We run a guesthouse in a small village in Albania. The village has no street names, there are no other verified businesses. On Google Maps there is only the mosque and the school. Both about 1km away from us. In order to verify our account, we need to make a video in one take of max 5 minutes with a number of assignments (like filming the name of the road and other impossible things). I tried many times, it gets rejected all the time. Has anyone dealt with this? We are located in rural Albania. Before, in The Netherlands, I remember it was a matter of having a code sent to the address, but that option is not given here.

Hi everyone, my name is Miroslav and I am very happy to join this community and learn from its members. Why am I here? My wife owns a travel agency here in Bulgaria and I am helping her get momentum and go from self-employed to a real business with 2-3 travel agents working for the agency. I know the drill, as far as every business works the same way: we need more leads that we can convert into more sales that will bring us more revenue that will give us more budget for ads that will bring in more leads etc. What am I looking to learn? I have background in the travel industry, but its from 13 years ago and my skills are pretty rusty. I want to learn what works now - in terms of different ad formats, copys, visuals, hooks, cta's etc etc. I am also looking into dfferent content strategies for the different platforms - meta (facebook and instagram), tiktok, youtube and linkedin. I hope I will find most of the knowledge in the Classroom section in the group and also that the other members will share their knowledge. Thank you very much and have a great day everyone.

We renovated a place in central Albania, away from all the touristic areas and called it Villa Lugina. We live here and created rooms for guests on the ground floor. Around the house there are some cosy small huts and a communal space with a veranda that can be used as a co-workplace. It's tucked at the end of a small valley, a simple place for anyone who needs a break—whether that’s for focused work, writing, or catching up on sleep. There’s no rush here. We organise things like writing weeks, workations and offline weekends. Sometimes others organise their event here, from a business retreat to a yoga weekend. And it's open to individual guests, too. What all our guests have in common? They appreciate calm, nature, simplicity, and attention to detail. This isn’t a luxury resort — it’s a thoughtfully created space where it’s quiet, the food is good, and you can follow your own rhythm. I started building a website over a year ago, but got stuck. So most of our guests come through the OTA's or from my personal and business network. I would like to have a website that makes sense, that attracts the right people and start advertising to see if we can increase the number of bookings. We do a little social media, but it's really not my cup of tea. I find it hard to be consistent. I need a bit an encouragement to get it all rolling so to speak. Hoping to learn from you! Andrina

Happy to be here and hopeful of helping and getting help through a community of like-minded people. Currently I don't take online bookings as I find it hard to marry up with the idea of one-off bespoke tours based on the customers needs. I guess I will need to see how others are doing this. Best regards, Graeme

I have a road cycling tour company in Albania 🇦🇱 looking to grow business