Have you ever wanted to work with us, but weren’t sure how?

Between our Website and Social Media channels there are lots of ways we can collaborate. Read more below to find out the common ways we work with the people, places, and products of San Luis Obispo County, or email us directly at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com to find out more!

WEBSITE LISTING & ADVERTISING

For Wineries, Places to Eat & Drink, & Fun Places to Visit

The wineries, places to eat & drink, and fun places to visit listed on San Luis Obispo Guide have been curated by its co-founders, Nick and Nicole Grant. These types of businesses do not pay a fee to be listed on San Luis Obispo Guide, but do have marketing and advertising opportunities available to enhance their current listing. 

FEATURED BLOG POST

The wineries, places to eat and drink, and fun places to visit on our website will have a business listing that includes:

• 1 External Picture
• Location Information
• General Contact Information
• Short Description

For a small fee, you can enhance your business listing on our website with a blog post dedicated to your business. We would come out to your place of business to learn more about it, and take images that will be turned into a professional gallery for your post. The post would include up to 1,000 words of text about your business, its history, and our experience, as well as information about the city (or cities) where you business is located, and itinerary suggestions on how to include your business in a visit to the area.

The content would also be shared on our social media channels, and any stories shared would include links to the post about your business on sanluisobispoguide.com. Sponsored Posts are also available if you would like more input over the content we share on our social channels about your business (see the Social Media section below for more information).

If this sounds interesting to you, email our co-founder Nicole at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com for rates and to schedule a time for us to come and visit you!

Advertising Opportunities

In addition to your business listing, there are several advertising opportunities across the San Luis Obispo Guide website to further promote your business. These include Featured Business placements on relevant pages, Advertising on Specific Business Pages, and placement in the relevant Footer that appears on every listing in that grouping (i.e. Food & Drink, Wineries, Fun, etc.). 

Advertising opportunities are also available to relevant industries, such as hotels, real estate agents, etc.

Contact us at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com for current advertising rates and placement opportunities. 

FESTIVALS & EVENTS

If you’re hosting an event in SLO County, we’d love to know so we can help you promote it! Currently there are three ways we can help spread the word about your festival or event:

1. Tag us in a post on social media
   This is the easiest way to get in contact with us about sharing your festival or event. Simply tag us in the post, and we’ll share it to our stories.
   
2. Add the Festival or Event to our Event Calendar
   If you’re hosting an event in SLO County, we’d love to know about it and have it published on our Event Calendar! Simply Submit Your Event, and within three business days you’ll be able to see it on our calendar. During your first submission you can also create an account where you can see the status of your events, and come back to make any necessary edits.
   
3. Have us Attend Your Event
   If you’d also like us to attend the event (which we would love to do!), we’ll put the event on our IG feed, share it to our Stories, add to the Local Events Highlight, share more Stories the entire time we’re at the event, add the event to our Events Calendar on our website,  and write a blog post about our experience! If you’re interested in inviting us to your upcoming event, please email our co-founder Nicole at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com.
   
4. Special Event Spotlight in our Monthly Newsletter
   Each month we highlight 1 – 3 local events in the Special Event Spotlight section of our monthly newsletter. This includes 500 words written about the event, a dedicated reel about the festival or event, and inclusion in the emailed newsletter and all promotional materials. If you’re interested in being featured as one of the Special Event Spotlights, please email our co-founder Nicole at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Have you ever seen us post to Instagram and wondered how that business, product, or person got featured? It happened one of two ways:

1. We visited the business ourselves, and decided to promote our visit
2. The business reached out wanting to collaborate with us! 

Our goal is to visit all the incredible places around SLO County, but if you’d like for us to visit you sooner than later DM us on Instagram or email our co-founder Nicole at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com so we can chat about how to collaborate with you!

Sponsored Post

If you’d like a little more input over the content we post about your business, a Sponsored Post may be the best way to work with us. We will still come out to your place of business with our cameras to capture the experience, but you’d have approval over what images we use, the dates we post, and every word of the caption, including the hashtags!

Instagram Takeover

An Instagram Takeover is a great way to promote your business, product, or event without the stress of doing all the posts and stories yourself. During a takeover we would literally log into your Instagram account, and post to your Instagram Feed and/or Instagram Stories for a set amount of time. We would also promote the takeover in advance by sharing a post on our feed, and on the day of the takeover, share all the stories from your Instagram Account to ours. 

Instagram Giveaway

Instagram Giveaways are a great way to attract new followers and engage your existing audience, but can be a lot of work to keep organized! Let us do that work for you by partnering with us on an Instagram Giveaway. If you supply the prize we will organize the posts, keep track of entries, and take care of announcing the winner. We’ll also share all that content with you so you can easily promote the giveaway and get more entries! 

CONSULTING

Instagram Workshops

Instagram can be a challenge, especially if you’re new to running a business account! 

In our four-hour workshop we walk you through Instagram Analytics, Posts, Stories, and Reels. You’ll have the chance to learn all about these Instagram fundamentals, and then get a chance to practice with us in the room! 

Not only will you walk away with the theoretical knowledge to help you manage your account, you’ll get the practical application too, and confidence to rock all the posts to your account! 

These workshops are only offered to small pods or groups of people already working together at your business. Fees are $150/person, with a minimum of five people and maximum of 10.

Managed Instagram Accounts

Instagram is an incredibly powerful tool for small businesses. It provides completely free marketing for your business, and the opportunity to reach thousands of people, millions if you’re lucky! But to be successful you have to have a strategy and know what you’re doing, which takes precious time away from your actual business. 

That is where we can come in to help! Let us put our knowledge to work for you by managing your Instagram account. We will post on your behalf, respond to comments and DMs as appropriate, and analyze your account to ensure we’re doing everything to maximize your growth.

Fees will vary depending on deliverables, so email us at hello@sanluisobispoguide.com or call (805) 391-4476 to discuss options!