Mark Simpson's guest set up automated emails for his rental business in about an hour using Hostfully, Jotform, and Mailchimp. Most of the work came later, tweaking and testing the messaging to get it right.
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About one hour (guest says 'only took an hour to set up').
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So you mentioned your time back. It gives you a bit of freedom to know that things are just happening when you're, when you're doing other stuff.
Yeah, 100%. And I don't suppose you remember when you set it up, but do you, you know, how long did it take you to sort of put it into place? Are we talking days, are we talking hours? We talk in minutes. Is it something, you know, it's something.
Which only took an hour to set up. Realistically what, what took the time is then tweaking and perfecting it. So over a period of the time had the business. We still even now make adaptions changes to the emails and we split test to see if we get a better result from more responses, if we change some wording in it or if we take certain bits out. So I would say to physically set up the first few emails on your PMS or to set up an automated one on mailchimp, it doesn't take long at all. Get something set up and then see what response you get and adapt from there. That's the best way.
Yeah. And again, what's really important to state with drop phone because I've just seen a question coming from Michelle. It is, it is a separate software from the PMS from Hostfully but on the email confirmation that goes out in the automated messaging that goes out through Hostfully, that is where you input the link to the jotform. So although it's, you know, hostfully Jotform mailchimp are three separate pieces of software. They are all connected and for the most part excluding hostfully, mailchimp and Jotform are free. It's not like you've got a fork out for extra software etc. And obviously with you can upgrade and you can spend a little bit of money with them, but even if you do, it's, it's, it's minimal at most.
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