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Brighten Up Your Listing With Anglepoise 🛋

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How you light your listing can impact your guests mood, it is scientifically proven! Understanding how people emotionally and physically respond to lighting can assist the design process and improve a guest’s experience when they enter your space.  A study by Ohio State University compared the psychological effects of lighting at night time by testing different colours of light and how they impacted mood.   Here is how each coloured light performed:  Blue light at night - resulted in worse mood-related effects.  White light at night – resulted in worse mood-related effects.  Red light at night – showed significantly less mood-related effects vs the blue and white lights.  Good to bear in mind when designing your listings lighting set up!  As well as the colour of the light itself, well-positioned lights encourage positive feelings, and lighting that adjusts at night allows for a more restful sleep for example. Warm lights make the environment feel inviting and calmer, whereas cooler li
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PlaceCast E2: Gemma From My Boutique Stay 🥂

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The PlaceCast podcast gives pro tips on Short Term Rental management 🚀 Gemma runs a host management agency and booking site My Boutique Stay. Having initially managed 20+ properties in and around Froome, she has expanded myboutiquestay.co.uk into a booking site for the best properties in the South West of the UK 🇬🇧 If you are a short stay host check out Placer below 👇 Check out Placer
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PlaceCast E1: Dainius from Stay In London 🇬🇧

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  The PlaceCast podcast gives pro tips on Short Term Rental management 🚀 Dainius runs Stay In London, a host management agency, with a wealth of experience running multiple properties for clients we dig in to his top tips for maximising returns from your holiday rental. 💸 Check out Placer
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Go For Goldling 🍾

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   Our new campaign for Goldling Drinks is targeting the Cotswolds to reach guests staying in the area, if that is you then please do log in and sign up to the campaign! Goldling drinks are celebrating launching in Daylesford, Soho Farmhouse and other high end outlets in the Cotswolds by targeting Airbnb guests staying in the area with a taste of their amazing ready to drink vodka soda.  Guests will appreciate the opportunity to try a new refreshing alcoholic drink during their stay and it will undoubtedly add to your guest experience and positive reviews So if you are a host in the Cotswolds area log into your account and apply for the free samples. If you are not then please fear not, we will soon be brining more products your guests will enjoy! www.placer-it.com 
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New Oatly Product Campaign 🚀

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   For those that loved and those that missed the most recent Oatly Barista campaign, we have a new Oatly campaign going live to support their new 500ml Barista product launch! If you were involved in our latest Oatly campaign we are sure your guests will have appreciated the extra touch of having some free tasty Oatly to add to their tea or coffee during their stay... If you weren't involved, it's probably because you missed it! Learn from the mistake and don't miss our latest campaign for the new Oatly 500ml Barista product your guests will be sure to love. The new (well, new sized) product is even easier for guests to take with them and a more manageable size for shorter stay guests.    As Oatly say on their website, the following is what is 'amazing' about this new product: - It’s portable! Toss it in your backpack and head to the park, or the beach, or your mother-in-law’s, or to meet your Tinder date for afternoon tea, or you get the idea. - Less food waste fo
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3 Tips To Improve Your Airbnb SEO

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  3 Tips To Improve Your Airbnb SEO Airbnb SEO is essential in securing the optimum  amount of bookings during this high season.  If your listing(s) can rank on the first page of search results for your area, you'll see great financial success with a growing amount of bookings. Here's just a few tips to improve your SEO: 1) Keep your calendar updated. Keeping your calendar updated shows how active you are as a host; the algorithm recognises all this hard work! It's also incredibly beneficial for your guests; not updating them could mean you're missing out on bookings! 2) Respond on Time. Guests appreciate an active and prompt host. It is vital to respond within 24 hours because a person is just trying to book. Airbnb will recognise the response rate and help with your SEO. 3) Finally, use Instant Bookings. Visitors can immediately reserve your property with the instant book feature. When they can quickly and easily book a house, guests find this appealing. Airbnb will a
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What other great benefits do you get from receiving PLACER products as a host?

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What other great benefits do you get from receiving PLACER products as a host? With all these new campaigns lately, it's essential to know what other rewards you can receive... Product placement isn't all we do. As much as your guests love our products and we appreciate your support, as hosts, there are multiple other benefits that we provide to you aside from our complimentary products. Here's just a few: 1) First, the more scans, the more cash. Every time your guests scan our QR codes and purchase one of your products, you receive a commission. Easy as that! So, its in your best interests to ensure you guests know of your products within the listing and receive some background on your property. But there's more...   2) Second, your guests receive discounts on experiences and products they purchase, giving you greater guest satisfaction and leaving them with memories that last. It's a win-win you receive commissions and your guests receive discounts and great memor
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