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Stop Doing it Yourself: Prepare to Delegate in 2020

What is it that keeps you from delegating? More often than not I hear, “It is just easier to do it myself versus training...

Call Scoring: Moving the Needle with Call Scoring and Coaching

Listening to recorded calls for reservation sales and guest services offers invaluable insight into how company’s values are being reflected in direct phone communications....

Naming Vacation Homes: 10 Advantages to Naming the Vacation Properties in Your Inventory

Tara. Pemberley. House of the Seven Gables. Graceland. Oak Alley. Mount Vernon. The idea of naming homes isn’t new, but the practice seems to...

VRM Intel Magazine Winter 2020 is Here!

The Winter 2020 issue of VRM Intel Magazine is here. From the top of the marketing funnel to the gunk of deep cleans, this...

Measure what Matters: Analytics Planning for 2020

We are all drowning in data, and most of us do not want to admit out loud that we aren’t quite sure where to...

VRM Intel Live! coming to Destin, January 23, 2020

VRM Intel Live! is coming to Sandestin's Baytowne Wharf Conference Center, January 23, 2020, with 20 educational sessions and workshops for professional vacation rental...

Owners and 3rd Party Channels: Convincing Homeowners to Pursue New Guests using Expedia and Booking.com

The way guests book vacation rentals (VRs) has changed dramatically in the past five years. One of our Gulf Coast clients with 200 properties experienced...
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Scaling Your Business: 5 Focus Areas For Human Resource Managers

In the vacation rental industry, we frequently hear chatter about scaling businesses. The topic of scaling is a nebulous idea that may leave some...

The Pricing Technology Process: How hoteliers combine data, pricing tools, software, and revenue management services.

What Can VR Revenue Managers Learn from the Hotel Industry? With more and more emphasis being placed on vacation rental revenue management, what do we...

Email Overload: Train Your Vacation Rental Team to Overcome Flooded Inboxes

Not so long ago in the lodging business, a long meeting or a day off would mean returning to a stack of handwritten notes...

20-question survey for vacation rental managers. We need your input.

For vacation rental professionals, we need your help! Will you help us by taking a 20-question survey about your thoughts about the future of the...

A Basic Primer on Short-term Rentals with a Cheat Sheet and Checklist of Considerations for City Officials

An increasing number of municipalities are looking for the best way to regulate short-term rental regulations, and elected officials are understandably confused about how...

Win 2 VIP Tickets to the Vacation Rental World Summit in Lake Como, October 5-6 by Sharing Your Best #BookDirect Strategy

We are looking for innovative and/or proven strategies property managers and hosts are using get more direct bookings. Share your best tactic, idea, or strategy...

2019 Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference Photos and Videos

The first Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference is in the books, and we wanted to share some photos from the event along...
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Revenue Management Glossary for Vacation Rentals

Revenue Management in the vacation rental industry is a discipline that is growing and developing at a fast pace. At VRM Intel, we collaborated...

Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference to be held in Atlanta, August 6-7

Update: We just added a few more seats to the previously sold out inaugural Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference at the Atlanta...

Smart City Policy Summit 2019

Inaugural Short-term Rental Regulations Forum Coming to Austin, August 16 When I was coming up in local politics, a community leader would hold meetings throughout...

Trust Flow Matters

Expedia’s recent revenue miss is flushing out the true state of OTAs as it relates to our industry. Doing away with the HomeAway brand...

How Company Culture Impacts Hospitality

Almost five years ago, Hannah Lau Zarley had the opportunity to transition from the multifamily side of technology to the vacation rental industry. Her...

Trust Accounting is not Just for North Carolina Vacation Rental Managers

When people hear the terms trust or escrow accounting, their first thoughts may be “that does not apply to me” or “I am not...

Why Coaching Soft Skills is so Different from Training Hard Skills

According to LinkedIn data, 57 percent of senior leaders feel soft skills are more important than hard skills. Interviewing candidates on hard skills is...
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How to Start a Podcast

Boost Your Influence with a Travel Podcast Around 48 million Americans listen to podcasts every week. By any measure, that’s a lot of listeners. As...

Bedbugs, Block Parties, and Broken Bones

Safeguard Your Short-Term Vacation Rental Business from the Unexpected With the growing number of vacation rental insurance options available today, it can be difficult...

Asset Management vs Property Management for Second Homes

Are You an Asset Manager, a Property Manager, or Both? We often think of real estate asset managers as managing commercial real estate portfolios. However,...

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