XCHANGE services and experiences with us!

This page provides information for businesses wishing to exchange services with us.

This page last updated on the 9th May 2007.

1/ To promote the world's best services from budget to 5 star. To provide stories, photos and personal recommendations of places to go, accommodation, attractions and restaurants around the world. In conjunction with using a guidebook, give people a clearer vision of a place before and during their travels.

2/ To provide a travel website with up-to-date information, ensuring travelers get the correct information and prevent the wait associated with travel companies changing their details in a guidebook.

3/ To inspire people to travel to new places.

4/ To inform people about the different types of jobs that are available around the world and to offer a place where companies we work with can advertise for new employees.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOUR BUSINESS

1/ Provide internet exposure to the world about your business through this website.

We can advertise your service in several ways:

• Include a personal recommendation and photos of your service in our permanent travelogue about your area found on the 'travelogue' page of your country.
• List your service on the relevant guide page (ie.food, accommodation, attractions, jobs) which gives a brief description, phone number, up to 7 flashing photos and your website link. This listing is valid for one year. After one year, charges will apply to those who wish to remain on the site.
• For Major Sponsors, we can advertise your business logo at the top of every page of our website. A major sponsor is someone who provides us with an expensive item, service, or something that will serve us for a long period of time.
• Your area and country will also be re-advertised on the homepage in the future as our FEATURE FLASHBACK that we change each couple of weeks so that people are also exposed to our old information and not just the new information that appears each week.
• We also are constantly visiting several popular travel forums (refer to the TRAVEL TIPS page) to answer peoples questions and refer them to our site. This is important to ensure new traffic is always flowing to our site and helps increase the ranking of our site on search engines.

2/ Send bookings / enquiries to you

• Via email through an booking / enquiry page that will go with your listing, or via your website which is also linked to your listing. Booking / enquiries received from our website are commission free until the end of your free year of promotion. Some companies however, give us incentive to sell their service and offer us commissions as soon as their promotion is on the site. The choice is up to you.

3/ Allow you to update your business information upon request throughout the year.

4/ Allow you to advertise for new employees
You can advertise for as long as you want until you fill the position. Should you fill the position because of our site, then you pay us only US$20 through PayPal. Visit the JOB page of any country for an example. Once you have done business with us, you will receive our email address by which you can give us the details of the job on offer.

WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR US

1/ Exchange services with us. Allow us to experience your service in exchange for our promotion. Your level of exchange affects our level of promotion.
Nowadays, people like to plan their travels via the internet and recommendations of friends and other travelers. Through ExploreNow.net, our aim is to personally experience all services that are promoted on the site. We feel this is an important part of our site compared to others which simply list as many services as possible. If you have a spare room, a spot on your tour or a service that is not being utilised 100%, then it won't cost you to extend your service to us anyway, so it works in both our interests.

2/ Website link exchange
Link exchange between two websites is very important and account for 80% of a website's ranking with top search engines like Google and Yahoo. When you increase the number of link exchanges with high traffic websites (like ours), it ranks your website higher with search engines. For businesses that we work with, we recommend that you use one of the logos below with a link to www.explorenow.net. Place your cursor over the image, click the right mouse button and choose 'save as'. For more information about this click here for an informative PDF article written by one of our major sponsors, SEVENTwentyFour.

"Explorenow.net - Travel and adventure from budget to 5 star"

NOTE: We reserve the right not to promote a business "What happens if you experience a service and it doesn't live up to its reputation?" A question we get asked a lot and luckily has only happened a couple of times. Before trying to exchange services with anyone, we specifically search and compare places on the net and in our Rough Guide. We want this website to be full of quality information on quality services. Obviously there are always going to be small problems here and there, but if we ever experience something that we don't feel we can honestly promote, then we simply pay the cost of the service and don't promote it, or we write about the particular thing we were concerned about.

PAYPAL - COMMISSION PAYMENTS

PayPal accepts payments from various world banks and all credit cards. This service is used for businesses paying booking commissions and/or yearly fees.

**NB: If your PayPal payment will not complete, you may need to change the cookies settings on your computer. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools and Internet Options. Then click on the Privacy tab, and Advanced. Click the box 'Override all automatic cookie handling'. Then try again to make the payment **

PROMOTION CHARGES

Your first year being promoted on the site is in exchange for letting us experience your service. After the first year you will incur a yearly charge or agree to pay us commissions for all sales should you wish to remain on the site. We are currently deciding whether we will have full booking engines set up to sell your service, or whether we will just stick to the enquiry page we currently have with commissions paid through Paypal. Watch this space for details.

CONTACT US

Due to high amount of spam that affects our site, we have removed our direct contact details from the site. Please contact us via our My Space page. Click on 'send a message' then log in with your details.