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week's episode. Having a blast, gonna get it on the boostly podcast. Boostly like Bruce Lee,

cause it's so hard on the tea is loose leaf. Making up those rhymes, don't write it just to

be loose leaf. If you want my respect, you're better put direct. Here are the words in the podcast,

that's what comes next. Hello, my name is Mark Simpson and I give hosts just like you, the tools,

the tactics to training, but most importantly, the confidence to go and increase your direct

bookings. And today, in this episode of the boostly podcast, what I wanted to do was to break down

why now more than ever we have to be super realistic in how we are going to increase our direct

bookings. And it all brings me back to the booking process. Now, if you haven't already watched my

five step video on the booking process, the stages that every guest will go through before

making a decision to book with you, I do recommend you go and check it out. If you head to boostly.co.uk,

forward slash YouTube, you'll be able to check out the video that I created on that. I show you

step by step guide. I even created a podcast series on it in series two. Got a boostly.co.uk,

forward slash podcast to go and check that out. But we've got a bit of an update and it's like

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