These days, the focus on minimising your carbon footprint and your impact on the environment is something that every business owner should get behind. Not only does it ensure that future generations can benefit from the beautiful planet we call home, but in the short term it can also give you a boost in occupancy rates and help to increase …
Why Belief in Your Staff Improves Business Success
The success of your business can rise and fall based on the team you put in place. But what if I told you that choosing the right people was only part of having a great team? You can have the smartest person running the operations for you, but if you don’t believe in them then not only will their performance …
3 Sure Fire Techniques to Improve Occupancy
The accommodation industry has a problem, and it’s not from a lack of guests or from bad reviews online. The problem our industry has is selling itself, especially when it comes to taking leads that come into your business and turning them into sales. I see it so often in businesses, that I felt compelled to come up with three …
How to Conquer Imposter Syndrome and Embrace Your Success
Running your own business comes with a fair share of doubt and stress. Will you succeed or will you fail? Will you always be struggling for money? Will you let your friends, family and employees down? These are all common thoughts that run through the mind of pretty much every entrepreneur and business owner. Another problem is that a large …
5 Tips For Overcoming Adversity
Bad things happen. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen without rhyme or reason. It’s simply reality that we all have to accept. Bad things come in degrees – minor daily annoyances, more significant roadblocks or tremendously impactful things like the loss of a family member. On a recent episode of That Bad Review, I spoke with Tash …
Why Feedback Can Help Your Accommodation Business to Grow
There are three elements that will make your accommodation business better and help it to grow. Your services and your cash flow are two of those elements, and the third is feedback. Businesses that only focus on the first two elements won’t necessarily suffer as a result. They will, in all likelihood, do okay and experience moderate growth; however, those …
5 Advantages of “Pay What You Want” Pricing
For holiday and caravan parks, pricing is one big aspect of a sensitive and seasonal marketplace balance that must be struck. Many different sectors of tourism have come up with different or more dynamic pricing models or practices, but caravan parks have often lagged behind. Tradition has trumped experimentation so far as the industry has been concerned, but that may …
Four Ways to Help Empower Your Employees and Achieve Greater Business Success
Everyone wants to have employees who feel empowered to participate and make decisions in their roles. But how one achieves this is another question entirely. Often, things that can lead to a feeling of empowerment get cut from the budget or people pay lip service to ideas without proper follow-through. Other times, they simply don’t know which moves to make …
Three Top Tips on Confronting Bad Reviews
No matter what industry you’re in, everyone at one time or another will get that bad review. And, of course, that bad review is the one that sticks in your mind. So, what should you do? What’s the best way to respond and how do you move forward? Read on to see what next steps you should take after reading …
How to Avoid Burnout Working in the Accommodation Industry
Working in the accommodation industry, especially in holiday parks, means that you live and breathe your work. For most managers, the reality of becoming consumed with work is an ever-present concern, especially when you’re on call at odd hours, or even living on site with your guests. It can make it difficult to step away and take a much-needed break …