The Smart Trip Tool can be used to allow your clients to plan a trip to see individuals, prospects, clients and other venues.

Following are some ideas for your client base for this capability, based on their content and what would drive their customers to travel.  We know that your team will have other ideas once you understand the breadth of what we can do with our smart trip tools.

  

The Smart Trip tool can be added to any event system to allow anyone traveling to an event to find a hotel nearby.    It can also feature and track the true influence of the following participants through our dynamic tool that can be given to each one to promote the event.  Each one can also benefit their own charity of choice.

• Speakers
• Exhibitors
• Celebrities
• Workshops

As a channel partner, BottleRocket Studios will benefit from any of your clients that elect to add TripProximity’s smart trip tool to their website as a VISIT US page.

This summer we released our self-service product for our channel partners, where you can provide a link to any of your clients so that they can build their own widget for their website.  They can install it in minutes.  Your tracking code will automatically be inserted into every widget created.  You earn 10% of all of our revenues on your referred clients, even if the product is not included in a Bottle Rocket created app.

Making money while you sleep…..

Our Smart Giving anywhere tool can be used by Bottle Rocket Studios or any of your clients to raise money for a 501c3.

Instead of our normal 10% donation annually to your charity of choice, with the use of the Smart Giving tool, on a quarterly basis, we will donate 25% of our gross revenues from bookings made using the tool.

Each individual widget can be a separate campaign for a different charity.   It can be used by your employees, friends, family or any group that your company is associated with.

The self-service version of this product was released this summer to our client base and as a channel partner, it is available to you as well.

#givingmatters

As long as the photo or video has a lat/long, we can add a button to the screen to VISIT that place.  We can also do the same things for stories that mention places.

So no more writing things that inspire people, then leave them hanging.

#experiencematters

The Event widget is one of our Smart Trip tools.  It allows you to embed trip planning in any event for any of your client’s apps.

It is distinct from the Venue widget in that it has a specific date range for the event and a location where the event is held.

Once we have provided the base events widget, you may add the dynamic variable elements that you wish to pass at display time to the appropriate widget snippet.  They should be preceded by the following two lines. Follow the variables with the closing code segment.

We’ve included the recommended variables for Seatslink (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tripWidget({

eventStart: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’,

eventEnd: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’,

headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘,

appendPOI: ‘Y’,

poiName: ‘%EVENTNAME%’,

address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’,

trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’,

imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’,

imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’,

})

</script>

Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers.

The tool type is set to EVENT

The header text is set to “Plan my trip to “

Pass the Event Name as a variable

The POI name will be appended to the header text

We have stored a default image that you can override at display time

Pass the Tracking number at display time from your customer information

Pass the location information in the address field at display time

We default to the US and USD for currency

The booking brand will default to the hotels nearby events

You can customize the color scheme from your portal to customize the palette for the widget.  Each of your clients can have their own palette.

The widget is set to display the HOTEL tab in front.  If you would like a MAP widget as the default, we can change it or we can provide a separate widget for that purpose, which could be called based on a business rule.  We have a 10 booking per month minimum if you use the MAP widget to cover the costs of our mapping API.

We have enabled the Air and Driving tabs

The user can enter the departure and arrival airports at transaction time

The event dates should be passed to us at transaction time

The Venue widget is one of our Smart Trip tools.  It allows you to embed trip planning on any page for any of your clients’ systems or apps where there is a contact with an address.  A venue can be a physical place, like a company or a museum, or it can be a location like a park or a beach.  As long as we can pinpoint a latitude/longitude, we can “trip enable” the contact record.

It is distinct from the Event widget in that the dates of travel are relative to the date that the tool is displayed, e.g. travel 7 days from today for 1 night.

Click the HDQ widget above to see the widget for the BottleRocket corporate website for people traveling to see your HDQ staff.

We will walk you through the creation of a dynamic venue widget in your own custom portal.

In the next section you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once.  Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.

To generate the dynamic widget, once you build your venue widget you will add the following to the widget snippet. This includes the dynamic variable elements that you wish to pass at display time, preceded by the following two lines (your snippet). Follow the variables with the closing code segment.

We’ve included the recommended variables for BottleRocket (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tripWidget({

daysFromToday: ‘7’,

numberOfDays: ‘1’,

headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘,

appendPOI: ‘Y’,

poiName: ‘%CONTACTNAME%’,

address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’,

mapTab: ‘1’,

trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’,

imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’,

imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’,

})

</script>

The conditional MapTab flag is new.

1.  If there is no address in the contact record, set to 0.  The system will display the hotel page which will allow them to look up the company name or start typing an address and it will complete.

2.  If you have a full address or just city/state, set to 1,  it will default to the map.  If there is no %STREET%, the hotel widget will default to the text in the portal for address, which is instructional on looking up the exact address.

Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers.

The tool type is set to VENUE

The header text is set to “Plan my trip to “

Pass the Company or Venue Name as a variable

The POI name will be appended to the header text

We have stored a default image that you can override at display time

Pass the Tracking number at display time from your customer information

Pass the location information in the address field at display time

We default to the US and USD for currency

The booking brand will default to the hotels nearby

The color scheme can be set in the portal for each widget type or you can set up templates for each client.

The widget is set to display the MAP in front.  If you would like a HOTEL widget as the default, we can change it or we can provide a separate widget for that purpose, which could be called based on a business rule

We have enabled the Air and Driving tabs

The user can enter the departure and arrival airports at transaction time

The travel dates will default to 7 days from the day that the widget is displayed

The default trip length is 1 night

These can both be overriden by the traveler