Exciting News for Airbnb Vacation Rental Owners and Real Estate Investors!
Skip the competition on a saturated AirBNB platform!!!
In this episode, we dive into the secrets of getting direct short-term rental bookings while you sleep!
Our guest, Jenn Boyles, founder of Direct Booking Success, shares her expertise in increasing direct bookings for vacation rentals through organic marketing.
She takes us on a journey from her experiences in the oversaturated rental market of the Austrian Alps to building a thriving direct booking business.
Jen discussed her inspiring journey in the short-term rental business, sharing how she overcame the challenges of an oversaturated rental market and learned the art of achieving direct bookings that can significantly boost profitability compared to traditional long-term rentals.
Join us as we uncover strategies for shifting reliance from online travel agents to direct bookings, the importance of creating a unique guest experience, and the potential financial benefits that properly marketed short-term rentals can yield.
Key takeaways from the episode include:
- Understanding the financial potential of short-term rentals compared to long-term tenants
- Exploring the expenses and challenges involved in managing short-term rentals
- Discovering strategies to shift dependency from OTAs towards direct bookings
- Learning about resources and training opportunities offered by Direct Booking Success to help property owners succeed in the vacation rental industry
Whether you are a seasoned property owner or exploring the world of short-term rentals, this episode offers invaluable insights into the potential financial return and the essential steps for creating a successful direct booking business.
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0:01 – Raising private money for real estate investing tips.
4:16 – Needed money, realized need for direct bookings.
7:09 – Consider short-term rentals, investment vs business.
10:30 – Hire property manager for short-term rental success.
14:29 – Become a local expert, promoting on social media.
19:13 – Don’t assume bookings will come; consider property managers.
23:15 – Provide top-quality experience for guests always.
24:18 – Advice for increasing short-term rental performance summarized.
28:58 – Transition from OTAs to direct bookings carefully.
29:39 – Connect With Jenn Boyles: https://www.DirectBookingSuccess.com
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Beating AirBNB At Their Own Game: Short-Term Booking Secrets Revealed!
Jay Conner [00:00:01]:
Welcome to another amazing episode of Raising Private Money. I’m Jay Conner, your host. And boy, have we got a show for you today. You know, most of the time we talk here on the show about how to raise Private Money without asking for money and how to not even use traditional lending sources or institutional money. Well, today we’re going to be talking about once you have raised some of that Private Money, then what can you do with that Private Money. We know there are all kinds of real estate asset classes, and we’ve got a very, very niche class that we’re going to talk about today as to how you can use that Private Money. Well, my guest today, is the founder of what’s called Direct Booking Success. Direct Booking Success is a podcast. It’s also a summit and it also is a program.
Jay Conner [00:00:54]:
Well, her mission with this business and with this education is to help vacation short-term rental property owners and managers increase their direct bookings with what she calls organic marketing. Now she’s also a property manager and an owner herself. She’s been managing her award-winning properties back to 2013. Now finding herself with a property in an oversaturated area was what initially led her down this, what she calls the Direct Booking Path. Well, in addition to that, she’s the host of the Direct Booking Success podcast, which is produced weekly with a mix of educational, solo episodes, and etcetera. She’s an amazing person. I met her back just a few months ago. She’s the founder of what’s called the Annual Direct Booking Success Summit.
Jay Conner [00:01:49]:
This event is a free, marketing for the educational online summit. In just a moment, you’re gonna meet my amazing guest today, Miss Jenn Boyles, right after this.
Narrator [00:02:04]:
If you’re a real estate investor and are wondering how to raise and leverage Private Money to make more profit on every deal, Then you’re in the right place. On Raising Private Money, we’ll speak with new and seasoned investors to dissect their deals and extract the best tips and strategies to help you get the money because the money comes first. Now here’s your host, Jay Conner.
Jay Conner [00:02:32]:
Well, Jen, welcome to Raising Private Money. How are you?
Jenn Boyles [00:02:37]:
Good. Thanks, Jake. It’s lovely to be here.
Jay Conner [00:02:40]:
Yes. It’s great to have you. And we haven’t talked hardly much at all here on Raising Private Money about short-term rentals and Airbnb and all that kind of stuff. So take us back to the beginning of What was it that got you, interested in short-term rentals, and what’s the beginning of your story?
Jenn Boyles [00:03:02]:
Well, sure. So in 2013, I was renting out an apartment that we owned in France. I spent a lot of time in Europe. I’m now in Vancouver, Canada, but we rented out my then-husband and I rented out an apartment on Airbnb, And it was amazing. The light bulbs went off, and we thought what a great way to make some money And use our investment property, to help us do this. We still wanted to use it, but there were times when we weren’t there. This was great. We used it on a couple of different properties that we owned, but then what happened was we bought a 5-bed chalet in the Austrian Alps.
Jenn Boyles [00:03:45]:
It was a completely oversaturated market with short-term rentals, tells, b and b’s, guest houses, you name it. Those buildings were there. And we built we bought with our heads or with our hearts, Sorry. Not our heads. That was the real big problem was that we bought it because it was a sound of music. It was perfect. We loved it. And once we but we thought, we just had our blinders on and thought we’d stick it on Airbnb, and we’ll make lots of money.
Jenn Boyles [00:04:16]:
Well, It didn’t happen. We had a mortgage to pay. You know? It was bad news, and it wasn’t until I got a phone call from a previous guest with the previous owner, who had booked with them, and they wanted to come back, and they wanted to book direct. And this is the 1st time I’d heard that expression. The penny dropped for me that it was time to build our brand And to go after our direct bookings instead of relying on the likes of Airbnb, Booking .com, Expedia, and all of these online travel agents. Instead of relying on them, We could make our own business. So that’s sort of how I got started, Jay.
Jay Conner [00:05:03]:
Well, that’s interesting, and here’s why it’s interesting. Your story is very, very similar to mine, except mine, of course, happened while trying to get funding for, my house deals. And my story relates to yours by the fact that it was a big problem and a big, challenge that I had that I had to overcome.
Jay Conner [00:05:28]:
I was cut off from the banks, from lending me money amid the financial global crisis back in 2009. So I had a choice, and you had a choice when the challenge came along. And that was we could, you know, quit and put our Tail between our legs and go to the house. Or we could find a different and even better way, you know, to do our business.
Jay Conner [00:05:29]:
So what I’ve learned and discovered over the years is that growth takes place in the Valley. So your valley was you got no business.
Jenn Boyles [00:06:04]:
Yes. Well, that was it.
Jay Conner [00:06:06]:
Yeah. You got no business, and so now how are you gonna get business? So I have got well, I think I know what it means, but I’m not I’m not in your industry, very much well, I am I’m glad we’re having this conversation because right now we’re in the midst of an over a $100,000 renovation rehab on my grandparents’ home that was built a 100 years ago.
Jenn Boyles [00:06:31]:
Wow.
Jay Conner [00:06:31]:
And I’m and I’m I intend to turn it into a short-term rental. So maybe I should start out marketing it when I finish the rehab your way instead are relying on one of the, you know, platforms out there, third-party agencies. So let’s dive into it. What in the world is direct booking for a short-term rental? And then when that was brought up, when that that previous, you know, short-term renter brought so they wanted to direct book. What did you do next? How did you start diving into, as you say, building your brand?
Jenn Boyles [00:07:09]:
Yeah. Well, you know, and just going back to what you’re saying about, you wanting to get into the short-term rentals and whatnot. And maybe we can talk about that as well as sort of the difference between having an investment and having a business, and how if you want to get involved more with the bookings and whatnot. But what happened with me was that They rang up and they wanted to do this, and I was like, you know, I had drunk the Kool-Aid. I was on Airbnb. I was team Airbnb. This is how I had, you know, got bookings for another couple of properties. And, you know, you Go off the platform? To this day, some people are so scared to move anything off the Airbnb platform Because they instill it in those who are hosts on the platform just to keep everything there so that they have control, and that’s what you’re giving up When you are using or just you can use them, but not rely so heavily on the OTAs.
Jenn Boyles [00:08:13]:
Before, Airbnb and Booking .coms and all these kinds of places came out of the woodwork, you know, everything was Direct booking. When you wanted to go stay in a hotel, when you want to stay in a B&B or a short-term rental or vacation rental, you went to that person, the manager, The owner directly. The OTAs came in. The Internet exploded, and, bookings went crazy, and now we’re getting to the point where we’re just Traded. The online space is saturated. So when I take
Jay Conner [00:08:44]:
not to interrupt you, Jenn, but what is an OTA? What is the OTA stand?
Jenn Boyles [00:08:48]:
So that stands for an online travel agent like Airbnb, Booking .com, and Expedia.
Jay Conner [00:08:54]:
Okay. Okay.
Jenn Boyles [00:08:55]:
Verbal. You know, those types of platforms that are bringing you bookings.
Jay Conner [00:08:59]:
Okay.
Jenn Boyles [00:09:00]:
So it was up to me to like you said, you know, I could have just said, forget it. This isn’t working. Let’s just sell the place and move on. But, no, I wanted to make this business work. I wanted to pay the mortgage. I wanted guests to come to our little place in Austria and enjoy their vacation and Make those memories with their families that we had been able to do too because it was just such a magical place. To build my brand, I had to go back into my marketing, education that I had, And what I had done with other clients and do it for myself. And it is marketing speak, building your brand, but the idea is that instead of people saying, I stayed in an Airbnb.
Jenn Boyles [00:09:47]:
I wanted them to say that I stayed at Jen’s Chalet or whatever my, you know, my name was, And that’s about building the brand. I wanted everything inside to be very Austrian, you know, the furnishings and everything. And I had a logo. You know, we think about brands as logos and whatnot, but it goes more than that. It’s everything that The guest experience would be with our brand. Now Getting a little ahead of myself, but there are 2 things that you need to do if this is more of an if more than just an investment. If it’s an investment, fine. Hire a property manager.
Jenn Boyles [00:10:30]:
Hire a company to take care of your bookings And your cleanings, the turnovers, all of those kind of things. Hire a property manager. Okay? There’ll be somebody in your area. Talk to a few people, find out the person that you click with, and that’s great because you will, you know, you will make more money having a short-term rental than a long-term rental if you have a tenant. It’s just the way it works, but you’ll have more expenses as well. On the flip side, you might say, oh, I like this idea. I want to be my own property manager, and I want to get my bookings And not rely so heavily on the likes of Airbnb. You need a website.
Jenn Boyles [00:11:15]:
You need a website. You need a place for people to book online. That’s nonnegotiable. Having this website where people can book, just you know, we are living in the age of Airbnb. We have to make it as easy for guests to book with us as they do with all of the other, marketing platforms. The second thing you need after that, that website is The marketing piece, which you have to tell people. I don’t know, Jay. Do you remember that movie? I think it was in the eighties, Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner.
Jay Conner [00:11:48]:
Absolutely. Yes.
Jenn Boyles [00:11:49]:
If you build it, they will come.
Jay Conner [00:11:52]:
Right.
Jenn Boyles [00:11:52]:
That doesn’t happen in marketing.
Jay Conner [00:11:54]:
No. It doesn’t.
Jenn Boyles [00:11:55]:
No. It doesn’t. And you can
Jay Conner [00:11:58]:
you can have the best website in the world, but if nobody’s finding it, there you go.
Jenn Boyles [00:12:04]:
Well, that’s it. That’s it. So the marketing piece is even more important once you’ve got that website driving people to that website to book And telling everyone. That’s what marketing is. You’re just telling everyone to come and go on your website and book and come and have that amazing experience Of where your property is in your local area.
Jay Conner [00:12:29]:
So the website and drive in traffic.
Jenn Boyles [00:12:32]:
Yeah.
Jay Conner [00:12:32]:
Well, I’m gonna ask you a question that would probably take you 3 days to answer at your summit. Uh-oh. So so and, just give us as much as you can in the time that we’ve got. How do you drive the traffic to your website?
Jenn Boyles [00:12:50]:
Oh my goodness. That is a big question, isn’t it?
Jay Conner [00:12:53]:
Well, that’s like somebody asking me, how do I find motivated sellers that are not listed in the multiple listing service? Yeah. That’s that’s, that’s at least a full day conversation, but at least we we can at least get it started.
Jenn Boyles [00:13:07]:
Yes. Well, yes, we can. And then the most simplistic answer is to tell people. Tell everybody. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell everybody you meet. You know, we live in an online world but have Business cards printed out.
Jenn Boyles [00:13:22]:
Every person you meet, you’re at the restaurant. You’re talking to your server. Hey. Have you ever thought about having a holiday or vacation here? Here’s my card, You know, when you’re ready to book. Online, offline methods, you know, all are valid, but it’s telling people. It can be as simple as telling people. We can get into the details of search engine optimization and email, lists and lead magnets, and all this kind of marketing, jargon, and things to do, but the basis of it is Telling people.
Jay Conner [00:13:58]:
So let’s let’s drill down on that. So, for example, this property, my grandparents’ home, and that my mother was born in, and I’m converting it. So, I’m all about networking and referrals and tell, But how do I tell the people that are that don’t live in my area, that is coming from, you know, a long way away, I can’t tell them because they’re not here in my area. Yes. So what are 1 or 2 ways that they find the website?
Jenn Boyles [00:14:29]:
Well, the 1, one thing you need to do is Step into being that local expert, and this is something that the likes of the OTAs, the online travel agents like Airbnb can’t touch Because they’re global, and they can’t get into the nuances of being that local, expert. And that is some that’s a role that you need to take is to really step into that role and, become your local area expert and then be promoting that online. So if we want to grab everyone’s attention across the Internet, it’s social media. You know, it’s getting those accounts. It’s getting your your accounts, your profile, and your business pages, and maybe creating a Facebook group For your local area, for tourism. This is all about your guest and who is coming. Your ideal guest is what I like to talk about, and having a person in your mind who is the right fit for your property Because you want them to, come back again. You also want, them to be the perfect fit so that there are no problems and that they’ll leave you a great review at the end.
Jenn Boyles [00:15:47]:
So talking about your local area, A great thing to do, and this is a bit more advanced, but a great thing to do is to create something like a lead magnet
Jenn Boyles [00:15:57]:
Where It’s like a creative PDF guide of your local area. Say, okay, my 5 favorite things to do in my area, And people will exchange their email addresses for this PDF, this guide, this digital download. So then you are telling everybody online. You’re going into Facebook groups. You are, using SEO and other tactics To tell people about it, then people start downloading it. You get their email address, and you can start sending them targeted emails, Telling them how amazing your area is and trying to get them to want to come and stay with you when they travel to your area.
Jay Conner [00:16:38]:
I love it. I love it. So now we’re talking about a marketing funnel is what we’re talking.
Jenn Boyles [00:16:43]:
That’s exactly it. That’s exactly it. You’re building your sort of marketing funnel.
Jay Conner [00:16:50]:
And you’re and you’re beginning your marketing funnel by giving value. Right? By serving, by serving and continuing to serve them and give the information, you know, in your area. So that was going to be my next question, which you just answered, and that is how important is social media, to the success of a short-term rental business and not just investment, and it sounds like it’s very, very important.
Jenn Boyles [00:17:15]:
It can be. Yes. You know, It’s that top of the funnel, exactly what you’re talking about. It’s getting all the people interested in and leaning into that local area because People you know, this might be a hard truth for some people, but there are very few places where people want to stay at that exact Property for whatever reason it is. Excuse me. It’s the idea that they want to come to that area. Mhmm. And then what property fits best? And when you’re searching on Booking.com, you know, Vrbo, Airbnb, It’s just amenity after amenity and what has you know, you’re you’re going, okay.
Jenn Boyles [00:17:56]:
I’ve got need so many bedrooms, you know, I’m bringing my dog, you know, whatever it is. But there’s no emotional connection. And with your marketing and your local area, you want to go out and reach people and say, This is why you wanna come. You know? We’ve got the best wineries, or we’ve got, you know, the best museums or whatever it is, And finding that right person that will want to come, and then stay with you is secondary.
Jay Conner [00:18:27]:
Exactly. Putting them first. Putting them first. Well, my guess is, Jen, you have educated and coached quite a few people over some time on how to do the marketing and direct booking like you do yourself. So coaching and working with people to use this method of getting their short-term rentals, occupied
Jay Conner [00:18:51]:
A couple of questions. What are the common mistakes that you have experienced and heard about people who are new or maybe seasoned as well, But, particularly the new people who are just getting into short-term rentals, what are some of those common mistakes that you have observed that the newbies make getting into this?
Jenn Boyles [00:19:13]:
Well, one of them is just what I was saying about the field of dreams. If you build it, they will come. You know? But in a different sense, just putting it up on Airbnb or putting your listing out there and just thinking that the bookings are just gonna fall on your lap. You know, there’s a lot of people out there that want you to believe that, and it’s not True. And if this is not up for you, you know, a property manager is there as a business to take this on. Okay? You don’t have you you might think, I like the idea of the short-term rentals. The direct bookings sound great thinking of the return you can make, but You don’t wanna take it on yourself. There are property managers out there that can do all of this for you.
Jenn Boyles [00:19:53]:
But, yeah, thinking that bookings are just gonna drop into your lap. Another one in your marketing is, thinking that, selling, you know, and discounting To the guests. So come. I’ll give you 10% off. You know? Or come. It’s only 1.99 or whatever it is. You know? Book now. Book now.
Jenn Boyles [00:20:12]:
Book now. It is good to tell people that, yes, they should be booking now and they should be booking directly. That’s how we wanna get our guests in. But, it’s leaning into what they can do there and the experience they can have, and that will help them make that emotional connection. So that is a mistake I see a lot of the time is people just saying book, book, book, sell, sell, sell, And it doesn’t work. You know, think about when you’re online, if you keep seeing somebody trying to sell to you, what is your reaction, Jay?
Jay Conner [00:20:48]:
I resist and push away because when I mean, nobody nobody likes to feel like they’re being pressured or feel like they’re being, quote, unquote, Sold.
Jenn Boyles [00:20:58]:
Yeah. Well, that’s it. That’s it. But if that same person was saying to you, You know, this is a great area. You and your family are gonna love it, or when you’re here on at on business, you know, we’ve got fast Wi-Fi and, an office for you to use or whatever it is, you know, then you’d be like, oh, hey. That sounds a bit interesting, you know, and then you go towards that booking.
Jay Conner [00:21:24]:
Right. As far as getting the property ready, What are some, tips and suggestions you could give to someone new that’s like getting their 1st property ready to go, and they’re going to be furnishing it? Again, I know this is a big question with a long list a long check with a long checklist. But, What are some 2 or 3 for sure to do’s as far as getting the property ready? 2 or 3 for sure to do’s and maybe 2 or 3 for sure don’t do.
Jenn Boyles [00:21:55]:
Okay. Let’s see. Let’s see what I can come up with. One big no-no, and I see this I see this in, like, Facebook groups where someone says, oh, I’ve had a guest, and they’ve broken this picture, this bowl, this antique, This heirloom, it’s like, what? Why do you have those on your property? You’re gonna have all sorts of people in there, And, hopefully, they’ll take care of your place. But if there’s something that you cannot replace or has sentimental value, get it out of your house. Get it out of your property. Okay. If there are pictures on the wall, of you and your family, take them down.
Jenn Boyles [00:22:33]:
I don’t wanna feel and the guests don’t wanna feel like they’re in someone else’s home. They wanna feel like they’re in their own home for their stay. So that’s those are a couple of big ones. You know, depersonalization, I guess, is a way of saying it And get rid of those things that you cannot replace. Another thing one thing to do is Go and stay there yourself as a guest, and maybe have somebody else come and test drive it another weekend or something like that. And try to think of yourself if you’re brand new. You don’t know where, you know, the, washing up liquid or the, you know, like, the hand cream is or where the rest of the toilet paper is. You don’t know where it is.
Jenn Boyles [00:23:15]:
So try to live like a guest so you can see what is needed. And don’t skimp. Don’t skimp. Don’t go and buy bargain basement sheets and, you know, the crappiest toilet paper, this kind of thing, think about your guests when they’re there and what kind of experience you want them to have. We want to think of them, and their lifetime value rather than they’re just coming for 1 or 2 nights or even a week.
Jenn Boyles [00:23:16]:
We want them to come back and, like, back and again, and we want them to give good reviews and tell their friends because that is part of our marketing as well as telling others to come and stay. So it’s looking at the guest experience and what they want And what they will need while they’re there so that they can spend the time. Instead of going to the local store to stock up on toilet paper when they’ve only been there 20 minutes, they can spend the time with their family, and friends, and enjoy your property in the area.
Jay Conner [00:24:18]:
I love it. That is great advice. For our listeners that don’t have a short-term rental yet, but they’ve been thinking about it, but they didn’t, you know, know where to start, on average, and I know the answer to this is going to vary all over the board, but if you give some kind of, some kind of average. You mentioned earlier in the show about how always, your short-term rental, if it’s marketed correctly and you’ve got it, you know, set up correctly, It’s always gonna bring in more money than a straight rental. On average, what would you say A short-term rental, how much better it would perform given everything in place that should be in place over and beyond, straight rental?
Jenn Boyles [00:25:05]:
Well, when we think about it, so say someone’s staying as a long-term tenant. Say they’re paying $1,000 a month to stay in your property. But if you have short-term rentals, maybe you are Charging $15, $200 a night. So quickly, you can add up the difference there in the amount of money that you’re bringing in. However, it’s not all gravy. There are expenses. You know, you will have some expenses for marketing even though I’m a very big proponent of organic marketing, so free with a little bit of time and effort. But if you have a property manager, They need to be paid, and, you know, they need to take care of it.
Jenn Boyles [00:25:50]:
If your bookings are coming through online travel agents like Airbnb and Booking.com, All of those bookings you have to pay commission on. Okay? So there are also expenses in what you’re providing, in the property insurance and regulations as well is something to look at in safety. You have to make sure that everything’s, you know, above board and nobody’s gonna get hurt. So there are expenses. It’s not like, you know, I’m gonna make 250 A dollars a night, net. No. You’re not. There are expenses to make, but you can very quickly see That having somebody in as a guest rather than a tenant will make more money in the long run.
Jay Conner [00:26:35]:
For sure. Well, I know we have got a lot of listeners here to the show that have considered, but haven’t started yet. And there are a lot of listeners here who have been relying on the platforms and are interested in direct booking. From the time they learn how to do this the way you do it, what’s a realistic period that they could We have their marketing up and going, their website up, and have business coming in and nights being booked.
Jenn Boyles [00:27:09]:
Well, that is yes. That depends on how much effort they’re gonna put into it because it does take some effort. For your situation, Jay, what I would suggest is that you start that branding now. If you before you launch before you launch and say you’re open for booking, Start now. Start with people who are wanting to come to your area. Start to create that community around your brand And tell people what you’re gonna create so that they are ready for it. So that when you say, okay. We are ready for bookings, You have a lineup out the door that is ready to come and book.
Jenn Boyles [00:27:45]:
And, you know, that can take a few months, But, you know, it depends on how much time and effort you wanna put into it. In, after we sold the chalet, from Austria, we moved back to England, and I’ve just moved back. I realized I used the term washing up liquid a few minutes ago, And I couldn’t remember what the North American equivalent is because I’ve spent 21 years away, in Europe. But we created a brand, a new vacation rental in England. And in that 1st year, I had 80% direct bookings.
Jay Conner [00:28:21]:
Wow.
Jenn Boyles [00:28:22]:
And it was all because of what I used from running the chalet and learning that business. And I started again. I started as we were creating while we were renovating. I was building that interest. I was putting photographs of what was happening And getting people interested in the area. So it’s great. Now if you’ve already got the property and you’re already doing it And that, you know, that ship has sailed, if you will, and you’re ready to but you’re like, okay. I’ve been just, relying too much on the OTAs.
Jenn Boyles [00:28:58]:
Then go out and get that website and start with the marketing and start seeing the shift from the dependency on the OTAs towards you. And a really good rule of thumb is to look at you know, you still want some sort of presence on Airbnb, Booking.com, or whatever platforms you want. Because if something happened to you, you want still a few bookings to come through. So, you know, you’re wanting to look at, you know, maybe a 70-30 split, 6040. You know, look at what you feel comfortable with, but it does take more effort, but also there’s more profit in those in those bookings that come direct.
Jay Conner [00:29:37]:
Right. Wonderful. Jen, I know we have listeners that want to learn how to do this direct booking, strategy like you do. So how can people learn how to do what you do?
Jenn Boyles [00:29:51]:
Well, I have an annual online summit, So I help people all over the world, with their direct bookings, and there’s the website there, www.directbookingsuccesssummit.com. You can sign up for the waitlist for the next one that happens in October, of each year. And the best part of it is you can be in your pajamas. You can come. And it’s free. It’s free, and you can be in your pajamas. You can go to my website www.DirectBookingSuccess.com, and you get links there to my podcast And the other trainings that I that I regularly create for people. And just get in touch.
Jenn Boyles [00:30:29]:
Come and say hi.
Jay Conner [00:30:31]:
I love it. So that’s www.DirectBookingSuccess.com to get in contact directly with you there and learn about the podcast and how to follow you there. Jen, thank you so much for joining me. What a wonderful conversation this has been about short-term rentals and being in control of your booking. Thank you for joining us.
Jenn Boyles [00:30:52]:
Thanks so much, Jay. And keep me up to date with your property. I wanna see how you do And what you end up doing with it, it’s very exciting.
Jay Conner [00:31:00]:
Absolutely. Well, there you have it, my friend, another amazing Episode here on Raising Private Money. I’m Jay Conner, your host, also known as the Private Money Authority, and we appreciate you liking and subscribing. If you happen to be listening on any of the podcast Platforms. Be sure and follow me so you don’t miss out. Also, if you’re watching on YouTube, be sure to subscribe and ring that bell so we can continue to notify you of our amazing guests coming up so you don’t miss out. I’m looking forward to seeing you right here on the next episode of Raising Private Money with Jay Conner.
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