Why having a free website is a bad idea

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 379. This is a recap of my Facebook live where I talked about why having a free website is a bad idea.

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00:00 Start
00:15 Why you should not go for free websites
01:30 Invest in a WordPress website
03:10 Boostly websites

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So you have a website, you have a free website from your PMS provider whoever that may be. And you are thinking well why is it not actually working? Why is it not generating any bookings I'm getting people coming onto the site because it's telling me but no one's booking and here's why.

Why you should not go for free websites

Those free PMS websites are all well and good because it gives you a free website. You don't have to pay any money and you can have a website. The bad thing about that is that you get what you pay for in this world. Now the PMS has started to provide a free website as I may say, because it was a really good selling pitch when there are over a thousand of our competitors to save you get a free direct booking website. It sounds and looks good because as a host when you've created this business and you've spent a lot of money, getting them ready whether this is something that you own or if you're doing a management model you still got to deck it out especially if you're getting a property on furnished if you're doing one that's furnished you know you still got to spend a lot of money to get to get going.

And so when it comes to the actual market inside and you invest you know 100 $150 a month into a PMS and then you go when you get a free website. That's fantastic. But the problem is that it's very templated it's got nothing to do with Google and also as well you cannot do anything on it. So if you want to make amendments, you can't because you are restricted because it's free.

Invest in a WordPress website

So my first piece of proper advice that I will give you is to invest a little bit of extra money and get a WordPress website, get a website that is something that you have got full control over. Now, there are lots of different providers. There's a Wix website that may be a bit cheaper than maybe a Squarespace website but WordPress is the best of a 62% of the world's whole websites are based on WordPress.

What I would love to know below in the comments is if you have got invested money on a website and if it's not a free one with a PMS then what do you use? Are you using Squarespace? Are you using WordPress Are you using Wix let me know what you use below.

WordPress is best WordPress is our top recommendation I can understand why you may eventually especially if you're doing a DIY you may have ventured into the world of Wix or Squarespace etc. Because again when you look at the technology for the first time if you look at the dashboard of a WordPress website you go well what am I looking at here, but believe me, WordPress is the best investment you will do. Google favours it more than any other and as well. It's one of those that you are going to get more benefits from in the long run. So there's no right or wrong I'm not going to call you out if you've got a Wix or Squarespace website as you know Boostly, all of our websites are built on WordPress. We've got fantastic results we've got fantastic feedback from our clients but most importantly the guests when they come to arrive at the property they all say your website is fantastic so that's fantastic to hear is done on WordPress.

Boostly websites

So if you want to find out more about our websites go to boostly.co.uk/websites from there you can book a call it's a 15-20 minute call nothing too major and it's just a case of figuring out if you're a right fit for us for our website design business and if we're a right fit for you. We have 700 clients we're the only ones offering a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work and also as well we another market leaders in what we do we have connected to some of the major PMS is out there. So again we know what we're talking about when it comes to this.

so thank you very much for stopping by this podcast episode. Whether it's video audio or you're reading the blog on the website Thank you so much. You could do me a massive favour if you can hit the thumbs up button if you can download, subscribe and most importantly Share this video share this audio into a Facebook group LinkedIn group on your social medias in an email to a friend or colleague anybody in your area that you think may need help it would mean the world. The Boostly podcast is a top-rated hospitality podcast in the world. So thank you so much for being part of it. I'll be back tomorrow as always with another episode but until then, stay awesome. Stay positive. Let's go get proactive and let's go get some direct bookings.

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