Performance marketing for short-term rental operators.

Performance marketing for short-term rental operators.

We run marketing that grows revenue, lifts your nightly rate, and keeps your calendar full.

We run marketing that grows revenue, lifts your nightly rate, and keeps your calendar full.

Find out what's possible for your Airbnb portfolio.

Find out what's possible for your Airbnb portfolio.

Find out what's possible for your Airbnb portfolio.

Our Airbnb marketing services are designed to drive direct bookings and build your brand.

Website/SEO

Your direct booking channel, optimized for discovery.

Your direct booking channel, optimized for discovery.

A property website that ranks on Google and converts traffic into bookings without paying a platform cut. Every direct booking keeps the 15 to 20 percent that an OTA would have taken, and gives you a guest you can market to again.

A property website that ranks on Google and converts traffic into bookings without paying a platform cut. Every direct booking keeps the 15 to 20 percent that an OTA would have taken, and gives you a guest you can market to again.

A property website that ranks on Google and converts traffic into bookings without paying a platform cut. Every direct booking keeps the 15 to 20 percent that an OTA would have taken, and gives you a guest you can market to again.

Paid Ads

Bookings when you need them.

Bookings when you need them.

Meta and Google campaigns aimed at the cities your guests travel from, timed to the weeks your property earns the most. Fill shoulder season, lift occupancy, and stop waiting on the platform algorithm to send you demand.

Meta and Google campaigns aimed at the cities your guests travel from, timed to the weeks your property earns the most. Fill shoulder season, lift occupancy, and stop waiting on the platform algorithm to send you demand.

Meta and Google campaigns aimed at the cities your guests travel from, timed to the weeks your property earns the most. Fill shoulder season, lift occupancy, and stop waiting on the platform algorithm to send you demand.

Email

Turning past guests into future revenue.

Turning past guests into future revenue.

Email campaigns that bring past guests back and turn one-time stays into repeat bookings. Repeat guests cost nothing to acquire, book direct more often than new ones, and stay longer when they do.

Email campaigns that bring past guests back and turn one-time stays into repeat bookings. Repeat guests cost nothing to acquire, book direct more often than new ones, and stay longer when they do.

The operators making money now run their short-term rentals like businesses.

Supply is up, fees keep climbing, and the platforms keep changing the rules. The operators winning their markets have direct booking websites, run paid ads in their feeder cities, and build a brand guests remember. The compounding effect is real: every direct booking is higher-margin, every repeat guest is cheaper to acquire, and every brand impression makes the next booking easier to win. Marketing is the difference between a portfolio that performs and one that gets squeezed.

Stop paying Airbnb for guests you could own outright.

Chris LaColla

Founder

StayStrategy

Chris LaColla

Founder

StayStrategy

After my MBA at Harvard and years as a digital exec at major travel companies, I built StayStrategy to give independent operators the same marketing playbook the big brands use.


Chris LaColla

Founder, StayStrategy

After my MBA at Harvard and years as a digital exec at major travel companies, I built StayStrategy to give independent operators the same marketing playbook the big brands use.


Chris LaColla

Founder, StayStrategy

Chris LaColla

Founder

StayStrategy

After my MBA at Harvard and years as a digital exec at major travel companies, I built StayStrategy to give independent operators the same marketing playbooks that the big brands use.

Every short-term rental marketing campaign we run is built on two things: knowing exactly who your property is for, and spending where it earns the most.

Positioning

Positioning

Stop marketing to everyone.

Most short-term rentals try to appeal to every traveler and end up appealing to none of them. We identify the specific guest each property serves best, whether that's a design-focused couple, a multi-generational family, or a remote worker on a monthly stay, and rebuild your photos, listing copy, website, and ad targeting around that guest. Sharper positioning lifts conversion, raises the rate you can charge, and lowers what every booking costs to acquire.

HOW WE WORK

  • We build each property's positioning around a specific guest profile, not a generic "luxury traveler" or "family-friendly" label

  • We look at your review themes, past bookings, and competitive set to identify the guest profile each property is best suited for

  • We carry that positioning through your listing copy, website, ad creative, and social content, so the message is consistent across every channel

  • We revisit positioning as your portfolio changes or a property's performance signals a shift, instead of setting it once and walking away

Market Timing

Spend where it counts.

Demand isn't flat across the year. It spikes around booking windows, local events, school breaks, and shoulder-season getaway moments. We map each property's demand curve, point paid ads at the cities your highest-value guests travel from, and time campaigns to the festivals, conferences, and seasonal patterns that actually move bookings. The same budget produces more reservations when it lands in front of the right traveler at the right moment.

HOW WE WORK

  • We build a revenue calendar for each property that maps booking windows, local events, and historical ADR by week, not a generic seasonal plan

  • We review pacing data weekly and shift budget toward the weeks that are filling slowly, instead of running flat monthly spend

  • We target feeder markets specific to each property based on actual guest origin data, not broad regional buys

  • We coordinate ad timing with your revenue management team to maximize impact

This is what sharper positioning and smarter spend look like in practice.

$14,000+

$14,000+

$14,000+

in new direct bookings


in new direct bookings

in new direct bookings


Our client was seeing slow bookings in their multi-property business and came to us to increase their visibility online. 1 month after we installed The Visibility System, they had made over $14K in direct digital bookings.

Our client was seeing slow bookings in their multi-property business and came to us to increase their visibility online. 1 month after we installed The Visibility System, they had made over $14K in direct digital bookings.

HOTELS / SHORT TERM RENTALS

$3,000+

$3,000+

$3,000+

in new tour bookings


in new tour bookings

in new tour bookings


Our client launched a new tour company and needed to find customers, fast. We installed The Visibility System and helped them land direct bookings within a month of launch.


Our client launched a new tour company and needed to find customers, fast. We installed The Visibility System and helped them land direct bookings within a month of launch.


TOUR OPERATORS

$7,800+

$7,800+

$7,800+

in new exposure on AI search tools

in new exposure on AI search tools

in new exposure on AI search tools

Our client built a new technology product but was invisible online. We installed The Visibility System and started immediately getting them valuable impressions in search engine and AI-search tools.


Our client built a new technology product but was invisible online. We installed The Visibility System and started immediately getting them valuable impressions in search engine and AI-search tools.


HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY

Short-term rental marketing questions, answered.

How is this different from what my property manager or in-house marketing person already does?

Most STR property management includes listing optimization and some platform-side tools, but stops well short of real marketing. We run the work that sits outside the OTA: your direct booking website, paid acquisition in feeder markets, and the brand and social content that compound over time. If you have an internal marketer, we either fill the channel gaps they don't cover or run alongside them on the channels they do.

Do you work with single properties or only portfolios?

Both, with different scope. Portfolios get the most leverage because the same positioning and targeting work scales across multiple listings, and the direct booking website becomes a real revenue channel. Single properties still benefit, but the economics work best for properties with strong ADR or a clear premium positioning.

What does an engagement actually look like month to month?

The first month is positioning, audit, and setup: guest profile work, website and SEO foundation, ad account structure, social baseline. Months two and beyond are execution: running ads, producing content, monitoring performance, and adjusting spend toward what's working. You get a monthly report showing booking sources, ad spend efficiency, and where revenue is moving.

How long until I see results?

Paid ads can drive bookings inside the first 30 days once campaigns are live. Direct booking traffic from SEO takes longer, usually 90 to 180 days before it becomes a meaningful share of revenue. Social and brand work compounds over six to twelve months. We're transparent about which channels produce quickly and which require patience.

Do I need to leave Airbnb or Vrbo to work with you?

No. The goal is to reduce platform dependence, not eliminate it. Most operators we work with continue running on Airbnb and Vrbo and add a direct booking channel alongside. Direct bookings typically grow to 20 to 40 percent of revenue over time, which is enough to materially change your economics without giving up platform demand.

What's the typical investment?

It depends on portfolio size and which channels we run. Engagements usually start at a monthly retainer plus ad spend that you control. We can scope an engagement against your current revenue and goals on an intro call. We don't take a percentage of bookings or a commission, just a flat retainer.

Who owns the website, ad accounts, and content if we stop working together?

You do. Every asset we build — website, ad accounts, content, guest data — is owned by you from day one. If the engagement ends, you keep everything and can hand it to another vendor or run it yourself. We don't lock anything behind agency-owned accounts.

What kinds of properties do you work best with?

Operators running boutique short-term rentals, vacation homes with strong design or location, and small to mid-sized portfolios where direct bookings can materially shift the P&L. We're less of a fit for ultra-low ADR properties where the economics don't support real marketing investment, and we don't work with platforms or aggregators competing with our operator clients.

See what's changed recently and stay up-to-date on the best ways to earn more.

The short term rental world moves fast, and it’s hard to keep track of what still works. This section pulls together the most up to date guidance so you can stay steady without digging through scattered updates or guessing your way through platform changes.