As I committed in last week’s post, I started the week with Rob’s suggestion of a 15 minute ideation session- with the aim of brainstorming 15 business growth and money making ideas in 15 minutes. I managed 13 ideas in this first session, mostly related to our SA business and some related to new property income streams. Moving forwards, Chris and I have agreed to do a 10 min session each Sun/Mon with the aim of generating 8 ideas each. These ideas will be sent to our VA Hellen who will organise them in a Trello board for us to filter and work with from there. The aim is to dedicate some of our Thursdays each week to discussing and actioning the news ideas. FYI Trello is a handy little tool for capturing and categorising lists of tasks or ideas, and it’s free https://trello.com
On the SA side, I do feel like we are ‘bouncing back’ from a mini hiatus- the OTA’s have brought a handful of good bookings and the actions taken this week to explore new direct booking avenues have been promising.
We are also adding a new property to the portfolio next week with some new JV partners and already have the first booking in thanks to an early airbnb listing.
Looking forward to our VIP day on Tuesday, our 1-2-1 with Aniko and a dinner with the other Scottish VIP’s.