Behind The Host With Andrew Hanson

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Business

5.0 • 302 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 455. In this podcast we speak with Andrew Hanson - another host from Hospitable Hosts. Andrew is based in the USA and has a business called Pond Life Rentals. We'll be talking about this, his hospitality business and the Hospitable Hosts project. Want to gain trust from your customers? Check out www.boostly.co.uk/trust 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - How did Andrew get started? 06:41 - Did travelling help with the growth of your business? 17:53 - What software or tools do you use within your business? 23:45 - Communication with guests is crucial 27:05 - What kind of content does Andrew publish on Social Media? 29:14 - What does it mean to be a hospitable host? 37:13 - A little more about Andrew • https://Boostly.co.uk • https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps • https://instagram.com/boostlyuk • https://Boostly.co.uk/guidebook • https://Boostly.co.uk/website • https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to Behind the Host podcast and today we're joined by Andrew Hansen. He's
0:04.6	based in New Hampshire in the USA. He's got an awesome business called Pond Life Rentals and today
0:10.2	we're diving into his business, get to know a bit about him and also his hospitality business,
0:15.7	but also we're going to be talking about hospitable hosts and he is one of the authors in hospital hosts
0:22.4	which is a project where we're taking 40 authors from across the world, set up by Jodie Sterling
0:29.4	and putting them all into one book where people can listen to it and read it and get some awesome
0:36.6	advice on becoming a host and being an Airbnb in general. So Andrew, I'm so excited to have
0:41.8	you here today. Great to be here, I'm excited to be here with you and I'm excited about the
0:47.4	hospitable hosts and pretty much everything going on in the SCR industry, just a great space to be
0:54.4	and so I'm happy to be here with you. Amazing. So talk us through your business, Pond Life Rentals,
1:01.2	that is pretty, you know, specific when it comes down to it. How did you get started with Pond Life
1:08.4	Rentals? Well, you know, honestly, it's one of those things where it was a time of adversity,
1:13.5	plus the pandemic was going on, but it was a different situation. You know, I've been in the
1:18.7	rental business for a while and really we called it Pond Life basically because me and my family
1:25.1	fortunate off of 2016 by my first kind of water property, you know, and I was kind of sitting there
1:32.3	and we had to kind of flush a little bit what we were doing and we said, why don't we call it Pond Life Rentals?
1:38.1	You know, we were living on the Pond, this is our lifestyle. We were kind of doing our own little
1:42.4	internal hashtag Pond Life Our Family, you know, we'll be out on the water with a Pond Tune or
1:47.6	high-ack-in and you know, we handed it a great, great outdoor recreation and it was kind of like,
1:52.8	you know, we'll share this pretty much with everybody. You know, I come from very, very
1:58.0	humble games, you know, very low income family, so I'm very, very fortunate to be in a position
2:04.4	to be able to provide this out of people and create memories. It's just great. So, you know,
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