The Boostly Podcast

The Boost Hospitality Podcast is back for another season! And we are now in Season 7. And this time, we are currently on the third episode of season seven! Today we are talking about the future of hospitality and if self-check-in going to be essential or not. Joining me on this episode, we have David Jacoby of Hostfully.   https://boostly.co.uk/hostfully What we are going to be discussing in detai...

The Boost Hospitality Podcast is back for another season! And we are now in Season 7. And this time, we are currently on the second episode of season seven! In this episode, I have an exceptional guest who will be talking about t the guest experience and more importantly, how you can save time and increase your profit profits by having a fantastic guest experience. I asked Sapphire Stein from Wish...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 7 Episode 1 I have invited a special guest to talk about how to maximise your profits for your accommodation with simple interior tweaks. We have Marilynn Taylor to talk about documenting on this podcast episode. Visit this link to read the full blogpost about this podcast.

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 15   This is the final episode of this series. What I'm going to do in this is I'm going to go through the my main takeaways. I'm going to recap on every episode that we have done so far in this series. And I'm also going to explain to you what I believe that the service accommodation people can learn from people from hospitality, and what the hospitality...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 14   Welcome to the Boost Hospitality Podcast, we're in season 6 Episode 14. And today, I am joined by somebody that I've been following for a while now on Instagram and on Facebook. And I've just really soaked up everything that she has to say when it comes to service accommodation when it comes to property. And when it just comes to being a real good pr...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 13   Welcome everybody to the boost hospitality podcast. This is season six episode 13. And today we are going to be talking about running your service accommodation business all from an iPhone, we're going to give you some tactics and tips and some recommendation from today's guest. Today we've got Ahmed Khan, he's got over 40 properties that he runs all...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 12   Welcome back to the boost hospitality podcast we are on season six, episode 12. And this episode is one that I've been waiting to do for a long time. It's all about direct bookings, how you can increase your own bookings, where you don't have to rely on booking.com or airbnb to fill your properties and get heads on beds. And as always, I've got someb...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 11   We are now in season six, Episode 11. And today, I am joined by Paul Smith of touchstone education. We're going to chat to Paul on a wide range of topics all the way from service accommodation. How he got into this world where why he's based in Doncaster. What he's doing in Doncaster, and just sort of getting a real good feel for a little bit more ab...

Boostly Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 10   First of all, it's a pleasure to be on the podcast and then we'll go into that you got on the world. And just a bit of you've done a good job since us me but just a bit about me. So my name is Adam planner, based in UK, Birmingham, in West Berlin. And I originally got into hospitality about the end of 2017 so I'm experienced but not so experienced....

Boostly Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 9   In this episode, we have a very special guest with us to talk about No Money Down, he is from Glasgow and his name is Gordie Dutfield. Before he enter the world of hospitality, he was in sales before and he never really thought about doing property. Now, he is already 3 years in the property business, having over 40 units of rent to rent portfolio....

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 8   Sally Kember is a veteran when it comes to podcasting and service accommodation as well. Sally has a podcast that I am personally following and I love every bits of her podcasts. Sally also has a Facebook group which is open for everyone who wants to know more about Sally and service accommodation as well. Sally will share some useful tips on how to d...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 7   On this episode, Danny and I will be talking about how you can further expand your network without getting flagged as spam or without being spammy. Our guest on this episode, Danny Clarke, is the founder of VIP Life which was launched last 2017 and before he started VIP Life, he was into professional financial services such as pensions, investments an...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 6   David Diack is based in Southend on sea in Essex and he has been involved in service accommodation ever since and now they have 65 units and has a strong and great team. He values building a business that was scaled from day one. He and his team build a system, they got operators, manuals, and everything is in place and is growing at an effective pace...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 5   This week, I have decided to get on somebody that I've been wanting to chat to for a long time. It's Elaine, what of the hate LS podcast. Elaine, as got a Facebook group, she's got a fantastic website. She's got a fantastic community, she does monthly meetups. She goes to a lot of events. And I can't think of anybody else better to speak to when it co...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 4   In this episode with Na'im, we will be talking about the Property Management System and Channel Manager and their importance on how it is simplifying the way you run your business. Some service accommodation is slightly more complex than running something like hotel. Now if you've got, you know, food and beverage in the hotel, of course, that adds com...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 3   The beauty of Outsourcing and VA and with the advancement of the internet is that when you want to hire a member staff, you don't have to hire somebody from the local area. You could but again, you couldn't get the right person of what you need. With the countries like Philippines and India where the state of living and pay is so less and you are able...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 2   This episode is with a guest called Trish McGirr. Trish is one of the leading experts in negotiation. So if you are looking to get into service accommodation, and you are struggling to get over the research to plan in and how to convince an estate agent or a landlord, to let you rent that property on a rent to rent model, this is the episode for you m...

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 6 Episode 1   Jason - worked as commercial planning consultant in London and had a property in London. He became aware of people letting properties on what people calls serviced accommodation, that is typically taking a residential rental property and letting it out on a short term basis. So typically, if you want to rent a property in most landlords and letting ag...

Boost Hospitality Facebook Competition Season 5 Episode 6   In this episode, I am going to give you 3 options on how to pick a winner for your competition, and then I will end with the best way to get direct bookings on the back of this competition.  The first option is to go to a website called fanpagekarma.com and insert the URL of your competition on Facebook. It will randomly choose a winner f...

Boost Hospitality Facebook Competition Season 5 Episode 5   As of right now, your competition will have a weekend of further engagement. Now we're coming into the final part and the likes and comments are starting to slow down.  Now, you're going to go into your post and you are going to engage and with all the comments. Use anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour a day and comment back when people...

Boost Hospitality Facebook Competition Season 5 Episode 4   Today's episode is about giving the post a boost. The best way to do this is to give people a second chance to enter the competition. The psychological aspect is that when you get people to commit to entering something, they want to win.  Go back to your post and say "Wow, thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to enter. We'...

Boost Hospitality Facebook Competition Season 5 Episode 3   It has now been 48 hours since the competition went live, and hopefully, because of the actions you have taken, you're up to date with the competition.  Today, I will show you how to get the competition in front of the right people. What I recommend you to do, is to share into 3-5 Facebook groups a day.  If you want to get it out to even...

Boost Hospitality Facebook Competition Season 5 Episode 2   Today's episode is about the post. This is the way you are going to describe what the competition is, you are going to describe how, and make sure that once they've entered the competition, that they comment and engage on the post. You've done the preparations and you've got your prize and your image. Now upload the image to your page. It...

For this season of the Boost Hospitality Podcast I wanted to show you something special.    I am going to show you how to run the perfect Facebook competition. Even better, we are all going to do it live.   Monday 24th September Join me every day for 10 days whilst I show you a step by step guide.   I am also going to be providing visual training on this as well. To register, go to www.boostly.co....

Boost Hospitality Podcast Season 4 Episode 10   Emma and her husband run the Riviera Guesthouse in Whitby. She was one of the first people who attended one of my first workshops and in September 2017, Emma was one of the first people to sign up as a tester. Emma has been fantastic at learning and doing the work well. Emma took the advice, and the results were amazing. She learned how to trademark...