YouTube friends and Team Short Term Rental Secrets how are you it's Richard
a few months ago when we were thinking about ways to increase the value that we
add to our audience and also increase the number of videos that we provide at
the same time as I went on my epic 55 day journey we thought about content
that was sustainable and repeatable and added the most value one of the things
that we tested was this Airbnb review listing where we asked viewers like
yourself if you wanted your listing review to go ahead and give us your link
turns out that was wildly popular we had tons of interest and it's been really
encouraging and that the people who have their listing reviewed are like
benefiting their reviews or increasing their conversions are increasing they're
putting more money in their pocket as one might expect what I didn't expect to
be so popular was the people that are watching these even though it's not
their listing they're incorporating the same sort of thoughts or methodology and
their own listing and making minor tweaks and they're also benefitting
tremendously so it's been a wildly popular segment and I'm committed to
continuing doing it so the first problem we have is that we have hundreds of
people who've submitted their listing for reviews and that's great however
we're committed to doing this one time per week we don't want to turn the
entire channel into nothing but listing reviews we think there's a ton of value
but we don't want to take years to cycle through our current queue the second
problem we have is of those hundreds of people we don't know who's serious and
who's going to actually take action and listen to the advice and like be
proactive and make changes and monetize it first is who's just like simply
putting their listing in and figuring like heck why not
so the third problem is this is by far without question the longest piece of
content that we produce on this channel the average finished video is about 20
minutes so you can imagine that the you know raw footage is maybe twice as long
as that we're not only filming me we're also filming the screen and then Charles
has to edit between the two and flip back and forth and so it takes a ton of
my time it takes a ton of Charles's time to edit everything and then of course a
you know uploading a 20 minute video takes longer than a 3 or 4 minute video
so here's what we've come up with we think this is a great solution we've
created a landing page the link will be below if you're really serious and you
want to take action you want your listing reviewed we're gonna allow you
to jump to the front of the line go ahead and fill it out give us your
listing and we'll go ahead and review it we're only going to take 10 people right
now because that's the amount of time that both Charles and I can dedicate to
this and what we're going to do is we're going to send you to your private review
in advance of the release on the YouTube channel that
ishes two things you get to make the changes like immediately instead of
waiting you know two three six months for it to be released on the YouTube
channel and to the YouTube audience continues to get all the other content
on our channel without being inundated with the constant reviews now we only
have capacity to do ten of these right now so that's what we're gonna take and
if you don't make the first ten don't worry about it go ahead put your name on
the waiting list and we'll get there we're gonna open and close and cycle and
periodically update it we'll see what ten looks like if that's the right
number we'll stick to it if we have more capacity will increase it but the main
thing is we want to make sure that we serve the people that want to make
changes immediately fastest we want to give them a way to get to the front of
the queue and we also want to make sure that the entire channel grows and
everyone benefits and it's not just like a service that we only review listings
so here a couple thoughts one because these are the longest videos - for us to
produce and create and so on and because we have such a long line we want really
want to work with the people that want it most and we want to give you an
opportunity to cut the line so we're gonna introduce a $49 price point we're
going to take ten people right now that's all that you know I can commit to
it's going to be my face and my voice and everything that you've seen on the
channel before that you've requested we're not outsourcing this there's no
shortcuts that's exactly what it is that you've seen but instead of waiting like
two years to get to your listing we're giving ten people right now the
opportunity to cut to the front of the line and then others on a wait list so I
hope you find this a cool way to support us we're asked all the time like what
can we do and so on and so forth and we want to continue to commit to giving you
content we think this is really useful and actionable and so the people that
are gonna benefit the most hopefully you're willing to pay for it and offset
some of our costs remember there's only ten spots that are gonna open and close
and then after that we have a wait list so even if you don't get there first so
you didn't get to this video quickly in time go ahead and put your name on the
wait list we'll e-mail you in advance we're gonna have rolling openings and
closings but on a personal level I want to thank you for your support and I want
to ask a favor if you could I have a personal goal to get to five thousand
subscribers on the YouTube channel by our one-year anniversary and it's sort
of hit or miss we're gonna get close but we may not make it and I'm gonna ask a
favor please go ahead and subscribe I know there's thousands of people and
hundreds of thousands of minutes of you time and not all of you have subscribed
and I don't so if I could just ask you to please
subscribe it would really help me out thanks so much happy hosting and I look
forward to reviewing the
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