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Unlocking Your Rental Property’s Revenue Potential, with Ryan from Beyond

March 21, 2024

Unlocking Your Rental Property’s Revenue Potential, with Ryan from Beyond

by Alana Barbosa | March 21, 2024

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The STR Revenue Growth Course

Beyond Airbnb: Everything you need to know to boost bookings and grow earnings.

Episode 6: Unlocking Your Rental Property’s Revenue Potential, with Ryan from Beyond

Ready to learn how building or auditing your revenue strategy can help you unlock your revenue potential?

Dive into how thinking like a guest, using dynamic pricing, and exploring all avenues, can help you grow your earnings, with Ryan Saylor from Beyond.

Found this video interesting? Our partners at Beyond have been working on a Revenue Management Bootcamp where you can find more great tips – check it out now!

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Key Takeaways:

Guest Approach: To enhance revenue management, start by viewing your property through the eyes of a guest. By simulating the booking process, including searching for properties and navigating booking channels, you can identify any obstacles that may deter potential guests. This could range from outdated content to pricing discrepancies. Addressing these issues can improve booking rates and boost revenue.

Smart Pricing Strategies: Dynamic pricing is essential for revenue optimization, but it’s equally important to adopt smart pricing practices. Regularly review your revenue management techniques, benchmark performance against competitors, and leverage accurate data sources.

Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Revenue management is an evolving field, and staying abreast of the latest trends and technologies is crucial. Utilize technology to streamline processes and save time, while also investing in ongoing education about revenue management strategies beyond pricing. By staying proactive and adaptive, property managers can stay ahead of the curve and maximize revenue potential.

Expanding Distribution Channels: To maximize revenue potential, property managers should explore diverse distribution channels beyond traditional platforms. By leveraging partnerships with online travel agencies, social media platforms, and niche marketplaces, managers can expand their reach and attract a wider audience of potential guests.

Investing in Property Optimization: Property managers should prioritize continuous improvement and optimization of their rental properties to enhance guest satisfaction and drive revenue. This includes regular maintenance, updating amenities, and incorporating guest feedback to address areas for improvement.

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Transcription:

“Hi everyone.

My name is Ryan Taylor and I’m the director of product marketing here at Beyond.

We help property managers, owners, revenue managers, and hosts optimize revenue for their short-term rental properties.

Today, as part of the Rentals Masterclass, we’re talking about unlocking your property’s full potential with regards to revenue, with three main tips and tricks.

The first one is to start by thinking like a guest when looking at your revenue management process or auditing your strategy. Put yourself in the shoes of a guest and go through the booking process. This includes searching for properties, finding listings on various channels like Google, online travel agencies, or direct booking websites, and finally, going through the actual booking process. This helps identify any red flags that might deter guests from booking your properties, such as outdated content or pricing errors.

The second tip is to work on pricing smarter, not harder. Dynamic pricing is essential for revenue management, but it’s crucial to maintain good practices and habits. Start scheduling regular revenue management reviews, benchmark your performance against competitors, and continuously test your revenue management techniques. Avoid using too many customizations in your pricing strategy, focus on more than just pricing, and ensure you’re relying on accurate data sources.

Lastly, continue maintaining a solid pricing strategy, utilizing technology to save time, and keep learning about revenue management beyond just pricing.

If you’re interested in learning more about Beyond and what we do, feel free to reach out to support@beyondpricing.com. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn or email me with any questions.

Thank you for your time today.”

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Alana Barbosa

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Preferred+ Software Partner 2026

Frequently asked questions

Rentals United is a vacation rental channel manager built for short-term rental hosts and property managers. Rather than replacing your property management system, it plugs directly into it, syncing your listings in real time across 90+ booking channels, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Expedia, Homes & Villas By Marriott Bonvoy, all from one dashboard. With AI-powered analytics, and guest communication tools built in, it automates distribution and helps you grow bookings without adding complexity to your existing workflow.

A vacation rental channel manager — sometimes called a short term rental channel manager — is software that connects your listings to multiple booking platforms like Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, keeping rates, availability, and reservations in sync so you never risk a double booking. If you’re updating calendars manually, missing promotion opportunities, or leaving bookings on the table because a listing isn’t optimized, this is exactly the problem it solves. A revenue-first channel manager like Rentals United goes further, using AI-driven insights and multi-rate pricing to help you win more bookings on the channels you already use — properties using multi-rate pricing have earned up to 3x more revenue

No minimum size required. As a channel manager for vacation rentals of every size, Rentals United works for hosts managing a single property up to enterprise portfolios — it’s part of a network of 403,000+ properties connected worldwide. Whether you connect directly through Rentals United, through your existing PMS, or via our channel manager API, the platform scales with you, so you can add channels, features, and properties as you grow without switching systems.

Getting started is straightforward, whether you connect directly, through your existing PMS, or via API. After signing up, Rentals United’s onboarding specialists personally import your listings, connect your booking channels, and recommend the right channel mix for your portfolio. You’ll get strategic setup guidance on pricing and promotion features from day one, plus ongoing support from a dedicated account manager to keep your distribution and revenue performing as you scale.

Every Rentals United account comes with a dedicated Account Manager and access to channel experts who know both the platform and the short-term rental industry — not just generic technical support. Beyond one-to-one guidance on optimizing your channel mix, pricing, and promotions, you’ll have access to Rentals United’s knowledge base, API documentation, and ongoing performance reviews, so you’re never troubleshooting alone. Enterprise clients are also backed by SOC II-compliant security and operational reliability.

Rentals United takes data security seriously, protecting both your business data and your guests’ personal information with encryption, strict access controls, and regular security audits. Enterprise accounts are backed by SOC II-compliant infrastructure, the same standard referenced for our operational reliability, and our systems are built to align with GDPR requirements for handling guest and property manager data across Europe and beyond. Every integration, whether direct, through your PMS, or via our channel manager API, follows the same security protocols, so your listings, rates, and reservations stay protected no matter how you connect. If you have specific compliance requirements, such as industry certifications or data residency needs, our account managers can walk you through Rentals United’s security documentation before you get started.