Share VRS262 – The Virtual Concierge – How to Turn Amazon Echo into A Digital Voice Assistant If you’d like to turn your Amazon Echo or Google Home into a concierge service for your guests, Dana Young from Virtual Concierge Service is here to tell you how. From responding to a request for a wifi password to sharing information on the best local restaurants and even providing white noise on demand for […]
Share VRS260 – Sense of Place: Season 2 Review with Matt Landau Season 2 of Sense of Place will premiere on YouTube on December 19th as host, Matt Landau takes us around the globe showcasing passionate owners and managers and their fabulous locations. Matt made a brief appearance at the VRMA conference in Las Vegas in October with a trailer of the new series, sponsored this time […]
Share VRS259 – How to Choose the Right Property Management Software for Your Vacation Rental Business Property management software has made massive advances in the last ten years. The fully featured options offer everything you could possibly need to run a sizeable vacation rental company from owner and guest portals to website and channel management, housekeeping and maintenance scheduling to trust accounting …and much more. Once you decide you need a […]
Share VRS258 – 2018 VRMA International Conference Review with Amy Hinote of VRM Intel There are few people in this industry with a better finger on its pulse than Amy Hinote – editor and publisher of VRM Intel. She joins me today to give her overview on the VRMA conference we just attended in Las Vegas, and to talk about some of the highlights…..and lowlights. As always Amy is […]
Share VRS257 – Building My Vacation Rental Website – Part Two In this second part of the series on building a vacation rental website, the Chief Marketing Officer of Vacation Rental Formula talks about the thorny topic of theme selection. Finding the right theme to showcase your property and the location content you are going to build is a necessary but often time-consuming task. There are […]
Share VRS256 – Getting On Your Vacation Rental Guests Wavelength with Tyann Marcink You know that feeling when it seems like another person just ‘gets you’? You feel respected, understood and comfortable that they know what your likes and dislikes are, and that you are being cared for. In today’s episode, VR Mastered founder Tyann Marcink helps us explore how to get on our guests’ wavelength, and deliver […]
Share VRS255 – How To Free Up Time With A Virtual Assistant When the time comes that you’re just too overwhelmed with working in your business, that you can’t work on it to make it more successful, you are pretty much in need of help. If the thought of employing someone full-time is too much to consider, a virtual assistant might be a great alternative. I suppose […]
Share VRS254 – Creating a Vacation Rental Hygge Experience with Sarah Bradford What do you want your guests to feel when they walk into your home? If it’s instant contentment, comfort, and a feeling of ‘I got this so right,’ you are on your way to mastering the Danish art of Hygge (Pronounced “hoo-ga”). “Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik […]
Share VRS253 – Exploring the Blended Accommodation Landscape with Ian Ackland of Booking.com In this episode, we take a broader view of our business with long-time travel professional, Ian Ackland who is Booking’s Regional Manager for Connectivity and Vacation Rentals. For starters, he talks about what he does and what ‘blended accommodation’ actually means. As Ian explains traveler preferences are steering the need for a wide variety of […]
Share Keeping Up With Changes in the Vacation Rental Industry We live in an ever-changing world. As technology advances, making life arguably easier, systems and processes get adapted, amended, and in some cases replaced altogether. And we have to keep up or get left behind as our industry progresses. I’m part of the generation that grew up without the internet; I was in my 20s […]
