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title: Mobile Updates + Vacation Rental Properties = $$$ (ep 20)
date: "2016-07-27T08:42:02-07:00"
modified: "2023-01-31T05:48:27-07:00"
author: kims
url: "https://dominoresearch.com/podcast/mobile-updates-vacation-rental-properties-increase-income"
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tags: Mobile Ads Podcast, mobile marketing, mobile wallet marketing, using mobile for vacation property rental bookings, vacation property rentals
description: Whether you use AirBNB, VRBO, HomeAway or a local real estate service to lease your vacation rental properties, it's hard to keep them booked at full price all year round (unless you've got a truly magical piece of property, we know). 
Check out these 4 simple tips that will help you increase bookings, keep your rates up and spend less time marketing your vacation rental properties and more time enjoying your life.
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site_name: DominoResearch.com
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# Mobile Updates + Vacation Rental Properties = $$$ (ep 20)

Mobile Wallet Marketing Made Easy 
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Duration: 17:33 | Recorded on July 27, 2016

## How often do your vacation rental properties sit empty for a week or two without a booking?

**If you don’t have renters in your properties, that’s a direct hit to your bottom line.**  Wouldn’t it be GREAT if you could leverage previous renters – using them to get referrals for friends, co-workers, neighbors and family?  This week we have 4 simple tips that will get you started.

What if you could also send out updates with special offers or limited time deals for certain weeks or months of the year – and when you sent the updates, people noticed them right away?  **And build a following for your properties at the same time?**

## Do you have a good mobile marketing strategy to help you profit through the leaner times?

Hazel & Kim are back with a new episode of _Mobile Wallet Marketing Made Easy_, and this time **they have 4 simple tips that you can use** a good mobile strategy to help increase your vacation rental property bookings, get more referrals from previous renters, and to help you keep your properties filled to capacity year round.

**[RELATED: [Podcast #19 – Tourism & Travel Businesses Use Mobile Marketing](https://dominoresearch.com/podcast/tourism-travel-seasonal-businesses-market-podcast-19/)]**

Whether you’ve got a string of beach villas or a single Alpine chateau on the slopes, **learning how to use mobile marketing to increase your revenue**, make it easier to keep your properties rented and get more referrals is particularly important over the long run.

> “We keep our guest list updated via mobile when we plan to have discounts or when we know we’ll book up in a hurry – they appreciate the courtesy of a heads up, and we feel like it helps build a relationship with them; we are saving a TON of money on international SMS costs by using mobile updates as well!” —  Jenny L, Lake Nicaragua

**This episode quickly covers deciding what to put in your mobile marketing,** how to get your guests to give you permission to update them, and offers creative ways to think outside the box to increase participation among your current and former renters –

 

#### So grab a cup of coffee and your earbuds, and spend the next 20 minutes learning these 4 easy ways to make more money from your vacation rental properties.