Hello my YouTube friends it's Richard founder short-term rental secrets.com
and Airbnb super host in this video we're gonna talk about five photos I
think will add value to your listing and I almost never see them so let's get
started so by way of introduction just recognize
this videos not to tell you how to photograph your listing or even what to
put in your description you've already done that we have tons of other videos
that talk about that so if you haven't done that watch those other videos this
videos too assuming our starting point is that you've done all that you have
the best listing possible and here are five ideas that you should add to
enhance it even more and make your listing stand out almost no host put the
speed of their internet they may say they have Wi-Fi and high-speed Internet
but how about this here's an idea go ahead and just take a screenshot
speedtest.net of your actual speed if you're in the city you need super high
speed I mean between fiber and cable and so on we see speeds approaching a
hundred down a hundred and fifty down if you're in a more remote place please
have at least 10 down that should support a couple of different devices
and like some streaming but if you haven't upgraded your internet speed
it's worth the investment and again we filmed the video on that too the second
idea is to put a floor plan in and this I absolutely love the fact that you've
got a floor planner because especially if it's a duplex you can see the size I
love the fact that it talks about how big it is twelve hundred and twenty-five
square feet that's huge so to the extent when you bought your home or you rented
your home or your apartment they gave you a floor plan go ahead and take a
photo of that think of how great it is to show people where the bedrooms are in
relation to the living room so they can anticipate like how much noise they
might hear or even more challenging is when it's a multi floor place like it's
hard to know that the bedrooms are on the second floor and the open living
room is beneath it you're just looking at a photo so a floor plan really helps
people understand like what is it that they're renting what does this space
look like and I think it's tremendous so if you have the floor plan you use it
for those of you who don't have a floor plan my team and I are actively working
on some like easy-to-use drag-and-drop floor planning tool that will easily
create one for you to use in your listing the third thing is to inject
some personalities so Airbnb allows us to all have this little like round
thumbnail of like who the host is and they do that for a reason they want to
make sure it's a good fit match but it doesn't really allow people
to get a very good feel and I don't think very many people click on it so I
encourage you to take a photo of say you or you and your girlfriend or wife or
you and your family some we're doing something that like relates to the
property not necessarily sitting at the dining room table but if you're at the
beach or you're at the lake or you're near the you know Giants Stadium take a
photo of everybody and then just put at the bottom and the caption like we are
your hosts we love hosting you or whatever it is but try and inject a
little personality so people can connect with you and I just urge you to be super
professional this isn't the place to show you know like girls night out or
here's a bachelor party photo might be a lot of fun and might be your personality
but just realize people are judging that photo and they're gonna be like-minded
so whoever you're trying to attract should resonate with that photo and I
just think to the extent that you are a proud host put a photo of yourself
saying that you're a proud host so the fourth thing is most of us hosts have a
guide book and or a Welcome basket but very few of us photograph it for some
reason we like that to be like the element of surprise when somebody shows
up we like to surprise them with that but it's actually a much better place to
put it in like the buying decision when people are flipping through your listing
versus your competitors listing it might be the tipping point and the reason is
think about the message that you're sending when somebody sees that you have
a professionally put together guidebook that looks pretty or a Welcome basket or
both they kind of think gee this host really cares by the way I think most of
you know this there's a guy book that we've created that helps everybody out
it's like 9 bucks so if you need a guide book check it out and the fifth thing
just to show you how cutting-edge innovative we are here at short-term
rentals secrets.com doesn't even exist yet but we're working on it and
basically it's a concept that I think that we as hosts need to start to like
elevate our game and show people like a badge a certificate some sort of way
that we can say that we're higher quality or we're trained or we've
completed a course or something like that
Airbnb has done a good job creating all of this interest and hype around super
host and I think that's really important and I am a super host I take it really
seriously but it creates a conflict because we
read constantly in comments and on our Facebook group about hosts that are like
this person wanted a refund and what do I do and I don't want them to lose the
review staff to leave a bad review because I might lose my super ho status
so we're kind of in a rock and a hard place and so what we're working on is
some sort of course or membership or badge certificate something where we
create our own really important beautifully looking badge that we can
then put an our listing and say you know I'm accredited by or a graduate of or
something like that so we're riffing on a bunch of different
ideas we'd love to hear your ideas but our concept is we're gonna create an
alternate to the super host badge and people can display it proudly so I hope
you like this video I would love to hear your comments and thoughts if you have
other photos that people would benefit from please go ahead and leave a comment
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