Welcome back to the Boosely Podcast. This is the podcast that gives hosts the tools, the tactics,

the trainings and most importantly the confidence on how you can go out there and get more direct

bookings. Today we are going to be talking about how you can identify the right market to be in

and to help us do that we're going to talk to a successful short-term rental host and ask the

questions which you can listen to the answers and take that information and perhaps implement that

into your business as a host. So my name is Liam Carolyn I'm Mark Simpson's co-host and we're going

behind the host with Drew Pearce from Sage Vacations and if you want to go check them out you can go to

www.sagevacations.net and see his beautiful website and check out his business but let's dive

in let's find out all the information that we want to find out and go behind the host with him.

So welcome along Drew thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me Liam it's an honor to be here.

So I know we've talked before we've obviously spoke about websites before and I'm familiar

with your business but for people who have just tuned in and don't know who Drew Pearce is or Sage

Vacations can you kind of give us the background what kind of business model do you use how many

units were in the world all that cool stuff. Sure absolutely so the business does currently

located in the United States and the Florida market Orlando Florida market as well as the

Gatlinburg Pigeon Forest Tennessee market as well. We currently have about nine properties

and you know we're growing you know every year fortunately and so that's what we do though

that's that's everyone else is that we try to focus more on the experience I think with everything

else and we make it so we that's part of kind of our business models we're not catering to people

who are just looking for a place to sleep but they're also looking for you know that experience

whenever they go and and state someplace an extension of whatever it is that they're doing

in that particular location. Experience is so important and more and more people are booking

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