How Can I Give Back to BootsnAll?

Members and users old and new have asked us BootLads how they can help BootsnAll grow and survive. Many also ask about what BootsnAll is – as a web site, a company, a resource and an online travel community – and who the guys behind it are. So to help answer those questions, and give ideas of ways people can help give back to BootsnAll, here's some stuff we came up with that people can do to help our community grow and stick around.

Who and What is BootsnAll? |  Email the BootLads |  Link to BootsnAll |  Use BootsnAll to Buy What You Need for Traveling |  Tell People About BootsnAll |  Talk to Other People in Our Community |  Subscribe to BootsnAll Newsletters |  Write for Us |  Help Others Learn from Your Experiences

Who and What is BootsnAll?

Three guys: Sean, Chris, and Nick. Our home base is in Portland, Oregon and we have an outpost office in Bali, Indonesia. Basically, we live where we work, we work hard and long, and right now we don't make much money off BootsnAll, but enough to cover costs and everything.

We work hard on BootsnAll because we love the site. We love travel, we love meeting, talking to and helping people, and we are glad that since '99 we've helped grow a travel community where people really find something valuable, something they want to be part of. Back to Top

How You Can Give Back

• Email the BootLads. Our community is what helps us make BootsnAll better, so write us when you have suggestions. Give us feedback, tell us what you like and don't like, what you think we should change and add. BootsnAll is what it is, because we know how valuable your insight is. Back to Top
• Link to BootsnAll. If you have a web site of your own, and would like other people to be able to check out BootsnAll from your site, please go to our Link to Us page and grab some banners and text links and what-not. Back to Top
• Use BootsnAll to Buy What You Need for Traveling. This ain't some commercial appeal, just honest truth: we work with great companies to get you good deals on what you need for the road. And, frankly, buying through BootsnAll helps us pay the bills. Clicking one of the following links will get you started on taking care of air tickets, hotels, hostels, rental cars, Eurail passes, travel insurance, round-the-world tickets and itineraries, and even travel books like guidebooks and phrase books. Back to Top
• Tell People About BootsnAll. Is your best friend planning a round-the-world trip? Does you mom want to fly out to see you for the holidays? Need to put up some friends in a hotel for a weekend? Does someone you know just want travel info, or just really love travel? The way we're grown the most over the years, is by word-of-mouth, so if you think we're a worthwhile resource, spread the word to people you think would find us useful. Back to Top
• Talk to Other People in Our Community. A community thrives and grows because the people in it talk to one another. Did you really like a particular article? Click on the link at the end of the article to start a conversation about it. Were you having a look at our message boards, and saw a question you could answer? Please let that person know, and jump into our discussions. See something on the site that could use improving? Drop us a line, and tell us your thoughts. Interact with our community – we think you'll like it. Back to Top
• Subscribe to BootsnAll Newsletters. We publish over a dozen different travel newsletters, and you can use them to track ticket deals, keep up with goings-on in the BootsnAll community, and learn about different destinations and such. Here's a link to our newsletter subscription page. Oh, and if you're worried about privacy, our policy is simple: we don't sell, rent or distribute your email address or personal info. It stays with us, only for your subscription. Period. Back to Top
• Write for Us. Want to give a little writing a go? Want to talk about your past travels, the trip you're on, and what you've learned from your experiences? Chris is our content editor, and he works with everyone from serious professional writers, to people who've just got a damn cool trip they want to talk about. You don't have to be some author big-wig to write for us, you just have to want to tell a story. Check out our Writer's Guidelines, and then talk to Chris about sending something in. Back to Top
• Help Others Learn from Your Experiences. We have special sections set up throughout BootsnAll where travelers recount their experiences on different nuts-and-bolts aspects of traveling. They fill out a pretty painless form, send it in, and then we put it online so other travelers can learn from you. You can fill out surveys on:
  
  Europe Travel & Railpasses
  From when you were planning | After the trip is done
  
  Hostels
  
  Round-the-World Trips
  From when you were planning | After the trip is done
  
  Travel Insurance
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Those are some of the ways you can help out BootsnAll. Thanks for checking us out, for coming back to us again and again, and for helping us grow and improve over the years. With your help, all BootsnAll will do is get better, connect more people, and help more and more travelers around the world. That sounds pretty good to us – and we hope it does to you too. Thanks for being part of our community. Back to Top