To the Boosting podcast my name is Mark Simpson. I'm the founder of Boostosley. We're in season 8 episode 19. This whole season is about giving you productive, proactive marketing tactics and tips that you can put into practice to get through this

Corona virus crisis that is hitting the hospitality industry. Today we do another

marketing review live it was with Sabrina Spellman of Rosberg House, which is a bed and breakfast,

vacation rental in Kansas, in USA. She's had the business for 15 plus years. We really delve into the website, social media, how Google's looking at the

business and we also give some really good advice on the benefits of booking direct.

There were so many people that tune into this live on my Facebook page

that weren't doing this one simple thing that everybody should be doing.

And I really want for you to look out for it in this episode and then go and tell somebody about it.

See if we can all together put this tactic into place and we can improve our direct bookings

on the back of it.

Before we get started, I just want to say thank you

to our sponsors, which are hostfully.

Hostfully design really cool digital guidebooks

that you can send to your guest pre-post or during stay.

These guidebooks right now are proven so crucial because it's giving people advice on where they can go or things that they can go and

see during the coronavirus crisis.

But most importantly it will mean that you no longer have to rely on that little printout that you

leave on the table that you hope that they read with the Wi-Fi code on and all

those sort of things. It can be all done digitally and it can all be sent out with a

link. So it's it's super simple to do.

You get one free guidebook when you go to hostfully.com. If you want to upgrade and add more and get

their pro features, uh, boostly 2M in the promo code and you get two months free. So before you jump in,

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