Sponsor Our Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

Sponsor Our Tour – We are currently seeking sponsors to help offset the cost of our 2010 Montana Tour. Due to the high volume of visitors to the amazing state of Montana during the peak summer months, it’s difficult for businesses to provide media accomodations, since most of them only have three big months to do a year’s worth of business.

There are areas where we’d like to extend coverage, like the Kalispell/Flathead Lake area, but we can’t do it without your help.

If you’d like more information about sponsoring our tour, get in touch using the Contact Page, and thank you!

2008 Tour – In 2008 we conducted two tours, each three-weeks in duration, and it was all done in advance of the launch of this publication, and for the purpose of establishing enough groundwork to lay the foundation for the Montana With Kids travel review publication.

2009 Tour – – In 2009, due to the great friends we made on our trips and the number of requests for review that came in since we first began publishing our Montana articles, we planned and executed a 15-week 2009 summer tour covering as many of the countless businesses and attractions we couldn’t get to on our previous trips.

2010 Tour – We are only planning a limited number of engagements for our 2010 summer schedule. We have a few dates in the Flathead Lake area, as well as a tour to Miles City and Terry set for the end of July. If you’d like your city, business or attraction to be considered for inclusion, please write to us immediately so we can make arrangements to get you on the calendar before it’s too late.

If you think your community may have a number of businesses that can benefit from our news media review, now is the time to organize it and suggest to us that we should come back through your city.

All we need is for you to touch base and invite us. Start there. We’ve NEVER charged anyone for us to include them in our reviews, even when their cities were off our scheduled path.

If we’re already planning to visit:

• If we’re already going to be in your area, just write to invite us. If we’re there anyhow, we’re happy to do it in order to expand our knowledge base. We’ll need names and numbers of contacts for your business, but that’s all. We’re hoping to hit most major cities, but if we don’t know you’re interested, we may not be able to get to you, so act early and let us know so you won’t be missed.
• There is NO CHARGE to review your businesses and attractions if we’re coming through anyhow. We earn our revenue from ad sales and future guide book sales, so it is NEVER our intention to force businesses to pay for inclusion.

If we’re not planning to visit:

• Overnight accommodations for the days necessary to properly review the businesses requested. If this is not possible, we can discuss a modest per diem in liue. We can often review 3-5 per day, sometimes more, depending on the nature and extent of the attractions. No cities sell out 100% every day of the summer, so although it’s understandable that summer is when the income is earned, an empty room is of no value to anyone, and we can split that difference with you.
• One meal per day for our group during our stay. This can be provided by individuals or restaurants that want a review. If this is not possible, we may discuss a per diem for this as well.
• Local guide/assistant to help us find our locations, teach us about subtleties of the area, and seek out additional attractions to add to our reviews. This can be as simple as a contact at the visitor’s center to help us connect with the right people in town.

What we offer in kind:

• MontanaWithKids.com is an accredited Google News affiliate, so every review we publish will immediately become searchable in the news.google.com index, where it will remain indefinitely. That means that participating businesses WILL enjoy a review in the mainstream news.
• We will review each and every business requested. That means each hotel, restaurant, and every event and attraction will each get a unique review complete with directions, hours of operation and a direct link to their website. If we have breakfast at the diner, lunch at the pizzeria, and dinner at the steakhouse, that means all three will get a review that day, plus the hotel, plus any other tourist attractions or businesses we visit that day.
• All accommodating businesses will get a text link on all pages of the site for 1 year.
• Unused ad spaces will be randomly distributed to all businesses reviewed (in rotation) for 10-months.

In summary:

Even if you can’t find us a room or a meal, we’ll still come out and perform reviews to the best of our ability. We hope to hit every city and every attraction, and apologize in advance that this may not be possible, but we promise to do our best.

If you have an out-of-the way locale and you know your city deserves the reviews, consider that over a few days, and for just the cost of putting us up and providing a mean a day, we can make that happen for you. Even at that price there is no better value in advertising anywhere.

Use the CONTACT PAGE to request a site visit!

And please don’t be discouraged for any reason. If you fear cost may be an issue, contact us and we’ll try to work something out. Besides, we might already be planning a trip to your area!

There are cities like Havre and Chinook that we’re eager to see, but they’re so far out of the way it becomes time/cost-prohibitive unless we have our schedule lined up in advance and we can know that we’ll have a number of attractions to review.

Who should contact MontanaWithKids to schedule a visit?

Any city, chamber of commerce, or even individuals, so long as they want mainstream media coverage. It’s most important for cities that are off the beaten path, because getting tourists (and even us) away from I-90 can be tricky. If you’ve got a great little town with interesting things to see and do, you owe it to yourself and your city to do what you can. Contact us, because maybe we’re coming out anyway and are just waiting to talk with you.

How do I know how good this is?

I can provide you with traffic and readership statistics, as well as a long list of professionals in Montana I’ve reviewed in the past who can vouch for our professionalism and effectiveness. Just ask.

Use the CONTACT PAGE to request a site visit!