Welcome everybody to the new episode of the Boostly Podcast. This is the podcast that gives host

the tools, the tactics, the training, and most importantly the confidence to go out there and get

more direct bookends. Today we're talking about marketing strategies and this particular host who

we've got on the behind the host podcast is based in Houston, Texas. We're going to be talking

about his collective there. And as I've mentioned, we go behind the host on this episode and

we pick out short-term rental hosts who have got interesting businesses and ask questions

about their business, which you as a host can take into your hospitality business and there's

tips, tricks, and tactics that you're going to learn from this very special guest. So my name's

Liam Carolyn and today we've got Blake Duarte on. He's from Duarte destinations.com and they're

speltduaert destinations.com and we're really excited to dive into his business today and if you do

get a chance go on to his webpage, check out not only his cool properties but also particularly because

he does co-hosting and management, check out those sections of his website because he's ever

so clear with his offer and certainly something which I was impressed with before we jumped on this

call. So welcome along Blake, thank you for joining me. Thank you for having me. Jake, can you give

yourself introduction where you're based, where your properties are based and the number of properties

and anything else you'd like to share? Yeah, so I'm based in California and my Airbnb is actually

going to be, sorry, short-term rentals actually going to be in Houston. That's the one short-term

rental I have right now and then I have a couple of long-term rentals, one in Indiana, one in

additional in California. So as I went on to the journey of marketing with the short-term rental

in Houston, I recognized that it was a lot of effort and ended up forming the Houston Hospitality

Collective to create more of a group effort as to marketing strategies. Nice, nice. And what is

that collective? Just talk us through what the collective is. It's not a term over here in the UK

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