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Join host Gil Chan on 'Booked Solid,' the podcast dedicated to helping short-term rental operators and property managers maximize bookings and scale their businesses.
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Local Content Direct Bookings: The Bar Guide That Booked 16 Months with Damian Sheridan (opens the original)
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"We are the local experts." Damian Sheridan spent eight years doing SEO for property managers before he built one of the biggest education brands in short term rentals. He knows the technical side cold. So it says something that his best story about local content direct bookings is a 600 word page about which bars in his Spanish village show football. Nobody would call that a booking strategy. It brought him a guest who stayed 16 months. In this episode of the Booked Solid Show, Gil sits down wi
Dynamic Pricing Strategy Runs on Three Signals, Not Just the Market with Mridul Bansal (opens the original)
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"Use OTAs as billboards." That single line from Mridul Bansal reframes the whole direct versus OTA argument. Mridul is a Product Marketing Manager at PriceLabs, and he spends his days between the product team and the hosts who actually use the tool. In this episode he opens up the box most operators treat as magic. He walks through the three inputs that decide what your property gets priced at tonight, why market data on its own will steer you wrong, and how a hyperlocal read on your competition
Direct Booking Channels Hiding in Your Guest Messages with Jeff Iloulian (opens the original)
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Jeff Iloulian spent five years building a 150 property portfolio in Los Angeles, and set up close to 300 units along the way. He also once checked out of IKEA with 48 shopping carts and a $40,000 bill, then watched most of it break, chip and peel inside a year. In this episode of the Booked Solid Show, Gil sits down with Jeff, cofounder and CEO of HostGPO, to talk about what that portfolio actually taught him. Not just about furniture, but about where bookings really come from. Jeff's direct boo
Host to Host Direct Bookings That Pay Peers Instead of Platforms with Na'ím Anís Paymán (opens the original)
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"Pay your peers, not the platforms." That one line explains most of what Na'ím Anís Paymán has built. He scaled a UK portfolio past 500 units across serviced apartments, guesthouses, and hotels. When the software could not keep up, he gave two developers six months and a hard deadline, then migrated 150 units onto a system he owned. Today he has made that PMS free and launched a host to host direct bookings network where operators refer guests to each other and keep the commission inside the com
Guest Fraud Prevention Made Simple for Direct Booking Hosts with Ela Mezhiborsky (opens the original)
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"Real fraud that's aware of your loopholes will not come in looking sketchy." That's the moment this episode shifts from guest screening 101 into something a lot more unsettling — and a lot more useful. On this episode of the Booked Solid Show, Gil sits down with Ela Mezhiborsky, Co-Founder and President of Autohost, to talk about guest fraud prevention in an age where AI can fabricate a convincing, sympathetic, entirely fake guest from scratch. Ela walks through how fraud has evolved from fake
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