





How Do You Know If Your Email Reached Your Prospect? Check This Out!
Have wondered why you sometimes don’t get any reply from travelers who sent you an inquiry? Why is that?
Maybe they booked something else already.
Maybe they changed their mind.
Maybe they didn’t like your offer or the way you responded.

My New Year Resolution: Take ‘YOU’ To Full Occupancy
Now that for the 9th year in a row, I have plenty of time to focus on what I do best and what I love most, besides hosting guests from around the world in our rentals, I can share how I do what I do, so you can model and achieve better results.

Matt Landau & Vacation Rental World Summit
Download the prioritization matrix used by Matt Landau for determining your main action plan. A pretty useful matrix to keep at hand at all times.


Your Mentors and Mastermind Group
What is a Mastermind Group? What if you could rely on a small group of likeminded, super committed peers to help you out? This is what this article explains

How Good Is Your Lead Photo?
There is way more than just a good photo to encourage viewers to click on Your advert over the dozens they see on the same page of your listing site. Tyann Marcink shares her secrets to win over your competitors.

What if They Shut Down Your Business Overnight?
If you rely heavily or solely on listing sites to bring you business and bookings I would strongly recommend that you read this open letter to AirBNB written by a SuperHost who saw his business literally go bust overnight without any explanation.

Reviews and Testimonials 2.0 – Want to ‘Really’ Stand Out?
There is a simple tool that can provide you with genuine reviews and raving testimonials to skyrocket your reputation. And best of all, it's free!

Regaining Control (aka Listing Sites Independence)
What are you struggling most with when dealing with listing sites and OTAs? Learn how Vince Perez from FetchMyGuest found a great recipe for independency.

Your #1 Asset (and the top 3 tools nobody is telling you about)
In your Quest for independence from OTAs and listing sites, your own website plays a fundamental role. Vacation Rental Website design and 3 great tools nobody is telling you about is what the first session of the Vacation Rental World Summit will focus on.

Where is the VR Industry heading to?
I recently had the pleasure to interview Andrew McConnell from VacationFutures.com, who shared some pretty interesting data on the current state of the VR Industry for the upcoming Vacation Rental World Summit.
You can view what Andrew shared at http://vacationrentalworldsummit.com/industrytrends

Can You Guess Who ‘Mister X’ Is Going To Be?
We like surprises, especially good ones. We decided to leave the last speaker of the Vacation Rental World Summit uknown until the very end. Can you guess who he/she is?

Vacation Rental World Summit 2014
In 2014 we had this crazy idea of putting together the first ever online educational event in the Vacation Rental Industry. Probably not such a crazy idea, if 15,472 owners and managers from around the world gathered together to watch it.

What Would You Like To Learn This Year?
2014 will be a pivotal year in the VR industry: a few big changes are expected to be introduced by major players, and they may affect the way we've been managing our Vacation Rentals so far. So we need to stay focused and updated on what's going on, what's working and what may not work anymore without you even knowing it...

Signals – How To Know If Your Prospect Opened Your Mail
On a previous article we mentioned the existence of a pretty cool new tool released by Hubspot called Signals: a free script you install in one click, which allows you to track all your email messages and find out when they reach your targets and what they do with your content.

Extend Your Booking Season
A questions we get asked more often at the events we speak to is the following:
"How Can I Extend My Booking Season"?
It is a pressing need of most property owners and we found a pretty interesting solution!