So instead of sending endless emails and waiting for customers to visit my website, I installed a tool known as TripBlip™. I’m a beta tester for this product and I think, for the customer, it is a great tool as well.
TripBlip™ empowers the customer to take control of the message and shape it to fit his/her needs. TripBlip™ enables the user to create up to three different trip profiles and when a vacation comes along that matches the profile, TripBlip ™ notifies the customer with a discreet message next to the TripBlip™ icon. The customer can look now or later or not at all. Offers can be deleted from the current page and will remain in a history area for a while and eventually will disappear.
It is easy to use, easy to download and, best of all, the customer decides what to receive. Instead of endlessly searching through weekly emails and travel websites, set the parameters and receive the offers that are of interest.
What I have found so far is that when one of my customers receives a Blip, the customer realizes that it is from me, can read through it and discuss it with me in person, by telephone or by email. I’ve had some consumer sign ups from people who I don’t know and they, too, are accessing offers and contacting my office by email.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
New Paltz Travel’s TripBlip™
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One of my often used phrases has been “camping, do I hafta?” After seeing these photos and reading about Abercrombie & Kent’s version of camping, called “Glamping”, I’ll rephrase and say “glamping, do I hafta? Yes I do!”
Stylish tents offer a taste of glamorous camping on private tented safaris in Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, on the Laikipia Plateau and in Samburu National Park. The spacious accommodations offer large arched windows, luxurious bedding and colorful accents of traditional African Kuba cloth.
The tents are huge with verandah fronts and are made of heavy duty canvas. The tents measure 28 feet long by 14 feet wide and 9 feet high, with a sewn-in floor and large windows made from netting. The bedding is 100% Egyptian cotton, 200 thread count, with duvets for cool nights. Each tent is furnished with two full-size single beds, bedside tables, a dressing table with mirror and wash basin and a private en suite shower and toilet. (A&K is one of very few travel companies to offer flush toilets in mobile tented camps in East Africa)
Because the camp is mobile and self-sufficient, you aren’t restricted to locations with game lodges. On private land, game walks, horse and camel back safaris, and night game drives are possible. Other activities may include fishing on Lake Victoria, bird watching and hot air ballooning.
Abercrombie & Kent is regarded as the “World’s Leading Luxury Specialist Tour Operator” by travel professionals from over 80,000 travel agencies in more than two hundred countries. When I take my African Safari, guess who I’ll use?
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