Well, I'm doing it...Pray, cross your fingers, wish me luck!

Thanks to some of the great advice I've gotten on this forum and a few others, I am ready to branch out with my Whistler Touism website and see if it can make me some money.

As someone suggested here, I am offering a "Sea To Sky Country Club" package, which my subscribers can receive for a monthly or yearly fee. In the package will be real-estate magazines, news & entertainment magazines, brochures, coupons, and anything else I can pick up for free! My by-line is "Just perfect for planning your next dream vacation or move to the Sea To Sky Corridor." I just added this option yesterday, so no takers yet. The first 5 subscribers will also receive a gorgeous, hard-cover coffee-table book about the Whistler area, which, get this, I picked up BRAND NEW for $1 each at the local Second Hand store!! If you have a mind to, you can go to my website and see how I've described the offer....maybe I could word it better?

The other thing I'm doing this weekend is calling personally on businesses in the Corridor (Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton)with a sales letter offering them a FREE coupon ad on my site until Dec. 31st. After that, they pay $20 per month to keep it running. Included with this offer will be a free ad, plus hyperlink to their coupon (on my site) in my newsletter going out on Dec. 20th. (a $50 value). So all together it's a $70 value for free.

Hopefully this will drum up some paid business for me in the New Year.

Thanks to all who gave me such great ideas and advice!


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