All about the Book Direct Show 2021 in London
12 Sept 2021 · 4 min
Mark Simpson is speaking at the Book Direct Show and Short Stay Summit at Tobacco Dock in London on September 13 and 14. His talk covers email marketing as a simple, cost-effective way to reach guests directly, without relying on third-party platforms.
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Welcome, welcome. And this is a very special episode. Now you should be listening to this or watching this. On the 12th of September today I am going to be venturing to London town. Fingers crossed, all being world because I'm going to be speaking at two events. The first one is the Book Direct show which is going to be on Monday 13th September which is at Tobacco Dock in London. With so many cool peers, so many cool people. I'm so excited to see Neely Khan and and Maver Louis Brace talk again as well as so many other cool people at the Book Direct Show. And then on Tuesday the 14th and we're back at Tobacco Doc speaking on a panel at the Short Stay Summit. Now if you are watching this, if you are listening to this, if you are anywhere near London, go go check out Book Direct Show. Google it. You can book in tickets. It's very, very, very cheap, less than 100 pound. You can go and attend in person. An in person event is crazy after what the last 16 months have very excited to it. But if you're not in London, nowhere near it, can't get to it. There will be the online version that you can go and get right now with the copy of my talk which is going to be exciting, which is going to be fun. It's going to be about email marketing that will be able to get as well as many, many, many others. So do go check it out. This show is, is so important to the whole Book Direct movement. It was founded by a gentleman called Damien Sheridan. He has got people that help him out like the amazing Deb Laby and many, many other people that help him put this together. And in 2020, in February, the 28th, for the 26th or 28th, he did the very first Book Direct show in person. And this was just before the whole madness happened. And then in September of last year he did a virtual one and now it's back to be in person, which is, which is great and I'm so looking forward to it. I'm so looking forward to meeting so many people in flesh, in person. People that I speak to on a daily basis on WhatsApp or Instagram I actually get to meet. So I'm really looking forward to it. I say this is, this is being prerecorded. You should be listening to this. You should be watching this on the 12th of September. Okay everyone, I hope you're enjoying this episode. I want to take a super quick break to talk to you about hostfully. So I've been telling you all about their Award winning platform. But one of the great things about this company is that they are very eco conscious in the world of short term rental management. Go check out their blog right now@hostfully.com they have a few interesting articles about how you too can make your business more marketable to to the younger generation that is really talking about this topic and taking it very seriously. Go to hostfully.com and as you are there and whilst you are there go and check out a digital guidebook it's free to get started with and also book in a demo call about the reward. Within PMP property management platform they have the exclusive sponsors of the Boostly podcast. They have been for many years and hopefully for many years to come. So for me to all the team, thank you and let's get back on with this show. If you're watching it afterwards then you can still go and check out the online videos. If you're watching this on the date, fantastic. If you're watching this before, you can still go and get your tickets. So go ahead and get them please. Please do support the book Direct Move. And it's so important that more hosts learn from not just me, but from many many others in the industry. There's definitely so many ways that you can increase your direct bookings. I'm gonna be talking about the most requested which is email marketing. I think the most simplest to do which is email marketing. The most cost effective which is email marketing. And the one that's got the best returns, email marketing. So I'm exc. He's got me speaking after lunch which, which is a schoolboy. Nobody ever wants to speak after lunch because everybody's full of food and full of drink and the last thing they want to do is hear more talks. But hey ho, I've got some installed to get everybody regenerated. Let's just say so again, please do go and check that out. Book, direct show, do go and Google it. Go check them out. I'm very excited for the next couple of days all being well, I'm able to get into the country which is a total side subject. But for me, me thank you so much. I've got another video ready to go for tomorrow. I've pre recorded a few ones. It's going to be a good one. As always, please make sure you like, make sure you subscribe, download but most importantly share this with hosts all around the world. Especially today's when we're talking about the book Direct Movement. Okay everybody, speak to you tomorrow. Take care.
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