The #1 reason you're not getting bookings on your website
1 Jul 2021 · 6 min
Mark Simpson says most hospitality hosts aren't getting bookings because their websites aren't built for mobile. Test yours on a phone by making a dummy booking. Boostly is offering one month free with code "July" and guarantees results or your money back.
Questions this episode answers
July 1, 2021
£5 per month
"July"
One month (first month free with coupon)
1,000 new hosts
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Before we start today's episode of the Boosted 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 and 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, et cetera. 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 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 boostly 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 to come and join. This is for new members only. Just go to boostlycontent creator.com add it to your basket, put in 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. The number one reason why you are not getting bookings on your website is because of this. Your website is not built with mobile phones in the mind. Now, this is not your problem. This is probably your website designer's problem. This is probably the PMS that you're using the free website's problem. But if you do not build your mobile phone on a, your website on a mobile phone first, then you are missing out on a ton of potential bookings. Now, why is that? Well, if you were to go and look at the surveys and the stats of people that are using mobile phones to browse the Internet, it is going up and up and up. And if, particularly if you delve down and look at a hospitality survey or study, you will see that now, the most amount of people who start their search for a hospitality booking are done on a mobile phone. So why, oh why, oh why are you building your website with a desktop or a laptop in mind? This is the one key thing, and I tell so many people about this and I look at their website and the first thing that I do is that I go and take their website and put it on my phone to see how it looks, see how it works, see how it interacts, and I can tell instantly if that website has been built for mobile first or not. So here's what I would love you to do. Go and grab your mobile, whatever you use. I'm obviously an Apple geek, but if you've got an Android Hawaii or whatever you're using, go and check out how your website works and go try and put a fake or a dummy booking through and see how it holds up. Now, if you were to go look at a Boostly website, so go look@boostlywebsite.com, go look at the boostly portfolio, you'll see that all, all of our websites are built mobile first. You will see that they work better on a mobile, some would say, than on a desktop. And that's done on purpose because we know how our future potential guests for all of our 700 clients work. So it's the one key thing and you can add tons of little variables to it, as in how fast does it load, you know, how many click to action book buttons have you got? They'll take you to the booking page, how many pictures have you got? Da, da, da, da, da. But the one thing, time and time again, the one thing that I always go and look at is how does it look on one of these? So tell me in the comments, how out of 10 do you think your website ranks on a mobile phone? And if it's any less than 5, then you need to be speaking to us. Boostly.co.uk forward/websites. Come book in a free call today to see how we can get you a website that you can be proud of. Full money back guarantee if we do not get a return of investment in direct bookings. And come and join one of the market leaders in website design. We are closing in on 700 plus website clients. My goal is to get to a thousand by the end of the year, so I would love for you to be a part of it. Come and check us out, say hi, book a call in, let's chat, let's see what we can do. Thank you so much for being part of this podcast. I'll be back tomorrow. Do me a massive favor, hit that thumbs up button, share this video with a host and I'll see you tomorrow. Take care. Bye bye.
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