We believe that the moment when someone decides to attend an event is the optimal time for them to plan how they will get there.

If an event ends late at night and/or alcohol is served at the venue, even a local resident may choose to get a hotel room.  At Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, they calculate that 17% of event goers (whether sports or concerts) need or want a hotel room.  This number goes way up for major events that only happen once a year, such as the US Open, Superbowl, the World Series or the Final Four.

Integration into an events system captures the highest possible intent for travel.

By integrating into the event page, prior to committing to buy the ticket the individual can search in a separate window (branded with your brand) to see if rooms are available.  Or if they are local and don’t need a room, they can simply use the map and driving directions.

Marketing messages used in email or social media campaigns for an event, such as Make it a Weekend or Make it a Date Night, can increase the likelihood of a hotel stay.

If it is a good idea, then why wouldn’t we do it ourselves?

Providing these systems is our core business and it is a full time effort to stay on top of it.  We have a team of 12 today that are dedicated to client management and development, as well as assisting you with marketing and merchandising our capabilities.

Standard travel booking systems are not engineered to automatically find hotels nearby venues and events.  They operate on a city center and airport centric back end.

TripProximity was engineered around events and venues and was built to be dynamically integrated in the same day as the decision is made.   We provide not only technology, but we provide ongoing marketing support from your Account Director and we do a minimum of three major product releases a year, with weekly sprints to add incremental capabilities.

The online systems’ affiliate networks are the red-headed stepchildren of the parent companies and their tech resources are about the same as what is available with Solutionz Innovations.  They also do not have the resources necessary to act as your proactive marketing partner.  Their systems require programming to their API and integration can take weeks and even months to go live.  Even minor changes to images and logos or navigation on the booking system requires a programming sprint which is generally a 3 week cycle.  They do not have self-service portals that allow you to fully maintain your own environments.

We are always seeking to make travel to a place or an event smarter and easier.  That is our commitment to you.

Why should we consider adding Eventful content to the TripProximity product for your other clients?

The metrics of driving traffic to Eventful and your other online properties is a known quantity and likely follow a mathematical equation.  To increase your reach costs real dollars.  We have observed that your current marketing efforts are geared largely toward locals, versus those that are traveling (although you can clearly manage a search to anywhere).  Without development, it would be difficult, if not impossible for you to know where people are going and proactively provide them with an offer email similar to your local one.

TripProximity has a unique plan to integrate trip planning into the systems that people use every day.  We are solely a B2B platform, providing tools to enterprise systems, plus providing a self-service capability for individual venues and events that wish to use our tool.

This approach nets us hundreds of thousands, and even millions of monthly travelers with a single implementation.  This is much more efficient than the standard online travel site that spends $1m/mo on keywords to drive 500k in unique visitors.  Our cost of traveler acquisition is literally zero once the client is installed.

Royalties

We earn revenues from travel bookings made on our client systems.  The highest revenues come from hotels, then car rental.  Air tickets produce a nominal fee.  We are paid post-checkout, generally within 30 days for completed bookings.

In 4Q18 we are adding another booking source to augment our longstanding relationship with Priceline Partner Network and Booking.com.  That will add not only 200 new inventory sources for lodging (including non-standard apartments, home rentals), cruise and attractions, but also the ability to serve very deeply discounted products to closed user groups behind a login (e.g. your Eventful subscribers).

Solutionz will share 20% of our revenues with Entercom for any activities on Eventful or any of your other online properties, such as Radio.com.  Should the monthly bookings exceed 250, we will move you to our highest earning threshold of 30%.

NOTE:  If Entercom agrees to allow Solutionz to utilize the Eventful content to power our “I’m Discovering” event tab, we will honor the 30% rate without a minimum booking threshhold.

Giving Back

We will donate a minimum of 10% of our revenues to your charity of choice annually, giving the funds in your name.

For special campaigns, such as telethons and other special programs such as I’m Listening, we are willing to do a special donation of 50% of our revenues for those campaigns at the conclusion of the campaign.

We believe that we need to earn your business every day and we are committed to your satisfaction.

You will have an Account Director that will navigate our organization to respond promptly to any issues or concerns.

Solutionz does not require a long term contractual commitment.   We do ask our enterprise clients for one year, with mutual agreement on renewal.

We guarantee that we will have the lowest published rates on hotel rooms.  We stand behind that promise with a 110% best rate guarantee, and we will refund 110% of the difference if someone finds the same hotel, same room type for the same dates/duration after booking on your site(s).

We provide 24/7/365 support in 40+ languages for the customer and an Account Director will be assigned to you for escalation of any issues with the smart trip tool or any of your campaigns.

We recognize that you have very strong partnerships in place with ticketing providers and also with the philanthropic organizations that you serve.  We have a very strong offering for both of those categories.  For ticketing providers, we can add the travel offer as a “do you want fries with that” at the end of the buying path.  For 501c3s we have various fund raising tools, including our “anywhere” tool that can be used to raise donations while they sleep.

We have a formal referral program and the underlying technology to track referrals from Entercom.   If you make referrals to Solutionz, we want to thank you in a material way.

We have started you at Level 2, which immediately allows you to earn royalties and donations.   Any referrals that you make while you are at Level 2 will be counted toward reaching Level 3.

Once you achieve Level 3 with us (250 booking threshhold), any referrals that you have done will accrue to your account and we will pay you as a channel partner on those deals at a fixed 10% of their first year’s revenues.