Your Pricing Is Talking: A Revenue Management Challenge
Two afternoons to learn the decisions that come before it, working inside your own property with revenue managers who do this every day.
Can't make it live? No worries! You'll get the replay.
You open your calendar on a Tuesday morning.
There's a gap.
Three weeks out. Four nights open.
Last year, you'd swear those dates were booked by now.
So you do what everybody does.
You drop the rate.
Maybe $15. Maybe $30. You tell yourself you'll put it back if things pick up.
Then you check again Thursday.
Still open.
So you drop it again.
Is this actually a problem — or is this just what October looks like in my market?
You don't know.
And not knowing is the part that keeps you checking.
We learned to react to the calendar.
Open dates feel like an emergency, so we lower the price. Bookings come in, so we raise it. Something feels off, so we change a setting somebody mentioned on a podcast.
That's not a strategy. That's a reflex.
And reflexes are expensive. Because when you lower a rate that didn't need to be lowered, you don't get a warning. You just quietly earn less than you could have, and the booking that would have come anyway comes at a discount you gave away for free.
When you don't adjust a rate that did need adjusting, that's expensive too. It just costs you in a way that's even harder to see.
You're being asked to interpret data nobody ever taught you how to read - and then make a financial decision based on your interpretation. Every single week.
Of course it feels like guessing.
There's a whole chain of them — and most owners never realize they're making them.
Comp Set
Are you comparing your property to the right competition?
Booking Window
When do guests in your market actually book?
Minimum Stays
Are your restrictions helping bookings — or quietly blocking them?
Base Price
What should your pricing actually be anchored to?
Market Data
What is the market around you telling you right now?
Pacing + Seasonality
Are you behind, ahead, or exactly where you should be?
Every one of those is knowable.
Not guessable. Knowable.
The numbers are already sitting there. Nobody's shown you how to line them up so they tell you a story.
That's the entire point of these two days.
The Revenue Management Challenge is two live afternoons where you learn from revenue managers who do this every day. Then that evening, you put it to work inside your own pricing tool.
So by Thursday night, you haven't just heard how revenue managers think. You've made real decisions in your own pricing tool, with a reason behind each one.
Your property open. Your pricing tool open. Hands on the keyboard.
You'll choose one of three tracks based on where you are now, with a revenue management expert guiding the work.
Two hours a day. Two days. That's it.
Same challenge. Same experts. Three starting points — because “I've never opened my settings” and “I adjust my pricing weekly and still can't tell if I'm on track” are not the same problem, and they shouldn't get the same training.
Understand your market. Understand your settings. Build your revenue management foundation.
This is your track if: you know revenue management matters, but you don't feel confident managing it yourself. Maybe you connected your pricing tool and haven't touched much since setup. Maybe you changed a setting because someone told you to, but you couldn't explain why.
What you'll build in the room:
Interpret your data. Identify opportunities. Make intentional changes.
This is your track if: you know the fundamentals. You can navigate your tools. You understand what a comp set and a booking window are. But you look at your numbers and still think, okay: what does this actually mean, and what should I do about it?
What you'll build in the room:
Measure your performance. Diagnose the gap. Build a repeatable process.
This is your track if: you're already actively managing revenue. You're comfortable in your tools, you're making adjustments, and now you want a real process for answering: am I on track, and if not, why not?
What you'll build in the room:
The Revenue Management Roadmap (Expert Panel)
Revenue management is so much more than changing your nightly rate. Our panel maps the full lifecycle — what they actually watch, the mistakes they see most often, and the numbers that should be driving your decisions. You'll leave this session knowing what to pay attention to for the rest of the challenge.
Track sessions
Your track. Your property. Hands on the keyboard.
Learning revenue management in real life: the lessons, mistakes, and breakthroughs
I sit down with my son, Brendan, who went from knowing virtually nothing about revenue management to actively managing pricing across my portfolio. The learning curve, the mistakes, the moment it clicked, and what he'd tell you if you're the one staring at your pricing software wondering how you'll ever figure it out.
AI + the future of revenue management
Where AI genuinely helps you interpret data and spot opportunities — and where it will get you into trouble if you hand over the reins. Practical, current, and honest about the limits.
Wrap-up
Kickoff
Track sessions
Back into your property to finish what you started.
DIY or hire a who?
Just because you can manage your own pricing doesn't mean you should. We'll break down the time, attention, and skill set this really takes, the signs it's time to hand it off, and — if you decide to hire — what a revenue manager should actually be doing for you and what to ask before you trust someone with your pricing.
Expert hot seat
Real properties. Real numbers. Real questions. Watch experienced revenue managers evaluate a property live and decide which levers to pull — pricing, minimum stays, booking windows, comp sets, pacing, market data. Bring your hardest question or learn by watching them work through someone else's.
Wrap-up
Kyle Driskell
PriceLabs
Jake Cohen
Step By Step BNB
Emile Sakhel
Pricing By Mira
Adam Blatt
Pricing By Mira
By 4:00 pm on October 15, here's what's different.
That's the whole shift. The decisions that come before your rate become visible, knowable, and yours.
You'll look at an open week and know whether it's a problem or a Tuesday in October.
You'll know which properties you're genuinely competing with — and stop measuring yourself against a place down the street that was never your competition.
You'll have a reason for your minimum stays. An actual reason.
You'll be able to tell the difference between the market is soft and my pricing is off, which are two completely different problems with two completely different answers.
And the next time you feel the urge to drop your rate, you'll have somewhere to look first.
Data over drama. That's not a slogan here — it's the actual method.

Hi, I'm Stacey.
I'm a real estate investor, property manager, co-host, and educator - and the founder of The STR Sisterhood.
For years, I didn't have to manage revenue day to day because I had a revenue manager doing it.
Then last January, mine left. Abruptly.
Suddenly I had a portfolio to protect, a calendar to manage, and no firsthand experience doing revenue management myself.
My revenue manager left, and I needed someone in the business who actually understood revenue management.
My son Brendan wanted to work in the business, so I sent him to real revenue management training with people who do this for a living.
Within a few months, Brendan was actively managing revenue across our portfolio.
Brendan wasn't the only one who needed to learn. I still owned the strategy, and I needed to understand revenue management well enough to lead it.
So I learned it too.
From Jake at Step By Step BNB. From Emile and Adam at Pricing by Mira. From Kyle at PriceLabs.
Those are the same experts teaching your tracks this October.
I didn't go hunting for experts to headline a challenge. I invited the people who taught me.
That's the measurable difference.
That's why this challenge exists - and why Stacey isn't the one teaching the tracks.
When somebody in your business genuinely understands revenue management, it changes how decisions get made.
Maybe that somebody is you.
Maybe it's someone you hire.
Either way, you should understand it well enough to know whether it's being done well.
Sitting in your dashboard, in your booking history, in your market.
What you haven't had is somebody to walk you through what it means and stay with you while you do something about it.
That's October 14 and 15.
Two afternoons. One property. A revenue strategy you built yourself and can actually explain.
I'd love to have you there.
October 14–15 · 2:00–4:00 pm ET · Live on Zoom