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Sheli Grumet joins me from Guesty where she is Marketplace Business Development Manager. Guesty’s Marketplace is a collection of providers that offer services that contribute to Guesty's mission - tech that reduces the workloads of short-term property managers and provides the right tools to grow their businesses. www.hlspodcast.com/sheliguesty

Karen Mullins joins me from HomeAway, where she is Regional Managing Director for the UK and Ireland. HomeAway is a holiday rental marketplace offering more than 2,000,000 holiday rentals globally and was one of the very first listing sites to the Short Stay Industry Karen shares how the site is evolving with the Industry and is here to stay and shares her valuable insight in how to get the best out of the platform as Short Stay Providers and Karen also shares her unique insight into where she feels the Industry as a whole is headed for the future. www.hlspodcast.com/homeaway

Mark Simpson joins me from Boostly, the marketing agency for The Hospitality Industry, where he is founder - with 20 years in the Hospitality Industry and a mind for marketing and online tech, Mark has built up a wealth of knowledge on how to get your Short Stay to stand out from the crowd and take control of your own marketing as an accommodation provider www.hlspodcast.com/marksimpson

Deborah Heather joins me from Quality In Tourism, as part of M-Assessment services, they help Hospitality owners assure guests that their host is dedicated to high standards within their business to ensure a memorable guest experience. Take a look at the show notes and get in touch with Deborah at www.hlspodcast.com/qualityintourism

Simon Smith joins me from Lune Living - the UK Company dedicated to providing fine fabrics that are sourced ethically and are ecologically thoughtful, both in production and in the ongoing care of the fabrics. The Smith family have been producing fabrics since 1884, and have constantly evolved to meet the concerns of both their customers and the planet. For holiday home owners, keeping costs and their carbon footprint low is something that affects not only our bottom line, but how we plan to build a sustainable short stay industry for the future. Lune have very kindly offered a 15% Discount for Holiday Let Success Listeners - full details on how to claim your 15% Discount in the podcast. Listen today www.hlspodcast.com/lune

Fred Lerche-Lerchenborg joins me from Lavanda, the award-winning SaaS that is shaping the future of Short Stay Businesses, giving them the foundations on which to grow, scale & distribute http://hlspodcast.com/lavanda

Top Hog Humphrey Bowles joins me from GuardHog - GuardHog have created a seamless Tech experience for Hosts that ensures you only insure your Short Term Let for the duration of the bookings you have, offering a no nonsense way to cover and save in one dashboard. http://hlspodcast.com/guardhog

Vered Schwarz joins me from Guesty, where she is COO. Guesty is an end-to-end property management platform for short-term rentals, providing users with features including a multi-calendar tool that syncs all their listings, a unified inbox that syncs all messages across several channels in one place, automated task capabilities, 24/7 guest communication services and more. Recently the company raised $35M in Series C funding, bringing it’s total number raised to $60M, making it the highest-funded short-term property management platform on the market. Vered also talks to me about Women in the Industry and her recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine. Take a look at the full episode show notes right here www.hlspodcast.com/guesty

On 8th November 2019, the very first Short Stay Show Summit took place at the Hotel Hesperia Tower in Barcelona. Here’s what went down! www.hlspodcast.com/sssbarcelona

Short Stay Show Podcast - Big Data & Marketing - Graham Donoghue - Sykes Cottages Graham Donoghue is CEO at Sykes Holiday Cottages, the leading and fastest-growing independent holiday cottage provider, offering over 17,000 holiday homes across the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. "We are the fastest growing independent holiday cottage provider." Graham Donaghue Graham joined me on the podcast to tell us what an experience of advertising your holiday home with Sykes Holiday Cottages entails - he shares the huge growth that Sykes has seen over the past 3 years and an insight into the future plans of this fast moving company. www.shortstay.show www.hlspodcast.com/sykes

Short Stay Show Podcast - Mass Exposure for Your Short Stay - Vanessa De Souza Lage - Rentals United Vanessa De Souza Lage is the CMO at Rentals United, the channel manager that provides a central location for your all your advertising channels, syndicates your listing out across these sites, saving you hours of work in your Short Stay business. Listen to the full episode and get in touch with Vanessa on the website www.shortstay.show www.hlspod.com/rentalsunited

This is the last in our three-part podcast series with Booking.com’s Ale Pacillio. On our last podcast, we talked a good deal about how Booking.com is addressing some of the toughest challenges vacation rental owners face. Today, we will be talking about the future of Booking.com and exciting developments underway at the company that can help your business grow. www.hlspodcast.com/bdc3

Short Stay Podcast | Alessandro Pacilio | Care. Help. Achieve | Booking.com   Following on from our 1st Booking.com Podcast, where we delved into the industry at-large, today Ale Pacillio will be answering some of your questions today on what Booking.com is doing to help make life easier for you as a VR owner

In this episode Alessandro Pacilio joins me from Booking.com, where he leads product marketing for the company’s homes and apartments division focused on professional short-term rental partners. Booking.com is one of the largest travel platforms on the planet, but lesser known is that it has an entire department of its business dedicated to homes and apartments. We get to know more about Ale and his role within BDC and he shares some exciting insights into the growth of the short stay side of BDC, where the best place to rent out a short stay property is and the benefits of being on Booking. com as a Short Stay Owner or provider. They also talk about tips, trends and insight about how property owners, managers and investors can deliver the best experience for guests and travellers. Listen to the full episode and have a read of the show notes at www.hlspod.com/bdc1

Short Stay Show Podcast - Luggage Storage Network - Catherine & Jack - Stasher Stasher came about in 2015 as the brain-child of two Oxford Graduates.  Anthony lived near Kings Cross in London and regularly had friends asking if they could leave bags at his place so they could explore the city. They quickly realised hundreds of people must have this problem each day, and with struggling small high street businesses across the city that have extra space, this could be the perfect place to store them. They now have over 1000 storage locations across the world, all over Europe, US, Aus and Asia including hotel brands like Acccor and Premier Inn.    Join me as Catherine & Jack from Stasher share how this genius luggage storage idea can ease the arrival and departure of guests into your property and give them a better experience, whilst removing an issue for you as Short Stay Providers www.shortstay.show www.hlspod.com/stasherofficial

Short Stay Show Podcast - Guest Experience Tablet - Henry Bennett - YourWelcome   Henry joins us from YourWelcome where he is CEO - YourWelcome is a smart tablet for short term rentals that is left out for guests and acts as the informational and transactional portal during their stay. Owners and managers can leave video instructional guides and upsell additional services (eg late check out) through the tablet. YourWelcome is installed in over 15,000 short stay properties globally. In the second of a series of special podcast episodes with The Short Stay Show we meet Henry Bennett and learn about all things guest experience, automation and making more profits with your #holidaylet www.shortstay.show www.hlspod.com/yourwelcome

The first in a special series of Short Stay Podcast Episodes Louise Birriterri joins me from Pikl, where she is CEO. In short – Pikl are Insurance People - preserving the things you love. Louise shares all things protection and what you can do to be sure you're covered and some surprising insights into Insurance for the Short Stay Industry. Pikl attended the Short Stay Show in Excel in March of 2019 at Excel London, she shares her views on the importance of the show and what it is doing for the Short Stay Community & Industry as a whole. Hear the full episode www.shortstay.show and book your place for March 2020. Get in touch with Elaine at www.hlspod.com/pikl

Lorraine is a seasoned property professional, online business entrepreneur and a busy mum. Together with her husband, they’ve built a sizeable portfolio of properties and together they have branched out one arm of their business into the Holiday Let Industry, and she’s here to share her experience with us today. We talk all things: *Remote property management *Guest experience *Choosing your market & serving them *Multi generational holiday provisions *Wheelchair friendly accommodation Listen to the full episode www.hlspod.com/newera

Why build your Direct Bookings? More control over our businesses, freedom from the OTA Trap, No Commissions = More Profits In this episode I outline 2 competition strategies for two different goals that I've been running and have been effective recently inside my business at boosting Direct Bookings. I walk you through the steps I've taken for the two different strategies and the outcomes I'm aiming for and have produced so far Hear the full episode: www.hlspod.com/comps

A real powerhouse of an episode - Sonja and I talk all things marketing and break down the marketing terms you'll have heard of and what they mean. Starting from the ground up. We talk branding and the right message, how to automate some of the repetetive marketing tasks, and share some great tools you can put to work in your business right now! hear the full episode and get to the shownotes page right here www.hlspod.com/lovemondays Canva course - www.hlspod.com.canva