welcome back to my channel I'm Matt the creator of Airbnb uncovered dot com and
Airbnb super house on this channel I uncover some of the
best kept hosting secrets as well as share with you everything that I've ever
learned after hosting over 3,000 guests on this week's video I'm going to
uncover how you can make your listing thumbnail stand out with special Co via
19 related icons like these ones you might be thinking but Matt I am not tech
savvy not to worry I'm gonna show you exactly how to do this step by step by
step without buying any special software and it should only take you about 10
minutes to do it so stay tuned I post a new video every Tuesday and they're all
based on tips tricks and best practices that I've learned over my past four and
a half years as a super host I focus mainly on things that can earn you more
money attract the best guests and streamline your hosting if you're liking
my videos then please give them a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel these
icons communicate the extra steps that you're taking to protect your guests
during the kovat 19 pandemic they also highlight key features of your listing
that are of prime importance to your potential guests right now you can
download them for free from my website the link is in the description below the
7 icons are extra cleaning and sanitization fully stocked remote
location reduced rates three-day booking gap and relief worker ready
so grab your laptop and let's uncover how to place these icons onto the main
picture of your listing navigate over to my website
Airbnb uncovered calm /co vid underscore icons here provide me with your name
email city and then click send me the icons you will be added to my weekly
newsletter but you can obscure you can unsubscribe at any time so while that
email is on its way let's go over and grab the main picture from your listing
the easiest way to do that is to go to your listings and then click on your
listing and then click preview listing
next click on the biggest picture and it will open up a new page and from here
you want to right click on the picture and click open image in new tab from
here you go over to the new tab then go up here to the navigation bar and back
off everything until jpg so hit backspace and then hit enter now
right-click and select save image as your going to want to pick a spot that's
easy to find because we're going to need to get to this file in a few minutes
for me it's desktop make sure that this says je PG image and then click the save
we're going to need some sort of software that edits pictures I recommend
using a free tool called snapper to get to snap it just go to wcco.com/links
tapa is in the description down below once you're done setting up your account
you will end up at a page called create graphic here we need to create a custom
graphic size which I have checked and it is 2560 by 1708 and then
zero age then click create and that's the size of the pictures that are on
Airbnb to start let's go to graphics and let's go get that main picture that we
just downloaded so we click graphics uploads and we select upload an image
make sure that we're on desktop and then double click on our image now the image
is over here ready to be dropped into our work area so to do that we double
click on it and it appears over here the size is wrong so what I'm going to do is
I'm just going to move it up over here to the top right corner and then I'm
going to resize it by putting my cursor over the circle and dragging it until it
fills the screen now I just want to scroll down to make sure that it
completely covered the white box which it did now we want to put in those icons
so we need to go over to our email and check to see if we've received the icon
email and we did so here you're going to get all of the available icons to
download these icons just click on them they're going to open up a new page and
then here anywhere on the icon right click and select save image as again
pick a spot that's easy to find so desktop in my case and then click Save
now we go back into snappa we follow the same thing that we did before to get
this main picture and into snap oh so we go graphics upload an image make sure
the desktop is selected find our icon which is right here double click on it
and it loads over here again to get it over on to the picture we double click
and it appears unfortunately the sizing is a bit off and there is no way to fix
that within snappa except for to do it manually so we're
going to go over to one of these round circles in the corner and then just
click and drag the icon down to size be careful about the size that you pick if
it's too big it will cut over the image and if it's too small
guests won't be able to read it so I think about 25% is a good size maybe a
tiny bit smaller now we want to place this image and the best place to put
them is starting on the top left and that's so that these will be easily read
when your picture when this picture is shown on Airbnb so we've got one of the
icons in let's say we want to add another so we go back to our email we
picked the one that we want maybe it's this one here reduced rate so then we
click on it and a new web page opens we right-click on the image we click save
image as make sure it's saving to our desktop and
then we click Save go back over to snappa
follow the same process as before so we collect graphics upload an image make
sure desktop is picked and we double click on the icon that we want it
uploads over here on the left side and to get it in here we double click on it
we're going to reduce the size but we also want to make sure that these are
all roughly the same size otherwise it might look messy so to do that I dragged
it down but now I want to make sure it's about the same size so I'm gonna place
it on top of the one I already resized and as you can see it's too big so I'm
gonna drag it down a little bit more until I get close which i think is there
and then I'm just gonna put this over to see if how much bigger it is I think
it's too big I'm just gonna reduce it a little bit more and that's pretty close
so I'm gonna place this down below and to keep adding icons you just keep
following the same process email webpage save the icon come back to to snap a pic
graphics upload and it comes back in I recommend the layout of top right down
and then moving over to the left and again that's to optimize how the images
are sorry how the icons are shown on the various pages inside airbnb the last
step you want to do is to give your picture a name so you click on this
pencil and type in a name so we're gonna call this covert icons main oops and
then just click anywhere outside the box like that click Save and the last piece
of this is to select download choose the first option here at the top web
optimized jpg click on Earth's and your image will download unfortunately with
snappa you don't get to pick where your image is going to be downloaded but as
long as you haven't changed your browser settings it will be in a folder called
downloads or my downloads then just upload that file onto your Airbnb
listing and set it as the main image I hope that by adding these icons to your
listings main page that you'll attract more potential guests during the Cova 19
pandemic we need to do everything we can to secure reservations I did a video on
the steps I'm taking to protect myself my guests and my business during this
tough economic time you can watch the video by clicking on the little I in the
top right hand corner of this video if you want more help in choosing the right
guests I did a three part series on how to avoid the worst
gasps hand attract the best ones again you can click on the little I in the
top-right corner to watch those videos let me know in the comments below if
these icons are working for you I hope that you found this video useful if you
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you