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The Boostly Podcast

How A Place In the Stars in Portugal can become more Instagrammable

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Business

5.0302 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Season 11 Episode 158. This is a recap of my Facebook live where I talked about how a place in Stars in Portugal can become more instagrammable. 00:00 Start 01:00 Helping a property in Portugal 02:50 Website 04:30 Social media 08:10 My recommendations • 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, we are back for another mini-marketing review, and yesterday, if you tuned in, you

0:07.2

will have noticed that we were in Australia. If you missed it, go back a day, go for mini-marketing

0:12.9

reviews, we were over at the prime tourist park, Sandy Katie. Today, we've come over to Europe,

0:20.6

country over from where I am currently at the moment. We're going to be in Portugal. We're

0:24.1

only helping out Carolina Perez of Lugar Nass Estralas, which translated from Portuguese into English,

0:32.9

is a place in the status and Carolina, filled in the form for us, ticked on the box to say that she

0:41.8

would like a marketing review. And again, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to

0:46.0

booslee.co.uk forward slash review. When you go and fill in this form, tick in the little box at

0:53.4

the bottom, if you would like a marketing review, and who knows, you may be featured on one of our

0:58.6

upcoming podcasts. So, Carolina, like I said, placed in the stars. So, for those of you who are not

1:05.6

that familiar to Portugal, they are located, Carolina is located here. So, a little bit, so in between

1:14.3

Portugal, Pato and Lisbon. In the hills, very close to the Spanish border. As you can see, Madrid

1:23.0

is not too far away. It looks like there's a main motorway coming in here, which is interesting.

1:28.2

And let's go and have a little look at what Carolina would like to improve. So, first and foremost,

1:34.6

she's got the stunning property she uses, little hotelier as a PMS. The website was created in 2019.

1:41.9

So, the levels of occupation. So, total level occupation is 26 to 35%, so it's very low.

1:48.4

The percentage of bookings that are direct is up to 50%, 41 to 50%, which is good.

1:55.2

We're going to have a look at the Instagram, we're going to look at Facebook. Where do they struggle?

1:59.9

Doing everything to check in, to market in a revenue management. The goals are double last year.

2:04.6

So, if they're hitting 35%, then when we get up to 70% in 2021, they do do email marketing with

2:14.0

MailChimp. They email once a month. They don't spend any money on advertising. But obviously,

2:20.2

they do use the OTIs. So, let's just have a little quick look at what we are looking at here. So,

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