Airbnb was found in 2008<\/a>, and it first became profitable during the 2nd\u00a0half of 2016. Its revenue grew more than 80% between 2015 and 2016. In the 3rd\u00a0quarter of 2018, its revenue exceeded one billion.<\/p>\nSince 2016, more people have opened their homes as hosts because the ROI was good.\u00a0Furthermore, more people are willing to stay at Airbnb sites.\u00a0In 2018, the Airbnb market became saturated in some areas; i.e. suppliers surpassed demand, and so the occupancy rate decreased. Many conversations have surfaced around this \u2013 should I become an Airbnb host? How much should I charge to achieve better occupancy? Is the ROI good enough for me to open my home to strangers?<\/p>\n
What does this business case tell us?\u00a0To me, ROI is really a conversation based on the supply & demand, your unique offering and your measurement of expected returns.<\/strong><\/p>\nWouldn\u2019t you agree, Coaches?<\/p>\n
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When I wrote the article \u201cA Good Business Model \u2013 Forbes Coaches Council\u201d\u00a0in 2017, my focus centered on the business model rather than my personal engagement with it. Surprisingly, the article has received much attention (over 3000 views), and many of the questions have been about\u00a0the return on investment (ROI). Could my ROI indicate yours? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[308,175,188,133,194,304,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachseattle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}