Author Archives: Lydia Snider

How To Raise Funds For Your Wild Card Spot

You’ve won a sort of lottery in your sport.  You’ve got an opportunity to participate in something like the KSP World Tour.  Only one problem.  You’re not sponsored (yet) and you have no idea how you’re ever going to raise more »

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Kiteboarding Instructors: MeetingUp with New Students

One of the keys to making money in the kiteboarding industry is to create partnerships outside the kiteboarding industry.  This is especially true for kiteboarding  instructors and  schools.  As a kiteboarding instructor or school when you are not on the more »

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5 Secrets of an Effective Facebook Fan Page

What is an effective facebook fan page anyway?  A facebook page is effective when your posts show up in your fans feeds and when they interact with your page.  The more your fans interact with your page the more likely more »

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Kite Resorts: Double Your Customers’ Stoke

The two fastest growing segments in the travel industry are adventure travel and volunteer tourism.  If you run a kiteboarding resort, hotel or travel package you’ve got the adventure travel market’s attention.  What about all those volunteer tourists? Double Your more »

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Sir Richard Branson: Challenge Accepted

The Idea: At one point when everything was looking really sketch Nat asked, “Whose idea was this anyway?”  Mine. Though at that moment I was kinda regretting it… I’d seen the picture of Branson with the naked chick before, but more »

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Turning Kiteboarding Students into Life Long Paying Clients

How exhausting is it to be constantly finding new clients for kiteboarding instruction?  What if the initial kite lessons were just the beginning of your clients working with you?   As an instructor you can probably spot the top 10 mistakes more »

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(not quite) Rock Star Debut to the Crissy Kiting Scene

This post was originally posted to Lydia’s Adventures in SF April 4, 2011 Even my beloved kiteboarding, my sanctuary, my lazy man’s Zen is new and complicated and confusing now that I’ve moved to San Francisco.  Kiting at Crissy I more »

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