Hi everyone, welcome back to the Boostley podcast. This is the podcast that gives hosts the tools, the tactics, the training, and most importantly the confidence for you to go out there and get yourself some more direct bookings. Today we're diving behind the host of a successful host themselves. They're also a coach.

So we're kind of looking at spotlight on their business. We're also diving into their hospitality experience.

And the reason we're doing that is to highlight their business

some of the awesome stuff they're doing and so you can put some of that stuff

perhaps into your business if it works for them it can work for you too. So let me introduce, we've got Amanda Stecker, she's the, she's a holiday rental owner of course, and a property business coach from Unique Kotswolds Cottages and Holiday Letology. So we're going to find out exactly what that means, what that is, and yeah, let's welcome her along. Thank you for joining me, Amanda.

Hello, thank you for inviting me.

So Amanda, give yourself the elevator pitch.

What is it you do and tell us what you'd like to tell us about the business?

Sure.

So first of all, unique Cotswold cottages.

So we are a, I'm the founder of that company.

We have five owner-managed holiday cottages in the cotswolds and we are particularly targeted at

couples and their dogs and they're all very high-end so it's a kind of luxury stay in the Cotswolds and the reason why I focused on that market

is that when I did my research and I was starting out around five years ago, I could see that there was a real lack of smaller properties that just targeted

couples. And so it felt like a really good place to start and budget-wise it meant that I could start off buying a couple of properties in a couple of different parts of the Cotswolds and get going quickly with that target audience.

So that's one side of the business and that's grown pretty quickly I think

within four years I built it up to five properties I'll be looking to purchase

another one next year and the aim is to keep growing that.

And then the other side of the business is the coaching business,

which I actually started in the pandemic,

because we, as lots of us were,

or in fact all of us, we had to close our properties a few times in my case it was three times over the

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