Sponsorship, Promotions and Other Exciting Ways to Exploit Me....

....or Have Computer Will Travel

Travelog.net is getting noticed. It's an idea that captures many people's imagination. Traveling the world is a dream that lies in most people's hearts. It has adventure. It is a unique story.

Being a recovering advertising person, I thought "Damn! There's got to be people out there who can turn what I am doing into money. Why not hook up with them and let them exploit me if it can help me finance the travels? Who could benefit from what I am doing? What can I do that could be useful to people with money?"

The ideas came pouring out. I started writing them down. I am posting them here in case anybody stumbles on this and has some discretionary marketing / media budget that could be slid my way.

Exploitation ideas:

Do you need a travel photographer?

I have created an online portfolio of my travel photograhy. Look it over and be the judge.

Do you have a computer or travel-related product to promote?

Let me promote your digital camera, laptop, modem, outdoor clothing, backpacks, credit card, traveler's checks, or online travel agency via Travelog.net or on your web site. Give me some product and a budget and I will work up a travelogue that sells it.

Examples:

Visa card: How a useful the Visa card is around the world. What I bought with the Visa card. Getting cash at the ATM. Links to the Visa ATM locator. Links to Visa traveler's benefits.

Kodak: Using the Kodak DCS-120 for web publishing. Samples of the DCS-120 camera on the web. Using the DCS-120 to send pictures home to friends.

Amazon.com: Link places in the travelogue to books about the places: travel guides, history, coffee tables books. Integrate Travelog.net into the Amazon.com web site so people can read the travelogue and buy books on places that interest them.

Do you sell travel packages?

Do you organize bike trips across Tibet? Do you run expeditions across Africa? Are you with the Department of Tourism for your country? Why not hire me to go on your trip, visit your country or stay at your resort and have me do a web travelogue of the experience. Or a web site. I can also photograh it so you have great pictures for other marketing materials.

Benefits: A travelogue helps humanize the experience; seeing a place through a travelogue writer's eyes can bring a place to life and stir the emotions. Another plus: the real-time coverage itself is news worthy and can be exploited to get additional press and drive traffic to your web site.

Do you Promote Tourism for your Country, Region or City?

Fly me to your location and give me a budget to travel, photograph and write a web travelogue about my experiences. Costs could be defrayed by partnering with local hotels and airlines that would donate their services in trade for mention in the travelogue.

Benefits: interesting reading material to add to your web site. Press coverage because it is a novel idea for promoting travel and tourism.

Do You Sponsor an Event that Could Benefit from a Web Promotion?

Hire me to go along on a trek, a mountain climb, a kayak trip, a bike ride, etc. and do a real-time web travelogue for your web site.

Benfits: Milk that sponsorship. A web site that covers an event makes compelling surfing, bringing and keeping surfers to your site. It can also make good press: real time web publishing, satellite uplinks, be their via the Internet, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Do You Have a Travel Related TV Show?

Hire me to produce a website to support the show. Hell, you could even hire me to be a host. I am a ham.

Do you Publish Travel Guides?

Hire me to put your travel guide online. I have been pondering the strategy behind travel publishing on the web and have a basket full of unique and forward-thinking ideas.

Do You Already Have a Travel Related Web Site?

Are you thinking of doing anything travel / photography / web related that would require a well-rounded geek that wouldn't put me behind a desk? Contact me.

Why Exploit Me

Good question. I am glad you asked. Exploit me because I can do the job. Exploit me because I will work cheap if the work interests me. To top it off:

Look over my resume. If the job is interesting, I can be had for a very reasonable "exploitation fee."

Want to exploit me? Just e-mail me at jberns@johnberns.com with details on how and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Last updated: Friday, July 24, 1998 05:21 PM

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