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Breaking Accessible Travel Barriers How do we as Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Owners offer accessible accommodation, what are the requirements? How do we ensure we are offering a smooth, straightforward and stress free stay for someone who is travelling with disabilities? In this episode, Srin Madipalli Co-founder of Accommable.com, joins me on the podcast and we talk all things accessible accommodation and hopefully allay the fears that owners have of providing the right type of equipment to fit the needs of someone travelling with a disability and ensure their stay is stress free. www.holidayletsuccess.com/accommable

5 Steps to Running a Competition in Your Holiday Let Business and Why You Should Do It In this episode I share the 5 Steps I follow when I'm running a competition in my Holiday Let Business, why I use competitions and the benefits I've seen in building my email list and in pulling in more bookings. I also run through the way I plan out my email marketing for the year and how to make offers direct to your email subscribers inbox. www.holidayletsuccess.com/comp   Do you want to learn how to use Facebook adverts in your Holiday Let Business? Make sure you let me know - if enough listeners ask for help in this area I will create a short intro course to get you up and running. Join the HLS Learning Hub here and access one of our existing free courses  

Rod Fitts is the President of AVROA, The Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates, which exists to form an allegiance within our Industry. Their mission statement says it all: To be the place where owners, managers and companies affiliated with VR industry can connect and take advantage of the benefits that naturally occur when people and organizations work together. In this episode I talk to Rod Fitts of AVROA and we look at the power of working together as Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Owners, to create a super group of owners who can work together as one and influence the future of our Industry. Listen to the full episode at www.holidayletsuccess.com/avroa

Protecting you and your Property Investment are essential parts of owning and running your own Holiday Let Business - and it's essential that you have the correct cover. Holiday Let Insurance is specialised insurance - there to ensure a range of scenarios are covered, specific to the needs of a Home that runs as a business. In today's episode I share 5 Insurers that are well known for what they do, have great feedback and cover homes around the world. Each insurer has their own set of locations, property types, inclusions, exclusions and terms and conditions unique to them. Each should be thoroughly researched for suitability to your particular circumstances. Hear the full episode, link through to the individual insurers and listen to past episode with Phil Schofield from Schofields Insurance at www.holidayletsuccess.com/ins

Nick Elston from Signable joins me on the podcast. Signable offer an online document signing portal where you can securely and legally get all your documents signed, regardless of your location. In this episode we look at lots of time saving benefits of using an online signing portal in our Holiday Let Businesses, as well as addressing some of the concerns around using a service like Signable. Head to the page at www.holidayletsuccess.com/signable

How to keep control of your Holiday Home wherever you are, save time and money and increase your bottom line! Join me on this exciting episode where I share some of the most inredible home automation tools available today that can really shift how you run your holiday home, improve the experience for guests and really get you standing out from the crowd! www.holidayletsuccess.com/homea

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Rentals United CMO Vanessa De Souza Lage. Rentals United provide an online booking portal, or central calendar, that allows you to advertise on many listing sites or advertising channels without having to log into each site individually. In this episode Vanessa explains how using a channel manager gives you access to adverting you may not ordinarily be able to reach due to the logistics of managing lots of calendars individually and actually saves you time in running your business on a day to day basis. The online portal provides a central location for your calendar and manages all your advertising channels, saving you hours of work in your Holiday Let | Vacation Rental or Serviced Accommodation Business. www.holidayletsuccess.com/rentalsunited

7 Solutions to overcome time sapping activities within your Holiday Let Business   If you're a Holiday Let Owner who wants better results with your Business but you struggle with finding the time to keep everything running you need These 7 Tools to Increase Bookings in your Holiday Let! Tune into this episode of the Podcast where I cover 7 of the best and most useable, time saving, organisational tools out there! I use all of these tools in my business on a day to day basis and they have truly made my life in running my business much easier. I also use some of these tools in my ordinary life to stay organised too. www.holidayletsuccess.com/7tools

Join me on this episode as I continue my conversation with Andy McNulty. Andy founded Touchstay and Guest Hook - this episode looks at Guest Hook, a copywriting service for Holiday Home Owners...those days when you're stuck for what to write on your listing, website, newsletter or marketing email could be long gone with Guest Hook! If you're not at the stage where you want to take on a professional service, Andy offers some insights into what makes Copy great and how you can apply these principles inyour own writing for you Holiday Let Business. Head to www.holidayletsuccess.com/guesthook to hear the whole episode and access to the shownotes.

Ep 058: The 14 Habits of Highly Successful Holiday Home Owners Retrain Your Mind to Have The Best Version of Your Holiday Let Business You Possibly Can And yes Stephen R Covey got it down to 7, but I have consistently found 14 ways I've learned to retrain my mind inside the Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Industry. I've learned a lot from speaking to many, many incredible people in the Industry and these 14 traits, mindsets or principals are what have consistently stood out to me. When the best are the best these traits are there and run through to the core of the owners business. Loads of awesome automation tools shared in this episode too - check them all out and listen to the podcast at www.holidayletsuccess.com/14

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Andy McNulty of Touchstay, Andy is a long term advocate of the Holiday Let | Vacation Rental Industry and has stayed in over 30 Holiday Homes over the years, so he has a real insight into what it's like to be a guest in a Holiday Let and what information Owners really need to be sharing with guests to make a really memorable Holiday! This beautiful product allows you to share vital information with your guest, giving them a memorable experience and saving you time and energy in keeping a physical welcome book up to date!   Read the full post at www.holidayletsuccess.com/touchstay where you will also find a video of the Touchstay brochure created for one of my holiday homes so you can see the product in full working order for yourself!

Join me on the podcast as I talk to Vacation Rental Marketing specialist Antonio Bortolotti, Antonio is the proactive and inspirational owner of Casa Teulada, a rustic villa in Sardinia and the author of Vacation Rental Secrets, and the founder of the Vacation Rental World Summit Find all the details here www.holidayletsuccess.com/antonio We discuss many things Vacation Rental marketing and the future of the Industry in 2016 and how we as owners can adapt and thrive this year and beyond plus:   What we can expect from this years event with the Vacation Rental World Summit What Antonio is dedicated to owners coming away from the event with Antonio's guiding philosophy for holiday home owners in today's market Where he thinks the future of the Holiday let | Vacation Rental industry is headed Antonio's advice to market their property successfully in 2016 and beyond

This episode of the podcast is an interesting one as I talk to Learn Airbnb, an online resource that shares the possibilities and realities of Airbnb and how to negotiate them and use them to your advantage and ultimately Increase Bookings In Your Holiday Let Business Join us over at www.holidayletsuccess.com/learnairbnb Remember to head to the Facebook Page to keep up with our LIVE Video series 151 Power Tips for Holiday Let Success at www.facebook.com/holidayletsuccess ! We'll see you there!

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