Five years ago I drastically changed my life. I did something none of my friends had done. Something unorthodox. Something that I had never planned for: I became a stay-at-home dad. Our nanny came rushing in behind me carrying my nine-month-old daughter in her arms.
In our prior post, we covered using Twilio for our vacation rental. It gives us a great combination of low cost and programmability. In this post, we're going to extend the use of our Twilio number to automatically text guests when they first unlock the door.
I'm slowly trying to migrate away from VRBO. As part of that, I started to look into how I might get guests to sign a short-term lease agreement. I wanted the Docusign experience, without the pricetag. DocuSign is the leader in the space. Widely used…
It's been a busy summer and a full rental season since I first automated my vacation rental and it worked beautifully! All season I simply forwarded new reservation emails and it took care of everything else. But there is still one sticking point... I don't want…
I transitioned away from using Google Analytics on the sites I run long ago. It was too complex and heavy, plus I like to de-Google when I can. For a short while I used Heap Analytics. Then, I stopped using advanced tracking altogether. Old school…