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The Boostly Podcast

Direct Booking For Hospitality

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Business

5.0302 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 496. In this podcast episode We will be sharing our insights on direct bookings. Want to gain trust from your customers? Check out www.boostly.co.uk/trust 00:00 Welcome 00:52 Direct Booking Masterclass 01:42 Vanny Intro 03:13 Damian Intro 04:04 Leo Intro 05:17 Initial tip on getting started 10:57 Don't just settle for one platform 19:43 You have to re-educate your guest 27:16 It could be really simple 39:59 What do you advise people on damage deposits 41:25 Closing thoughts • 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

Welcome back to a very special episode of the Boosely Podcast and I've got

0:03.8

some think really cool to show you. So last night I recorded a very cool

0:09.4

roundtable all about direct bookings with Damien Sheridan of the book

0:13.9

direct show with Vinny from Oblistan and Leo from Superhawk.

0:18.2

As far combined we just chatted the shit, talked all about direct bookings,

0:22.1

about trust, about what we need to bring into our websites to turn a locker

0:27.1

into a booker and it was amazing. So if you want to find out more about Superhawk,

0:31.1

check out Superhawk.com, the book direct show and obviously uplisting.io,

0:35.1

uplisting is a PMS, the book direct show is an event that is going to be in Miami

0:40.1

in October and obviously Superhawk is the verification service. I've got to go,

0:45.7

as you can hear, let's pass it over to the four of us as we chat all about

0:51.2

direct bookings. Hello everyone and welcome to the book direct

0:55.8

Masterclass. Today I'm joined by industry experts Damien Sheridan, Mark Simpson

1:04.1

and Vinny Reslin. How are you Chaps? Very well Leo, thank you very much.

1:09.6

I'm very well and it wasn't obvious that you're reading it at all, so well done.

1:15.5

Can I just say while we're here guys and we were supposed to be joined by Cindy

1:20.0

Darling and unfortunately she had to drop out because she's not feeling very well. So

1:23.4

she was actually the only one genuine industry expert that we asked to get involved today,

1:28.3

so she's a big loss, big loss. Sure we'll struggle. Sure we'll struggle.

1:32.9

We're really well. Okay and as you're all here it'd be great, it'd be great if you can

1:37.8

introduce yourself. So Vinny, let's start with you. Yeah, I'm Vinny Reslin. I'm

1:44.6

founder or one of the founders of uplifting which is a property and channel manager,

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