Sharon Mears, owner of a holiday cottage named Arachd in North Wales, gives a first-person testimonial about the Boosley Academy run by Mark Simpson. She describes finding Mark via online hospitality forums, joining the paid Academy around June/July for social media and marketing help, and valuing its monthly payments, ability to cancel, self-paced "bite-sized" lessons, and responsive support from Mark. Early results include four direct bookings since joining and her decision to stop using Sykes Country Cottages (planning to take only direct bookings from Christmas). She reports being about 10% through the beginner course and strongly recommends the Academy.
Questions this video answers
Arachd
North Wales
Around June–July (joined in July time)
Four direct bookings
About 10% through the beginner part of the course
Chapters
Good morning. My name's Sharon Mears, I live in North Wales and we have a holiday cottage called Arachd, which is a little terraced cottage halfway up a mountain. I'm talking to you today about the Boosley Academy, which is run by Mark Simpson. As most of you will probably know, I found Mark online while Googling for help in marketing the property, particularly in regard to social media skills. As you can see, I'm not the youngest person on here and it's all very new to me. I love tech and I like learning new things and so I'm constantly trying to improve my skills in that area. I joined the Academy after having followed Mark's posts in the hospitality forum. There's a lot of help in there, but I became aware increasingly that there was more detailed help available in the paid site and that's really why I moved across. Mark was very helpful, gave me lots of advice, no pushiness, which I like, and I took the plunge a few months ago to join the Academy. What I like best about it is A, I can pay monthly, B, I can leave at any time, and C, I can pick and choose what I want to learn, when I want to learn it, in small steps, little bites, I can stop and go back to it. There's no time limit, it's mine there whenever I need it. So we run a busy farm here as well and I have a 17 year old who's going through the university entry process, so I've got lots of other calls on my time, so it's useful to be able to just log in simply whenever I've got the time and pick up and do a bit of learning when I'm feeling like it. I would strongly recommend any of you hoping to improve your marketing skills to join the Academy. Mark is constantly available on messenger or email or through the forums. He always gets back to you if you've got any queries that you don't understand and explains everything in very simple terms. If I can follow it, anybody can. How he manages to find the time, I don't know, but he's always there and having that resource on hand, it's such a relief. If I get stuck on anything, I just stop, blast him off a message and I can guarantee that within a few hours I've got a detailed answer and what seemed impossible is suddenly clear as day. So results I'd like to share are that from being totally tied up to Sykes Country Cottages and their extortionate commission rates, I have now taken the plunge, given them my notice. So from Christmas. I'm totally alone. Except I'm not. I've got Mark up my back and I will be taking only direct bookings from Christmas on. I've had four direct bookings since I joined the Academy, which I think was July time. June, July. I'm still only about 10% through the beginners part of the course, so I've got a long way to go. So seeing bookings already is. It's so encouraging. It gives me so much confidence. So I would strongly recommend the Bruce Lee Academy and Mark Simpson for his advice and would like to take this opportunity to thank him for having my back all the time. Cheers, Mark, and good luck, everybody. Bye. Bye.
