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Wildly Unique

EVENTS

/i-vents/Noun

An engaging public meetup fostering a meaningful, shared experience among strangers & friends.

“explore creative, vibrant events for an unforgettable experience—in person & online”

Local Connections

Handmade Local Products - exploringnotboring.com is an online community marketplace for fun, uniquely local experiences. We're partnering with real people over commercialized brands to reinvent the way that people create and share rich, memorable experiences in their own city and beyond.

ACTIVITIES

/akˈtivədē/Noun

An enriching experience with a local expert providing skills, knowledge & good times with great people.

​”enjoy fun, cool & uniquely local activities any time or every weekend—in person & online”

PRODUCTS

/prä-dəkts/Noun

An item that is handmade or designed by the creator to encourage new experiences & positive vibes
(visceral experiences).

“choose to buy products that keep on giving to you or others year after year”

Wildly Unique

ACTIVITIES

/akˈtivədē/Noun

Authentic, local-led experiences handcrafted to expand your horizons with opportunities to learn & connect.

​”gain new skills, interests, and friends with hands-on activities—in person & online”

EVENTS

/i-vents/Noun

Engaging public meetups by rad locals who create a meaningful, shared experience among strangers & friends.

“meet like-hearted people by attending creative, vibrant events—in person & online”

PRODUCTS

/prä-dəkts/Noun

An item that is handmade or designed by the creator to encourage new experiences & positive vibes
(visceral experiences).

“buy local products that are handcrafted to keep giving to you or others year after year”

Handmade Local Products - exploringnotboring.com is an online community marketplace for fun, uniquely local experiences. We're partnering with real people over commercialized brands to reinvent the way that people create and share rich, memorable experiences in their own city and beyond.

IT'S TIME TO STEP INTO THE SUN.

EXPLORINGNOTBORING is a call to action for more living, less boring. We're carving space for authentic, off-the-beaten-path experiences and connecting people to the local experts in their community who provide them.

New experiences and connections have a profound affect on our brain activity, well-being, and life satisfaction.

So we made it easier for people to find wildly unique activities, events, and products they'e never tried before crafted by rad locals in their neighborhood & beyond. That good good stuff you tell all your friends about. And why we vet all our partners.

We know mainstream stuff dominates the interwebs and provides far less value than the local hole-in-the-wall.

What you have to offer is something uniquely local. It has a story and the power to create lasting memories.

That's why EXPLORNGNOTBORING is partnering with rad locals over commercialized brands to reinvent the way that people create and share rich, memorable experiences in their own city and beyond.

No corporate chains or big bus vibes—just real people, real experiences, and a whole lotta local flavor 🌶️

Our goal is to help local businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profits (creators, makers, and shakers) create organic growth with marketing tools and training to bring human connection and authenticity to the forefront worldwide.

Together, we can shape a happier world through shared, meaningful experiences that empower our collective happiness with an inevitable stretching of our individual skills, knowledge & achievements.

There you go, that's EXPLORINGNOTBORING in a community-sized nutshell.

Team up with us and join the movement today!

June 2022 Kickstarter Video – We successfully crowdfunded our custom booking system to launch our beta platform!

UNIQUE MARKETING + CONVENIENT TOOLS

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Scuba Experience - Personal Pocket-Sized Adventure Machine - Uniquely Local Experiences

Imagine this: You’ve just been given keys to your Storefront located in the best spot in your city for organic local traffic. This new shop helps you amplify your visibility to grow your sales and show off your city, craft, cause, or culture!

Here’s the kicker: Your Storefront is online. No hosting fees. No maintenance fees. No need to keep up with the latest Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trends or practices. Just greater marketing power, impact, and community.

Welcome to your new Storefront!

🗓 24/7 Scheduling

Grow your sales with a flawless booking experience online & on mobile 24/7.

💰 Secure Payments

Offer your customers secure & PCI-compliant online payment processing.

⭐️ Raving Reviews

Boost your social proof with automated, perfectly timed, friendly review requests.

👀 Amplified Visibility

It’s time to shine! Get in front of your local and global market.

🤓 Expert Support

Our team is driven to help you succeed. You have unlimited access to our marketing expertise.

🎉 CX

Deliver a superior customer experience that helps you generate conversions, referrals, and raving fans!

🔍 Analytics & Insights

Access powerful business intelligence all in one place, from conversion rates to the most popular search terms. COMING!

🧬 Integrations

Save time with built-in connections that you use every day: Google, Zoom & Soon: Mailchimp, AI + more. COMING!

💌 Automation

Delight your customers with automated reminders & updates via SMS & email.

👌 FREE Website

Save money by using your Storefront & Listing URLs as your site & landing pages.

🌎 Community

Our like-hearted community and tribe of trailblazers is a powerful network to know.

🚀 Innovation

This is just the start. Our vision is to gamify how people book and buy from you.

2023 Experience Creator Marketing Kit - Marketing Strategies and Tactics for Tour Operators, Instructors, Event Creators, and Talented Makers

EXPERIENCE CREATOR

Experience Creator Marketing Kit for Tour Operators, Instructors, Event Creators, and Talented Makers

Developed for the unique creators, makers, and shakers who need a little expert guidance to sell more online with little to no marketing budget. Yet! Let’s change that.

It all began with a curated, but ill-fated “Adventure Jar,” a homemade treasure chest with over 200 color-coded spontaneous ideas we could draw from no matter our vibe. This jar taught us that we’re fueled by shared, meaningful experiences, but that these uniquely local experiences are hard to find, hidden beneath the shadows of commercialized brands. When the madness of 2020 gave us 20/20, it became crystal clear: Life is too short for bₒᵣᵢₙg! Studies show that new & diverse experiences increase brain activity, well-being, and life satisfaction. So, we set off to make it easy for anyone to create newer & richer experiences. In June 2021, we started building exploringnotboring.com first-ever community Adventure Jar curated with unique Activities, Events and Products handcrafted by local experts worldwide to elevate your life experiences in fun, original ways. Since our conception, we’ve partnered with over 100 local Creators across the globe to build this space where the world feels like one BIG small town. It inspired our 411-day Mega Roadtrip to connect with our Partners across the United States. On this trip, we learned about the challenges our Partners face, their unwavering passion for their craft, and the pressing need to elevate local experiences to the forefront in every major city.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How does exploringnotboring.com work?

We help you sell more online 🙂

Kaysie & Tosh are local marketers who built this online community marketplace to help local creators stand out and rise above the noise.

First, you apply to become an EXPLORINGNOTBORING partner to sell on exploringnotboring.com

Then, create a Listing for your unique Activity, Event or Product. It’s completely FREE and EASY—it only takes minutes to submit.

And we’ll help you optimize your online marketing and reach to show off your city, craft, cause, or culture!

You set your own rules, pricing, and availability, and automatically receive your earnings every week.

Can I have hands-on help to create my account?

Of course! Despite our platform being designed to feel like an invisible hand is guiding you every step of the way and coaching you into better digital marketing practices, we prefer to personally help you get started and provide tailored tips. 

Let’s jump on a video call and create your first Listing together! Schedule your kickoff call.

Is the platform free to use?

You can get started on exploringnotboring.com today for FREE! 

No setup fee!
No upfront costs!
No subscription fees!
No booking volume costs!
No payment gateway fees!
No additional fixed $ fee per order!
No lock-in annual contracts! 🤮
Absolutely no stinky hidden fees!

We’re invested in your success, so we work on a transparent revenue-sharing model. Period.

When you earn customers from partnering with us, we earn a small revenue-share percentage that goes back into the platform to better support you, including improving our marketing tools, SEO, customer experience, marketing resources, and marketing campaigns to drive traffic to local experiences.

You don’t pay anything unless you’re generating revenue. That means offering FREE Activities, Events or Products is FREE for you as well! No strings attached. And no subscription fees means no extra costs during the slow season.

Our widget is only 3.9% rev-share on sales. Slaying the standard restech 6% + 1.9% + 30¢ complicated transaction fee.
Our marketplace is only 10% rev-share on sales. A knockout against the Online Travel Industry standard 25–30% commission fee.

exploringnotboring.com is passion-driven, not profit-driven.
We hope you feel that in everything we do.
See our Payment Terms to learn more.

Is there a commitment?

Absolutely not, astronaut!! There’s no such thing as upgrading or downgrading, no renewing, no annual plan, no month-to-month.

We’re invested in your success, so we work on a transparent revenue-sharing model. Period. You can delete your account at any time.

How do payouts work?

We get it, we’ve all got to eat 🍔  Once you set up your preferred Payout Method to collect your earnings, your Payouts are automatically transferred 24 hours after the Activity or Event is completed. With Products, your Payout is transferred once the order is marked as shipped. The date that you receive your funds will depend on your financial institution and whether the Payout is released on a weekend or bank holiday.

Do I have full control over what I sell?

Yassss Queen! exploringnotboring.com is designed for you to have TOTAL CONTROL over what you offer. It’s your business, not ours!

You set your price, availability, and rules for any Activity, Event, or Product you want to offer.

Once submitted, each Listing goes through our approval process where we ensure that your offering is an original idea providing value to you & others, and a good fit for our niche marketplace of uniquely local experiences. As marketing experts, we also use that opportunity to help you enhance your customer experience and optimize your messaging, pricing strategies, and aesthetics to sell more online.

Once approved, you still have the final say as to when your Listing is discoverable on the platform. You’ll be prompted to activate your Listing with a quick flick of the Activation Toggle.

At any time, you can update your Listing title, description, photos, rules, availability or inventory, and of course, deactivate your Listing if needed. Just ensure any modifications meet our Quality Standards to prevent penalties.

Can I have more than 1 listing?

Yessiree! You can create UNLIMITED Listings. Add as many Listings as you can manage and earn more by offering more opportunities for Seekers to book or buy from you. Each Listing will go through the same approval process to ensure it meets our Quality Standards and has the opportunity to be reviewed by our marketing experts for optimizations to help you sell more online.

FYI—We designed our booking system to support the utmost creative experiences, so feel free to submit outside-the-box ideas that are unsupported by other platforms. There’s no mold to fit here. No golden handcuffs. No strings attached. So, unleash your creativity! 

Do I need my own website?

FUN FACT: Under your Storefront on exploringnotboring.com, you can control all of your Listings, and Seekers can explore all of them too, like a sweet ol’ catalog of your unique awesomeness 😎  If you don’t have a website, your Storefront serves that purpose for you without hosting or maintenance fees. Just add your Store link to your social channels and share it wherever your customers hang out!

Does exploringnotboring integrate with my other tools?

We’re working on it!

We integrate with Google Calendar, Zoom, and Stripe, and you can leverage Zapier to connect to many other tools.

As for integrating with other booking systems, it makes sense why no booking system on the market integrates with their competitors . . .

But we’re not them.

EXPLORINGNOTBORING isn’t a booking system, we’re a local community marketplace that has a custom booking system tailored for the small local creators who want something powerful, yet simple, easy-to-use, and flexible. Our custom booking system is just part of our marketing suite for local experts. 

So, we’re working on it! Many more integrations are coming.

Connectivity is important to us. It will help us in our mission to help local creators reduce their dependence on Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and costly distributors, and instead, attract organic sales with marketing tools and know-how to bring human connection and authenticity to the forefront in their local city . . . whether using our tailored booking system or not.

Who is the ideal Seeker?

EVERYONE! Kidding, we wish—everyone benefits from local connections and enriching experiences, but no one can afford to address everyone’s problems, especially in today’s market conditions where the media we use to reach our customers is so highly fragmented.

That’s why effective strategies have FOCUS 🤓

Our direct efforts serve local communities, all genders and statuses (with a focus on family & friend groups), and all ages (with a focus on millennials, and scope from zoomers to boomers), who value personal growth, authentic experiences, and supporting local.

Our long-term goal is to serve everyone, whether you’re 8 or 80, and influence behavioral change that compounds positive emotions over time,  helping people build connections and interests that create a happier world.

That’s why we designed exploringnotboring.com to make it easy for anyone to create newer & richer experiences by introducing an array of interesting opportunities that empower rich, meaningful experiences for self-definition, well-being & life satisfaction.

Do I need a business license or liability insurance?

You may need a business license, general liability insurance, product liability insurance, or even certain permits based on your unique offering. Always check with local laws in your area and seek expert advice.

A good rule of thumb: if it involves food or drinks, or high risk activities, seek counsel for your requirements.

EXPLORINGNOTBORING is a benefit company. What does that mean?

EXPLORINGNOTBORING is a people-centric benefit company, differentiated from a traditional business by our purpose, accountability, and transparency. At the heart of a benefit company is the simple fact that business impacts and serves more than its shareholders, employees, or customers; business has an even greater responsibility to our community and the planet in which we all live.

In 2022, we made a choice to be transparent about our imperfect journey, to share through storytelling what we learn with our customers and business community at large, and to continue to share and evolve our vision of responsible business.

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