It’s that time of year when we take stock of our lives. Look back on the past year and think about our highs and our lows. Our holiday home is no exception. It’s time to reflect on the amount of time, hard work and sometimes stress you’ve put into taking paying guests this year. Was […]
How hard can it be turning your second home into a holiday home? After all it’s only a word change isn’t it? Well, it’s not hard but there’s more to it than a word change! Before you can start earning from your second home, and operate it as a holiday let there are certain changes that need to be […]
Recently I’ve been looking to book a family holiday for one week in July, so I turned to the listing sites where I could deal directly with the onwer. Thinking this would be the easiest, quickest, and smoothest way to book. Sadly, my recent experience as a guest, is a lesson in how not to behave […]
When setting your pricing you must always: offer value for money know your ideal guests then market your value for money property to them 1. Value for Money Take this example of two holiday apartments. Apartment 1 is a one-bed basic apartment priced at £300 a week. It’s basic, no extras; what you see is what you […]
Holiday Rental Success to me, is providing my guests with the best possible holiday experience I can. I want that experience to be amazing. So how do you deliver an amazing holiday rental experience? You focus on the detail! A property may be in a great location, have excellent facilities and be surrounded by fabulous restaurants. But that’s not enough. It’s […]
Talking Mindset These are the questions as a holiday rental owner you should ask yourself (the Should Ask Questions); to find out if your mindset is in the right place. The right place to move your business forward and to earn more! After all, that’s what we all want. How many of the following do you answer […]
Are you family-icious? Get your holiday rental family-ready. As we all know, self-catering holidays are a popular choice for families. Whether it’s parents with pre-school children taking holidays out of peak season or families with school age children booking your property during the school holidays, it’s a big market. To ignore the family market is to […]
As holiday rental owners, that’s exactly what we want to do – increase profits from your holiday home. But how? Some would advocate you invest as little as possible, offer your holiday rental for a mediocre amount of money each week and as a result fill it as many weeks as possible. But why? When there’s so little […]
Boutique hotels are synonymous with stylish interiors, attention to detail, personal touches and great customer service and therefore attract high-end guests. These qualities are the same as I teach, advocate, and live and breath as a holiday rental coach and owner. And as owners of quality holiday properties I know you will be offering these […]
Do you know you need help with your holiday home? Yet you plough on, chasing your tail, trying to manage it and run it all by yourself. Yes? Well you need to get help! That’s certainly how I used to be. But I had a choice; to carry on complaining about how much I had to do or […]
Think of a mantra as “a guiding principle which inspires you to do whatever special things you do” (Roger von Oech). As holiday rental owners we too should have guiding principles. They should be at the heart of what we do and will make what we do rather special. I’d say I have many guiding principles, […]