Linking Hospitable to Instagram, FB, Tictok. Has anyone done this?? Is anyone for hire ti help with this?

yes ,tell me how i can help

Would you be able to talk live?   Whee are you located?   
 

lisa   I’m in Santa Rosa beach fl and just outside atlanta

706-816-7441  

thank you!

lisa 

You can market it on Inndirectly.com! It's a vacation rental listing site where you can link all your booking options including direct and social media and have direct connection with your guests outside of any platform. It's $50 per property per year and since it's a listing site, not a booking site, there are no commissions, algorithms or micromanagement.  💕

It is pretty simple to buy ads through Meta that go both to Instagram and Facebook. I suppose you could do the same on TikTok. Are you looking to hire an STR marketing agency to do those ad buys on your behalf?

​@carrie - Love to hear more about inndirectly and how that site is performing if you can share!

​@carrie can you compare/contrast InnDirectly to HiChee?

​@Tom Beerley Yes! 

HiChee is primarily a price comparison tool. It pulls listings from major booking platforms and helps travelers compare rates, track deals, and sometimes book through performance based systems. Hosts can choose to opt in and pricing can include commissions, inquiry fees and paid promotions depending on how you choose to participate. Guests also have tiered pricing options to participate.

Inndirectly, on the other hand, is a visibility and connection hub built specifically to support independent hosts and intentional guests. Guests use it for free, and hosts pay one simple flat yearly rate ($50 per property) to list their properties and all their booking options including direct. There are no commissions, algorithms, or pay-to-rank placements.

​@Tom Beerley On HiChee, they feature properties by pulling data from other sites, but that doesn't mean hosts are involved with those listings. For example, my properties are on their site, but guests can't connect directly with me via HiChee when they find my properties there. Looking at one of my properties on HiChee, I'm not able to see any booking options other than Airbnb and VRBO without paying a guest fee. I'm not sure if they have access to any of my other booking options like my direct site or Furnished Finder or Peerspace?

Inndirectly only features host added properties and the linked booking options they choose to include and guests can connect directly with hosts for free. 

​@carrie thanks for the distinctions. I’m gathering that Inndirectly is mainly an online directory of properties that have opted-in and paid to be listed there, whereas HiChee is kinda the opposite, an aggregator of OTA listings that works with or without the involvement of the listing owners. 

To me, the value of HiChee is that as a traveler, I can price-shop ANY property that’s on Airbnb or Vrbo or Booking.com, to figure out the best possible way of booking that particular property. It works for any property, regardless of whether the owner has “claimed” their own listings.

And for the owners who HAVE claimed their listings on HiChee, the owner typically provides the direct booking link for their property, so that the direct price can be shown alongside the OTA prices. You mentioned that your own properties are on there, but that your direct booking option is not shown, but that’s only because you haven’t set it up yet (it’s free, you might as well).

I think most travelers probably go to HiChee with a specific property already in mind. They paste the Airbnb URL into the search and try to see if they can locate a better option. With any luck, they’ll hit upon the owner’s direct booking site and bypass the OTAs. Worst case, they might find that Vrbo is a slightly less expensive option that Airbnb (or whatever the case may be).

And to the extent that a traveler is just browsing/searching without a particular property in mind, they’re effectively searching all 3 major OTAs at once.

In contrast, it seems that a search on Inndirectly only turns up results to the extent that property owners have paid to be shown. I searched for listings in own my market (Ocean City MD), and got zero results. As appealing as it may sound to be the first and only property listed there, I think it might be hard for any traveler to trust a site that only returns a single search result. Your guard goes up when you realize you’re only seeing “paid ads.”

So what does a property owner truly get for their $50? Where does the traffic come from? Where do you advertise -- how do travelers find out about you? Are you tracking how many searches per day you’re getting for each market? What’s the traveler profile (we target couples)? Am I missing out on millions of searches for “romantic stays in Ocean City MD”? Or would I just be paying $50 to put a billboard in the middle of a cornfield? ;-)

​@Tom Beerley Thank you for your feedback! To clarify, we could only find one of our three properties in HiChee, but couldn't fully access it without being a "paid" traveler. As a host on HiChee there are costs associated with inquiries and bookings, but might well be worth it! I appreciate you sharing it with me. 

Since we started entirely from scratch without pulling in any existing OTA data, it will take time to saturate every area, but we've seen great momentum and growth already. Tomorrow marks our 4 month anniversary. 😊 

Regarding marketing: 

Inndirectly exists to grow host/small business visibility and guest connection. Awareness creates choice. When guests see direct booking options, direct host connection and real savings, they naturally lean toward it.

We market through affiliate partnerships, podcasts, webinars, articles, and social media. About half of all subscription fees go directly into marketing efforts.

At the full price of $50 per property per year - just over $4 per month - roughly $2 per property each month is dedicated to advertising. The rest supports operations and platform growth. As new properties join, that pooled marketing budget grows, increasing visibility for everyone.

Our yearly listing fee is intentionally low because marketing isn’t just coming from us, it’s coming from all of us. Hosts contribute by sharing, referring, and using Inndirectly for their own travel, creating a network effect that benefits every property.

​@Tom Beerley  Also, since Hospitable was our earliest supporter during our pre launch stage and we use Hospitable for our own properties, we offered an exclusive coupon to other Hospitable hosts making each property only $5 (instead of $50) for the first year. HOSPINN45 is good through 11/3/2026 if you want to take advantage of it. 😊

​@Tom Beerley - You can also install the HiChee Chrome Extension so when you’re visiting the OTAs it shows you pricing/availability on direct & other OTAs. 

​@anthonyrallo that’s a more natural way to do it (as a traveler). It’s the equivalent of the Rakuten and Microsoft Shopping plug-ins that let you search and browse as you normally would, and be alerted if you’re looking at something that’s offered for a better deal elsewhere. 

Here’s what one of our listings looks like when you get diverted to HiChee! Who wouldn’t book direct when seeing this?

Exactly ​@Tom Beerley - the problem HiChee (and Directo as a competitor) and even StayFinder (StayFi’s flavor of this ​@StayFi_Arthur ​@StayFi_Autumn ​@StayFi_Ivan - is that they’re not yet a “known quantity” in the industry. HiChee has had a bunch of social buzz lately and continues to grow so hoping it will help with the overall direct mission. ​@Boostly_Mark knows this kind of traction is imperative! 

​@anthonyrallo HiChee is the only one I had ever heard of until today. And even then, I only knew about HiChee because a friend forwarded a Matty McTech reel where he showed how to use it. I don’t know if or how I would have ever heard of it, were it not for that friend of mine. To that extent, it has the advantage of feeling like a “secret weapon” that I can use as a traveler to find the best possible deal once I’ve locked in on a property. 

The other two appear to be pay-to-play directories with undisclosed traffic metrics, and where travelers quickly realize that they are only seeing “paid ads.” StayFinder technically has unpaid listings on it, but they are so buried beneath the paid ones (in my market at least) that they might as well not be there. Unless and until StayFinder becomes something more than just a perk offered to hosts that pay for StayFi hardware, I don’t see what there is for travelers to love about it. And even as a host, I am discouraged from paying for it because there are already 200 “preferred partner” listings in my market (all from a single PM), leaving no way to stand out. 

There are two totally opposite philosophies being pursued by these players:

1. Let Airbnb and Vrbo spend their billions on marketing… Let travelers START their search on a major OTA and FINISH it elsewhere once they’re ready to book.
2. Spin up a directory that has NO chance of ever being the “go to” place for travelers to search, except for a tiny fragment of people whose desire to “book direct” is so strong that they would knowingly blind themselves to the universe of options.  

Another way to put it: EVERY listing on HiChee/StayFinder/Directo is ALSO on Airbnb. The opposite will NEVER be true, which makes building a directory seem like a Sisyphean task.

So my bet is on HiChee to be the one that keeps growing and gets the most traveler mindshare. Because it is traveler-first and demand-driven. They are basically INTERCEPTING travelers at the moment where they are getting their credit card out. And that’s pretty cool.

No I am not an owner of $HICHEE tokens or anything like that LOL.

​@LisaB  coming back to your original question since the thread went a bit sideways. For the FB and Instagram piece specifically, Y'alloha (yalloha.com) is worth a look. It connects directly to Hospitable via webhook, so whenever a 5-star review comes in it automatically generates a branded graphic with the review text and posts it to Facebook and Instagram for you. Fully hands-free once it's set up.

  It won't cover TikTok, so you'd still need something separate for that side. But for keeping FB and IG active with consistent, professional content without having to think about it — it handles that automatically. Free to start if you want to try it alongside whatever you pick for TikTok.