I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Black Hills strategy inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, explaining every setting. One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125; or run it with Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing from $17.99 per listing per month.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb pricing strategy for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Black Hills, United States, one to one, remotely and in Mountain Time (UTC-7). In Black Hills, I price June to July and Early August (Sturgis Rally) as the peak and January to March and October to December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
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An Airbnb pricing strategy is the set of rules that decide what each night is worth: base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events, minimum stays, gap nights, last-minute pricing, length-of-stay discounts and channel markups. The tool applies the rules; the strategy is what makes the tool worth having. Smart Pricing is not a strategy, because it optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate and knows nothing about your events or other channels.
What I plan around in Black Hills: Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park; Sturgis Motorcycle Rally; Summer national-park road trips; Deadwood gaming and events. Guests I price for: Road-tripping families on 2 to 4 night stays, rally visitors on week-long stays. Where I start: Rally-week premiums with minimum stays, summer rates, and long winter floors.
I set up your Airbnb and Vrbo strategy with you so rally week, the summer park season, the Buffalo Roundup and winter weekends each have their own rate and minimum stay, with clear rules for motorcycles, trailers and large groups written into the listing.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Black Hills.
I set the base from a real comp set, a minimum that protects your margin and a maximum that stops you underselling a peak night, listing by listing.
I build seasonal profiles and event premiums from the local calendar, so rates move before demand does and not after.
Minimum stays, gap and orphan nights and length-of-stay discounts are set to fill the calendar without discounting the whole month.
I configure OTA markups so your net rate is the same on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and leave time to ask anything about pricing.
“The Black Hills are a summer road-trip market with one extraordinary week: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Rally week can earn far more than any other period, and it needs clear rules on parking, guests and cleaning. The rest of summer is Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park visitors on short stays.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Snow brings skiers to Terry Peak and gamers to Deadwood, so I price northern Hills weekends a little above the rest and keep long-stay offers elsewhere.
Road trips start after Memorial Day, so I lower floors in April, then lift late May weekends as the parks and attractions open for the season.
Families visit Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, so I keep two or three night stays, hold rates firm and fill single gap nights with smaller discounts.
I price the rally as a separate block with longer stays and clear rules, and I set the days before and after it as their own smaller peak.
Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates.
Most visitors leave, so I drop to long-stay rates outside Deadwood and price the holidays and hunting weekends where they apply.
Price Sturgis Rally week as the top band, opened a year ahead with week-long stays.
Set clear parking, guest and cleaning rules for rally guests.
Price June to September with 2 to 3-night stays for road-trippers.
Add Deadwood events as smaller premiums.
Set low winter floors.
You rely on Smart Pricing
You want a strategy that considers events, gaps and every channel.
You have a tool on defaults
PriceLabs or Wheelhouse is connected but the rules were never set up.
Your pace trails the market
Bookings arrive late or prices look low in peak weeks.
You want to run it yourself
You prefer to price on your own once the strategy is right.
Choose the package for your listing count and a slot in your time zone. Payment is taken securely at booking.
Share the listing links and tool access so I can review competitors and settings before the call.
On Zoom I set seasons, events, stay rules and markups with you on screen, and explain why each setting is there.
Step 4
A revisit session re-tunes the strategy against your results, from $75.
One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125. Wheelhouse follows the same schedule and revisits start from $75. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 2 listings, 45-minute session | $125 |
| Growth | 3 to 6 listings, 60-minute session | $250 |
| Portfolio | 7 to 10 listings, 90-minute session | $370 |
| Scale | 11 to 15 listings, 90-minute session | $480 |
| Pro | 16 to 21 listings, 120-minute session | $615 |
| Enterprise | 22 or more listings, 120-minute session | $635 |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
For Airbnb pricing strategy, the first changes are base and minimum prices and the seasonal profile, since those drive most of the revenue in Black Hills. Set low winter floors. Next: set clear parking, guest and cleaning rules for rally guests.
Busiest in Black Hills: June to September, with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. Early August (Sturgis Rally): I price the rally as a separate block with longer stays and clear rules, and I set the days before and after it as their own smaller peak. Late August to September: Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates. For Airbnb pricing strategy, the strategy I build sets seasonal profiles, event premiums and minimum-stay rules around these windows before they open for booking.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, for the quiet months I set the minimum price, last-minute and gap-night rules and length-of-stay discounts so nights fill without dropping below your floor. Quietest in Black Hills: November to April. October to December: Most visitors leave, so I drop to long-stay rates outside Deadwood and price the holidays and hunting weekends where they apply. January to March: Snow brings skiers to Terry Peak and gamers to Deadwood, so I price northern Hills weekends a little above the rest and keep long-stay offers elsewhere.
Rally week booked early at summer rates and no parking or house rules for rally guests. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Black Hills, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, i set base prices and comp sets per area, with a separate profile where two parts of Black Hills behave differently. Hill City and Keystone: Closest to Mount Rushmore; I price summer weekends highest here and keep gap discounts small because families book the area early. Rapid City and Spearfish, Deadwood and Lead get their own treatment.
Summer national-park road trips, Deadwood gaming and events and Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Black Hills. Late August to September: Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Black Hills, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Black Hills sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. Late August to September: Retirees and couples arrive after school starts, and the Buffalo Roundup lifts late September, so I keep weekends strong and ease weekday rates.
Whether the home holds the state vacation home licence and charges the right lodging taxes, which I check before any rally pricing. For Airbnb pricing strategy, i check this before touching a single rate, because a base price built on the wrong assumption makes every rule worse.
PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month. The scope of Airbnb pricing strategy is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Black Hills I would start from June to July: Families visit Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park, so I keep two or three night stays, hold rates firm and fill single gap nights with smaller discounts. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Black Hills.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Black Hills the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: set low winter floors. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Black Hills is delivered remotely and scheduled in Mountain Time (UTC-7), and 100+ properties in and around Black Hills have been optimized, including in areas such as Hill City and Keystone. I build it live with you on Zoom in your time zone, inside PriceLabs, Wheelhouse or Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Black Hills.
The other services I offer in Black Hills, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Black Hills, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Black Hills, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Black Hills and what you need. I reply in Mountain Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
