How to Respond to Pricing Complaints

What's on this page: > What Is Price Competitiveness? > Other Competitiveness Data Sources > How to Respond to Pricing Complaints? > Supporting Data > Humility in Communication What Is Price Competitiveness? Price competitiveness refers to the difference in

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Dynamic Pricing ≠ Optimized Pricing

What's on this page: > Introduction > History > Dynamic Pricing > Optimized Pricing > Other Models > Does changing prices increase your revenue? > Dynamic and Optimized Pricing > Conclusion Introduction Sometimes, it seems there

By |2024-10-31T22:01:22+00:00October 29th, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on Dynamic Pricing ≠ Optimized Pricing

Revenue Manager vs Revenue Scientist

What's on this page: > Revenue Management > The Revenue Manager > The Software > Revenue Manager + Software > Changing the Output > Fixing the Input > The Revenue Scientist > Market Fragmentation Revenue Management

By |2024-11-05T05:37:20+00:00October 16th, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on Revenue Manager vs Revenue Scientist

Why Do Base Price Models Need So Many Comps?

What's on this page: > Introduction > What is the Base Price model? > How Does a Base Pricing Model Set the Price? > Why Were They Built This Way? > The Disincentive for Innovation > The 3rd Option

By |2024-11-05T05:37:53+00:00September 16th, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on Why Do Base Price Models Need So Many Comps?

The Case Against Last-Minute Discounting

What's on this page: > Introduction > Airlines vs STR’s > Why Don’t Airlines Discount Last Minute > Why do STR’s Discount Last Minute > How to Turn Off your Last-Minute Strategy and Make More Money > Downward Spiraling >

By |2024-11-05T05:38:43+00:00June 26th, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on The Case Against Last-Minute Discounting

Price Sensitivity for STRs

What’s on this page: > Introduction > Price Elasticity of Demand > Inelastic Demand and Elastic Demand > STR Demand Type: Elastic or Inelastic > Segmentation > Results > Recommendations Introduction When prices go up, people buy

By |2024-11-05T05:39:12+00:00June 4th, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on Price Sensitivity for STRs

Improving your pricing with NLP

What’s on this page: > Introduction > What is NLP? > Training vs Buying a Model > Training > Pipeline and Integration > How Reviews Impact Choice > Results, Limitations, and Competitors Reviews > Conclusion Introduction

By |2024-11-05T05:39:44+00:00April 23rd, 2024|Pricing|Comments Off on Improving your pricing with NLP

Introducing Search Based Comp Sets

Introduction Back when I was pricing flights in the airline industry, my VP used to tell me “You can only be as good as your dumbest competitor.”  The strong implication was, that if your competitor has bad pricing or drops their prices you can be forced

By |2024-10-31T18:11:53+00:00March 20th, 2024|Pricing, Strategy|Comments Off on Introducing Search Based Comp Sets

How Price Optimization Models Work (Explained Simply)

Our previous article explored how Base Price Models work — the industry-standard pricing model for short-term rentals. It's a reliable, scalable model that makes your nightly rates fluctuate with the market. What it doesn't do is optimize pricing for maximum revenue. That's where this article picks up.

By |2026-06-13T00:38:44+00:00December 20th, 2023|Pricing|Comments Off on How Price Optimization Models Work (Explained Simply)

How Base Price Models Work

Base price models are currently the industry standard in dynamic pricing for short-term rentals.  The primary reason this model is so popular is that it is simple and scalable.  It is simple regarding the math involved in setting the price, there are no probabilities or advanced statistics required

By |2024-10-31T18:13:40+00:00October 5th, 2023|Pricing|Comments Off on How Base Price Models Work
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