This is a July 3, 2021 YouTube podcast-style episode by Mark Simpson. The episode opens with a promotion for the Boostly Content Creator (one month free in July using coupon code "July", ordinarily £5/month) aimed at busy short‑term rental hosts, then reviews Smartbnb — a guest-communication automation tool that integrates with Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com to respond to inquiries and reduce missed bookings. Simpson describes Smartbnb as cost-effective (noting a $20/month reference for a single property), highlights time and revenue savings, gives a Boostly referral link, and urges hosts to try the tools for six months to evaluate ROI. The episode closes with a call-to-action to subscribe and daily video cadence in 2021.
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Before we start today's episode of the Boostly podcast, I have got some exciting news to share with you. For the month of July, I am giving away one month trial of the Boostly content creator. Now, you may be asking, you may be thinking, well, what is the Boostly content creator host that I have come into contact with in the five years of doing Boostly? And when I say to them, you need to be posting every single day on social media, you need to be emailing, emailing your guest and your list, they always say to me, I haven't got the time. And I can't think of a better month to promote the Boostly content creator than July. Because right now everybody around the world is busy, busy, busy, busy. And they haven't got the time to think about the marketing or the social media or the emails, when in fact the best time to do marketing is when you're at your busiest because that means that you always have a pipeline coming through. So I created the Boostly content creator for busy hosts. Now what do you get? Every single month you get 30 to 40 pieces of fresh social media content that you can use for your social media channels. LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. You also get video templates which are designed to stop the scroll on social media, which is really powerful. Email templates designed by expert copywriters that are working so well. Georgina Bearman messaged up in our Facebook group to say that she used one one of the email templates and got free bookings, direct bookings instantly, which more than covered the cost. You also now get website headline generator tools. You get a money back guarantee and you can cancel anytime. The price is only five pound a month. And right now when you sign up, you go into the boostlycontentcreator.com you add to your basket in the coupon code section, you type in July and you get the first month free. Now that is only available for the month of July. After that it's five pound. If you don't want to continue, you can just cancel at any time. But please make sure that you go and you use the booster content creator. My goal is a month in the month of July is to get 1,000 new hosts to register and sign up. This is how powerful I know this tool is because the email templates in itself are providing a massive return of investment and I would love for you you to come and join. This is for new members only. Just go toboostly content creator.com add it to your basket and coupon code July and I'll see you on the other side. Right now we've got that out of the way. Let's get on with today's podcast episode. Isn't it annoying when you are listed on sites such as VRBO and Airbnb and you, you wake up in the morning, you check your phone and you'll see that there was an inquiry left at 2am where a guest wanted to book a week, two weeks, and because you didn't get back to him like that, he's gone on to somebody else who was awake at an ungodly hour and they were able to take that book in and potentially a lot of revenue missed out on there. So I've been always on the lookout to recommend you the tools, the tactics, the training, et cetera, to, to help you get more bookings. And a lot of you will know about what I'm going to recommend, but a lot of you don't. And I want to just highlight it in this video to see if it can help you. So the, the, the company that was recommended to me by a good friend of the show, Danny, from Optimize your B and B was smart. Bnb. It was primarily created and it was created for Airbnb hosts and it was a total third party. And what it did is it would work as an automated messaging service. And I've always known it as just being Airbnb, but they have grown and I first came across these in 2018, implemented it for a one on one client that I was working with in Bali when we lived there in 2019 and has just always been on the peripheral. It turns out they've evolved and grown a lot over the last few years, which is fantastic to see. And now they link up to vrbo, they link up to booking.com and they're also trying to do more direct things as well. So as soon as I heard the directness, I thought, right, well, I got to speak about them. So the way that it works is that when you're asleep at say 1 o' clock in the morning, and for whatever reason, if an inquiry comes in, you can set up the automations and the keywords in place behind the scenes and it will interact with you on your behalf directly in the inbox. So if somebody has an inquiry come in, they will be able to respond based on your keywords. And whereas you may sleep on what could be a big book in one week, two week, a month, this will deal with it for you. Now, it's very, very cost effective for one property. It's $20 a month, which is fantastic. And you know, there's some people that I know, Robert Neandro and Sean, Sean McGregor and Danny, and there's loads of people who, who have saved not only revenue, made more revenue, but also as well save so many man hours by not having to manually be there. Now what they're also building out is they've got the, the pre and post day, which is obviously great, but they're always trying to evolve and figure things out. Now the cool thing is, is that they are not a pms, they are not a channel manager, a channel manager like they are the guest communication tool and they are working very closely with booking.com to be integrated more into their system, which is tricky, I know, but it's working. And the way that I like to describe it is that this could potentially stop you from having to hire a VA. I reckon about 80 to 90% of your time will be taken care of care from it, but there's always still that 10, 20% you're going to have to look at it. So number one helps you make more money, number two helps you to having to hire that va. And number three, what it will do is if, if your PMS has API connection like uplifting etc, then it can sync into there. It will also be able to sync in obviously to your channels and it will have that guest communication all in one place. So instead of you having to hop from app to app to apply, it will integrate directly in. And this is, this is a really effective tool. That means that again, you won't have to sleep on any potential bookings. So go to booster.co.uk forward/smart bnb go check that out. That total honesty. That is a referral link. If you ever do sign up in the future, Boostly will you're supporting the channel but don't feel like you don't have to. Absolutely not. Go check out the features, the solutions, the pricing. And again, even if you just set it up and just run it for say six months, again it's if you've got two properties 1 to 2 property, 1 property 20, 20 Euro a month, 2 property 2028 free properties, 4 properties 36. So let's see if we do 36 divided by 6. Even if you give it a go, that is just €216 over six months. If you can get somebody that inquires and makes a book in a one, two week, three week booking, that's an instant return of investment. Plus much, much, much, much, much more. So again, I love it like I Say I've been messing with it and with clients and whatnot and we've been really able to sort of get some revenue in there. And obviously the beautiful part of it is that with these sort of technology and tools you can then start to get a guest through the door, get their email address, get their contact details and start to rebook to them to get them directly in the future, which is obviously what we're all about on here. So smart bnb, do go check them out. Definitely worthwhile giving it 6 months, giving it a go, getting it set up. If you're looking to hire a VA and again to do this sort of side of thing, it could save you a big cost there. And also as well if you are finding that you are missing inquiries because you're not sharp off the boil straight like that, then this sort of technology will be great for you. So Boostly b o o s t-l y.co.uk smart bnb s m a R T B N B Go check them out, tell them that Boostly sent you and let's see how much revenue you can make and save and hours you can save by doing it. I'll be back tomorrow if this is the first time that you've checked this out. Hi smart BNB users. I know you're going to come and check in, but do hit the thumbs up button. Really do appreciate it really does help with the algorithm and make sure you subscribe. Subscribe so you can get more of these every single day. I'm going to be coming live on here every single day. Well not live, but a video every Single Day in 2021 to help hosts just like you increase your bookings, get more heads on beds and all that other lovely stuff. I'll be back tomorrow. Thank you so much for watching and tuning in and I'll be back tomorrow having a blast.
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