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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...

What’s Going on with Google and Vacation Rentals?

What if the Only Website You Ever Needed for Travel Booking was Google.com? Related: Before you read this, check out: Google Adds Vacation Rentals   By Susan...

Rethinking Communication for Smoother Operations and a Better Guest Experience

With the push for quality and rising expectations of property owners and guests, vacation rental managers are working harder than ever. The job requires...

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...

Google Adds Vacation Rentals to Hotel Search

Google has officially jumped into the vacation rental industry, leading to both excitement and trepidation among rental providers. To be quite candid, much is unknown....

VRMs Give Back: The Power of Giving Back

Amilcar is a sweet, intelligent sixth grader who loves technology and math. He wants to be a dentist when he grows up and has...

The Future of Brand Marketing

Expanding the Radius of Your Brand with Like-Minded Brand Amplification As we close out the first quarter of 2019, we are seeing continued changes that...
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Who Are We? The Consequences of the Expanded Scope of the “Private Accommodations” Industry

The Scope of the Vacation Rental Industry has Broadened, Forever Changing the Playing Field for Property Managers If it seems like the vacation rental industry...

Revenue Management: Who’s in Your Driver’s Seat?

Revenue Management has gone from an arcane subject to perhaps the most discussed topic in our industry (including an upcoming conference hosted by VRM...

 Is Your Guest Wi-Fi 5 Stars?

We pretty much expect great Wi-Fi wherever we go these days. Sitting on an airplane at 30,000 feet? Better be able to watch online...

HomeAway Software Trends Report Reveals What Vacation Rental Managers Need to Know in 2019

Over the past two years, the vacation rental industry has continued to evolve rapidly. HomeAway Software recently published its 2019 US Vacation Rental Trends...

Sea to Sky’s Heidi Stuber is Running for Seattle City Council

Heidi Stuber has officially thrown her hat in the ring for a position on Seattle’s City Council. Stuber is the strategic director at Sea...

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,...

Vacasa Acquires Sterling Resorts

Vacasa has acquired Sterling Resorts, one of the largest vacation rental management companies on the Florida Gulf Coast. Previously purchased by Pacifica Companies in...
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First Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference to be held in Atlanta, August 6-7

With the creation of comparative data and pricing tools, the science of revenue management for the vacation rental industry is quickly evolving and has...

The Transformation of Today’s Vacation Rental Industry: What is going on out there? By Simon Lehmann

If you can keep track of everything that is happening in our fast-transforming vacation rental industry, then you are a genius. Let’s face it, for...

Vacation Rental Tax Guide from Vacasa

It’s officially nine days until tax day in the U.S.; and while many might be ahead of the curve, there are millions of Americans...

VRM Intel’s Spring Issue is Heading Your Way

  The latest issue of VRM Intel Magazine is at the printer and heading your way soon, and here is a link to the digital...

UK’s Sykes Holiday Cottages Acquires Major Stake in New Zealand’s Bachcare

UK holiday rental firm Sykes Holiday Cottages acquired a major stake in Bachcare, New Zealand’s largest vacation rental management company. Since 2003, Bachcare has been...

Expedia’s rebrand of VRBO to Vrbo leads to feedback and questions about the HomeAway brand

Today, Expedia announced that it has rebranded VRBO.com to Vrbo.com and asks consumers to pronounce the marketplace name going forward as “ver-boh” instead of...

Maximize Revenue with Transactional Content

Content can often feel overwhelming to produce, but when written with intent, vacation rental managers have the incredible opportunity to boost their brand, integrate...
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Unlocking Travel for All: How VillaKey is Making Vacations Accessible for Families with Autism

“I got an opportunity just a couple weeks ago to spend some time with one of our families in Orlando,” said Alice Horn, founder...

Embracing the end-to-end guest experience: How Leslie Preston built Bachcare, New Zealand’s largest property management company

In 2003, Leslie Preston bought a vacation rental home in Hahei, New Zealand, a small beach community in the Coromandel region. When she began...

Carrying the Torch: 5 Generations of Vacation Rental Hospitality

When Walt Plimpton was 10 years old, his job was to tow a little red wagon from cabin to cabin collecting trash bins and...

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