Journey to 1000 Connect Users -

Well, this is video 5 in the series that we are doing on how we are documenting our journey. We're building in public and getting to 1,000 users on Connect. It has been live now for a little over a week, 8 days to be exact, and it's already doing epic, which is great. So it's awesome to see your response, to see the host's response, and more importantly, people playing with it, uh, because it's that whole, uh, baseball movie with Kevin Costner, build it and they will come. So, you know, it's the, it's the most exciting thing, but it's also the most scary thing to launch in something, building something, putting it out into the world and seeing how it, how it hits, which is great. And already in a week, 779 users, active users, which is, which is awesome. I'm just literally looking at the data now. People are joining all the time. We've We've obviously got ads running to this from the fantastic team that we use that helps with our ads. We've got a lot of organic going around this, referrals going around this, and we're tracking everything in all of the cool places. Uh, literally, as just before I came live, Will— I see you, Will, over in Australia. Um, I don't know who Will is— signed up, which is great. So what is it? What are we doing? What are we building? How are we, how are we sort of going for the next stages? So this is like that, that stage where you're a weekend You've got loads of people joining. Let me just see if I can get some numbers up here. I'm sure I've got analytics. So 700 and whatever, Matt, people. I think we're nearly hitting 800, which is so close to the goal. And if you haven't yet gone to it, it's boostlyconnect.com. Totally free to get signed up, which is great. 779 active accounts. There's currently 1,686 properties going through Connect. 1,397 bookings going through Connect. Gross revenue, uh, I think that says $121 million, which is great. 200, uh, so active people right now, so people have logged in over the last week, which is a bit cheap, it's only been live for a week. 792. So, uh, I'm very, very happy with that. We've got 16 people that have connected up to, uh, Guesty, 21 to Hospitable, 27 to Hostaway, 21 to Hostfully, and 17 to Ownerize. That means that we've got a lot people who have connected and haven't really done anything with it, which is my goal to educate and do all these things over these couple of weeks. So let's have a little look. Let's look to see what this looks like when you, when you do join. And I'm just going to hope I share the right screen here. Boom, there we go. So this is a Connect dashboard. This is what it will look like when you log in. Now, if you haven't yet logged in, don't worry, go and do it with me. We've got all these people tuning in from around the world. We are live right now on Facebook. We're live on Facebook. I've said that twice. YouTube, we're live, uh, on LinkedIn, everywhere. So hello, wherever you're tuning in from, drop a hi in the comments. If you are somebody who is already on Connect, leave a message. Let us know what you've been doing, what you've been building, because there are some cool results of what people have been building. Now I'm logged in under my demo account, but this will be the same dashboard that you will see. So I've been documenting this over the last 5 videos, over the last 6 months, and the dashboard has changed and it is changing rapidly. This is the cool thing of where we're at with AI, is that I get a random brain fart of an idea, I send it to my team, it's live within minutes, which is so cool. So what have we have? And this is even, even crazier. Yesterday I did a demo to the whole Boostly members. There's about 20 members on there. And it's changed since then. So as soon as you come in, you will see that all of the data sits in your dashboard. So the whole goal of this, if you remember back to what I did last time, is that your data is currently sat in your PMS. It goes nowhere, does nothing for nobody. We want to take it out of your PMS, whoever you're with, put it into the Connect dashboard, and from there you'll be able to make your own decision on where you want it to go. You want it to go to WordPress? Great. Even if it's not a Boostly site, you can send it there. If you want it to go to HighLevel, go HighLevel, which is a, which is a huge CRM. Go there. If you want to send it to Squarespace or Wix, that's coming. To Perplexity, to ChatGPT, to Claude, to Manus, to Groq, to Deepsea, wherever you want it to go to train up your LLMs of choice, you can do it. But the choice is yours. This is the whole thing, it's about choice. Pricing-wise, super simple, uh, it's free if you've got under 10 listings. If you've got up to 100 listings, it's only $29 a month. Uh, up to 500 listings, $97 a month. This Pro one comes with all of these juicy little bonuses, including GoHighLevel that I'll talk about. Scale is where it gets sexy, and I'll talk about that in a wee minute. But this is the premise of, I think, that the majority of you will want to check it out. In here, you've got all your data. Like I said, 65 properties, 38% occupancy, yada yada yada. This is all pretty self-explanatory and steady away. Booking sources, boom boom boom. This is cool, but it's not the best bit. This is the new cool bit. So analytics. So do you want to see what you were doing last month? What you're doing next month? What you're doing last quarter, next quarter? What's the predictions? What's the run rate? All of that cool stuff. You can have it in here. You can break it down to listings, area codes, cities, towns, whatever. We're actually speaking to a big organization that's got over 300 members that want to do an enterprise deal with us. Where they can see all of their members on this one dashboard. And I want to be able to see which areas perform better than the others because then they can potentially do cool things like rollups, etc., etc. Very cool. I'm also speaking to tourism boards, tourism boards who want to take this, build this into what they're doing, create a dashboard for all of their members to see who needs help, who doesn't. And then on the back end, create listing sites that they can get them more bookings. And I'll show you what that means now. So the dashboard is great, right? The dashboard is a cool thing, but a dashboard is nothing if it's got nowhere to connect to. So that is the next thing, part of Connect, is that if you come into Developer and you come into Plugins, you can download a WordPress plugin, the Boostly plugin. You can upload it to any website that is WordPress in the world. Doesn't matter whether it's a Boostly website or not. It will sit on top of it so that you can have the Boostly booking engine, which is awesome. If you want to know what the Boostly booking engine looks like, uh, let me just show you this. So this is one of our websites. Obviously every Boostly customer, you have this already because you've got our websites. Great. But if you haven't got a Boostly website, let's just say you've got a bog standard WordPress one or you've got your own one. It will take over the search, so you'll get our map, and it— you will get our listings page, and you'll get a checkout page as well, which is awesome. And every booking goes straight off to your PMS, so it'll mean that your booking process is as smooth as possible. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3, which is, you know, so many of you have got broken booking patterns, which is why they have such a low conversion rate. So we're speaking to people like tourism boards or hosts that have got maybe a few properties or 100 properties and they're figuring out what they can, what they can do with this. Now, because we haven't got a limit on how many websites you can create, let's just say from this example data that I've got here, we've got 65. Now let's just say 20 of them are in Galveston. Let's just say 30 of them are in Myrtle Beach. You can take this plugin. You can download one for a specific website that you set up for Galveston, and you can take the other listings and send them off to another website for just Myrtle Beach, and you can create a bespoke listing site around it. WordPress gives you the ability to now vibe code, as they say, and put together a website in minutes, whether you use Elementor or ThemeForest, etc. So that's pretty cool. Um, but we didn't want to stop there. You'll have met— you'll have seen me mention when I said about the Pro plan that it comes with a GoHighLevel app. So we're one of the first in the industry that I am aware of that has gone ahead and built its app for the GoHighLevel marketplace. Now we know that everybody uses GoHighLevel if they talk about a CRM. If anybody in our industry talks about CRM and they sell CRM services, At 99 out of 100 are talking about GoHighLevel. The reason why not many people have heard of GoHighLevel is that they are phenomenal with their white labeling. All right, we're honest, we're very upfront. We use GoHighLevel, uh, we don't sugarcoat it, but this is what we can do with it. Now, because we've created the app, you'll notice here that we've got Connect at the bottom corner. When that is installed and it is linked back to your Connect dashboard, it will pull in all of the data. So you will see on this GoHighLevel that we're looking at, it's got some custom objects is what they're called. One is listings, one is bookings, and obviously contacts. So when this is connected and when this is synced, all of your data from your PMS— so going back to this example— will leave your PMS, will go to GoHighLevel via Connect. Now the cool things about that means that If you want to set up workflows, automations, so that when people come in to GoHighLevel and it's tagged with a certain person, stay, time of the year they stayed, etc., location that they stayed, they'll drop into the buckets and they'll send personalized emails. Number 2, if you look in the top right-hand corner there where it says Ask AI, GoHighLevel is leveling up now where you can go on it, tap Ask AI, and you can say, hey, we've got this customer who stayed at this property in 2025. Go and send them a bespoke customised email about coming back and staying with us in 2026. You can do it singular or you can do it bulk because every single listing that come in here has got its own tags and it's called values or formulas. So for example, if this client wanted to say, right, anybody who has stayed in Gatlinburg, You can put together a bespoke email to say, hey, come stay in Gatlinburg, these are our properties, and it will sync the properties and put it in the email and it will do it for you with a couple of clicks. GoHighLevel doesn't stop there. You can also build out AI agents that can sit on your website and answer future potential guest questions as they come in. Very cool. It doesn't stop there. You can also as well now With AI Studio, which anybody's ever seen Lovable, you will see what I mean by this. You can go ahead and you can vibe code your own website in literally a few clicks. This is where it gets really exciting. So as you can see, Blake here has done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different websites. He wanted to have a website that he wanted to put together within minutes for his Houston properties. So all you have to do, you go and find an example that you like, copy it, paste it, put it into here and say build it, and it will build it for you. And the cool thing is, is you go right now, sync this and link this back to my, uh, Connect Listings. I want it just for Gatlinburg, just for Oklahoma, just for whatever, and it will go and do it for you. That's go HighLevel. That's pretty powerful. This is the power that you now get with all of these crazy tools that, that are literally in front of you. And we're just getting started. I've had 3 PMSs reach out to me saying that they want to sync up. We've got a pricing tool that wants to sync up. We've got an upsell product that wants to sync up. So we are well on our way to making this dashboard one of the most powerful ones out there, whether you are just got 1 or 2 properties and you want a nice free solution, this is for you. If you've got more than 10 properties and you want to spend a bit more baller, this is for you. If you want to go and create, um, something on scale where you can make more money, make more revenue, make more bookings, the scale one is for you. Go ahead, go and get started. It's absolutely free. You can go and connect it all up. I want to show you one more example here, and this is what somebody's designed in the last week. So it's called Local Scout. So again, this person has gone on the scale model and they've got, um, 9 other hosts who are part of a mastermind that they're on, and he has got their permission to market their properties for him. And anyone that he does, he then charges them a referral fee. This website has been vibe coded, but it has all been vibe coded and linked back to Bruce Lee Connect. So all of these here are going into Boothly Connect. He can go ahead and market them. If he gets them a booking, he gets a commission, whatever that may be— 1%, 5%, 10%, I don't know. I know somebody else who is in Texas. What is it with Texas taking over? Well, they're charging a subscription fee. So they've got 400 members that they know, they're paying a subscription fee to be on their website, and they're just marketing it for them. That's a lot of money revenue. Coming in. So my goal with all of this is to help hosts, A, get more, get a better booking website. Even if you don't join Boostly for our WordPress, you can still do this. Number 2, give them multiple revenue streams so they aren't just relying on the one thing coming in. And number 3, let's see what cool things we can do with this. If you're somebody out there, maybe you're a website designer figuring out what you're going to do with this AI-ness, we can white label this. If you're a revenue manager, we can white label this who want to tap in and put it in front of our clients. If you're somebody who uses GoHighLevel who would like access to all of this syncing and API integrations, we can white label. We can get in contact. First things first, go to connectyourpms.com, click get started, log in, have a play. If you've got questions, come to me. This is video 5 in the series. I'll be back when we get to 1,000 users. Please, please, please share, spread the word, uh, spread it in Facebook groups, LinkedIn, school WhatsApp groups. Emails, connectyourpms.com. Uh, any questions, you know where I am. If