Tour planning updates – 7/8

Hey folks!  Welcome to the Well Done Media tour blog!

Tim and I have been hard at work preparing for our tour.  We are in separate cities at the moment (he is currently in Raleigh, NC, and I am hiding out in New Bern, NC on a hiatus for productivity), which could have made planning a bit difficult, but we are making huge amounts of progress in very little time! It’s quite exciting.

Right now we are:
• Finishing up building the products page, where we will be posting media for sale that we create on the road. We already have some shots available for purchase in the shop, so take a gander if you’d like.
• Compiling giant lists of media to contact, in the Triangle area as well as the regions we plan to visit on our tour. I’m going to be contacting (approximately) millions of blogs, newspapers, and other online/print media and publications to get some serious coverage on our project, and will be continuing this process on the road.
• Compiling giant lists of potential sponsors… basically comprised of those who I think would benefit most from exposure to our projected public – the hip, youthful, tech-savvy folks who have a love for photography, travel, music, art, food… basically everything that we love and plan to cover while on the road, as well as folks in the Triangle area (that’s Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC, for those of you who are unfamiliar), as we’re anticipating a lot of online followers from our hometown region. (If you are interested in sponsoring or donating, however much or little, save me some time by contacting me! helena@welldonetour.com)
• Building a sponsorship profile at groupable.com, this really neat online platform that works as a liaison between those who sponsor and those who want to be sponsored. Genius! Feel free to check out our Groupable profile. You can just as easily find all of the information on our site, however, on Groupable, it all is consolidated quite nicely.

Anyway. Enough about that. I want to tell you a story about this guy named Simon Biswas.

Photocred: Simon Biswas

Simon is a photographer based in Jersey City, NJ. [Check out his incredible portfolio here.]

Simon is planning on driving across the United States on a phototour this summer. He is planning on leaving the same time we are planning to leave. We basically planned the EXACT SAME TRIP without having any knowledge of each other’s existence.

A mutual friend of ours, Adrienne [read her lovely foodblog here], noticed this, and referred him to me. So he emailed me.

It went directly to my spam folder. I never check my spam. I probably haven’t in half a year. And I happened to check it for the first time FOUR HOURS after he sent me that initial email. Fancy that.

So we’ve been exchanging information and plans and advice regarding our separate phototours, and obviously plan on having some sort of epic crossing of paths, because all of this is too crazy not to do something like that.

So far, we’re planning to meet up in NYC, bid him farewell as he begins his leg of the phototour (he is going clockwise, and we are going counter-clockwise). We will meet up again in Little Rock, Arkansas (somehow both of us have a ton of contacts there who all happen to be amazing people), then meet up again in San Francisco. It will be fun to see how our separate tours develop, and I will be regularly keeping all of you posted on where Simon is and what he is doing in relation to where we are and what we are doing.

Read Simon’s photoblog here.

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We’d love to hear your feedback regarding the site, suggestions/recommendations for our travels, good places to go, people to meet, things to see/eat/do… Shoot us an email at info@welldonetour.com or leave us a blog comment. We’d love to hear from you! Seriously!

Ok, that’s all for now. More updates to come!

H