Adding Promotions to Attract More Guests

[Mihaela60]

:Hello fellow Airbnb hosts,I hope you're all having a successful hosting experience! I'm reaching out to gather some insights on enhancing my listing's appeal through promotions. While I'm familiar with the basics of setting up my Airbnb listing, I'm looking to delve deeper into promotional strategies to increase my booking rates.Could anyone share their experiences or tips on how to effectively add more promotions to an Airbnb listing? Specifically, I'm interested in:Understanding the different types of promotions that have worked well for you.Learning how to set up these promotions directly on the Airbnb platform.Any best practices for balancing promotions without significantly reducing profitability.I'm keen on implementing early booking discounts, last-minute deals, or special offers for extended stays but am unsure how to best approach this on Airbnb's interface. Your insights and advice would be incredibly valuable to me and, I'm sure, to many others in this community.Thank you in advance for your help and looking forward to your responses!Best regards, 

kind regards,

Mihaela
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[Mihaela60]

Not sure how to edit the title  

it’s supposed to say guests

not guestsbody

cell phones 🙈🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sophia]

Hi @Mihaela60 this is a great question! 💡I just wanted to let you know that I've edited the title of your post 😊

[Mihaela60]

Thank you so much!

[Joan2709 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mihaela60 

This is a complex topic with lots of moving parts. Use caution when using the Airbnb custom promotions feature. It's a great tool, but you need to understand how it works before applying custom promotions. If you have lots of discounts set (weekly, early bird, last minute, etc.), when you apply a custom promotion to dates, your discounts can "stack" on top of one another and give the guest a steeper discount than you intended. I would start by reading through the help articles below and a thread I reposted below on the topic:

Why aren’t custom promotions available for my listing?

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2720

Why do my prices change when I create a custom promotion?

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2721

Create a custom promotion

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2982

Why can’t I set a promotion for certain dates

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2719

Do you really understand How Airbnb custom promotions work?

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help-with-your-business/Do-you-really-understand-your-promotion-...

[Mihaela60]

Thank you very much! We realized that after a few bookings…