Short first-person account (YouTube transcript) about needing a website for online presence and bookings. The speaker says they used a third-party free website service (Lodify), which produced limited bookings and customization, and—critically—they did not own the domain, so the site would disappear if the plan ended. The speaker argues for owning a domain/site to build long-term online presence.
I needed a website, you know, to have an online presence, something that I could build off of, have a Google presence and link to. And so, at the time, we had onboarded with Lodify, so they're pms. Who has one of the better free websites that are free? It worked in that we did get some direct bookings from repeat guests, but it was very limited. You know, it truly only works if you're treating this like a hobby, instead of it being a booking channel or the booking channel for you. And then so the customizations, they're very, very limited. But the one thing that got me is that you don't own it. They literally own the domain. You end your plan with them, your website is gone. And so I wanted something that we could actually own with and build off of, so that I'm thinking long term on this.
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