The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Larry Klimczyk joins me from IVHE.com where he’s part of the team offering a superb way to get  a second huge benefit from your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Investment in the form of a brilliantly crafted Holiday Home Exchange.

We talk about what we can do as holiday let | Vacation Rental Owners to stand ut from the crowd and be exceptional.

PLUS!! A whopping great deal for Holiday Let Success Listeners!!

Listen for the code and head to the website at www.holidayletsuccess.com/ivhe to find full details of the OFFER!!

Blogging Brainstorm - What to Blog About on Your Holiday Let Website

So you've got your shiny new website and started to set tine aside to write a blog and then.......blank!!

What to write about??

This episode looks at the different ways to get you thinking on what is the best thing to talk about to attract your target audience. Today we look at brainstorming:

1. Your target audience - who is your ideal guest?

2. The local area - what attractions are there?

3. The local businesses you regularly use when you're staying in your holiday home, or what attracted you to the area in the first place

4. Putting yourself back in the shoes of your guest, what did you ask when you first started looking into the area?

5. Types of blog post - how to get you at least writing something, and then expanding on it !

Listen to the full episode to hear all the different ways to use area, your contacts, your existing knowledge to get you blogging to attract the right people and to position yourself as an expert in your area and as a caring, knowledgeable Holiday Let | Vacation Rental owner.

Hear the full episode at www.holidayletsuccess.com/blogging

Annette Morganroth joins me from Beds24.com where she is head of Marketing and Customer Relations. Beds24.com is a booking system for holiday home | vacation rental owners and agencies, it's a comprehensive booking system with availability calendars for your website that is there to make the management of your holiday home simpler and take some of the repetitive jobs out of your hands.

As you'll hear in the episode, it's a hugely powerful tool that goes beyond the standard bookings and availability calendar.

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The short Answer is YES!!

In this episode we look at Why you should have a blog on your Holiday Let Website.....

How it can help you make great connections, get found more easily in search results and give your credibility

Listen to the full episode www.holidayletsuccess.com/blogging

Hot Topic right now - Dynamic Pricing for Short Term Rental!

Doug Ross from Everbooked joined me on the podcast to talk about the hot topic of Dynamic Pricing for Short Term Rental

Doug Ross is the Co-founder and Business Developer at Everbooked, a dynamic pricing tool that works with your airbnb listing and gives you additional insights into your local market so you can stand out

Listenb to the full episode and start applying these principles in your business:

www.holidayletsuccess.com/everbooked

Creating your website for your Holiday Let is a hugely important step - let's look at some of the simplest ways to get up and running and some of the things you should be looking out for!

A look at some of the best resources to get you up and running quickly with your own Holiday Let | Vacation Rental website and start building your online presence outside of the listing sites and start building your business independence and a 'base' for sharing your updates and local information that will be useful to visitors to your area.

Includes resources and videos at www.holidayletsuccess.com/website

Andrew Carlone from Coral.Life joins me on the Podcast

Andrew Carlone is the Co-founder and CEO of Coral.Life, an interactive home guide and guest management tool that shares valuable information about your property and the local area to truly maximise the guests experience. And make life easier for you as hosts.

Andrew shares:

*His background and how he started out in the vacation rental | Holiday Let industry | Airbnb world.

*How the creation of the Coral.Life tool come as a solution for a need you saw within the industry and his experience as a user of the sharing economy

*Who Coral is for

*What Coral.Life is and how it works and helps owners maximise the guest experience

*How Coral.Life improves the experience of the guest

*When Coral.Life created and  how it was created for the Airbnb platform but even during beta is already being developed for many, many more places!

*Andrew describes the Host experience and the guests experience and talks  about how easy it is to get set up?

*The costs involved in using Coral. Life

*His guiding philosophy in the Industry

Hear the podcast now at www.holidayletsuccess.com/coral

How to create an opt in for your holiday let website

As we talked about why you need to be bringing visitors from your website onto you email list on the last episode.

This episode takes you to the next step - how to create it and how to deliver it, plus how to collect the email address!

Listen to the podcast now and look out for the accompanying video series that walks you through step by step.

www.holidayletsuccess.com/create

In this episode we're looking at the list!

*What is your list?

*Why do you need a list?

*How do you get someone on your list?

*What do you do with them now they're on your list?

*A few opt in ideas

*Running an online competition and the regulations surrouding that

I have created a list of 48 opt in ideas for Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Owners that will get your ideas flowing and hopefully give you something you can use as your own opt in so you can start building your list and marketing your holiday let to your list of already interested  people, nurturing them and helping them decide on booking with you.

You can get your hands on this super useful list at www.holidayletsuccess.com/optin 

Then you can also see what it's like to opt in and see how my opt ins are delivered to those who subscribe

The next episode we will move onto the next step and talk about how to create an opt in, how to deliver it and the different email delivery tools available.

Cleanliness is Next to Godliness | Systemising your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Business

Join me as I talk about the impact exceptional cleanliness has on your reviews and guest experience.

Plus how to reclaim hours of time and mental energy by systemising the processes within your holiday let | vacation rental business.

Head over to www.holidayletsuccess.com for free downloads that will help you run your business more efficiently and with more fun!