by Rent Responsibly Team | Jul 8, 2022 | Newsletters
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.– Vincent Van Gogh ••• Next week, we’ll be bringing lots of (not-so) small things together in our very first RR Summit. The two-day virtual conference combines all the things readers and event...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Jun 15, 2022 | Newsletters
In everything we do, we test and learn. We evaluate conversion rates and net promoter scores and engagement and many other metrics. One of my favorites, however, is more akin to counting steps on a Fitbit. Each month, I look back at the newsletters from a year and two...
by Rent Responsibly Team | May 10, 2022 | Newsletters
“If there’s one essential ingredient to creating trails and trail systems, it’s people. All the land and financing in the world won’t blaze a trail if there aren’t people championing the project.”– Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, In Support of Trails: A Guide to...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Dec 15, 2021 | Newsletters
Appreciation can make a day — even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.Margaret Cousins, Suffragist Somehow it’s already Thanksgiving again. To say we are grateful for the job we get to do and the people we get to work with...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Oct 20, 2021 | Newsletters
The Magic of “Yes, And” Lately, I’ve been on a binge of comedy podcasts and the British version of the improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? It seems as if nearly every comedian got his or her start in improv. There’s something beautiful about this comedic art in that...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Sep 20, 2021 | Newsletters
The Business of Belonging That’s the title of the book team Rent Responsibly read leading up to our first true company retreat, photographed above, which we held in Charleston, SC just after the DARM conference. Written by David Spinks, The Business of...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Aug 10, 2021 | Newsletters
What the Vacation Rental Industry Can Learn from the Olympics Consistency is key To have even a slight chance at an Olympic medal means years of consistent training. Olympians put in their 10,000 hours and then some, the consistent performance improvement that...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Jul 13, 2021 | Newsletters
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Jun 17, 2021 | Newsletters
Community. It’s a word I hear a lot these days. And I can’t help but wonder: is it based on principle and substance, or just a buzzword to suit a marketing agenda? What does it really mean in the travel industry in 2021? It will always be used by some as a buzzword,...
by Rent Responsibly Team | May 1, 2021 | Newsletters
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.Gertrude Jekyll, Horticulturalist ••• Here in NC, there’s a two-week period every May when spring flowers sneak up and...
