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Behind the Stays

Zach Busekrus

EN351 episodes
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Welcome to Behind the Stays — a podcast that shares the stories behind your favorite boutique hotels, short-term rentals, and hospitality brands and the hosts, operators, and entrepreneurs who’ve brought them to life. Every Tuesday and Friday you’ll meet the military veterans, retired flight attendants, tech entrepreneurs, school teachers, single moms, hoteliers, and real estate investors who are all, in their unique ways, shaping the future of travel and hospitality. Discover how these visionar...

Episodes (351)

How to Build the Marriott of Vacation Rentals — Meet the Founders of The 100 Col...

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Apr 11, 202355:44pending

How (and Why) He Bought a Roadside Attraction and Transformed it Into a Hospital...

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Apr 7, 202353:39pending

Budgeting for Your A-Frame Airbnb Build: Tips from The Back Country A-Frame Crea...

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Apr 4, 202357:19pending

Why The Hospitality Industry Needs More Entrepreneurs — Strategies, Ideas, and M...

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Mar 31, 20231:03:14pending

They Left NYC’s Fashion Industry to Build the Next Great Hospitality Brand — Mee...

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Mar 28, 202346:07pending

What Airbnb Hosts Can Learn from an Ex-Hotelier About the Future of Hospitality...

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Mar 21, 202351:22pending

How ”Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and Twitter Help Him Build a Portfolio of Airbnbs Remot...

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Mar 14, 20231:01:11pending

He’s Building the Ritz-Carlton of Short-Term Rentals — Meet Jonah Hanig, Founder...

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Mar 7, 202346:39pending

Marketing Mondays: 10 Creative(ish) Email Marketing A/B Test Ideas for Airbnb Ho...

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Mar 6, 202327:12pending

How to Get The Industry’s Best Discounts on Everything You Need for Your Short-T...

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Mar 3, 202359:20pending

He Spent $500k Building a Massive Airbnb Container Home — Meet The Pacific Bin b...

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Feb 28, 20231:04:38pending

How WeWork, Jimmy Kimmel, and Instagram Helped Him Build DEN Outdoors

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Feb 24, 20231:01:42pending

How Teslas and Levi Kelly Helped Them Build an Unforgettable Airbnb in Southern...

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Feb 21, 202358:55pending

Marketing Mondays: SEO Hacks for Airbnb Hosts: How to (Quickly) Increase Your Ai...

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Feb 20, 202333:53pending

How He Went from 0 to 500 Vacation Rentals in 5 Years

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Feb 15, 202354:47pending

Marketing Mondays: Why You Need a Website for Your Airbnb — Even if You Don’t Ha...

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Feb 13, 202325:05pending

How Will Smith’s Son, a Love for Movies, and Dropping Out of College Paved the W...

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Feb 10, 202359:37pending

How to Design an A-Frame on a Budget (That Still Gets Featured by HGTV)

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Feb 7, 202357:55pending

Marketing Mondays: How to Best Leverage Influencers to Promote Your Airbnb (The...

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Feb 6, 202325:48pending

How They Found, Bought, and Renovated an A-Frame in North Carolina for $250k

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Feb 3, 202354:02pending

How a Breast Cancer Diagnosis Inspired Her to Build a Collection of Airbnb Cabin...

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Jan 31, 202343:42pending

How to Design Truly Unforgettable Airbnbs That Attract International Attention —...

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Jan 27, 202356:00pending

How to Use Universal Design Concepts to Build an Accessible Airbnb — The Story o...

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Jan 24, 202349:33pending

How to Generate Millions of Views of Your Airbnb on YouTube — Meet Mike Iannetta

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Jan 20, 20231:04:39pending

How to Verticalize the $100 Billion Short-Term Rental Industry — A Chat with the...

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Jan 17, 20231:07:40pending

They Booked an A-Frame They Follow on Instagram — And It Inspired Them to Build...

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Jan 13, 202355:37pending

How to Build an Off-Grid Airbnb and a Unique Hospitality Brand — The Story of th...

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Jan 10, 202352:48pending

3 Guys, 2 Acres, 1 Bar, and No Builder — This is The Story of The Chal-A Vermont...

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Jan 6, 20231:05:08pending

How a Flower Farmer Built Vermont’s Most Wish-Listed Airbnb — The Story of The T...

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Jan 3, 202357:42pending

Confessions of a 25-Year-Old Real Estate Investor and Internet Entrepreneur — Me...

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Dec 27, 20221:01:20pending

Why Building Your Network as a Hospitality Entrepreneur is So Critical

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Dec 20, 202256:33pending

How an Instagram Post Landed Their Airbnb in Vogue — Meet the Creators of The Ki...

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Dec 13, 20221:11:12pending

How to Increase Your Airbnb’s Ranking on Google (And Other Musings on Direct Boo...

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Dec 6, 202257:58pending

How She Built an Insta-Famous Airbnb — The Story Behind the Cozy Rock Cabin.

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Nov 29, 20221:02:55pending

She Left Her Law Career to Become a Hospitality Entrepreneur — Meet the Creator...

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Nov 22, 202257:55pending

How to Grow Your Airbnb’s Instagram Following — Ideas from Ethan Abitz

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Nov 18, 202254:33pending

They Were Told They’d NEVER Find the Piece of Real Estate They Were Looking For...

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Nov 15, 202254:20pending

How STR Hosts Can Prepare for the Future of the Travel Industry — with Jamie Lan...

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Nov 11, 202252:13pending

How to Grow a Short-Term Rental Portfolio — Emir Dukic, CEO of Rabbu

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Nov 8, 202246:54pending

How Vacation Rental Managers Can Leverage AI and Machine Learning Like the Big O...

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Nov 3, 202251:40pending

How They’re Building Canada’s Premier Luxury Treehouse Company

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Nov 1, 202259:00pending

How to Inspire the Next Generation of Real Estate Investors — Meet Ali Nichols,...

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Oct 25, 202253:09pending

How a Single Mom Built One of Vermont’s Most Popular Airbnbs — The Story of the...

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Oct 21, 202248:31pending

The Top Airbnb Secrets and Strategies from a Former Airbnb Employee

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Oct 18, 202255:50pending

Hot Takes on the Future of Travel and Hospitality with Nate Ritter, Co-Founder o...

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Oct 11, 20221:05:06pending

How to Go from Zero to One as an STR Entrepreneur

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Oct 5, 202255:38pending

How to Make Your Airbnb Instaworthy — Ideas from an Award-Winning STR Photograph...

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Sep 30, 202248:50pending

How He Discovered, Bought, and Scaled an RV Membership Program — Meet Joel Holla...

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Sep 27, 202252:21pending

She Bought a Bank in the Ozarks and Transformed it into an Airbnb — How Tyann Ma...

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Sep 20, 202253:45pending

He Dreamed of Being a Pilot, But Was Destined to be an Entrepreneur — Meet Marcu...

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Sep 16, 202259:21pending
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