The best thing about this week..

I tell you my favorite thing that I did this week and it's something that I don't get to do often, but please do stick around and as you're watching with me, whether it's live or on the replay, say hi in the comments, let me know where you are in the world. But most importantly, leave your web link because the world is starting to reopen. People are going to be able to book and travel and do all the lovely stuff soon. So put your details down below if it's live or replay and you never know who's going to be watching. But let's get on with this week, which is the week that was. This is a freestyle going off the D, ready for my closeup. Good looking, let me tell you. Get more bookings. Oh, that would be nice. Giving me. Much for tuning in. Now here's what I wanted to do today is I wanted to do a couple of things as I normally do on a on a Friday, the week that was I like to talk to you through everything that's been going on in the past week. So hello everybody that is tuning in. Please do say hi in the comments and make sure you do promote your business as well. Put in a hashtag live or hashtag replay if you are tuning in with me and let me know where you are in the world. So normally what I do on a Friday is I come in and I let you know all the things that I've been doing in the past week. But the cool thing about this week is that I've done nothing. I've done nothing. There's been no podcasts, there'd be no guest interviews, there'd be no clubhouse. There's been none of that. It's been very much a week, a deliberate week just to chill out. And it's going to be one of one where April is going to be very much chilled. Next week we're going to go away for a few days glamping in a safari tent, which we're all very much looking forward to. And as I send at the end of March, as I'm doing these and I committed to doing it every Friday for the whole of 2021 to document boost Lee and document everything that we're doing is that I will do this and I will look after my 90 day to quick start to more direct bookings people and I'll talk about that in a second and then that's it. There's been, I'm using this month obviously to wind down. Kids are on Easter holidays at the moment. But also as well, I want to make sure that the back end of Boostly, the side that nobody sees, is running smoothly, tweaking, testing, making sure that everybody's happy, putting in new systems and structures in place in the website business as we look to grow. We're just about to top 600 clients, which is fantastic. My goal is to get to 1000 this year. 1000 websites done by Boostly, which is, which is, which is massive. I'm going to show you a couple of websites that went live this week. A special mention to the team, so Joyce and Liam and Aldrin for helping get websites live and all of the developers at the agency that have been working overtime to help. And today they even jumped on even though it was a holiday in the Philippines. We had somebody jump on because we had a website that needed to go live today. So that's fantastic and, you know, appreciate every single one of them. And Tom who's just pulling the, the, pulling the strings behind the scenes, which has been, which has been great. And also as well, I want to just let everybody know of other things that have been going on in the world of Boostie this week. So again, it's been great to do. I've been talking to a lot of Boostly Academy people on the group about an idea that I've had that's been requested by, by the members. So again, I'm just making, making sure to see if I can do it. It's something where I'm going to be able to really provide a one on one coaching experience for six months and I'm investigating, I'm going to be chatting to people, I'm going to be on the phone to boost the Academy members to see if we can make it a thing, if they're a good fit for us and if I'm a good fit for them. So that's exciting. So there's, there's, there's just, I guess the best way to describe April is it's a month of slowing down, it's a month of taking stock and it's also a month of putting the plans in place for what will be a huge 2021 for the industry and hopefully for Boostly as well. Because I, as I've always said, I love to create win, win wins. A win for the hosts because their business is set up and secure and they've got a website that can be proud of, they've got the training behind them and they've got the content. A win for their guests because again, the better work that we're able to do for our hosts and the best skills that we can teach them, then they get the right guests, they get the best experience, and then the win for Boost Lee as well. So not just for me, but not just for our family, but for all of the families. Now Boost Lee has got over 11 members of staff. We work with people all over the world and, you know, they are pretty much working full time, which is, which is phenomenal. And again, to help them and their families and create, hopefully, which is going to be something that is going to impact this industry. And that is what's starting to take place, which I'm so happy to say. And to everybody that's tuning in now with me, which is fantastic, and to everybody that will watch back and who's been doing these things. So thank you very much. I do want to show you something that I have been able to do. So about a year and a half ago, I signed up to a content creation course. I guess the best way to describe it is J. Alderton's Mobile Mastery. It's. It's always been there on the back burner of something that when I had a bit of time, I wanted to do. And I want to just show you very quickly a video that I've. I've actually put into practice this week. So let me just show you. If I go into my Instagram thing about these Rubik's Cubes, they get really annoying. So that is me messing around with the phone, messing around with a bit of editing. And I've got some other cool ideas I want. I want to do this week. If you want to go see that again, it's just over on the. Over on the Instagram, which is that. So, okay, what I want to do, first and foremost, then, I want to show you a website that's just gone live today. So I mentioned that we've got this new Boostly booking engine that we're creating behind the scenes. And one of the partnerships that we've created with this is with hostfully. And the really cool thing about what we're able to do now is for the guest, it's a seamless link from website to booking engineering, so much so that the guests will never even realize that they've left a Boostly website. And this is an example. So Tony and Tracy have got Alpine Lodging, which is obviously based up in Canada. There are a hostfully client and we've just been working with them. So when you hit the homepage, it has got the benchmark of a boostie Website, I think everybody will agree it looks very, very similar to every Boostly website that you've seen. The true magic is what's going to happen next. So it's got the reviews, the testimonials, et cetera, et cetera. The two. The true power of this is when you go in and say we put in some, some dates right here and again we are still testing and tweaking. This as I've always said done is better than perfect. So as they come in all of this now is going to pull in the data from hostfully. So any unit that is available, you've got the map here and it looks like a mini ota but right now I can click on here, come in and you can actually go and complete the booking straight through the host we platform and again we're going to be tweaking this, we're going to be improving this but this is just really powerful how we're able to have a smooth and seamless transition from website to booking engine to the booking actual completion which is, which is really powerful. And that was one of the websites that we got live this week and again just another one. I want to give a shout out to the Scottish Day guys. Again, lovely website, real nice accommodation, knows the niche really well and again it's just got the, the hallmarks of a, of. Of a boosted website which is, which is what we're really all about is just making sure that now people have got a website they can be proud of which is, which is fan fantastic. So that has been really good to see the team doing amazing work this week and we've had Justin, we've had Michelle, we've had Leslie, Tara and obviously Tony and Tracy and Suki. We've got y. Your website's going live this week which is fantastic. There's been Justin and Julia, Nikki, Lucas and Michelle have signed up to Team Boostly for a website which is, which is amazing and I'm looking forward to seeing your websites very soon. And again just a big thank you to Jennifer, Jordan and Andrew for joining Boostly content creator and to Karen, Gail, Joe and Robert who have signed up to the pre release of the book squad which is fantastic. So again it's been a, it's been a really cool week. It's been a, it's been one of the work behind the scenes. Very much so. I do want to end by just saying a big thank you to Brian and Katie of Overlooked to Overbooked last night as part of our 90 day quick start to more direct bookings they came into the group and we did an hour and 10 minute session on customer Avatar. We did a session on photos the importance of it and, and it just went down so well. Like the comments and all of the amazing things that people have said was just fantastic. So I just want to say thank you to them. The people that did tune in live, they were able to get a free listing assessment. So again the 90 day group who are taking part, I know you all appreciate it. I just want to say a big thank you to Brian and Katie for doing that and please do look out for them because they're going to be, you're going to be hearing more from them definitely over the coming weeks and, and months. I assure you of that. So that has been the week that was. This is the, the 9th of April next week. As I said, very much looking forward to escaping for a few days getting out of Javier. We're gonna go stay in a, in a safari tent in the middle of nowhere. Really looking forward to it. I'm gonna be taking the drone with me and I'm gonna take in the GoPro which is I'm geeking out on that sort of stuff. So I do, I do enjoy that and it'll just be nice to, to get away for a couple of days. So please let me know what you've been doing for fun this week, let me know what's happening in your week and as always I will do another one of these next Friday in the week that was so whatever you have been doing, hope you've had a good one this week and next week especially in England it's a big week with a lot of self catering accommodation being able to reopen for a select majority of people and then all over the world places being able to reopen and reopen. So it's, it's getting exciting, it's getting closer to the summer. We're when hopefully things will start to return to normality. Things be getting really busy. If you haven't done so already please make sure that you get your pricing up to date. Boostly.co.uk wheel go check out Wheelhouse. It's free and it's helping and obviously make sure you've all got your hostfully guidebooks ready. Touch day or hostfully get your digital guidebooks ready and just get prepared and just get organized. A great time to update your website. A great time to update your listing sites and for those of you that doing the 90 day quick start to more direct bookings, you've got some homework, you know what you need to be doing. And for that, I just want to say thank you very much. Have a good night. Have a good weekend. And I'm off to go watch a NETFLIX documentary that's being recommended to me. Let me know if you've seen it. It's called Sea Spiracy. It's about the seas, the oceans, the whales, the sharks and all that. So I'm going to go and tune into that. But for me, have a good one. Take care. Speak soon. And here's to a Liverpool win against the Villa. Take care. Bye. Bye.