Hi everyone. By now you should all know that Picture Penzance is a non profit organisation reliant on donations and volunteers. We are keen to break our reliability on donations and have explored several different ways to bring in a regular income. So far not many of the ideas we have tried have been that successful.
So sparky and I have been storming some ideas and have come up with what we think is a solution. It's called give us all your money...
NO only kidding!
But seriously we have a solution and would welcome your opinion on whether or not you think the idea is viable.
Here goes! We've taken part of the idea from Blondesurfguy66 who suggested that we get a few cars together and a load of us go out in to the sticks and get some pictures of area's that are not so exposed on the net... for instance Nancledra. We thought that was a good idea and then we thought what if?
So we go with the idea of storming an area with a few members and upload the pictures. We then do a short write up of the amenities, attractions and a small map showing where it is and place then in an area on the front page of PP. We do this for all of the villages and towns throughout Penwith.
Now we approach the B&B's, guest houses and hotels in the area and encourage them to advertise Picture Penzance to their potential guests so that they can view and or research what they will do and see in the area whilst on holiday. They will be able to interact with the members if they join. This facility isn't available anywhere else and could prove successful. The b&b's , guest houses and hotels have a free service available to them so there is no reason why they shouldn't use it. each village/town will have their what's on added to the what's on locally section and the holidays makers will love to look around West Cornwall and see what it's really like and more importantly... those places that don't get exposed in the holiday brochure.
The traffic would increase throughout the site and the advertising revenue will increase to a point that we would have a realistic income and therefore able to reinvest back in to the site.
What are your thoughts please?
So sparky and I have been storming some ideas and have come up with what we think is a solution. It's called give us all your money...
NO only kidding!But seriously we have a solution and would welcome your opinion on whether or not you think the idea is viable.
Here goes! We've taken part of the idea from Blondesurfguy66 who suggested that we get a few cars together and a load of us go out in to the sticks and get some pictures of area's that are not so exposed on the net... for instance Nancledra. We thought that was a good idea and then we thought what if?
So we go with the idea of storming an area with a few members and upload the pictures. We then do a short write up of the amenities, attractions and a small map showing where it is and place then in an area on the front page of PP. We do this for all of the villages and towns throughout Penwith.
Now we approach the B&B's, guest houses and hotels in the area and encourage them to advertise Picture Penzance to their potential guests so that they can view and or research what they will do and see in the area whilst on holiday. They will be able to interact with the members if they join. This facility isn't available anywhere else and could prove successful. The b&b's , guest houses and hotels have a free service available to them so there is no reason why they shouldn't use it. each village/town will have their what's on added to the what's on locally section and the holidays makers will love to look around West Cornwall and see what it's really like and more importantly... those places that don't get exposed in the holiday brochure.
The traffic would increase throughout the site and the advertising revenue will increase to a point that we would have a realistic income and therefore able to reinvest back in to the site.
What are your thoughts please?
You do have an audience though and people will pay money to advertise here.Why stop at hotels and guest houses,what about restaurants and gift(souvenir) shops too in fact pretty much any local buisness.That's just my opinion,hope it was some help.I went to school in Heamoor(Mounts Bay School) i see you live there.Keep up the good work.Matt.
You've got my profile picture,so if you see me say hello(I'll be the one with the quiff!).I am an emmet,but my family has deep roots in the history of Penzance,and Newlyn(Cocks and distant relation to the Kelynacks)names I'm sure you'll now.My grandfather was councillor for Newlyn till about 1980 I think.Might be able to upload some interesting pic's,better ask the old man first!
