Eifel 2018 - Neuerburg, Dudeldorf, Kronenburg • 9.6.18 • Day 1727
Day 2 of 3 of Eifel holiday 2018, where Carnamom, Chibi and I visit:
Neuerburg,
Dudeldorf and
Kronenburg.
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Airbnb Hosting EP 198: How to Use Facebook to Enhance Your Airbnb Business
Show Notes:
Perhaps the greatest challenge of being a remote host is building a relationship with your guests when you can’t be there face to face. Airbnb was founded on the principal of personal connection, but when your listing is in the rural village of Dudeldorf, Germany, and you are a thousand miles away in Spain, how do you go about making the guests feel at home? Or providing personal recommendations for seasonal things to do?
Niels Becker has designed a truly genius approach to remote hosting through a listing Facebook page. The page functions as a sort of interactive, continually updated guidebook, providing guests with timely information around events in the area, like the popular Christmas market. In addition, the Facebook page promotes Niels’ listing as his satisfied guests like and share the page with their contacts.
Beyond his experience in the short-term rental market, Niels also manages several long-term rentals in Dudeldorf. Today on the podcast, he compares the revenue earned via Airbnb guests versus tenants. Niels explains how he secured public funds to restore his properties, why he chose to try Airbnb in one of those investment units, and how he finds information for his Facebook page. Listen in and learn his unique approach to remote hosting and why investing in rural communities is your safest bet.
Topics Covered
Niels’ decision to try Airbnb:
Rents several units long-term (near US airbase)
Had trouble renting small studio
Listed studio on Airbnb six months ago
The particulars of Niels’ investment property:
Beautiful area near border with Luxembourg
Area losing residents to large cities
Working to preserve heritage
Provides funding to restore historic buildings (to modern standards)
Niels’ Facebook page:
Solves problem of being remote host
Shares interesting things going on in area, nearby villages to visit
Entries mined from local Facebook groups
Provides most current, updated info
How the Facebook page promotes Niels’ listing:
Guests ‘like’ the Facebook page
Guests contribute their own photos, reviews
Guests’ contacts exposed to listing
Book Now button links to Airbnb
Long-term rental vs. Airbnb:
Niels currently making 2X for studio
Going into low season, but bookings still coming
Comparable to long-term units (location, furnishings, architecture)
How Niels manages his units from home in Spain:
Relies on local cleaning, management services
Rest is automated (e.g.: lock box for entry)
Sends handwritten note as photo through Airbnb to welcome
Always available to guests through Airbnb messaging
The Airbnb-friendly regulations in rural Germany:
Short-term rentals, tourism encouraged
Many empty units (opposite problem of cities)
Earns less revenue than cities, but property more affordable
Niels receiving very good ROI
Connect with Niels:
Living in History—Dudeldorf/Eifel
Niels’ Airbnb Listing
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Video Transcript:
Welcome to Get Paid For Your Pad, the definitive show on Airbnb hosting featuring the best advice on how to maximize profits from your Airbnb listing as well as real life experiences from Airbnb hosts all over the world. Welcome.
Jasper: This episode is brought to you by Hostfully, a company that helps you make beautiful guidebooks for your listing. Make your own at Hostfully.com/pad and as a special for Get Paid For Your Pad listeners, you’ll get a free guidebook consultation after you make your guidebook.
Welcome to Get Paid For Your Pad Episode 198. Today I’m very excited to talk to a super-host from Germany who has been using Facebook as a way to provide local recommendations to his guests and also as a way to promote his listing. This is something that really interests me, because I think a lot of people are looking to promote their listing, looking to find ways to promote their listings outside of Airbnb and I think Neils has done a really good job. Welcome to the show, Neils Becker.
Neils Becker: Hi Jasper. It’s good to be on your show. Catch me in my home office here in Spain.
Jasper: Good morning, I guess it is for you. It’s late afternoon for me here in Taiwan.
Neils Becker: Alright.
Jasper: Neils, could you share to start your story. I know you are an investor. You have five units under management.
Eifel 2018 - Münstermaifeld, Adenau, Oberhausen • 9.5.18 • Day 1726
Day 1 of 3 of Eifel holiday 2018, where Carnamom, Chibi and I visit:
Münstermaifeld,
Adenau and
Oberhausen near Schleiden.
Videos about Amsterdam, The Netherlands and my daily experiences, no nonsense takes on what it's like to live and work in this very interesting part of the world. I’m a Dutch person, yet I present my videos in English to make them accessible to all. I also make videos about events, city trips, theme-parks and Western Europe, or wherever I end up being. This is the longest running daily show from The Netherlands on YouTube!
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