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MISSION CONTROL

Kaysie Nielson, co-founder of exploringnotboring.com

Kaysie Nielson

King of Biz Dev

Tosh Swain, co-founder of exploringnotboring.com

Tosh Swain

Chief Noodle

Top-Secret Imagineer

Top-Secret

Imagineer

Kaysie Nielson, co-founder of exploringnotboring.com
Tosh Swain, co-founder of exploringnotboring.com
Top-Secret Imagineer

Kaysie Nielson

King of Biz Dev

Tosh Swain

Chief Noodle

Top-Secret

Imagineer

JOIN OUR NICHE

NETWORK OF CREATORS

Featuring local guides, instructors & makers of:

Wildly Unique

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"

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

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"

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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