Categories: The Pros' Corner

Fishing guide: how to improve your chances of booking on Rodmaps?

The goal ? Help you gain visibility and attract more French and foreign anglers.

That's it: as fishing guide you have created your Rodmaps account and have posted your guide ad. From now on… you are waiting for booking requests. Do not panic ! The Rodmaps team is there to advise all fishing guides on how to effectively promote your guide offers. The goal ? Help you gain visibility and attract more French and foreign anglers.

1. Complete your offers and your Rodmaps profile

As a fishing guide, you must make fishermen want to book your guide offer through your ads. To do this, please complete all the sections of your ads. Each of them is made to help anglers find a fishing guide easily according to their expectations, their level and other search criteria.

Very important element which is already reported by Rodmaps customers: take beautiful pictures of your fishing guides to showcase your ads. The video is also a good way to differentiate yourself as a fishing guide and to immerse the traveler in your surroundings. If necessary, you can contact us if you wish to call a photographer or videographer to highlight your activity. We have some very effective and free alternatives for you to enjoy quality videos.

Finally, know that our team can help you optimize all your ads for free in order to make them more attractive to the Rodmaps community. Of Youtubers with whom we work can also come and meet you to promote your fishing guide activity in video.

2. Be a responsive fishing guide!

If you take more than a day to respond to a reservation request, initial findings show that you may lose 50% of your requests. Note that you do not need to constantly log into the site. With each reservation request, you will receive a alert on your mailbox as well as a Rodmaps team notification by SMS.

Only worry about the content of your answer, Rodmaps takes care of the rest.

3. Remind your fishermen to leave you a comment after their stay.

Be aware that a good evaluation of your offer and your profile as a fishing guide can multiply by three your probabilities of requesting reservation. If your anglers enjoyed their fishing trip in your company, encourage them to share their experience to the entire Rodmaps community.

Thanks to this positive feedback, your offers of fishing guide or accommodation will show up better in search results on our site.

4. Use social networks and media to promote your ads

For that, you just have to copy and paste your ad URL sure Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or Google plus. Then you just have to wait for the reservation requests from anglers to come to you!

Rodmaps

Rodmaps is above all the story of Nicolas and Matthieu, two friends passionate about fishing. Since our childhood, our passion drives us to travel through France and to travel around the world in search of adventure and trophy fish. Through Rodmaps, we want to share our passion for fishing with as many people as possible and make people discover the joys of this sport around us, because yes, fishing is a sport!