About this podcast
Get Fully Booked is for Airbnb hosts, holiday cottage and glampsite owners who are ready to master their marketing so they can ditch their reliance on online agents and grow their direct bookings. Your host Sarah Orchard, an award-winning marketing strategist, #1 Amazon best-selling author, and fellow host; will share with you exactly what it takes to grow your direct bookings and the simple marketing steps to get more profit in your pocket! She shares her proven marketing strategies and interviews fellow hosts to find out what has worked for them and how they have achieved more direct bookings.
Episodes
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- 5 Email Automations Every Short Term Rental Should Have (and Probably Aren't Using!) · 21 min · Episode 66Email marketing is one of those things most short-term rental owners know they should be doing and quietly aren’t. Not because they don’t see the value, but because it always…
- How Hart Lake Escapes Turned 5-Star Reviews into a Fully Booked Calendar with Andrew & Clare Hart · 26 min · Episode 65What does it actually look like to build a reviews-led marketing strategy from the ground up , without a big budget, a marketing agency, or any prior experience of running a…
- The Free Marketing Tool You're Probably Ignoring Your Google Business Profile · 19 min · Episode 64Have you ever Googled your own property name and actually looked at what comes up? Because what appears in those first few seconds, before a potential guest has clicked a single…
- Behind the Scenes: How the Right Booking System Powers Your Marketing with Alison Carsley · 37 min · Episode 63Here's a question most accommodation owners never think to ask: is your booking system actually working with your marketing, or quietly working against it? Alison Carsley is a…
- Are Your Reviews Doing the Selling for You · 30 min · Episode 62You've probably got reviews sitting on Google. Maybe some on Tripadvisor. Possibly a stack buried inside Airbnb or Booking.com. And if you're anything like most accommodation…
- Help! My Photos Were Stolen to Scam My Guests — So Here's What I Did Next... · 30 min · Episode 61If you've ever posted a photograph of your accommodation online and thought "I hope the right people see this" - this episode is a timely reminder that visibility can attract the…
- Using Marketing Insights to Drive More Direct Bookings with Joe Marshall, Prospect House Farm · 30 min · Episode 60To close out Season 6, Sarah is joined by one of her Fully Booked Business Club members whose results over the last two years have been, in her own words, impressive and whose…
- How to Promt AI Better to get Content that Actually Sounds like Your Short Term Rental! · 27 min · Episode 59You asked AI to write an Instagram caption for your accommodation. It came back with something about a “tranquil haven nestled amidst breathtaking natural beauty where luxury…
- Women in Short-Term Rentals with Lisa Roads. A woman on a mission! · 31 min · Episode 58If you’ve ever felt isolated in your business, wondered whether you’re the only one juggling quite this much, or noticed that the people on the big industry stages rarely look…
- Does your Short-Term Rental Website have a Traffic or a Conversion Problem? · 15 min · Episode 57Bookings are slower than you’d like, so you look at your website and think: “it’s not converting. I need new photos. I need a new booking system. I need a new website.” But what…
- How SEO is changing with AI and what you need to do about it! · 13 min · Episode 56“SEO is dead.” “Google is finished.” “AI is taking over search.” If you’ve spent any time online recently, you’ve probably seen at least one of those headlines. In this solo…
- How do you Sell a Successful Short-Term Rental and Retreat Business? with Kerry Roy, Cerchio Del Desiderio Retreat · 37 min · Episode 55What actually happens when you want to move on from a business you’ve spent years building? And what does it really look like to take that dream of running a retreat abroad and…
- Your Website About page and Why it is Vital in Boosting your Website Conversions! · 15 min · Episode 54Your About page. It’s probably the one you set up early on, haven’t touched since and don’t spend much time thinking about. But what if it’s quietly one of the most important…
- Deciding to buy a holiday cottage business when you have never done it before! with Nicky Cooper, Tredarrup Farm Holiday Cottages · 31 min · Episode 53What does it actually feel like to give up a 35-year London career, say yes to a seven-acre farm you’ve never run before, inherit fifteen animals you’ve never looked after, and…
- What Marketing Metrics should you be Monitoring in your Short Term Rental? · 19 min · Episode 52If the words “marketing metrics” make you want to switch off immediately, I get it. Numbers and spreadsheets weren’t what drew most of us into hospitality. But this episode might…
- Marketing your Holiday Cottage or Glampsite in Turbulent Times! · 18 min · Episode 51When the market feels uncertain, it’s very easy to assume your business is failing. The quieter inbox. The later bookings. The random gaps in the diary that suddenly appear where…
- Marketing a Portfolio of Holiday Cottages with Clare Burgess - Suffolk Coastal Escapes · 29 min · Episode 50If you've ever wondered whether growing a portfolio of properties makes marketing harder, Clare from Suffolk Coastal Escapes is about to give you a very reassuring answer. This…
- Why it is Vital to Sleep in your own Short Term Rental! · 22 min · Episode 49Here's a question for you. When did you last actually stay in your own short-term rental? If the answer is "never" or it's been a very long time, this episode is going to make…
- How we built Acorn Glade Glamping with Wendy Wilkinson · 35 min · Episode 48I have to be honest, this episode genuinely made me smile from start to finish. This week I'm joined by Wendy from Acorn Glade Glamping, one of my longest-standing Fully Booked…
- How to Launch your Glampsite or Holiday Cottage like a Pro! · 20 min · Episode 47I've seen it so many times, and it genuinely breaks my heart. Someone pours £80,000, £100,000, or even more into a beautiful cottage renovation, cabin, shepherd's hut, or…
