROA and we look at the power of working together as Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Owners, to create a super group of owners who can work together as one and influence the future of our Industry.

Listen to the full episode at www.holidayletsuccess.com/avroa

Protecting you and your Property Investment are essential parts of owning and running your own Holiday Let Business - and it's essential that you have the correct cover. Holiday Let Insurance is specialised insurance - there to ensure a range of scenarios are covered, specific to the needs of a Home that runs as a business.

In today's episode I share 5 Insurers that are well known for what they do, have great feedback and cover homes around the world. Each insurer has their own set of locations, property types, inclusions, exclusions and terms and conditions unique to them. Each should be thoroughly researched for suitability to your particular circumstances.

Hear the full episode, link through to the individual insurers and listen to past episode with Phil Schofield from Schofields Insurance at www.holidayletsuccess.com/ins

Nick Elston from Signable joins me on the podcast. Signable offer an online document signing portal where you can securely and legally get all your documents signed, regardless of your location.

In this episode we look at lots of time saving benefits of using an online signing portal in our Holiday Let Businesses, as well as addressing some of the concerns around using a service like Signable.

Head to the page at www.holidayletsuccess.com/signable

How to keep control of your Holiday Home wherever you are, save time and money and increase your bottom line!

Join me on this exciting episode where I share some of the most inredible home automation tools available today that can really shift how you run your holiday home, improve the experience for guests and really get you standing out from the crowd!

www.holidayletsuccess.com/homea

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Rentals United CMO Vanessa De Souza Lage. Rentals United provide an online booking portal, or central calendar, that allows you to advertise on many listing sites or advertising channels without having to log into each site individually.

In this episode Vanessa explains how using a channel manager gives you access to adverting you may not ordinarily be able to reach due to the logistics of managing lots of calendars individually and actually saves you time in running your business on a day to day basis. The online portal provides a central location for your calendar and manages all your advertising channels, saving you hours of work in your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental or Serviced Accommodation Business.

www.holidayletsuccess.com/rentalsunited

7 Solutions to overcome time sapping activities within your Holiday Let Business

If you're a Holiday Let Owner who wants better results with your Business but you struggle with finding the time to keep everything running you need These 7 Tools to Increase Bookings in your Holiday Let!

Tune into this episode of the Podcast where I cover 7 of the best and most useable, time saving, organisational tools out there! I use all of these tools in my business on a day to day basis and they have truly made my life in running my business much easier. I also use some of these tools in my ordinary life to stay organised too.

www.holidayletsuccess.com/7tools

Join me on this episode as I continue my conversation with Andy McNulty.

Andy founded Touchstay and Guest Hook - this episode looks at Guest Hook, a copywriting service for Holiday Home Owners...those days when you're stuck for what to write on your listing, website, newsletter or marketing email could be long gone with Guest Hook!

If you're not at the stage where you want to take on a professional service, Andy offers some insights into what makes Copy great and how you can apply these principles inyour own writing for you Holiday Let Business.

Head to www.holidayletsuccess.com/guesthook to hear the whole episode and access to the shownotes.

Ep 058: The 14 Habits of Highly Successful Holiday Home Owners

Retrain Your Mind to Have The Best Version of Your Holiday Let Business You Possibly Can

And yes Stephen R Covey got it down to 7, but I have consistently found 14 ways I’ve learned to retrain my mind inside the Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Industry. I’ve learned a lot from speaking to many, many incredible people in the Industry and these 14 traits, mindsets or principals are what have consistently stood out to me. When the best are the best these traits are there and run through to the core of the owners business.

Loads of awesome automation tools shared in this episode too - check them all out and listen to the podcast at www.holidayletsuccess.com/14

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Andy McNulty of Touchstay, Andy is a long term advocate of the Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Industry and has stayed in over 30 Holiday Homes over the years, so he has a real insight into what it's like to be a guest in a Holiday Let and what information Owners really need to be sharing with guests to make a really memorable Holiday!

This beautiful product allows you to share vital information with your guest, giving them a memorable experience and saving you time and energy in keeping a physical welcome book up to date!

Read the full post at www.holidayletsuccess.com/touchstay where you will also find a video of the Touchstay brochure created for one of my holiday homes so you can see the product in full working order for yourself!

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Vacation Rental Marketing specialist Antonio Bortolotti, Antonio is the proactive and inspirational owner of Casa Teulada, a rustic villa in Sardinia and the author of Vacation Rental Secrets, and the founder of the Vacation Rental World Summit

Find all the details here www.holidayletsuccess.com/antonio

We discuss many things Vacation Rental marketing and the future of the Industry in 2016 and how we as owners can adapt and thrive this year and beyond plus:

• What we can expect from this years event with the Vacation Rental World Summit
• What Antonio is dedicated to owners coming away from the event with
• Antonio's guiding philosophy for holiday home owners in today's market
• Where he thinks the future of the Holiday let | Vacation Rental industry is headed
• Antonio's advice to market their property successfully in 2016 and beyond