Exciting news - I hope you catch this in time
20 May 2021 · 4 min
Mark Simpson celebrates five years of Boostly, the community helping hosts cut OTA dependence and hit 1 million members. Live Zoom party May 27th at 6pm UK time, 1,000-5,000 people, prizes, no replay. Register at boostly.co.uk/party.
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So I have some exciting news to share with everybody. And this is for those that have been part of Boostly and listening to Boostly for a long time now. You will know that in 2016, I created Boostly and I created the hospitality community. Well, we are coming up to the year anniversary to when Boostly was the idea was created. The idea was actually by my wife, the name Boost Lee. It's short but for Boost Hospitality. And a lot, not a lot of people know that. And to celebrate the five year anniversary of the name being created for Boostly, I am going to be hosting a very special Zoom party. There's gonna be giveaways, there's gonna be prizes, we're gonna have some fun on it. We're gonna all jump on a zoom call. I've upgraded my membership so we can get a good 1,000 people in the room. We can actually go up to 5,000 people. Cause I know that there's plenty of people who watch this podcast. I know there's plenty of people who have been part of Boostly since the be be great just to get everybody into room and show you what we've done over the last five years, how many hosts we've helped, but also show you what the next stage and the next plan is. I've been spending a lot of time recently putting the plans in place, putting the structures in place and I want to show everybody what those are. Because the whole reason why this was created was purpose over profit. So the purpose is to help as many hosts as possible increase their direct bookings and cut down on the over reliance on the OTAs. My goal was to help 1 million hosts achieve that because the more hosts that increase their direct bookings, you cut down on your commission rates that you have to pay to OTAs, money that basically unnecessary leaves your local town and support money that could be reinvested into your local town and areas and businesses. I worked out in 2017 that my local hometown in the peak seasons, we're losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in commission costs unnecessarily to the big guys. So this is why I strived to make a change and make a difference. And I knew if I can affect and help and make a difference to 1 million people lives, then I know that the good things and the good karma will come to Bruce Lee in the back end. And it has. You know, me and my family have been very fortunate to be able to travel the world doing this. We've met so many of you hosts, amazing hosts and made good friendships over the years. And um, we've been able to do this because of Boostly. If I hadn't of created this, we'd never been able to do the traveling that we had done. We wouldn't have been able to see the world like we have done and we wouldn't be able to meet half as many as main people as we would have done so on the 27th of May at 6pm UK, please join me for a very special Zoom party. Like I said, there'll be giveaways, there'll be prizes, and it'll be a good chance just to catch up and see you all. The link to go and register and put your name down to say you're going to attend is boostly.co.uk party. So go ahead and do that. Go and sign up. This is a very Special Broadcast Announcement 27th of May, 6pm UK time. There won't be a replay because it is just a party. There's nothing really much to catch up and I want everybody to tune in live and to join in and say hi. So please put the time aside, giving you plenty of warnings. Again. 27th of May, 6pm UK time. Come and join us on the Zoom. Even if you're out and about walking around, you can still put us on your phone and you can just put your headpods in AirPods in and tune in as we do it. So I look forward to seeing you all then and thank you very much for tuning in and I will be back tomorrow with a more scheduled More to your normal programmer with the daily Boost.
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