Collaborate & Build a Community
I am always exploring collaborations in our community.
I believe in bringing people to nature where they are at and that all the amazing people & businesses in Elgin that provide different levels and aspects of nature connection should rise together to reach more people.
There is a client/customer for each of us, there is no competition in Wellness and Nature Connection.
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Cooperation & collaboration is the foundations of building a healthy community.
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Photo Credit: Lightwork by Autumn Skye Morrison Website: https://autumnskyeart.com/lightwork
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CONNECT
You are here. Have I already reached out to you and you're here exploring? If I haven't, it is not that I don't want to work with you or think we wouldn't collaborate well, it is that I haven't found you yet! You have found your way to my page and it's your time to reach out and start the conversation. We have so much to gain just by meeting.
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EXPLORE
I love to get to know what you offer from experience so I can share it with my community and those I think would benefit from knowing about your existence and offer the same for you. Depending on your offerings this can begin as a conversation or we may 'swap' experiences where we both benefit from a service while also experiencing it for ourselves. This helps me understand which of my clients would benefit from your offerings and how we can work together.
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DREAM
I get creative with how my offerings can fit in with yours. This may be how they can compliment each other, how they can add on to one another, how are space can enhance each other, and ideas for new experiences we can co-create
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Co-Create
We create an experience together, whether we are co-hosting an event, adding onto each others experiences, using each others space, or creating something brand new! I will propose an idea, you can do the same, and just do it! We can see what works and what doesn't.
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Referals
I add your business to my website in the Partners & Sponsor space. Knowing what you do and believing in your services as a benefit to our community, I add you as a resource in my toolkit to share with clients individually who I think would benefit from knowing your existence. Sometimes this may be referrals to the same services as I offer. Not every client will be right for me and I won't be right for every client. This also builds a network of practitioners, businesses, and partnerships that show the community we are here for them and not just here to take their money. We want what is best for each other.
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Sharing an Audience
Sharing our audience is an easy way to expand your reach to those in the community that may not otherwise know you exist! It is also a great way to share the workload of advertising. Our clients will trust those who are rising up others and those who are being promoted by other services and businesses in our community. For our collaborations, I always add your logo, handles, & tags to socials as a collaborator to create shared content. This allows shared posts to extend our audience. All written material shares your information.
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Rising Each Other Up
Our potential clients want to hear real life experiences of our services and trust our opinions. Providing testimonials for each other to post and sharing those testimonials to our own audience can go a long way to support each other. Commenting on each others content, liking, and sharing also helps boost our content to be seen by more people. When we are collaborating, this means that it is going to also be a benefit for you! These are simple tasks that don't take a lot of cognitive effort or time.
Give to your Community - Become a Sponsor
Business owners, individuals, and organizations have the ability to become a sponsor. Sponsors provide activities to their community at a discounted rate or free by covering some or all of the costs of the service being provided.
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When you are a sponsor, you are acknowledged in all content related to the event as the sponsor.
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An example of this is our sponsored plant walk walks at locations throughout the community and a one time Forest Therapy Community Wellness Events where the cost is paid in full for a group walk and registration is open to the public at partial or full discounted rates.
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Another example is when businesses sponsor an event for a specific group of individuals such as their customers or clients. The business provides an exchange of services for their customers receiving a discount. This can be as simple as advertising to their mailing mailing list and within their locations.