BE EXPLORINGNOTBORING
MISSION CONTROL
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
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”
IT’S TIME TO STEP INTO THE SUN.
EXPLORINGNOTBORING is a market disruptor—we’re not part of an existing industry, we’re building a new one.
This uniquely local experience industry is passion-driven, not profit-driven.
Neither you, us, locals, nor travelers want boring, manufactured tours, classes, and products.
Yet, they’re everywhere! Finding unique activities, events, and products is hard! Especially, when mainstream stuff with greater marketing power dominates the interwebs and gobbles up 80% of the revenue.
How is the small local creator supposed to rise above the noise?
That’s why EXPLORNGNOTBORING is partnering with local experts over commercialized brands to reinvent the way that people create and share rich, memorable experiences in their own city and beyond.
Here you won’t find corporate chains or big bus vibes—just real people, real experiences, and a whole lotta local flavor 🌶️
Our goal is to help local creators reduce their dependence on Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and marketplaces with high take rates, and instead, attract organic sales with marketing tools and training to bring human connection and authenticity to the forefront worldwide.
Studies show the more we cultivate new & diverse experiences (important vehicles for social connections & positive emotions) the greater our brain activity, life satisfaction, and well-being.
In short, a spoonful of soulful experiences helps the happiness go up 🤩
By partnering with local creators to amplify their handcrafted Activities, Events, and Products, we can change the status quo!
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.
That’s EXPLORINGNOTBORING in a community-sized nutshell. Team up with us and join the movement!
June 2022 Kickstarter Video – We successfully crowdfunded our custom booking system to launch our beta platform!
🗓 24/7 Scheduling
Enjoy a flawless booking experience online & on mobile 24/7
💰 Secure Payments
Sleep tight with secure & PCI-compliant online payment processing
⭐️ Raving Reviews
Everything you find here is vetted and handpicked for the most wildly unique ideas
👀 Discover New Ideas
It’s time to shine! Explore new interests, hobbies, and skills, that can last a lifetime
🤓 Expert Support
Our team is the facilitator who helps ensure your experience is smooth sailing
📍Shop Local
Local love, local success. Everything you find here is handcrafted by rad locals
🔍 Semantic Search
We help you find what you’re looking for, even when you’re not too sure what that is yet
🧬 Integrations
Save time with built-in connections like Google, Zoom, and more
💌 Automation
Sit back & relax, our timely reminders + updates keep you in the loop
👌 $0 FEES
Save money by using our experience platform to book tickets with $0 fees
🌎 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 you create & share experiences
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN?
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.