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Are you a rental property owner who can seem to get direct booking without relying on big-name platforms?

Are you tired of giving up a hefty percentage of your earnings to these said platforms?

Are you looking for a way to boost your direct bookings and get the full-sum profits you deserve?

You're not alone.

When Mark Simpson - renowned author, award-winning mentor, and proud Boostly founder - was tasked to take his family's short-stay accommodation business online, he was quite grateful for websites like Booking Holidays, Expedia Group, and Airbnb.

But when he realised that business owners are just a number to them, he learned to pivot... and his family's business thrived.

In The Book Direct Playbook, Mark poured all his experience, learnings, insights, (and the odd soccer reference), to help property owners around the world finally regain control and turn their business into the champion of direct bookings.

Using this powerful guide, you will:

• Find and attract your ideal guest using a step-by-step, targeted approach to creating a customer avatar, identifying your ideal guest, and scoring big with every single one
• Structure your business and implement the best systems, including optimized mobile-friendly websites, customer management systems, and lead generation tools
• Learn Mark's secret sauce to leveraging social media, with insights from his company Boostly - a recipient of the Best Use of Social Media 2020 award at The Shortyz
• Deep dive into the easiest ways that business owners like you can convert an online travel agency booking into a direct one

And so much more!

The ultimate book for short-term rental hosts who want to abolish their over-reliance on online travel agents!

The Book Direct Blueprint is brought to you by the creator of the Book Direct Playbook, the industry's highest-rated and most reviewed business book.

Before you build a house, you must put in a solid foundation.

Mark Simpson famously wrote. Never build your house on somebody else's land in his debut bestseller, which still serves as a great lesson for short-term rental hosts worldwide.

As the official go-to expert in marketing and direct bookings in the short-term rental industry, Simpson has:

> Helped over 100,000 hosts boost their direct bookings with his free advice and training

> Generated over 3 million in direct bookings with his company (Boostly) for hosts in 2022, alone

> Released over 500 episodes of the award-winning Boostly podcast

> Thrived in the industry for over a decade!

The Book Direct Blueprint brings together the minds of the most influential leaders from the STR industry, and from Mark's personal black book of contacts.

Mark has truly taken things up a notch by assembling his own team of avengers, each renowned for a certain area of expertise in the short-term rental industry. So, rest assured, ALL BASES have been covered for you in this new book.

If you're not yet ready to purchase The Book Direct Blueprint, you can always consume free content on the Boostly YouTube or Instagram account.

Here, you will learn how to:

● Effectively price your properties (base price, minimum price, discounts, and customisations)

● How to create effective upsell opportunities for your business.

● The power of trust when it comes to the guest booking process.

● How to automate your business so you don't have to worry about a double booking again.

● How to best prepare for Web3 and Blockchain technology

● Successfully navigate the slow season

● Identify problem guests before they book and how to protect your business best.

Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their 'new leaders' were embraced by Western countries as the antithesis of former Cold War-era African strongmen, and their countries became 'donor darlings', benefitting from regular and significant inflows of Western development assistance. To the dismay of African democracy activists and human rights defenders, such aid enabled the regimes in these countries to strengthen the repressive political and economic governance systems over which they preside.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this book examines the role of Western development assistance in supporting these authoritarian African regimes. It connects changing Western donor policies and priorities to developments within the three African countries, to the past of these ruling parties as armed liberation movements, to wider regional and global political, economic and strategic shifts, and highlights the skillful management by Kampala, Addis Ababa and Kigali of Western aid and international aid architecture to ensure regime preservation.

Are you are ready and looking for God to move in a supernatural way? Are you looking for the storehouses of Heaven to open and bring forth blessings of signs, wonders and miracles that will create a shift in the global economy? THE BLESSING of God is the ultimate Disruptive Innovation that will cause a major, if not the biggest, shift in the marketplace seen in the past few generations. Wikipedia defines Disruptive Innovation as An innovation that creates a new market by applying a different set of values, which ultimately (and unexpectedly) overtakes an existing market. This book has 12 principles that offer you a new look on Biblically based business that will help you become a Kingdom leader who can change the global marketplace into a conduit of finance to fund Spirit-led initiatives. Are you ready to create a shift? Mark Simpson is a retired Air Force colonel and award-winning author. With 30+ years of military and business experience he is helping military veterans and small business owners grow as marketplace leaders and entrepreneurs. He leverages his military leadership and strategic planning experience to help Christians partner with God in the Kingdom Economy. Mark is an avid cyclist, married to his high school sweetheart, Mary, and they live in Destin, Florida.

Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive, bureaucratic post-war Britain. In private, he was a curiously contradictory character, prejudiced and yet tolerant, thoughtful but sometimes inconsiderate. To examine the life of this extraordinary man, this biography contains original contributions from around 30 actors and actresses, including Sir Ian McKellen and Ronnie Corbett. Alastair Sim offers a rare and fascinating insight into the life of one of Britain's most respected and best-loved actors.

Excellent Investing is a practical guide for investors who are looking to elevate their investment performance to the next level. Learn how to: invest where you have the edge, overcome your behavioural biases, avoid common investment mistakes, and build an optimal portfolio to generate higher and more consistent returns.

This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.

Since its inception in 1998, devolution has altered the character of the UK welfare state, with dramatic change in the 10 years since 2010. A decade of austerity at national level has exposed diverging view in how governments in London, Edinburgh and Belfast view the social rights of citizenship. This political divide has implications for both social security law, as the devolved countries begin to flex their muscles in this key area for citizens' economic welfare, and the constitutional settlement.

The book reflects on the impact of austerity, the referendum on Scottish independence and subsequent changes to the devolution settlement, Northern Ireland's hesitant moves away from parity with Westminster in social protection, withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), and the possible retreat from austerity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social union may or may not be weakening; its character is unquestionably changing, and the book lays bare the ideological and pragmatic considerations driving legal developments. TH Marshall's theory of citizenship provides the lens through which these processes are viewed, while itself being reinterpreted in light of the national government's increasing delegation of responsibility for social rights - whether to individuals, the voluntary sector or lower tiers of government.

This biography contains original contributions from more than 30 actors and actresses including, Sir Ian McKellen, Ronnie Corbett, Ian Carmichael, Derek Fowlds, John Standing, George Cole, Stephen Fry, and John Fisher. It is supported by extensive research including an interview with the playwright Christopher Fry, information from people who worked on the film sets with Alastair, material from museum archives, and original reviews from theatre magazines, newspapers, and various other publications. It examines Alastair's roles in the Quota Quickie films of the 1930s and 1940s before he became established as the most idiosyncratic star in such famous British comedies as The Happiest Days of Your Life and The Belles of St Trinians. It goes on to explain why his popularity suddenly waned as the cinemagoers taste for the risqu evolved during the latter part of the 1950s. This book also explores Alastair's life outside of films including his marriage to Naomi Sim--whom he first met when she was 12--his extensive work on stage, including his theatrical endeavors with James Bridie, and his stalwart refusal to sign autographs. It is the only book in the market dedicated to Alastair Sim, and includes a bibliography and film section.

Drawing on well-respected authors in the field, this textbook is at the cutting edge of current debates about illicit drug use. Comprehensive and straightforward, it examines the major theoretical questions, themes and policy debates. Contains study exercises to highlight important points to students.

Drawing on well-respected authors in the field, this textbook is at the cutting edge of current debates about illicit drug use. Comprehensive and straightforward, it examines the major theoretical questions, themes and policy debates. Contains study exercises to highlight important points to students.

Volume 1 of a brand new time travel space opera book series. 'What do you know about Dyanna Zane?' Dyanna Zane. Brilliant chemist. Technical genius. Loving sister. Professional killer. Temporal agent. Dangerous enemy. When she finds herself stranded a long way from everything and everyone she knows, Dyane has to start again from scratch. But she is resourceful and smart so surviving alone in an unforgiving universe shouldn't be a problem. Should it? While dark forces gather in the background, Dyane must forge new opportunities and relationships for herself if she is to survive the challenges that lie ahead. But as past and present collide to make the future ever more uncertain, the life of this time traveller is about to get more complicated than she could ever have bargained for

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe's fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe's regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country's political and economic elite. The Zimbabwean experience offers unique insights into the economic mensions of regime preservation. This book situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates within the field of development studies, and the international community's response to such situations.

At a time when authentic words of wisdom are in short supply, there is one single clear, wise voice. It is the voice of our own heart.

Light Up the World is a collection of poetry and prose to inspire new ways of being in ourselves and in the world. It is a timely contemplation that points to the truth of who we are and what that means for each of us and for humanity as a whole. It explores themes of love, silence, courage, nature, body, mind and spirit as well as soul and heart-based leadership.

Both visionary and lucid, it is a reflection on a universal process of emergence and coming to understanding. It is a call to follow our hearts in order to build a kinder, more equitable and sustainable world for all.

As with our own being, so too these words hold the seeds of potential of everything we need to realise the ever-present truth of who we are, and to support awakening for all. The fruits are greater presence, awareness, authenticity and compassion.

Light Up the World encourages us all on the path of greater self-inquiry and action towards peace, compassion and loving service. Ultimately, it is a book about personal and collective truth, empowerment, wisdom, and waking up to our true nature.

The journey starts within.

Readers who like the work of Bren Brown, Eckhart Tolle, Elizabeth Gilbert, Deepak Chopra, Rupi Kaur, Gabor Mate, Russell Brand and other luminaries will enjoy the unique insight and inspiration of this journey of personal and collective transformation.

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Ariel is scored for basset clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and is a response to the poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath. Simpson reacted to the poem musically, jotting down the ideas for instrumental combinations, as well as the emotional content as he read the words. The piece begins, ('Stasis in darkness...') and gradually wakens up to a furious outburst in all the instruments. Scales descend to the depths of the instruments ranges, out of which a slow, winding duet for basset clarinet and cello leads to the centre of the work a slow, calm three-chord chorale. The work then comes to a stand-still where short outbursts are gradually transformed into new, faster material. The three-chord chorale motif then goes through a number of permutations until a recap of the opening's outburst is quickly side-lined by a boldly expressive return of the chorale motif. This piece is about extremes extremes of expression, of instrumental textures and capabilities.

Redefines travel in the United States during the antebellum, postbellum, and early modernist periods

In America, travel has regularly been associated with romantic notions of freedom, exploration, and possibility. Focusing on a broad range of movement in the nineteenth century, Trafficking Subjects challenges this conventional view, demonstrating the complexity of the politics of mobility in American culture.

The texts that Mark Simpson consults are drawn from a wide range of genres and foreground social and cultural phenomena from slave revolt to fugitive escape, imperial expedition to neocolonial tourism, and market circulation to tramping protest. Utilizing works as diverse as Gray's The Confessions of Nat Turner and London's Martin Eden, Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Edmonds's Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Simpson traces the vexed dynamics of movement and its representation in the nineteenth-century United States, developing a theory of mobility as social contest. Questions of national subjectivity and belonging, especially as inflected by race, gender, and social class, bear centrally on his analysis of how mobility as a social and cultural resource comes to be distributed, invested, directed, and determined. Trafficking Subjects helps us to see what it can mean to become subject to America, in all the conflicted senses of that phrase.

René Descartes, he claimed to think and be,
but all such metaphysic certainty
is not an option for the likes of me,
so many other choices do I see.

Do you hate most modern poetry? Do you appreciate clever wordplay, rhyme, and meter? Have you ever wondered what life is like for a minor prophet in Heaven, or whether badminton owes more to Einstein or to Newton? If so, you might like Shuttlecock Time. Never pretentious, rarely obscure, often humorous, occasionally with some sort of point or observation.

A Glimpse of White/René and Me/Ode to an Inside Straight/Mothers and Fathers/Don't Look/Letdown/Solomon Had It Easy/The Life of a Minor Prophet in Heaven - Act I, Scene I/An Imperfect Project/Memory/It's Not Fair/Primary Season/Fooling Yourself/Envy Not the Angels/Just Worse/Complicated/Poetic Devices/Still Bitter/I Was Wrong/This Gadget/For Me/Shuttlecock Time/Telekiniece/Next Time/The Poet/The Goodness of God/Lamentations of an Atlanta Sports Fan (Before Everything Changed)/Agonistes/Hanging Around in Ephraim's Wood/In Charge/You'll See/King James/The Warrior/Baby It's Dark And Stormy Outside/We Both Know/Madness/Fifty-something/CXLI/That Thing/Athens, By Way of Auburn/The Life of a Minor Prophet in Heaven - Act I, Scene II/Thomas, and Me/Catsmind/Unknown/The End of the Day/Montecristo

This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.

Since its inception in 1998, devolution has altered the character of the UK welfare state, with dramatic change in the 10 years since 2010. A decade of austerity at national level has exposed diverging view in how governments in London, Edinburgh and Belfast view the social rights of citizenship. This political divide has implications for both social security law, as the devolved countries begin to flex their muscles in this key area for citizens' economic welfare, and the constitutional settlement.

The book reflects on the impact of austerity, the referendum on Scottish independence and subsequent changes to the devolution settlement, Northern Ireland's hesitant moves away from parity with Westminster in social protection, withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), and the possible retreat from austerity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social union may or may not be weakening; its character is unquestionably changing, and the book lays bare the ideological and pragmatic considerations driving legal developments. TH Marshall's theory of citizenship provides the lens through which these processes are viewed, while itself being reinterpreted in light of the national government's increasing delegation of responsibility for social rights - whether to individuals, the voluntary sector or lower tiers of government.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe's fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe's regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country's political and economic elite. The Zimbabwean experience offers unique insights into the economic mensions of regime preservation. This book situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates within the field of development studies, and the international community's response to such situations.