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Introducing the Facebook Live Video Series - 151 Power Tips for Holiday Let Success! Join me daily for 151 days of Power Tips to help you Increase Bookings | Reduce Costs | Save Time in your Holiday Let Business. Each tip is carefully designed to be reletively simple to implement and includes an HLS Challenge and Quote of the Day! The book of the same title will be releasing in the next few weeks as well - so make sure you're subscribed to get the first notifications so you can get your hands on a copy straight away! head over to www.facebook.com/holidayletsuccess to watch daily and catch up on what's already there. Catch 151 Power Tips on Youtube too at http://bit.ly/28KCEJF

This episode shares a great service for holiday home owners who have a UK based Holiday Let Property. Sorry to miss out the overseas owners, this exciting initiative may however give you a new look at how to manage your utilities and there may be a service provider local to you doing something similar or if you're considering a UK based Holiday Let, this is another great reason for the UK! Ashley Tate from Split the Bills joins me to share the time saving, admin saving idea that is Split The Bills. www.holidayletsuccess.com/split

How to begin property investing for financial freedom using Holiday Let Properties Join me on the podcast as I talk to experienced UK based property Investor John Kerr and he shares the strategies he's used to grow his income from his property portfolio using many of the principals we as Holiday Let Owners have in place - he shares real tip on how to begin property investing for financial freedom using Holiday Let Properties. Listen to the full episode and read the show notes and see all of John's recommendations at www.holidayletsuccess.com/pip  

Join me on the podcast as I talk you through and help you to answer the question - Do I Need a Website for My Holiday Let Vacation Rental Business? - here's 12 Top Reasons you should get your own Holiday Let Website Right Away! It's the first step in taking control of the future of your Holiday Let Business! How much better would it be to look forward knowing you can take control of the future of your Holiday Let Business and accept direct bookings, on your terms? I absolutely believe that having your own Wordpress Website is the best way of creating your own online presence and starting to take control of the future of your Holiday Let Business, here's 12 great reasons to get started today! Listen today www.holidayletsuccess.com/podcast

With guests wants and needs changing with the way they book – In 2016 instant online booking is becoming more and more prevalent. Should we as Holiday Home owners allow the instant online booking feature on our websites and through the listing sites? The big argument of should we as Holiday Home owners allow the instant online booking feature rumbles on and on. We’re being pushed by the big listing sites to allow online bookings, it’s something their huge amount of visitors to their sites are starting to expect, if not demand. I’m pretty certain that towards the end of 2016 online booking of Holiday Let | Vacation Rentals is going to be the norm. Where do you stand this issue? And what are guests top 4 requirements for booking a Holiday Let or vacation rental in 2016, we'll take a look in this podcast! Ready to start taking bookings directly from your own website? Enroll in our Premium online course and build your own website for your Holiday Let - step by step with support along the way at Holiday Let Succe

Join me on the podcast as I walk you through 5 Powerful Tools you can start using inside your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Business to automate some of the repetitive but essential tasks and save time in the day to day running of your Holiday Let Business. We cover time saving across Marketing, Guest Care and Home Automation   Take our completely Free Online Course:   Social Media 101: Introduction to Social Media for Holiday Home Owners

047: Understanding What's At Stake   Join me on this episode where we look at the huge responsibility we have has Holiday Let and Vacation Rental Owners to ourselves, our holiday let guests and to our Industry!   www.holidayletsuccess.com/industry

Build Your Holiday Let Portfolio | Mark Walker | The Business Builder   Amazing Offer for HLS Listeners worth £250 in this episode!!   Mark Walker is a long time entrepreneur and one of his ongoing loves is property, he has built himself an extensive and varied portfolio and some of that portfolio includes Holiday Let Homes. I know Mark has learned a lot along the way and continues to learn and share his experiences and passion for the property across industries. Mark also has experience in business building, speaking, investing and he is a renowned coach and mentor.   www.holidayletsuccess.com/bizbuilder

We are all really clear that photography is absolutely imperative in our Holiday Let or Vacation Rental Businesses - It's the window into our Holiday Let, it help the guest to understand what they can expect, if it's what they're looking for and what the Holiday Let is close to. But video helps you take things a step further and can help you to connect with your guest before they've even arrived, put them at ease and truly ensure they have everything they need in real time. This episode looks at when and how to get started using video before you're even ready! I talk about how to get going quickly, simply and cost effectively. Download the cheatsheet I talk about that details all of the resources I use to create lovely looking, personally created video for my potential guests. www.holidayletsuccess.com/video

Larry Klimczyk joins me from IVHE.com where he’s part of the team offering a superb way to get  a second huge benefit from your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Investment in the form of a brilliantly crafted Holiday Home Exchange.   We talk about what we can do as holiday let | Vacation Rental Owners to stand ut from the crowd and be exceptional.   PLUS!! A whopping great deal for Holiday Let Success Listeners!!   Listen for the code and head to the website at www.holidayletsuccess.com/ivhe to find full details of the OFFER!!  

Blogging Brainstorm - What to Blog About on Your Holiday Let Website   So you've got your shiny new website and started to set tine aside to write a blog and then.......blank!!   What to write about??   This episode looks at the different ways to get you thinking on what is the best thing to talk about to attract your target audience. Today we look at brainstorming:   1. Your target audience - who is your ideal guest?   2. The local area - what attractions are there?   3. The local businesses you regularly use when you're staying in your holiday home, or what attracted you to the area in the first place   4. Putting yourself back in the shoes of your guest, what did you ask when you first started looking into the area?   5. Types of blog post - how to get you at least writing something, and then expanding on it !   Listen to the full episode to hear all the different ways to use area, your contacts, your existing knowledge to get you blogging to attract the right people and to position yourself as an expert i

Annette Morganroth joins me from Beds24.com where she is head of Marketing and Customer Relations. Beds24.com is a booking system for holiday home | vacation rental owners and agencies, it's a comprehensive booking system with availability calendars for your website that is there to make the management of your holiday home simpler and take some of the repetitive jobs out of your hands.   As you'll hear in the episode, it's a hugely powerful tool that goes beyond the standard bookings and availability calendar.   GET 2 MONTHS FREE FOR HOLIDAY LET SUCCESS LISTENERS!   Go to www.holidayletsuccess.com/beds24 to find out how!

The short Answer is YES!!   In this episode we look at Why you should have a blog on your Holiday Let Website.....   How it can help you make great connections, get found more easily in search results and give your credibility   Listen to the full episode www.holidayletsuccess.com/blogging

Hot Topic right now - Dynamic Pricing for Short Term Rental!   Doug Ross from Everbooked joined me on the podcast to talk about the hot topic of Dynamic Pricing for Short Term Rental   Doug Ross is the Co-founder and Business Developer at Everbooked, a dynamic pricing tool that works with your airbnb listing and gives you additional insights into your local market so you can stand out   Listenb to the full episode and start applying these principles in your business:   www.holidayletsuccess.com/everbooked

Creating your website for your Holiday Let is a hugely important step - let's look at some of the simplest ways to get up and running and some of the things you should be looking out for! A look at some of the best resources to get you up and running quickly with your own Holiday Let | Vacation Rental website and start building your online presence outside of the listing sites and start building your business independence and a 'base' for sharing your updates and local information that will be useful to visitors to your area.   Includes resources and videos at www.holidayletsuccess.com/website

Andrew Carlone from Coral.Life joins me on the Podcast   Andrew Carlone is the Co-founder and CEO of Coral.Life, an interactive home guide and guest management tool that shares valuable information about your property and the local area to truly maximise the guests experience. And make life easier for you as hosts.   Andrew shares:   *His background and how he started out in the vacation rental | Holiday Let industry | Airbnb world. *How the creation of the Coral.Life tool come as a solution for a need you saw within the industry and his experience as a user of the sharing economy *Who Coral is for *What Coral.Life is and how it works and helps owners maximise the guest experience *How Coral.Life improves the experience of the guest *When Coral.Life created and  how it was created for the Airbnb platform but even during beta is already being developed for many, many more places! *Andrew describes the Host experience and the guests experience and talks  about how easy it is to get set up? *The costs involved i

How to create an opt in for your holiday let website   As we talked about why you need to be bringing visitors from your website onto you email list on the last episode.   This episode takes you to the next step - how to create it and how to deliver it, plus how to collect the email address!   Listen to the podcast now and look out for the accompanying video series that walks you through step by step.   www.holidayletsuccess.com/create

In this episode we're looking at the list!   *What is your list? *Why do you need a list? *How do you get someone on your list? *What do you do with them now they're on your list? *A few opt in ideas *Running an online competition and the regulations surrouding that   I have created a list of 48 opt in ideas for Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Owners that will get your ideas flowing and hopefully give you something you can use as your own opt in so you can start building your list and marketing your holiday let to your list of already interested  people, nurturing them and helping them decide on booking with you.   You can get your hands on this super useful list at www.holidayletsuccess.com/optin    Then you can also see what it's like to opt in and see how my opt ins are delivered to those who subscribe   The next episode we will move onto the next step and talk about how to create an opt in, how to deliver it and the different email delivery tools available.  

Cleanliness is Next to Godliness | Systemising your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Business   Join me as I talk about the impact exceptional cleanliness has on your reviews and guest experience.   Plus how to reclaim hours of time and mental energy by systemising the processes within your holiday let | vacation rental business.   Head over to www.holidayletsuccess.com for free downloads that will help you run your business more efficiently and with more fun!

Karen is the Founder of The Business of Holiday Rental & is a successful holiday home owner, running her luxury holiday home, Spring Cottage, based in Yorkshire.    Karen shares her guiding principles of running the best version of your holiday let | vacation rental business possible.   She shares what holiday home | vacation rental owners struggle with the most and how to overcome it, along with:   *Her biggest failure *Her biggest successes *Where she sees her best marketing returns *The importance of photography *How to ask for and use feedback *How to stage your holiday home for a photographer   Plus some great free downloads that you can start using in your business right now!   Go to www.holidayletsuccess.com/biz