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The Weekly Offer Share

How your special offer reaches high-intent travelers every week, free users included.

What it is, and why it helps you

Every business on Painted Circle gives a special offer. Supporters (travelers who pay a small yearly fee to support the guide) can see every offer, any time. The Weekly Offer Share brings your offer to free travelers too, so it reaches far more people than Supporters alone.

  1. 1Each week we share your offer with up to 10 free travelers whose interests match your business: the places they want to go and the kinds of travel they love. These are travelers who told us what they're looking for, so your offer reaches people already planning trips like yours. You'll find the setting under Special offer → Sharing your offer on your dashboard; it's on unless you switch it off.

    Step 1: Each week we share your offer with up to 10 free travelers whose interests match your business: the places they want to go and the kinds of travel they love. These are travelers who told us what they're looking for, so your offer reaches people already planning trips like yours. You'll find the setting under Special offer → Sharing your offer on your dashboard; it's on unless you switch it off.
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  • It's free for you and for them, and it costs you nothing unless a traveler books and uses your offer.
  • We never guess interests: travelers choose their own places and kinds of travel. Nobody is tracked, and nobody receives an offer they didn't sign up for.
  • Every business fills at the same pace: we hand out offers so each business's weekly places fill evenly, whatever its size.
How a round works

A new round starts every Friday afternoon (3 pm New York time).

  1. 2Each of your listings has 10 places a week. We match each place to a free traveler. Travelers who saved your business to one of their lists come first. Then a place they want to go together with a kind of travel you offer, then a place alone, then a kind of travel alone.

  2. 3The traveler has 48 hours to choose Save or No thanks. A saved offer shows its details (your code and how to redeem it) to them for 14 days, so they can book with you directly.

  3. 4No thanks (or no answer) passes the place on to the next matching traveler, so each of your 10 places keeps travelling through the week until someone saves it.

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  • A traveler gets at most one offer a week and keeps at most 3 saved at once. After being offered anything from a business, they won't be offered it again for a year, so your 10 places keep going to new people. One exception: a traveler who saves your business to a list after that offer can be offered it once more.
  • A business's owners and managers never get offers from their own business.
  • Welcome offers: a traveler who has just set up their interests may get one matching offer as a welcome, on top of your weekly 10.
Your share settings

On your dashboard, open Special offer, then the Sharing your offer section. Both settings are on unless you switch them off, and each saves on its own.

  1. 5Take part in the Weekly Offer Share: your 10 weekly places for free travelers. Take part in welcome offers: your offer may also go to new travelers as a one-time welcome.

    Step 5: Take part in the Weekly Offer Share: your 10 weekly places for free travelers. Take part in welcome offers: your offer may also go to new travelers as a one-time welcome.
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  • Switching them off doesn't hide your offer from Supporters: they always see every business's offer.
  • Pausing your listing pauses the share too.

The pictures show an example business. Still stuck? Email info@paintedcircle.com.