Danny Booboo, a former Airbnb employee turned host and property manager, shares tactics for keeping income steady during travel restrictions. He covers pricing tools like Price Labs, prepping spaces for events, and targeting key workers as tenants during lockdowns.
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Podcast Season 8. We are on Friday 27th March. We are invited on Danny from Optimize My BNB. He's got Danny Booboo for his personal account or you can go to Optimize My BNB for his business account. Broke out in Wuhan in China. He's been in Vietnam, he's been in the Philippines and now he's in Bali. So he's been able to see a totally different culture to this, a totally different side to this. He obviously still watches the media and see how the media plays a part in all of this and seeing how it has affected different countries around the world. And he's got his own very strong views on this. And please sit back, relax and listen and make sure that you make notes and most importantly, put impact and implement the advice that we're going to give you. This is the Proactive series, all about the coronavirus.
Thanks for having me on. I am Danny. I run Optimize my b&b.com. six years ago, I think I started working for Airbnb employee number 700. Since then I've become a host, a super host. I worked for an Airbnb property manager. I started my own Airbnb property management company. 2017, I started living full time in Airbnbs. Those with you guys. I started off in January in Thailand, in Chiang Mai in Thailand. And this is when I first heard about Corona from my dad. He said, hey, come home now. I'll even pay for your flight. And then I moved, but it really wasn't a thing yet. This was very early on. And then I went to Vietnam in Saigon. Still wasn't a thing. This was February. And then I went to Nak Trang in Vietnam. This is what I do to get more views, to get more views on my, on my YouTube, to get more followers on Instagram. So you have to understand, you know, the amount of times I've seen the word apocalyptic in headlines the past week is absurd. Some are good strategies, some are not good strategies. But, you know, I guess, I guess I'll leave it. I'll leave it there.
Basically, you have been in sort of where the coronavirus first began in January. You've been in and around that world. You know, you haven't been in China directly, but everybody that knows the globe and knows the map of the world knows that. Vietnam, Thailand, you know, very close to the Philippines, very, very close to it. And obviously you've lived with the culture and the cultures and obviously where you are right now. We were chatting before we went Live about Bali. Now, we both know Bali very well. I spent good four months of it there last year at the beginning of 2019. And what I love about Balinese people, particularly about a time like this, is that just everything that's going on there, every government is working around this differently.
We already went over that. They're probably going to be more terrified than the reality would suggest. Sending that preemptive message kind of calms their fears a little bit. The cleaner just said what they're going to do extra.
For the last two nights, we were looking at proactive ways of pivoting, proactive ways of bringing in income even if you can't take bookings right now. And I like that. Number one, the Price Labs. So Price Labs is a pricing software. It helps you with the rates that you should be setting or gives like a rough guideline based on what local people in the area or just the general thing of what's happening. Like we've talked about pricing so much on these podcasts. We've talked about pricing a lot and that's a really cool feature. So there's going to be a lot of people now, you know, in the uk, for example, the only people that are really making bookings right now are key workers. So hospital staff, news reporters, you know, whoever it may be, you've got to be a key worker.
And a great idea is to make your space event ready or even better list on an event ready type space. People who are, you know, these are.
The foot shake idea. People are renting out rooms in their apartments or in their places for shipping companies. So basically people have obviously online. Online shopping now is massive and people haven't got the space space in their warehouse to pack and get all the stuff in and out. So they're looking for more venues and that's what they're also looking to do.
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