Introducing Thegoldenmoon.com
Hello, I’m the first professional holiday accommodation booking platform created by hosts. I’m proud to help hosts to take their real place within the travel industry.
Let me protect your host’s interests
Real experience of my creators. No-nonsense, aggressive representation of the rights of hosts at the time it is needed. If you are to run your rental business successfully for the long term, you want to advertise with a platform created by experienced professionals who will get you the best possible booking results and represent you strongly if you are in trouble. You need no-nonsense, aggressive representation by YOUR platform.
Your personal booking resource built upon years of trust.
My primary goal, as a booking platform, is to provide each host with the highest amount of bookings and to obtain a fair and equitable service for each host on the platform. These goals will be accomplished through my creator’s diligence and dedicated work within the confines of the holiday booking industry and through a cooperative working relationship between me, my hosts and guests.
My hosts receive the majority of their bookings through my independent booking platform where any issues are resolved through negotiation, mediation, or compromise. I am convinced that any host-guest-platform related matter will be settled in a right and ethical way.
I have the experience and confidence you are looking for.
I work closely with each of my hosts. I don’t use Google analytics to know the host’s problems. I know them from the experiences of people who have created me. I take your problems as my own, pick up my own phone, and I return my own messages and emails. I am easy to talk to, no matter the subject. And I have the experience and confidence you are looking for.
I offer a broad range of features not available elsewhere
Choice
I have 80 short-term accommodation category rentals presented on a single platform, making it the world’s largest pool of hosts so far to enter holiday rental market.
Freedom
I allow both local hosts and hotels to showcase together openly on one platform without a limitation.
Service
I have transformed the guest’s online experience by providing a 5-start online service for guests regardless of social status, travel budget or type of accommodation booked.
Quality
I have creating the best possible environment for hosts, giving them power of creating rules, ensuring their security, meeting their needs, and fair treatment; fully opening their potential in serving guests.
Society of New Traveller
I made a fundamental shift towards more harmonious relations between me, hosts, and guests bringing in the sense of identity, wellness to play by the rules, and perform at its best.
About me and my creators
I was created since 2016 by a group of hosts from London, UK with the main goal to remove the limitations of current booking platforms, bring in the maximum of accommodation choices, and protect host’s rights strongly and at all times. Rest assured that I adhere to ethical requirements while continuing to provide vital booking service to hosts.
I’ve built a solid reputation on accuracy, customer service and building mutual respect between myself, hosts, and the guests that use me.
“To bring the universe of choice, remove boundaries and inspire freedom”. Become a part of a community that YOU have created.
TheGM Super Offer
Original ideas become even more beautiful when there is nothing to pay. With TheGM the cost is ALMOST nothing. Use of The Golden Moon platform for ALL host categories is 2,5% plus VAT, lower than any other
The first 1000 registered hosts in EACH of our 80 categories will pay 0% Service Fee for using the platform. This too will remain unchanged for a fixed FIVE-YEAR period. Act now to gain the most benefits.
What you need to do next:
Step 1: Register with TheGM today and complete all required information on the profile page.
Step 2: Register at least one of your properties within 10 days of registration.
Step 3: Any other properties registered within 1 month from the date of registering your first property will also benefit from a 100% discount on the Service Fee for the
TheGM Super Offer - The Golden Moon Blog
In general terms, TheGM charges Service Fees in exchange for using our online marketplace and platform. In respect of the Host and Guest Fees, taxes such as VAT in Europe may apply in some cases. TheGM will charge Host Fees (2,5% plus VAT) from the Accommodation Fees before paying the Host the remainder, as set out in the Terms of Service Section 9. Guest Fees (8,34% plus VAT) are also included in the Total Fees. TheGM Super Offer allows hosts to save considerably on Service Fee for a fixed period of 5 years as explained above. The offer began on 17/01/2019 and will continue until the conditions of the offer are met. It is subject to change and may be withdrawn at any point without notice.
Source: https://www.thegoldenmoon.com/blog/thegm-super-offer/
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Clear Benefits 2: Intangibles
TheGM’s game-changing concepts.
Welcome to the world’s largest pool of hosts so far to enter the short-term rental market. We have 80 short-term accommodation categories rentals presented on a single platform, free to advertise and earn many other benefits.
This is not just another replica of existing platforms masking
“Freedom-happiness-sense of identity” - this is how we see things and how we will achieve it
- Risks to business sustainability exerted by
monopoly of the few
To thrive, your short-term rental must be sufficiently independent
This is what the short-term rentals business model looks like now: a rental unit- online booking engine- end customer, making it difficult for hosts to control the external supply of end consumers- guests. While there might be a certain percentage of returning guests loyal to your business, or guests obtained through your own website, most come through advertising on booking platforms. Attempts to change it are most likely to end up failing due to marketing complexity, time, and resource-consuming features. Thus, this dependency grows at a disturbing rate as does the number of instances where such dependency has a strong negative impact on businesses.
Diminishing dependency through spreading your advertising across many booking platforms might be one of the answers. It might considerably add to the sustainability of your rental business. Thus, having a new advertising platform covering all rental categories should reduce the excessive
- Making booking platforms to compete for YOUR rental
Having
Introducing competition between booking platforms and not between the hosts: that is the key
- It’s time to put interests of hosts first
For too long the travel industry was built around the listings, destination, guests, and booking platforms themselves. The idea was that you, as a host, will have no choice but fit somehow around it. In fact, the idea had been around for so long that it became the norm. What we are doing at Thegoldenmoon.com is a gradual shift towards fuller satisfaction of needs of all involved categories.
What this means in real terms:
TheGM is a company created by hosts. Our efforts as a business are aimed at creating the best possible environment for hosts, giving them more power, ensuring their security, meeting their needs, and ensuring fair treatment. By creating surroundings where the host can thrive, feel secure, protected, with interests met and resolved issues, we are creating for them the best possible environment to allow them to stay fully-focused on serving their end customers- the guests. This is TheGM’s game-changing concept.
We aware, that some of the above will be hard to achieve and others will forever remain a moving target. That is why our next new concept is the TheGM Society- the place where you can be supported by like-minded TheGM members.
4. Society of New Travellers: beauty coming from within
“Of course, we have to give guests a good trip, easy booking, wide choice; maximise host’s profit and security. But there is something that goes deeper and is more important for us as a society. This is not only about looking at or providing
Think about
We believe everybody must think about and decide what joining TheGM Society might mean for their rental business. It would be great if you could share your opinion with us others in the Society.
5. 5-star Guest’s Service: yet another notion
At TheGM, we will completely transform the guest’s online experience by providing a 5-start online service for guests. Any guest who gets in touch with TheGM will be treated
What this means in real terms:
This has a variety of important implications for both professional and non-professional hosts.
For hotels: because the bookings occur in an environment completely separate from the hotel, it makes it impossible for hoteliers to own their guest’s experiences end-to-end. The 5-star service option ensures hotels that even the most exaggerated expectations of their guests will be met.
For hosts: it is hard to overestimate the importance of enhanced guest satisfaction transferable into higher profits for your rental, higher ratings on social media, better online user-generated content, higher credibility/favourability of
TheGM. Clear Benefits 1: Tangibles
Common problems and the solutions we offer.
In essence, we have created a new marketplace for online short-term accommodation booking with features for tackling every limitation of existing platforms. We went into the finer details elsewhere on what those limitations are and how excessively we differ from them. Here, we get straight to the point of how those differences might benefit to your rental business. Let’s waste no time.
First – tangibles, those benefits you can actually touch.
- Our vision as
source of your competitive advantage
As a
What does this mean for you? A lot…!
Being present on one platform with your closest competitors allows your listing to be exposed to their end customers too. Hotels can advertise for the guests of local hosts. local hosts can reach hostel customers and others present on-side alternatives: holiday rentals, vacation rentals, luxury resorts and backpacker hostels. The beauty of letting without boundaries is that the largest pool of consumers can be reached by everybody making it a win-win solution for all.
- Costs of use: a place where less is more
The above idea becomes even more beautiful when there is nothing to pay for using the platform. Well, almost nothing.
Use of the platform for all host categories is 2,5% plus VAT. That is lower than any other
What this means for your rental:
Bearing in mind that existing platforms charge hosts a 15% service fee (with a few exceptions) this is where the opportunities start to get very interesting. Apart from the obvious increased profit margins, it lets your listing price be more flexible compared to those of your competitors. Now you can match the booking demand by reducing the price without losing profit. In other words, you can reduce your price in moments when needing to attract bookings.
In fact,
- Reduced competition as a source of your profit growth
With competition between booking platforms growing at merciless rates, as well as the internal one between the hosts themselves, securing profit becomes an increasingly difficult task. TheGM is a new market with a predicted 30% platform growth in the first few years in terms of host and guest numbers.
What this means for your rental:
- By listing your property on a new market, you can expect notable growth of listing viewings due to newness of the platform. Put simply, guests will see your listing thirty times more often in addition to what they already see on existing platforms.
- Due to the newness and lower competition on the platform, the chances of a booking is significantly increased. In other words, it allows you to advertise away from hyper-competitive routes, benefiting from both higher rates for your accommodation and visibility on the platform. Needless to say, advertising on the most efficient platforms and cutting expenses is an absolute must of every business, not only rental properties.
- Host’s Safety: No Fear Zone Platform
Next to profit is safety: we too are hosts and take
- Photo
- Star rating based on previous host’s reviews
- Reviews itself
- Presence on social media and
- (in nearest feature) verification by a specialised agency
- ID, email, phone number of every guest registered on the platform will be checked prior to he/she can start submitting booking requests.
What does this mean for you: before accepting any booking request you will be presented with
This is especially true for hosts letting their spare rooms, sharing their houses with guests, and other categories of non-professional hosts requiring security the most. These are fundamental and inherent rights of The GM hosts. The aim- to
These are the tangible benefits of planform use allowing you to earn, save, and stay secure and competitive. However, the full extent of benefits is delivered when using the quantity benefits in conjunction with the quality benefits. Brought together, it creates what we call “The Smart Choice System” that tackles all limitations of current platforms and equips you as a host with the benefits previously unattainable elsewhere.
In the next article “Clear benefits 2: Intangibles” we will explain how TheGM protects the interests of hosts in a world where no one does so.
Get Short-Term Rental Market working for you
In the previous article, we saw how an “all-in-one” notion can help your guests make their booking journeys faster, better, and easier. We explained how seeing your rental as a product with a life cycle might help find those facets that were otherwise not so obvious. Together with two others: the ability to oversee changes, and to cope with them, it formed the three key concepts of survival in the modern world of the rental industry. Today we introduce the fourth key feature - digitisation, allowing your business to stand firmly on all fours.
The fourth key concept of survival is the realisation that your listing is not a single entity on its own, but an extension of a digital booking platform. The life cycle of the booking platform, its ups and downs, might affect the “
You have probably been running your rental business for many years with the same providers with some predictable outcomes, but do not get too comfortable. Change is already here: the all-in-one notion assuming that your guests will dramatically move to book everything on one platform is already here. Slowly but surely it is taking its place in their mind; if you are not thinking about putting your listings on one of those platforms, be sure your competitors will.
The true genius of the all-in-one thinking is that not only is there no longer a need for other platforms, it also removes the need for mega searches as well. At least this is the
In the light, TheGM’s ‘all-in-one’ thinking might start looking
Source:
https://www.thegoldenmoon.com/blog/inside-the-golden-moon-update/
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The inside story
How we can be more than just another booking platform for our community
Part 1: Once upon a time…
… in the 21st century, pulled apart by political crises and Brexit Britain, a group of local hosts were preparing to leave. They were renting out their spare rooms through the internet and were very unhappy with how things were. They firmly believed that guests and not the hosts should clear the crumbs on the kitchen table; they felt the hosts’ needs should receive a better response from the local authorities and in, case of trouble, they should receive fairer treatment. They believed that all currently existing practices needed to be changed fairly, and for the better.
There were far bigger problems than the crumbs: in almost all debates the resolution never went in the hosts’ favour. About the same number heard only ridiculous excuses in response. In all cases, the hosts did not take action against
But one day their patience ran out. The hosts came together and decided to create their own online booking platform that would be much fairer, safer, and cleaner, of course. They had seen it as a wonderland where everyone is happy. The most romantic thing on Earth the host could think of was, of course, the Moon, and it did not take long to create a name for this wonderland. Hosts chose Thegoldenmoon.com one-by-one.
As with the many other things under The Moon, creating the wonderland was not an easy task. The problems along the way appeared to be much wider on one side, and on the other much deeper, and the injustice appeared widespread. They realised that they could not accomplish all their aims, and some things would probably never be the same.
However, this did not stop our heroes. In the Face of this, they became even stronger in their belief to make things better. The problems just reassured them that they were on the right path to creating a more equal travel community.
First, their wonderland, just as any other one, had to have its own law to govern the people of the wonderland. The hosts decided to start with a blank page and called it “The Golden Moon’s Vision and Ambition”. The first words they set down on the paper were:
- To create a place for hosts to flourish
- To create a place for guests to book all travel accommodation under The Moon
- To create a community where everyone feels safe and needed with an extra cushion of security for local hosts
- To be morally obliged from all sides: the hosts’, guests’, and The Golden Moon’s
- More freedom, more responsibility, and less regulation - this is the community who should decide what it is right and right for the community
This created the first five principals of TheGM’s community; the work had begun (Continuing will follow).
Part 2: Now- seriously
All online booking platforms have done little to improve hosts’ most frustrating real-life experiences. Multiday adventures, plans to win over hotels, price transparency, extended experiences, hotel integration- this and that with not a single word about improving the lives of hosts.
Thousands of RSS feeds enter our computers every day, reflecting on accommodation search engines agitation for magic destinations, unforgettable experiences, wonderful adventures. You can find out about everything without a single mention of the hosts. And this what we are going to change.
The Golden Moon is the place where the hosts’ interests come first. By this, we mean that our efforts as a business are aimed at creating the best possible environment for hosts, giving them more power, ensuring their security, meeting their needs, and ensuring fair treatment. It has been forgotten that the booking platforms are nobody without properties listed on them. This is TheGM’s game-changing concept.
We do not mean to say that we care less about the end customer – the guests. The consumer is of paramount importance for any business, but they are out of the current discussion. By creating surroundings where the host can thrive, feel secure, protected, with interests met and resolved issues, we are creating for them the best possible environment to allow them to stay fully-focused on serving their end customer.
The other implication here is that not everything on Earth is about the gains. This is not about guests, hosts or us. People want peace of mind, be a part of a more tolerant travel community with more respect, protection, satisfaction and joy. It’s a core thing, humans just want to feel safe and needed. Every human wants two things, they want to feel unique and they want to feel connected to other people.
The days where disconnected and impersonal treatment of hosts was accepted as the norm have passed. The days of getting away with treating hosts as assets are over. There’s simply too much to lose by not delivering the best support to them that we possibly can.
Part 3: Rebuilding travel around people
The message sent by The Golden Moon is pretty obvious- we rebuild travel around people. For too long the travel industry was built around the listings, guests, destinations and booking platforms themselves. The idea was that you, as a host, will have no choice but fit somehow around it. In fact, the idea had been around for so long that it became the norm. What we are doing at The Golden Moon is a gradual shift towards fuller satisfaction of needs of all involved categories.
The Golden Moon is a company created by hosts. We see the world not through the pieces of codes or analytics programs, but through the real needs of ordinary accommodation providers. We came to make this fundamental shift towards more harmonious relations. Any textbook on business management will say that this is where any successful business must to start. If there is no such textbook, The Golden Moon will be the one to write its first chapter.
Source: http://www.thegoldenmoon.com/blog/
Keywords: story, vision, ambition
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