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Online Travel Agencies (OTA) spend millions in marketing and advertising to drive online searches to their websites. A great thing for STR hosts. Or is it? It’s dangerous to have all your STR hosting business on a site you don’t own. But it can be just as risky to go 100% in direct bookings. So how can you be sure you have a healthy mix of OTA and direct bookings? And how can you drive more direct bookings to expand your brand? Mark Simpson is the founder of Boostly and the host of The Boostly Podcast. As one of the top consultants in the STR industry, Mark has worked with thousands of hosts to help them increase their direct bookings and build better websites and marketing campaigns. On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Mark joins me to walk us through how to diversify your bookings to maximize your income. He’ll walk us through the 3 main strategies you can use to drive your guests to book with you directly, plus ways to use the personalization options on Airbnb to bo