Archive for May, 2009

GuideGecko featured in Female and Simply Her

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Female Magazine and Simply Her Magazine, both well-known women’s monthlies in Singapore, have featured GuideGecko with short articles in their June editions.

The article in Female focuses on our large variety of travel guides, competitive prices and free shipping in Singapore. It mentions two guides explicitly, namely the National Geographic Best Girlfriend Getaways Worldwide (it’s a women’s magazine, after all) and one of our independent guides, ‘The Netherlands‘, by the WritingTravellers Community.

The article in Simple Her explains that we have an ‘excellent range of travel guides at prices that are as much as $10 lower than at major bookstores.’ The article continues with a quick overview of our publishing platform, mentioning that you can publish your guides as printed books and downloads. The final sentence is: ‘What a great way to make money to fund your next holiday!’

You can find these and more articles in our Media Center.

Press Release: GuideGecko starts ‘Crazy Tuesday Travel Guide Deals’ on Facebook®

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

GuideGecko starts ‘Crazy Tuesday Travel Guide Deals’ on Facebook®

Customers vote for the travel guides they want at a 30% discount

Singapore, 12 May 2009 – GuideGecko today launches its Crazy Tuesday Travel Guide Deals, a promotion that allows customers to choose which travel guide they want to buy at a 30% discount. Every Facebook user that becomes a fan of GuideGecko’s page can join the weekly votes. The guide with the highest number of votes wins and is available at a 30% discount for one day on the following Tuesday.

Voting takes place on GuideGecko’s page on Facebook® at www.facebook.com/pages/GuideGecko/119479475760 . Fans can vote for any of 2100+ travel guides available on www.GuideGecko.com . While every fan can only vote once per week, users are welcome to invite their friends to vote in favor of their preferred guide. There are no obligations for fans or voters. Fans submit their votes as comments on the page, citing the guide title and a link to the guide on GuideGecko’s website.

A new vote starts every week. Voting ends each Monday at 12:00noon Singapore time. The winning guide is offered at a 30% discount off the suggested retail price on the following Tuesday. GuideGecko delivers worldwide at low shipping costs, with free shipping in Singapore.

"We leverage Facebook for its viral marketing potential. We involve our customers and empower them to decide which guides shall go on offer. Facebook is a highly interactive platform, and Crazy Tuesday Travel Guide Deals reflects that," says Daniel Quadt, Founder and Managing Director of GuideGecko.

Details are available at www.facebook.com/pages/GuideGecko/119479475760 .

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About GuideGecko

GuideGecko is part online shop and part publishing platform for travel, lifestyle and entertainment guides. GuideGecko currently offers more than 2100 guides on 169 countries and 270 cities and regions around the world. All well known series are available, including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and Insight Guides, along with a large variety of less conventional titles such as Hedonist’s Guides and Trailblazer, amongst many others.

Budding authors are invited to publish and sell their own guides on www.GuideGecko.com , and GuideGecko makes such guides available as PDF downloads and as printed books/booklets. Publishing is free and authors earn 50-75% on every copy sold.

All guides on one site, all at very low prices. That’s GuideGecko.

For more information, please visit www.GuideGecko.com . For photos, logos and screenshots, please visit www.GuideGecko.com/media .

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The Guardian and Gadling Talking Travel

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I have been ‘Talking Travel’ with Brenda from Gadling on April 27, and Benji has written a nice little GuideGecko feature on Guardian.co.uk on April 28. No wonder our visitor numbers have risen sharply by the end of April. Very nice, and a big thank you to Brenda and Benji!

You can find links to these and more articles on GuideGecko in our Media Center.