Guaranteed Way To Get More Airbnb Bookings

As the title suggests, there is one way that you can guarantee to get a booking on Airbnb.com and I'm going to talk about it today. Some of you may like it, some of you may not, but it's one of those ways that you are guaranteed to get a booking. So heads on beds and all that jazz. Now before we do, delve into it and if you're the first time that you are listening to this podcast or watching this podcast. Hi, my name is Maximson. I give hosts just like you the tools, the tactics, the training, but most importantly, the confidence to get more bookings, more heads on beds and. And ideally there would be by direct. But I know that a lot of you ask Airbnb questions as I can see it in the forums and I can see it on the youtubes and I can see it and I can hear it on Clubhouse. So I thought I would do a couple of videos on Airbnb but will help you to get more bookings on that platform. 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You hear me talk a lot about marketing and that's because attracting your own guests is how you generate true revenue for your business. But like with everything else that I talk about, it takes time. And if it takes not only a little bit of your time, it can take large chunks of your time if you try and do everything yourself. One of the things that I have very quickly discovered is automation and delegation. And this is what I love about hostfully. And this thing that I don't think a lot of people know is that a big part of their behind the scenes tools is automation communication, tools that are set up and designed to automate the process. There are companies out there that charge a lot of money for this, but with Hostly, it's all built in as part of your service. So if your PMS doesn't provide automation communication, then I would definitely look at maybe booking a call in with Hostfleet as soon as possible. But the sponsors of this podcast. So go and check out hostfully.com make sure you tell them that Boostly sent you. And as always to Hostfully, thanks for sponsoring this show. I'm a big supporter and a big fan of everything that you do. And right now let's get back on with that show that we're talking about. Thank you. Now again I said some of you may like this, some of you may not like this, but just like any ota, there are people on there that are just searching for the lowest price. And the thing and the reason why these OTAs have become so popular is because a lot of people feel like it's a race to the bottom. Now there are ways and means that we can do this and there's actually a really cool way that you can look like you've got a heavily discounted rate, but really you're, you're not. Let's talk about that after, but let's talk about price secondly. So the best need to do this if you're going to do it manually. You can just go and look over the course of the next week, two weeks, three weeks in your local area, see what other hosts are doing, find ones that are a similar amount of bedrooms, facilities, etc to you, look at what the pricing are and just Undercut them by 1 or €2 or dollars or pounds, whatever it may be. Another way is to take advantage of these amazing dynamic pricing software tools that are out there in 2021 and beyond. Wheelhouse beyond, you've got price labs boy pricing. There's loads of these now softwares and tools available that were not available 10 years ago when I needed them. So take advantage of them. Utilize their their database to again make sure that you are ahead of everybody else in your local area. Let's talk about the next one now hands up. Let me know in the comments. Who do you use as your pms? Is it free to book? Is it guesty? Is it, is it up listing? Is it X? Is it Y? Is it Z? There's loads of them now. Let me know again if your PMS of choice is able to mark up the price. Now, what do I mean by that? So say that your base rate is £100. What you can do is you can mark up your prices on Airbnb by 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40. I've seen 50% markup this summer and people are still booking it. So what you can do is you can mark up your prices by say, 50%. So I'll go to 150 pounds, say 150 Euros. 150 a night. And then what you can do is you can go into the Opportunity section on Airbnb, you can go into the opportunity section on booking.com wherever it may be and you can put in a discount. So save it. You go on to Airbnb and for last minute bookings you have a 25 discount off that price for the guest. They think, fantastic, I'm getting a steal here because again, these discounted rates will appear in a search result that nobody else is. But yet you're still making a 25% markup because they're booking through the OTAs. Because don't forget, we've marked up 50%. You could, if you wanted to, you could put a discount price of 45% and you've still got a markup of 5%. It's a cool little hack. It's a cool little thing that I've not only seen people doing, but I've helped people do over the course of the last couple of months. And it's worked really well because again, the guest, all they see is the discounted price for the ota. Great. Because again, they feel like you're giving their guests a massive discount. But for you, it's a win because you've marked up originally from what it is that your direct booking prices. So win, win, win. So that's pricing. Now, I would love to know what you're doing around this. Are you using dynamic pricing software tools? Who are you using? Are you doing it manually? How are you doing it? Are you doing the markup? And tell us some wins. This is where I pass the conversation to yourself. Please leave it in the comments below on whatever channel you are watching this on. And if you're listening to the audio and you want to reach out to me. Markusly.co.uk. thank you so much for stopping by. As always, let's be proactive, don't be reactive and let's go and get some more diary bookings. I'll be back tomorrow. Take soon.