Tag: market trends

Avoiding Common Pitfalls: Lessons from Experienced Airbnb Hosts

Guest Post
airbnb dos and donts

Airbnb has transformed how people travel. Nowadays, you don’t have to stay at a hotel and worry about the 10 AM checkout time. Now, you can get unique and dynamic accommodations that go beyond traditional hotels. Renting your property on Airbnb can be a nice side hustle if you have extra room. However, the vacation rental business has its fair share of challenges. We have taken our time and compiled a list of common pitfalls you must watch out for from seasoned Airbnb hosts. Incomplete Property Listings Creating listings with…

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Make it, chip it and ship it – New NFC phones coming faster than we think!

John Montgallo

A recent report shows that mobile payment technology may be here sooner than we think. Radio Frequency ID (RFID) chips enabling the Near Field Communications (NFC), will be in most Smartphone’s coming out this year. The survey shows around 23 million phones being NFC enabled by the end of this year.  In three years that number is predicted to be around 300 million. Mobile devices hit a growth point where they didn’t grow anymore. They exploded. Now over 70 percent of the entire world population has a mobile phone. In the…

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