ADVERTISE WITH WHAT TO DO
If you are a resort service or activity provider, WhatToDo.info is the single best choice you can make to market your business. For over 32 years WhatToDo has been known as a high-quality resort activity guidebook. Now, as well as being featured in our resort guidebooks and included in our wide print distribution, our advertisers are also featured on our expanding vacation planning websites.
After eight years of development and testing, our revolutionary Web program has launched and is exceeding expectations at every level. Our visitor numbers have been nearly doubling every three months with over 500,000 annual visitors as of Summer 2011 and up to 12,000 coupons are being printed from our websites in a single month. Want traffic like that? Check with one of our sales reps to chart our progress.
Along with our unique Web program your business is featured on our widely distributed resort maps and becomes part of our proprietary Resort Content Engine. This revolutionary program promises to change the way resort marketing gets done. Briefly, WhatToDo.info takes your business information and categorizes it in a state-of-the-art cloud-based database.
We are able to create websites for other resort area businesses and pull in your information. If you list your services with WhatToDo.info you will suddenly find them listed on hundreds of other resort area websites as well. Your information will be featured on non-competitive websites in use now by Property Management Companies, Realtors, Lodges, Concierges, Transportation Companies, and more. Every time a new business gets a website or Resort Content Engine service, your business is featured on another high-quality website. This not only drives business your way but also creates hundreds of invaluable back-links to your own website and elevates your business services to the top of search rankings.
If you suddenly find your business services listed at the top of relevant internet search pages, you can be assured our WhatToDo.info Web program is working for you. Take a look here to see similar WhatToDo.info sites that could be driving business to you right now.
This can come to you at a price you can afford from a company with an outstanding customer service record. Global reach with local support. WhatToDo.info was created by resort business owners like you for resort business owners like you. WhatToDo.info is the only independent community-based marketing program that gets stronger with every new participant and is specifically designed to find your customers wherever they are, regardless of changes in technology.
Contact us today for a free consultation and get promoted in the resort's most innovative and powerful marketing program.
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Ads not produced to specifications are subject to production fees of $70 per hour, billed by the quarter hour If time allows, we will give you the opportunity to correct the problems. FTP Instructions:
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ELECTRONIC FORMARTS WE ACCEPT: Preferred: PDF made to exact size of purchased ad w/ no crop marks High resolution quality PDF using Acrobat Distiller 6 Settings PDFX1a If you are using Distiller 4 or 5, use the press settings Also accepted: PhotoShop, Illustrator or InDesign in Mac format Ad sizes and formatting must be precise to ensure proper reproduction High-resolution images: 150-line screen, CMYK, at least 300 dpi and saved as Tiff or EPS file All photos must be color corrected, cleaned, approved and ready for print Color sensitive ads: include a high quality color proof for color matching Use of Color: We highly recommend 60c/30m/30y/100k (rich black) rather than 100K which will often look dull next to built black. Use built colors over four-color images. Change all spot colors to CMYK Fonts: Illustrator and InDesign users should save all fonts as outlines Provide fonts for document and fonts used in any placed/embedded EPS graphics Use only Mac Type 1 fonts, True Type or Open Type fonts. NO PC fonts We request that artwork be delivered on CD or electronic transfer, (email or FTP) Call or email for FTP instructions (We can handle up to 12mb via email) Compress files using Stuffit if submitting electronically Email files to graphics@orographic.net OP must approve all advertisements.* If an ad does not pass OP approval, it will be returned for redesign. If you cannot create your own artwork, OP may create an ad for you or can recommend another qualified design firm. Listings: Each advertiser should submit a 75 word or less description for each of their business categories. Coupons: The What To Do graphics team will use a standardized format to prepare your coupon for you. Please provide: full-color logo, business statement, location, phone, (fax, web and email if applicable) and one offer. We have found that a standardized coupon allows the reader to sort through offers quickly and more effectively than a variety of looks.
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SUMMARY
Ads not produced to specifications are subject to production fees of $70 per hour, billed by the quarter hour If time allows, we will give you the opportunity to correct the problems. FTP Instructions:
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ELECTRONIC FORMARTS WE ACCEPT: Preferred: PDF made to exact size of purchased ad w/ no crop marks High resolution quality PDF using Acrobat Distiller 6 Settings PDFX1a If you are using Distiller 4 or 5, use the press settings Also accepted: PhotoShop, Illustrator or InDesign in Mac format Ad sizes and formatting must be precise to ensure proper reproduction High-resolution images: 150-line screen, CMYK, at least 300 dpi and saved as Tiff or EPS file All photos must be color corrected, cleaned, approved and ready for print Color sensitive ads: include a high quality color proof for color matching Use of Color: We highly recommend 60c/30m/30y/100k (rich black) rather than 100K which will often look dull next to built black. Use built colors over four-color images. Change all spot colors to CMYK Fonts: Illustrator and InDesign users should save all fonts as outlines Provide fonts for document and fonts used in any placed/embedded EPS graphics Use only Mac Type 1 fonts, True Type or Open Type fonts. NO PC fonts We request that artwork be delivered on CD or electronic transfer, (email or FTP) Call or email for FTP instructions (We can handle up to 12mb via email) Compress files using Stuffit if submitting electronically Email files to graphics@orographic.net OP must approve all advertisements.* If an ad does not pass OP approval, it will be returned for redesign. If you cannot create your own artwork, OP may create an ad for you or can recommend another qualified design firm.
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AREA DISTRIBUTION
VAIL:
For more than 30 years, the What To Do Guidebook and area Maps have been the Vail Valley's most popular and heavily used tourist-based information products. With over 150 free-standing racks and more than 150 outdoor street boxes you can be assured that guests WILL pick up our publication and see YOUR ad and listings inside. �The What To Do Guidebook is also distributed to every hotel, motel, B&B, concierge desk, info center, airport, grocery store & special event in the Vail Valley. �We also deliver throughout Leadville, Glenwood Springs and to the Georgetown Visitor Information Center.�Our distributors deliver on a weekly basis throughout the year.�Annually,we distribute over 150,000 Guidebooks and Maps, making us the most widely-used product in the Vail Valley.
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The Summit County What To Do Guidebook and area Maps were introduced in the spring of 2010. Since then, it has quickly become the go-to guidebook for all three Visitor Information Centers in Summit County. We deliver to 30 street boxes,150 magazine racks and to every hotel, motel, B&B, concierge desk, information center, grocery store & special event in Summit County. We also deliver to Leadville & Clear Creek County including the Georgetown Visitor Information Center.�Our Distributors deliver on a weekly basis throughout the year.�Annually, we distribute over 130,000 Guidebooks and Maps, making us the most widely-used product in Summit County.
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