Off to the Homeland

Surf Tours Nicaragua has been here in Leon, hard at work on our business plan and getting our ducks in a row to get out of town. A few fun things have happened over the past week that are notable.

First and foremost, the Giant Killers have struck again! Oregon State beat the #1 ranked USC Trojans at Reser Stadium this past Thursday night to solidify their position in the world at the "Giant Killers." I watched the game at La Perla in Leon with some friends there, whooping it up at my Beavers stomped on the Trojans from start to finish!

Second, we have made the decision to bring on a manager for this coming year in order to free up some time to focus on sales and marketing. With our lofty goal of doubling our client base from 75 in 2008 to 150 in 2009, we feel like it is in our best interest to hand over the daily operations of the business too a qualified manager (or team) and to put our energy into developing lasting relationships in the surf industry to secure our position at Nicaragua's Surf and Adventure Travel Experts.

Finally, we finally had time to work on the website and internet marketing a bit. Check out the website at www.surftoursnicaragua.com and be sure to got to the Media page at www.surftoursnicaragua.com/media for a look at all the new photos that we uploaded. As well, we now have Facebook and MySpace pages that are really driving our internet marketing to a new level. See our STN Facebook profile here and our STN MySpace profile here.

Next week, our owner, Nic Reid will head off to the US to have a little personal time outside of Nicaragua, and to continue our surf shop paper marketing campaign. Look for him in SoCal and Northern Florida over the next month, hitting the surf shops, camps and instructional facilities with flyers, displays, T-shirts, posters and more.

Please not the following offer for surf shop owners/managers, instructors, and other surf industry leaders. For any clients that are directly referred to Surf Tours Nicaragua and sign up for a tour with us, we will kick back 10% of the gross sales to that person in the form of a credit with us for a future tour. Example: if someone refers a group of 4 to us with gross receipts of $4,000 for a tour, the referrer receives a credit of 10% of that value, or $400 toward an all-inclusive tour of northern Nicaragua and Nicaragua's best waves with Surf Tours Nicaragua! Pretty killer, eh?

All for now...more to come! Peace and good surfin' to ya!