
| May 1, 2011 WAVEJourney.com Women's Adventures, Vacations & Experiences ~ Your Journey Starts Here! Who is WAVE Journey & what are we all about? Vivienne Chapleo & Jill Hoelting are the co-founders/editors of WAVEJourney.com - Women's Adventures, Vacations & Experiences ~ Your Journey Starts Here! WAVEJourney.com is a women's online travel magazine that provides valuable first-hand recommendations to a world-wide audience. Currently, 82 travel writers have contributed numerous travel articles and hundreds of readers have shared their travel tips that are published in a monthly travel newsletter. Co-Founders, Vivienne Chapleo and Jill Hoelting, bring many years of travel experience to WAVE Journey. Vivienne has more than twenty years of work experience in many areas of both the hospitality and business industries and has travelled extensively during that time. Jill has a background in outdoor education, high adventure and world travel with professional experience in both business and tourism. This dynamic duo has combined their collective passion for travel and meeting people from around the world and created a platform for sharing all that is travel. Viv and Jill prefer to experience a cruise, hotel, resort, activity, tour or any other travel adventure just as a typical guest would, so to best be able to review the guest experience first-hand. They typically travel as a writer/photographer team and collaborate on all reviews and articles in order to best serve and recommend the company, destination, activity being experienced. WAVE Journey readers know they can count on accurate reviews and recommendations from the co-founders. Following are the latest figures for WAVE Journey: - June 5, 2005 - WAVEJourney.com concept was born and work started building the website. - January 16, 2006 - WAVEJourney.com website was launched. - Read the 6th Anniversary Press Release: http://www.wavejourney.com/Press.html - Reach a worldwide audience, but 85% of our readers are from USA and Canada. - Average age is: 35-70. (largest number is between 45-65) - 70% married. - Average income: $125K - Hovering around 100+k/mth for hits on the WAVE Journey website. Plus, we also submit articles to other websites that are appropriate for the type of activity/destination/etc., to increase readership. These other outlets receive 5-8 million hits/mth. - Publish a free monthly travel newsletter with a subscriber base of 13+k with a very high opening rate - we purge bounces every month. - 95% female audience (we have a number of men that love what we do). - Audience is seeking soft-adventure combined with luxury accommodations and gourmet food. - A large portion of our readers tend to spend $20,000-$50,000/year on travel. - Alexa ranking = 237,129 - Google PR = 4 - Twitter Followers = 2500+ - Facebook Friends = 1450+ - Google+ = 750+ in circles Viv and Jill are very interactive with readers - receiving many emails daily requesting recommendations for all things travel related. Readers trust that if Viv and Jill recommend an activity, destination, lodging, restaurant, company, product, etc., that they have experienced it themselves and they will be satisfied with spending their time and money on it too. In celebration of WAVE Journey's sixth anniversary, the WAVEJourney.com website has been revamped and expanded, enhancing the travel-related content which allows for easy navigation on the website to research and plan that next trip. Each year we take the top requests from our readers regarding companies, destinations and activities that they would like us to experience and review. At the top of the 2012 list, readers are looking for more information on all things related to cruising, luxury beach resorts, gourmet dining, cooking trips, wine, beer and spirit experiences, soft-adventures in the great outdoors and much more. We do not compare one brand with another, we simply partake in the guest experience and then report back on those details. That way, we can keep our readership up-to-date with the various travel company offerings. PR representatives wishing to offer press/media trips and invitations, as well as, test products to review, should contact the Co-Founders with details. WAVE Journey may be viewed at: www.wavejourney.com Vivienne Chapleo and/or Jill Hoelting may be contacted by email at: wavejourney (at) ymail (dot) com Phone: 541-318-5732 Mail: WAVE Journey LLC, 729 SW Silver Lake Blvd, Bend, Oregon, 97702, USA. Advertise on WAVEJourney.com. WJ's Full Disclosure Statement. |


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