Unless you own your own satellite television network, there's no more powerful tool available for reaching new customers and keeping existing customers informed than the World Wide Web. In a recent hospitality-industry survey, over 70% of general public use the internet to research lodging, guides, charters, and community events before booking reservations for a vacation. In today’s competitive recreational market ,over 80% of your competition have some form of internet representation showing their products, services and rates. Will the millions of outdoors enthusiasts who search for products, services, and accomodations on the Internet be able to find you? Outdoor Network will make sure they can.
Your web site is an electronic brochure, delivered to the doorstep of millions of potential customers worldwide. Outdoor Network has the marketing and design experience to make sure your site is as informative, attractive, and easy-to-use as possible, and also to make it as easy-to-find as possible. Plenty of "web design" companies will build you a site, but do nothing after the sale to help attract visitors and turn your site into an effective business-generating tool. Outdoor Network, by contrast, goes beyond web design to provide full online marketing support - connecting your site to high-traffic portals, registering it with all of the major search engines for hosting clients, and doing everything it takes to make your site rise above the flood of new web sites being launched every day.
Our commitment to helping you reach an online customer base goes even further than that. It's a well known fact of advertising that a consumer must be exposed to a company's advertising an average of seven times before spending money on the product or service being offered. Hence, Outdoor Network has developed a simple, easy to use advertising program that will not only attract visitors, but keep them coming back to your web site by allowing you to advertise in “Real Time”. As with television, radio and print media, the Internet allows you to send potential customers a continually updated stream of news and information that will attract them to your site, and keep them coming back on a regular basis. While the majority of web sites fail to attract repeat business due to outdated information, Outdoor Network's “Real Time” promotion provides a means to deliver your current advertising message to thousands of new and established clients.
Here’s how the Real Time five point program works:
1. Cover Photos: One of the most powerful universal use of advertising tools is today is images. A simple photo of your client (s) from your resort, camp, guide boat, or using your product holding a trophy fish reinforces the need to use your services or buy your products. During any fishing season the public wants to see where the fish are biting and who’s catching them today. Just provide us with the photo and the description of text to be used.
2. News/Events:
Fishing News: Fishing news allows you to submit; club/resort news, tournament announcements and results, local events that you sponsor, or general fishing information concerning a specific specie hot bite yearly cycle i.e. ( walleye, white bass runs, spring coho’s, crappies etc..). If you attend the sport show circuit send us your schedule. Increase your tournament, event and show attendence.
Fishing Adventure Destinations: Our users are always seeking new adventure destinations in considering future fishing expeditions. The destination guidelines we follow consist of information about your area, body of water, types of fish and fishing. Describe and give our user a visual why they should come to your area and enjoy their stay at your camp/resort or visit your community. Please include photo's with your submittial, it adds to the impact.
Snowmobile News: Snowmobile news allows your club, promotion of fundraisers, poker runs, club sponsored ice fishing tournaments, local races all to help support the trails. When you print the flyer send us the information also.
Snowmobile Adventure Destinations: Snowmobilers in there quest for new adventures in snowmobiling, are always seeking new trails to conquer in there riding. Snow Tracks offers Tourism Convention Centers, Chamber of Commerce, and State promotion associations the source to enlighten new travelers to your area. Provide us with a general overview of the amenities of your area along with photo's. Increase your tip sheet and add visitors to your web site.
Events: Each of the directories of Outdoor Network has a calendar of events feature for submittials of national or local fishing/snowmobile events, tournaments, races, and club meetings. Post your event its easy, free and seen by many!
3. Press Releases: Manufactures, boat & snowmobile dealers, fishing or snow related products, information of new products, colors or models are a point of considerable interest to our users. Fisherman and Snowmobilers especially like to see and buy new toys. With a easy e-mail to us your new product will be seen by thousands of our users.
4. Resort Specials: Does your resort, camp or lodge have a yearly special discount for off season rates published on your web site, or offer a free stay for largest fish of the year caught from your resort if so please submit the special to us for a annual listing under our resort special section.
5. Articles: Do you currently write or have you ever written for any magazine or newspaper fishing/snowmobile related articles. Our users enjoy reading about there favorite sport! We would gladly publish your article on our directories with a editors note promoting you as the author and your web site.
Now you have the ability on a national platform to communicate to the public outside of your web site! Our clients who participated with Real Time acheived additional visitors, bookings and sales. Real Time is FREE as a Outdoor Network advertiser!
