All right, so welcome everybody to the Boost Hospitality Podcast, this is season six episode five and in this episode we are

going to talk about networking and more importantly how to network the right way.

It's a topic that I wanted to speak about for a while now and the reason being is I see so many people in the service to accommodation world on the

Facebook just mass adding people I my own personal Facebook has been bombarded with friend requests and no

actual message to find out why it's not only until I send the message back saying, hey, you know, what's the

friend request for, but I actually then get the message back saying, I'm looking to grow my

network, I'm looking to meet more people which is all well and good but there's

right ways and one ways to network and that's just online that's not to

mention about offline events and the reason why I wanted to do this episode in particular

is because I feel that if we can talk about networking and if we can sort of take away the spammy aspect of it.

We can talk about the powerful aspect of it and how we can do it for good.

It would be a great way of not only growing your network, your reach of people that you can reach

out to to discuss about, self-a-service accommodation and growing the business, but it's also a great way to helping you grow your business in service

accommodation. Now like every episode of this season of the Boost Hospitality podcast I've reached out to a guest and this week I've decided to get on somebody that I've been wanting to chat to for a long time.

It's Elaine Watt of the HLS Podcast.

Elaine has got a Facebook group, she's got a fantastic website, she's got a fantastic community,

she does monthly meetups, she goes to a lot of events and I couldn't think of anybody else

better to speak to when it comes to talking about network.

So without further ado I am going to bring her on to the show and Elaine if you could do me

a massive favour and just introduce yourself to the audience let everybody know a little bit more about you and just how you got into this world of property and holiday letters please.

Yeah, hey Mark, thanks for inviting me.

It's so good to talk to you finally because yeah,

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