The Boostly Podcast Turns 800! (Behind The Mic with Mark & Liam)
The Boostly Podcast
Mark Simpson
5.0 • 302 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
🎙 Welcome back to the Episode 800 of Boostly Podcast! 🎙👋
Welcome to Boostly, where we give STR and MTR owners and managers the tools, strategies, and support to win more direct bookings — no fluff, no ads.
Episode 800 of The Boostly Podcast is a celebration of eight years behind the mic—starting with a Skype setup in 2017 and growing into a global community with over a million YouTube views.
Mark Simpson and co-host Liam Carolan sit down in person for the first time to reflect on the journey so far: hundreds of guest interviews, thousands of minutes of direct booking tactics, and the lessons learned from scaling hospitality businesses through consistency, better follow-up, smart systems, and a relentless focus on guest experience.
Let's jump in.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, welcome to the boosted podcast where we give host the tools, the tactics to training, |
| 0:05.0 | and most part of the confidence to increase their direct bookings. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a special recording because this is number 800. |
| 0:12.2 | I've got some numbers, 800 total episodes, 456 guest interviews, 146 host success stories, 98 vendor technology sessions with our biz |
| 0:26.3 | besties that are out there. |
| 0:28.3 | We've done 57 countries represented, six continents, 34 states in the US. |
| 0:35.8 | We have featured on this podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | We've had 45% international guests, |
| 0:53.8 | 35% UK guests. We've got 15% Asia-Pacific guests. We've done 25,600 minutes recording sessions done. |
| 0:55.0 | Our average session, our average podcast is 32 minutes long. |
| 1:00.1 | Our longest ever one was 24 hours back in the clubhouse days. |
| 1:06.1 | We have done 67 sessions on AI. |
| 1:10.5 | We've done 89 episodes on automation, as in automation |
| 1:14.7 | behind the scenes. We have average downloads per episode 2,847 with over 1.4 million views on the YouTube. |
| 1:31.0 | Average rating, so your reviews, is 4.97, which pretty much is five-star reviews. |
| 1:36.8 | So thank you very much to everybody who's left the review. |
| 1:38.5 | Our first episode was 2017, June 2017, June the 26th to be exact in 2017. |
| 1:48.0 | And this is the first episode that we are recording in person with my co-host, Liam Carolyn. |
| 1:54.0 | So welcome. |
| 1:55.0 | And important number you missed, two bold Brits, you know, who have been doing this for fun. |
| 2:01.7 | It's been great fun, isn't it? |
| 2:15.3 | Yeah, it's been amazing having you as a co-host because for some time, people just thought that they were speaking to me when they were on the thing, but when they were speaking to you. Yeah, yeah, they're like, hello, Mark. I'm like, yeah, I know I'm bald. I look a bit like him, but yeah. Yeah, it's very, very funny. |
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