Last night I made the trip to London to visit this year's Travel Blog Camp.

After missing the inaugural event last year, and kicking myself when I read all the great feedback the event received, I was determined to visit this year. It was a great opportunity to leave the bubble of the day-to-day running of Rental Reserve and mix with some of the best people in the travel industry today.

In September we held an event for self catering property managers based in Edinburgh.

We wanted an opportunity to grow a community within our industry, share some advice, gain some feedback and get a chance to meet some of the people we work with all the time.

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Meet and greets are costly and time consuming.

We have all been there. It's 4pm on a Sunday afternoon. You have popped out to do a meet and greet for your self catering property. Your family are waiting on you and your guests phone saying they are half an hour away. They say sorry they are late. The sat nav has been playing up. Anyhow they are just finishing afternoon tea at Loch Lomond and will be in Edinburgh in half an hour!

Even at a push that's a good hour and a half drive.

That's exactly what I did for April 2009 on my West End Apartment in the heart of Edinburgh.

When I looked at my availability calendar in late February and realised April was a desert with NO bookings – I realised the credit crunch had hit. It was obvious what I must do to win over the potential customers that were out there looking for a bargain. That meant I had to discount and be competitive.