Short-stay accommodation · Cottesloe, Western Australia

Occupancy is a maintenance job, not a launch.

Short-stay accommodation is won and lost on things that need attention every week: how the listing reads, how it ranks, what the photographs promise, and where the advertising budget goes in a season. We manage that for Cottesloe BnB.

Listing Management
Paid Ads
Ongoing

Always on

listings and advertising under management

Reported by the client

Listing Management

Lead discipline

Cottesloe, Western Australia

Market

Project detail

The client

Cottesloe BnB — short-stay accommodation, Cottesloe, Western Australia.

The challenge

Where they started.

A single property competes against operators with portfolios and full-time revenue managers. The platforms reward recency, responsiveness and completeness — all of which decay the moment nobody is tending them.

The opportunity

Most individual hosts set a listing up once and leave it. Consistent listing maintenance and a small, properly targeted ad budget is a genuine advantage precisely because so few operators at this scale do it.

The strategy

Treat the listings as a product that needs maintaining rather than a form that was filled in. Keep them complete and current, and put paid support behind the periods that actually need filling rather than spending evenly across the year.

What we built

Listing management
Copy, imagery, amenities, policies and calendar detail kept current across platforms, so the listing stays competitive on the signals platforms actually rank.
Paid advertising
Campaigns managed around demand periods rather than run flat, with budget moved toward the dates that need occupancy.
Presentation
Consistent positioning of the property across every surface a guest might see before booking.
Ongoing review
Regular review of performance and platform changes, so the listing doesn't quietly fall behind a rules update.

Execution

This is a retainer rather than a project: small, regular, attentive work in a category where being current is most of the advantage.

The result

What changed.

As reported by the client.

The listings and advertising are actively managed rather than left to drift.

For an owner, the value is mostly what stops happening: listings going stale, budget running through quiet weeks, and a platform change going unnoticed until the bookings dry up.

These are the results of this project. Every business, market and starting position is different, so we don't present them as a promise of what yours would be.

Continuing growth. The engagement continues on an ongoing basis.

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