12 tips on How to Promote your Airbnb on Instagram

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Instagram is an essential part of the marketing mix for your Airbnb if you want to maximize your earnings. What do I mean by marketing mix? Marketing mix means the combination of social channels, websites, reviews, and general content about your Airbnb on the internet. However, as this and many other articles show, people are … Read more

How to price your Airbnb

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The short answer of how to price your Airbnb effectively is to examine the competition and price yourself in the mid-range to start with and as you get more reviews, to gradually increase your price. The one additional comment I would make is that there is a definite relationship between the quality of your photographs … Read more

Reasons not to host on Airbnb (use these platforms instead)

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This article is about solid, specific reasons to investigate hosting on other platforms, and the problems that there are with just relying on Airbnb with specific reasons. Airbnb’s Vetting Process Airbnb substantially limits your own vetting process for guests. You have to rely on their vetting system, which gives you a microscopic about of information … Read more

Best Airbnb Locations (updated 2022)

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Location, Location, Location As the saying from the renowned hotelier  Conrad Hilton goes to be successful in property it’s all about “Location, Location, Location.” In this article I want to give you a short but thorough understanding of, in my opinion, good locations to run Airbnb or short-term rentals and also bad locations. As the … Read more

21 Things You Can Do Cheaply To Make Your Airbnb Shine

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Guests love thoughtful details. When you stay in a hotel and there are chocolates beside the bed, doesn’t that make you feel good (appreciated)? Yes of course. In this post, I’ve got 40 ideas for you to really make your short term rental shine which is really very inexpensive. And of course, the more you … Read more

Reasons for your Airbnb to have a website!

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There are a ton of really compelling reasons for your short rental property to have its own website. Most important of all, it’s your ‘internet business card’ and gives people a way to contact you directly for those lucrative direct bookings. But there are many other compelling reasons too. Let’s check each one out: 1. … Read more

10 ways to market your Airbnb (that are guaranteed to work in 2022)

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This article covers 10 different ways to promote your listing on Airbnb that will result in more customers paying higher prices and staying for longer. This is an in-depth article of all of the things that most Airbnb hosts don’t do. They’re leaving money on the table. If you do these things, I would bet … Read more

Check out all your options to bill short rental guests

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Many people don’t realize that you have many options as to how to charge your guests for their stay with your short-term rental. It’s true that with some platforms you only have one option, but generally, this just refers to Airbnb. This article is all about the different ways that you can charge guests and … Read more

How To Protect Your Home When Listing On Airbnb

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If you do your homework first, you speak to your guests, they have good reviews, and you trust your instincts then you’ve got nothing to worry about (probably), and you’ll find 99% of your guests are problem-free. But is that assurance from me enough? Probably not. So instead I’ve brainstormed the ultimate checklist for to … Read more

21 Common Mistakes Airbnb Hosts Make. Let’s fix them!

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Airbnb hosting isn’t for everyone. Many people think they’ll be able to run an Airbnb business and then struggle. In this article, we examine the common mistakes Airbnb hosts make when they starting out (and when they’ve been doing it for a while) and offer solutions to each problem. 1. Not trying out Airbnb yourself … Read more

How to get more bookings for your short-term rental!

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This is the question I hear everyone asking. “How do I get more bookings on Airbnb”. This article isn’t going to address how to write a great Airbnb profile, that’s covered elsewhere, we’re going to look at expanding your horizons, and then looking at some actionable tips. But really simply, if you want more bookings … Read more

How to make your Airbnb wheelchair friendly.

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Making your Airbnb let wheelchair friendly isn’t just something to do because it might get you more bookings, or might get you ranked higher in the search algorithm. It’s something you should do because it’s a good thing to do, and why on earth shouldn’t people in a wheelchair have access to Airbnb properties? Think … Read more