We invite you to promote your business at no cost to our 27,000+ subscribers, our 33,000+ website visitors and through us to our alliance partners, who include the RACV, RACT, The Wine Society, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Fed Square, BMW, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
There are several ways in which you can promote your business on VisitVineyards.com:
1. Our new RACV and RACT's Regional Wine and Food Program (opened July 2010) offers businesses in or servicing Victoria and Tasmania the opportunity to promote your products directly to RACV and RACT's combined 2.2 million members. By becoming a Wine Regions Partner, RACV and RACT members, plus AAA members from other states and overseas will actively be enticed to your door and to spend their money with you.
To find out more about this unique new marketing opportunity, please contact Sara Schwarz on mobile 0424 379 996 or via email sara@visitvineyards.com
Or download a PDF information kit and Expression of Interest form here »
2. List with us - it's free
In the three months to June 2010 the VisitVineyards.com website ranked approximately 150-170,000 on Alexa.com, which measures the relative importance of a website on a world scale. This places us amongst the highest ranking wine information websites in Australia by a considerable margin, and ahead of four states' tourism authorities, both internationally and for web traffic within Australia.
We work hard to attract and engage our audience. If you are targetting wine and food travellers you should be listed on VisitVineyards.com – it's free. You may have noticed that VisitVineyards.com comes up very highly in many wine-related searches – your listing will benefit from this exposure.
If you are a winery, restaurant, food maker or provedore, accommodation provider, tour operator, tourism or related operator in a wine and food region, click here to list on VisitVineyards.com if you want to reach our active audience of wine and food travellers – there's no fee.
3. Or increase your business reach and attractivness by joining us as a Partner Business (also free)
Actively promote your business and events to one of Australia’s largest and most dynamic wine-focused communities.
Expand your online presence by taking advantage of our combined resources and online marketing skills.
Craft enticing benefits and experiences to attract an actively-interested audience to your door.
As a Partner, you pay no fees or commissions (now or in the future) to participate. Simply provide one or more exclusive benefits and experiences to our Members.
[Our customers (Members) pay an annual fee to access these benefits, identifying them when they arrive at your door as qualified, wine-focused, high-end individuals – the type of customer you want to connect directly with.]
“Yours is exactly the market segment we are trying to target. Because there is no upfront cost we can save on advertising... Even better is that the cost … is contingent upon Members taking the offers up so it’s a real ‘payment by results’ scenario for us.” (VisitVineyards.com Partners, John and Sandra Annison from The Gatehouse at Villa Raedward, Yering, Victoria, March 2009).
A. Think of an exclusive benefit or experience (or two or three!) that will attract our Members to your door. Browse our Member Offers section for inspiration, or download the full information kit HERE
B. Contact Sara Schwarz, our helpful and friendly Partner Manager for assistance or to discuss your ideas. Phone Sara on 0424 379996 or email her at partners@visitvineyards.com She will then be in touch to confirm all details and to assist you in setting this up.
C. You can also go straight to our My Account page and setup your new business listing, or 'claim' your existing entry, and add a Member Offer(s) there yourself.
Once confirmed, your Member Offers will then be uploaded onto VisitVineyards.com and promoted through our website, seasonal newsletters and to our alliance partners. We also send out your 'Welcome Partner' pack filled with all the bits and pieces you and your staff need to know.
Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you.