Latest Cottage Podcast Episodes
VRS548 - Beyond the Stay: Crafting Sustainable Vacation Experiences with Marc Ribail
Vacation Rental Success - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsDo people really think about their impact on the environment when they go on vacation? Do they actively seek out locations and properties that clearly state their sustainability features? Reports and statistics are telling us that Gen Z is the most enlightened generation when it comes to r...
Ep #183 Be A Better Boss (to yourself)
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - February 27, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutesAre you a good boss to yourself? Probably not...most traditional bosses aren't that great (only about 30% are) and entrepreneurs are even worse! In today's podcast I am sharing my presentation I did for Castiron's Flour Power event called How To Be The Boss You Deserve. I LOVE teaching this c...
VRS547 - From Grass Roots to the Corridors of Power - Getting Active in Short-Term Rental Advocacy with Rolf Blizzard
Vacation Rental Success - February 21, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsIf you don’t already have local or state legislation in place to regulate your short-term rental business, it’s either in progress or it’s coming, because it’s not a matter of if your area gets regulated for short-term rentals. It’s when. This is the message Rolf Blizzard wants everyone to hee...
151. Baking it Down - Hobby vs. Have To
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - February 20, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings🎨 Hobby vs. Have To - And what Bob Ross has to say about it Okay okay - Corrie and I couldn't agree on the ✨definition✨ of "hobby baker" since most of us are technically a hobby baker - but in reality - I don't consider filing business taxes, updating your LLC yearly registration, and tappin' a...
Ep #182 Expand Your Inner Circle with Julie Nirvelli
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - February 20, 2024 11:00 - 46 minutesWhen you think about "networking" you probably make this face 😩 or this 🤢, but it doesn't have to be that way! If I could learn to love it 🤩, you definitely can too! In fact, I would credit much of my success and ability to help you to the relationships I have curated over the past 10 years. M...
VRS546 - Insuring Success: Proactive Risk Management for Property Managers
Vacation Rental Success - February 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsInsurance often takes a back seat in conversations about building a successful short-term rental property management business, but it has such critical importance, we have to pay more attention to it. When we do discuss it, it’s often to complain about the rising cost of premiums, but if it ta...
150. Baking it Down - License to Delight
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - February 13, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings🪪 License to Delight - And what we can learn from $400 perfume. Twin2 is back in her "Corporate Girly Era" with Neiman Marcus and "Patrick 2" - and here's what we learned from their customer experience manager that will help you delight your own customers all the way to the bank. Waiting up i...
Ep #181 Second Score (how to receive feedback better)
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutesThere's asking for feedback and then there's the receiving of the feedback. This is hard to do well! I love Adam Grant's concept of the second score and I share some tips on how to be a better feedback receiver so that you can get better or make your business better. I also share some of the fee...
Episode 4 - Food Policy and Systems Part I
Cultivation Station - February 07, 2024 21:19 - 47 minutesJoin us for Part 1 of our 3 part series to learn what the Jefferson County Food Policy Council teams are doing. The first episode focused on the School Food Pilot. In this episode we will hear about the Community Leadership team. The Jefferson County Food Policy Council is a diverse community-le...
VRS545 - From Trust Signals to 5-Star Reviews: Strategies to Elevate Your Vacation Rental Business
Vacation Rental Success - February 07, 2024 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsTrust is at the core of everything we do in this business, and there’s no-one better to talk about this than Chris Maughan of I-PRAC. He has been studying trust for more than 25 years and in this episode shines a spotlight on its paramount importance in building relationships with guests, reduc...
149. Baking it Down - I Adject...ive!
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - February 06, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings☝️ I Adject...ive! - Using different words to sweeten the deal. Your business will live and die by the words you use - either words used to make more sales or words used unintentionally to make a sworn enemy whose new purpose in life is to drag you through all the local community groups. *shu...
Ep #180 Going For 10X with Jessica of Fireworks Butters
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - February 06, 2024 17:00 - 47 minutesIn the four years Jessica, founder of Fireworks Butters, and I have worked together we have never recorded a podcast together...that changes today! Hear her 8-year journey of starting her business and keeping it going with a busy household of three kids and husband and then COVID. Each year ...
VRS544 - How to Master Guest Screening For Your Short Term Rentals: The Key to Protecting Your Business
Vacation Rental Success - January 31, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsDo we need to know our guests? They book, pay, arrive, stay a while, leave, and we hope that all will go well, the property will be respected and there won’t be a charge-back. That is not always the case though, and while we can expect most of our guests to be great, there will always be a few...
148. Baking it Down - Branding Woes
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - January 30, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings🪧 Branding Woes - The process to proceed with the perfect branding. If your commitment-averse (like yours truly), you'll find branding one of those long-term relationships you may eventually regret. So how do you build a brand when you're not sure of what you're building in the first place? Fa...
Ep #179 Making Investments in Your Biz: Conversation with Danny Walsh
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutesAre you worried about making money mistakes or making the wrong investments in your business? Danny Walsh and I have a frank conversation about making investments in an early stage business. He shares what investments he made into his business, Peak State Coffee, early on and what mistakes he ma...
Episode 3 - Marketing on a Budget Part 2
Cultivation Station - January 24, 2024 20:51 - 1 hourThis is Part 2 of our 4 part series, We will take what we learned in Part 1 with "Getting Organized" and then listen to experts Kuvy Ax and Emily Tracy from Root Marketing on how to implement the plan we have developed! Using PR, partnerships and events, they will walk us through how to get our ...
VRS543 - Evolving Mom & Pop - A New Definition of the Vacation Rental Business with Matt Landau
Vacation Rental Success - January 24, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsThis episode is sponsored by Minut. You can discover more about Minut at our Virtual Vendor Showcase >> https://www.vacationrentalformula.com/virtual-vendor-showcases/minut Get access to the best education for your short-term rental business! Enroll in The Vacation Rental Formula Business ...
147. Baking it Down - Peeky Blinders
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - January 23, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings👀 Peeky Blinders - When to Look and When to Look Away The typo was intentional (this time) - 👀 it's a play on words when it comes to peeking over the proverbial fence of social media to see what our competition is up to. 🧠 But staring leads to comparing and that can be a real mind-trip wonder...
Ep #178 Focus on Your Strengths with Dr. Lee Koles
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutesWe are often told in school and work to try to fix our weaknesses and spend energy there attempting to overcome them. That's the hardest and least fun way to go about being an entrepreneurs on my guest today, Dr. Lee Koles, shares with you the Clifton Strengths tools and why it's important to ac...
VRS542 - 12 Lessons for A Better Life In Vacation Rentals with Australian Powerhouse Rebecca Cribbin
Vacation Rental Success - January 17, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsThis episode is sponsored by Minut. You can discover more about Minut at our Virtual Vendor Showcase >> https://www.vacationrentalformula.com/virtual-vendor-showcases/minut Get access to the best education for your short-term rental business! Enroll in The Vacation Rental Formula Business ...
146. Baking it Down - G-i-v-e-a-w-a-y-s 101
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - January 16, 2024 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 287 ratings🎁 G-i-v-e-a-w-a-y-s - What to Watch out for Choosin' a Winner. Giveaways - do you do them? If so, what do you need to watch out for? What should you give away? How do they enter? How do you make the post? How do you choose a winner? 🧠 Giveaways are tempting - I mean, who doesn't want free stu...
Ep 177 Identity vs. Result: How to Create Better Habits That Last
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutesHow's that New Year's resolution coming along? If you find that it has petered out, it's probably because the set up was wrong from the start and it was set up as a results goal versus an identity shift process. In today's episode I share with you what the difference is and one of my identity sh...
VRS541 - Inside Power Partnerships with Kerri Gibson - Secrets of Successful Collaborations
Vacation Rental Success - January 10, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsThis episode is sponsored by Minut. You can discover more about Minut at our Virtual Vendor Showcase >> https://www.vacationrentalformula.com/virtual-vendor-showcases/minut Get access to the best education for your short-term rental business! Enroll in The Vacation Rental Formula Business ...
145. Baking it Down - Not All Leads are Created Equal
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - January 09, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings☎️ Not All Leads Are Created Equal Let's define some words before we jump into this week's podcast topic: ✅ Lead: someone contacting you to secure a potential product or service ✅ Qualified Lead: a lead that has been vetted and is willing to pay your price or work with your availability ✅ Co...
Ep #176 Get That Brand Out of Your Head with Christopher McLaughlin
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - January 09, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutesEver wonder if you logo or other visuals make a difference in sales and customer loyalty? My guest is Christopher McLaughlin of Tenfold and he is my long-time partner in graphic design for many client projects. We discuss why it is so important to get that brand out of your head to communicate w...
VRS540 - We Could Write a Book About Short-Term Rental Management - With Craig White
Vacation Rental Success - January 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 210 ratingsThis episode is sponsored by Minut. You can discover more about Minut at our Virtual Vendor Showcase >> https://www.vacationrentalformula.com/virtual-vendor-showcases/minut ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ At the clo...
144. Baking it Down - Community Groups 101
Baking it Down with Sugar Cookie Marketing 🍪 - January 02, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 287 ratings📍 Community Groups 101 - Creating Your Greatest Lead Source Community groups - you love them, you hate them, you love to hate them, you hate to love them - but they are a lead source powerhouse, and we're not ones to sit on the sidelines when it comes to making that dough (baking and monetary t...
Episode 2 Season 3 10 Best New Year Advertisements to Get Your Business Jump Started for 2024
Cultivation Station - January 02, 2024 14:43 - 38 minutesTera Keats from Philosophy Communications joins us to help us navigate the best ways to start a new year with our marketing strategies! A new year means we can jump start our business with a fresh new look!
Ep #175 Subtract To Do More
Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutesWhen setting your new year's goals, it's so easy to just add more and more to the list as a way to get you there. Studies show that most of us never even consider doing LESS and subtracting activities. In today's podcast I share with you insights from the book Subtract by Leidy Klotz and how yo...
Episode 1 Season 3 Marketing on a Budget Series Part 1
Cultivation Station - January 02, 2024 01:57 - 49 minutesListen in on Cultivation Station while we kick-off a 4 part series! In Part 1, we talk with Jordyn Gottlieb at Root Marketing on how our businesses can have effective Marketing programs on a budget! The first step is to get organized!!!! Jordyn will share expert ideas and tools to get started on...