
The Heads In Beds Show is your vacation rental & accommodations marketing podcast co-hosted by Conrad O'Connell and Paul Manzey. Learn how to double your direct bookings with search, social & email marketing strategies and tactics.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 184 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | MarketingSociety & CulturePlaces & TravelBusiness | |||

In this episode Conrad and Paul break down building marketing opportunities with events. The duo specifically focuses on how to leverage landing pages, search volume trends, and other signals in your local community to take advantage of people travel... more
In this episode Conrad and Paul talk about the realities of AI slop, how you know if you’re making real progress or fake progress, being fooled by hallucinations in AI data, and a lot more!
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Welcome to our second-ever guest episode! We're joined by Arthur Colker to chat all things direct bookings, OTAs vs direct booking "sourcing", what percent of Airbnb listings are direct bookable and a LOT more topics.
A special thanks to Arthur for ... more
In this episode Conrad and Paul talk "All About Attribution" including how ads platforms track "bookings made", limits of pixels, how to proceed when you get conflicting data, Meta vs Google and a LOT more...
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I look forward to each episode and usually leave with actionable items for marketing. These guys are spot on and know this industry and how we need to adapt, execute and make marketing a priority. It’s simple advice and covers the whole range of our complex vacation rental business.
Really great tips and tricks that you can implement into your vacation rental business right away.
10/5 stars! There is so much good, actionable content here! Every owner or host should tune in and take note.
I subscribe to quite a few podcasts, many for my work in short term rentals in real estate, others for other things, but I can say that Heads in Beds is by far the most informative podcast that I subscribe to and that I can probably say I actually profit from listening to.
Have been a great resource for marketing information.
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This show centers on vacation rental marketing, with a focus on direct booking strategies, guest experience, and performance marketing across search, social, and email. Episodes frequently discuss practical tactics for property owners and managers, from leveraging AI and prompting techniques to optimize campaigns, to building credibility through reviews and social proof. Guests (when present) tend to be industry practitioners or experts, and the hosts emphasize actionable takeaways that can be implemented quickly to improve occupancy and guest satisfaction. A standout arc is the blend of hands-on marketing advice with real-world operations, giving listeners a pragmatic playbook rather than theoretical concepts.
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Heads In Beds Show launched 5 years ago and published 184 episodes to date. You can find more information about this podcast including rankings, audience demographics and engagement in our podcast database.
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