2022 DARM
Executing an Exit Strategy or Preparing for a Pull-Back: Guide to Navigating the Current Market
In this session, Ben Edwards will discuss tangible strategies with which to complete a successful exit strategy and avoid the looming economic slowdown, while identifying key tactics to employ to ensure your business can navigate the road ahead.
Read MoreHow (and Why) Revenue Support Is Linked to Homeowner Support and Vice Versa?
Building a strong organizational relationship between homeowner management and revenue management is critical for future property management success. Revenue managers need to understand homeowner motivations on a property level in order to build strategies. And homeowner relations managers need to be able to understand and communicate revenue strategies with homeowners. In this panel, we’ll talk…
Read MoreUsing In-Property Technology to Improve Guest, Owner, Management Company, and Employee Experience
In-property technology has obvious benefits for guest experience, but it can also help your management company stand apart from the competition, be more successful in recruiting new homeowners, create a better work environment for employees you are trying to recruit and retain, and more!
Read MoreWhat Is Changing in the OTA/Distribution Landscape?
After hearing from both Airbnb and Vrbo, this panel will discuss the changes they have seen in the channels over the past year; the successes and challenges in optimizing listings, rates, and promotions on the top OTAs; and what changes they expect to see over the next year.
Read MoreThe Truth about Scale: An In-Depth Look at Which Components of a STR Business Benefit from Scale
With over 3,000 properties under management and 25 office locations between the US and Mexico, Casago continues to develop the best practices, strategies, and tricks to successfully scale its operations. During this session, Casago CEO Steve Schwab will share strategies, worksheets, and best practices it utilizes to empower its local operating businesses to thrive in…
Read MoreCurrent Travel Trends and How Airbnb is Adapting to Them
Propelled by the flexibility created by remote work, travel is undergoing a fundamental change. This session covers recent travel trends, how Airbnb is adapting to them, and how you can adapt to them too.
Read MoreLong-Term Value Building for Executives: Building Value in Your Business to Accomplish Long-Term Goals and Exit Strategies
You are busy building your business, but are you building the value of your business? Understanding the fundamentals of business value is the key to creating a valuable enterprise that you can convert to personal wealth, funding your lifestyle, retirement, or family legacy goals. Courtesy of Whichard & Woolard Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo…
Read MoreOptimizing Revenue Performance on Vrbo
Expedia Group/Vrbo’s Revenue Performance Team will discuss tools, strategies, and actionable takeaways PMs can use to optimize their revenue performance on the platform.
Read MoreEmployee Recruiting and Retention: Building–and Keeping–a Winning Team
The leading vacation rental companies have one thing in common, they have the best teams. In this session, you will gain insight on how the best in the business attract, retain and inspire the very best teams.
Read MorePortfolio-Level Revenue Management: The Pickup Approach
Drawing on his experience building a team of 10 revenue managers and growing a portfolio of 125 rentals to over 3,000 rentals in 30 US cities, John de Roulet shares his expertise on approaching revenue management for large and growing portfolios. Learning from other industries and leveraging novel ways to aggregate data, John shares how…
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