Maximizing Last-Minute Bookings with Whimstay | Featuring Alex Alioto

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 763 https://www.hostfully.com/boostly/ Welcome to the Boostly Podcast, the go-to resource for short-term rental hosts looking to scale their businesses with direct bookings. In this episode, we sit down with Alex from Whimstay. the episode explores the innovative approach Whimstay takes to help property managers and hosts fill their unsold gap nights. Alex, the CEO and co-founder, shares his journey and insights into the OTA's unique last-minute booking model. Listeners are introduced to the importance of an integrated distribution strategy and how Whimstay aims to complement existing OTAs by focusing on expiring inventory. Highlights include an engaging discussion on market trends, growth opportunities, and valuable advice for hosts. Tune in to learn how Whimstay can enhance your booking strategy and boost revenue. https://www.whimstay.com/ https://Boostly.co.uk https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps https://instagram.com/boostlyuk https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boosley podcast. This is the podcast that gives you the tools, the tactics,
0:03.9	the training, and most importantly, the confidence to go out there and get yourselves more
0:06.8	direct bookings. We do a mini series on this podcast which dives into a software or a service that
0:11.5	you should know about as a host. Today's episode, we are featuring Wimstay. We've got Alex
0:17.1	from Wimstay. He is the co-founder and also the head of growth for the company. And this is
0:23.1	something that you need to know about particularly. I mean, it is hopefully going to be all over at
0:28.2	some stage. But if you're in the US and you're now a UK listener, you need to listen up to this because
0:33.1	this is such an opportunity for you. So welcome along, Alex. Thank you for joining me today.
0:39.7	William, what's going on, man? Nice to be here. Thank you very much.
0:45.9	Well, it's nice to see. I think we had a brief interaction at the Shortstay Summit last year in the UK, and I know you get to go to some of the awesome events, so it's great to have you here
0:50.3	on the podcast. Lovely to be in here. Thank you very much. Mark's a good friend of
0:54.3	mine. I love what Boosley does. I wish that the audience could have heard the conversation you and I
1:00.2	had off air about the art of swearing. Unfortunately, they're going to miss out on that one, but I think
1:06.0	they'll get some nuggets on that, so we'll see. And also the, what is it, the dungeonous crabs. Oh, dungeonous crab,
1:13.0	yes. Anyone who's listening, come to San Francisco, get dungeonous crab. If you're in Norwich,
1:18.3	get cromer crab, right? Exactly that. Exactly that. We've promoted. Crabbs and swearing. That's
1:24.1	what we do. Our local seafood, swearing and crabs crabs is what we talk about. So anyway, let's
1:29.7	dive in. First of all, where are you in the world? And can you give us a bit of information background?
1:37.1	What is Wim's Day? Yeah, dude. So I'm in San Francisco, actually a little fishing village across the
1:43.6	Golden Gate Bridge called Sausalito,
1:45.3	California, a beautiful little place. My wife and I live. But we are a San Francisco area based.
1:50.4	Our company is a San Francisco based, Silicon Valley based tech company in the short-term rental space.
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