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How to Boost Owner Acquisition & Retention in Vacation Rentals

โ€œWith more competition in the market, acquiring and retaining owners is a large determinant of running a successful management business. Itโ€™s always a challenge...

Using Purpose-Built Tools to Better Serve Your Vacation Rental Business

โ€œThe ecosystem of ancillary technology enables vacation rental managers to work more efficiently. Short-term rental managers have gravitated away from one-size-fits-all technology and rely...

Creating a Digital Marketing Ecosystem To Drive More Revenue

If itโ€™s possible to find a silver lining in the cloud that was 2020, the resilience of the vacation rental industry might be it....

Takeaways from Airbnb’s First Earnings Call as a Publicly Traded Company

Yesterday, Airbnb held its first earnings call as a publicly traded company following the release of its Q4-2020 financials. For vacation rental managers listing...

Photo Staging to Wow Renters

Cabin fever is an inevitable result of the COVID-19 lockdownsโ€”a good thing, of course, for owners of vacation rentalsโ€”but an attention-grabbing online presence is...

One Size Doesnโ€™t Fit All in Owner Acquisition

Great homeowners are the foundation of every vacation rental management business, and each year, attracting them becomes more of a challenge. As OTAs increasingly...

21 Jump Seat: Passenger or Pilot?

2021 Will Be the Year That Managers Stop Being Passengers and Start Piloting Their Own Marketing Futures The story of the past decade in vacation...
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Marketers: Too Soon to Plan for 2022?

In the vacation rental industry, 2020 was a story of haves and have-nots. For leisure vacation destinations with strong drive-to markets, short periods of...

Fact or Fiction? Mythbusting Hot Vacation Rental Trends

Last year was disruptive to our sense of normalcy in so many ways, and the typical trends and patterns weโ€™ve come to count on...

Fast Growth at Homes & Villas by Marriott International

Senior Director Travis Riner Shares Insight into Objectives, Growth, and Future Plans Marriott International jumped headfirst into the vacation rental industry in May 2019 with...

Expedia CEO Talks Vrbo: We ‘Removed Vrbo from Googleโ€™s Vacation Rental Meta Productโ€™

During todayโ€™s Expedia Group earnings call, CEO Peter Kern and CFO Eric Hart told its investors that Vrbo provided a bright spot for the...

The Pace Report Is Dead

I think it was 2010 when I read a blog post titled, โ€œSEO Is Dead,โ€ written by a then-active vacation rental marketing leader. The...

Stays Group Vacation Rental Network Opens SoutheastStays

The member driven marketplace is part of the largest cooperative network of independent vacation rental brands working together to drive the book direct initiatives...

Rented joins Vacation Rental Women’s Summit as Presenting Sponsor

With gratitude, we're excited to announce that our friends at Rented are joining VRM Intel as presenting sponsors for the upcoming 2021 Vacation Rental...
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Survey Shows 31% of Those Who Traveled after COVID-19 Stayed in a Short-term/Vacation Rental

Last week, VRM Intel conducted a consumer survey through Google to get an idea about how many people traveled in 2020 after March (After...

Rented Launches New Automated Rate Tool for Vacation Rental Professionals

Rented, a widely-used revenue management partner for vacation rental professionals, today announced the launch of Art, an Automated Rate Tool that helps property managers...

Vrbo Is Performing Better Than Airbnb for Vacation Rental Managers, But Direct Booking Still Number One Revenue Source . . . By A Lot

Is Airbnb the top booking source for vacation rental managers? Not by a long shot. Looking at $2.4 billion in 2020 rental revenue received by...

4th Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day Is February 3, 2021

The Fourth Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, recurring on the first Wednesday in February, is coming soon. On February 3, 2021, short-term and vacation...

Timing is Everything: The Impact of Seasonality on COVID Recovery for Southeast Destinations

Itโ€™s easy to make blanket statements about vacation rental performance. Throughout this year, weโ€™ve heard many of them: โ€œVacation rentals are doing well.โ€ โ€œBeach...

Learn How You Can Unleash Your โ€˜Limitless Female Energyโ€™ During VRMโ€™s Thought Leadership Series Featuring Author/Speaker Amber Hurdle

Enrolling her audience in โ€œYou Universityโ€ for the day, author/speaker/consultant Amber Hurdle urges nearly 300 attendees to self-reflect, saying, โ€œToday, I want you to...

How to Use Website Traffic to Gauge Demand for Your Market

Knowledge of supply and demand is critical to any business. It determines nightly pricing, minimum stays, marketing, and so much more. It is so...
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Elements of a Property Detail Page: How They Can Make or Break Your Bookings

Property detail pages (PDPs) on your website, as well as the vacation propertyโ€™s assets you provide to your channel partners, are crucial aspects for...

Airbnb Goes Public. CEO Brian Chesky: “Travel is never going to look like it did in January”

The day is finally here. Airbnb begins a new chapter in its story with today's Wall Street debut. Priced at $68 with a $47B...

Fast-Paced Revenue Management: The 10-Minute, $10,000 Mistake

โ€œLife moves pretty fast. If you donโ€™t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.โ€ โ€“ Ferris Bueller   Classic movie. Basic...

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