How to buy from us
Most of what we do can be started with a single signature. This page explains the three ways to pay us, what each thing costs over a full year, and how to work out which purchasing process applies to your organization — because that depends on what kind of organization you are, and we don’t know that.
Three ways to pay
Many destination organizations cannot put anything on a card. That is not a reason you can’t buy from us. All three of these are normal.
Card
The software products check out on their own sites. You enter a card, you have access. Nothing to sign with us and nothing to wait for.
Purchase order
Send us a PO and we’ll invoice against it. We can supply a W-9 and a certificate of insurance for your vendor file — ask and we’ll send them.
Invoice
We invoice, you pay on your normal terms. Net 30 unless you tell us your finance office needs something different.
What things cost over twelve months
Purchasing policies are almost always written against an annual figure rather than a monthly one, so that is the number worth having in front of you. This is the same list as Ways to Start, priced the same way.
| What | Price | Over twelve months |
|---|---|---|
| Brand Strategy | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| Corporate Partnership Program | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| Grant & Funding Program Strategy | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| LinkedIn Strategy | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| Reddit & Community Strategy | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| AI Operations Strategy | From $7,500 | Scoped per project |
| The DMO Website Audit | Free | Free |
| A scoping session | Free | Free |
| TourismIQ Community Profile | Free | Free |
| Coa | 10% per transaction | Varies with volume |
| DMO Jam | $5,000 | $5,000 one-time |
| Something Else | Scoped per project | Scoped per project |
Which process applies to you
There is no single answer, and anyone who gives you one without asking about your organization is guessing. Three different regimes govern a purchase like this, and which one you are under depends on how you are constituted and whose money you are spending.
If you are a private non-profit — most CVBs and DMOs
Your own board-approved purchasing policy governs, and the practical question is usually what your CEO or executive director can authorize under an approved budget. State purchasing rules are written for state agencies and generally do not bind a 501(c)(6) non-profit. Check your own policy — we have no way of knowing what it says.
If you are a government tourism office or department
Your jurisdiction’s purchasing rules apply, and there will be a dollar figure above which a competitive solicitation is required. That figure varies widely by state and by city, and it changes — your purchasing office will have the current one.
If you are spending restricted public or grant funds
The terms attached to those funds may impose their own requirements regardless of the above, and they are usually the most restrictive of the three. Federally-funded buyers, for example, work to thresholds set in federal regulation and are often required to adopt their own documented limit at or below that ceiling.
What we will not do
We will not structure a purchase to help anyone stay under a spending threshold. We will not split one engagement into several invoices, spread a single project across budget years, or describe something as smaller than it is so it clears a limit. If what you need requires a competitive process where you are, run one — we will take part in it.
We say this plainly because the alternative is worse for you than for us. A purchase that should have been competed is a problem that surfaces later, and it surfaces on your desk.
Starting this afternoon, honestly
Three things on our list can genuinely be started today without talking to anyone here. Everything else — the strategy projects, and anything priced per organization — begins with a conversation, because there is no honest way to price it without one.
If you need paperwork before your finance office will set us up as a vendor, ask. A W-9 and a certificate of insurance are routine and we will send them without putting them behind a form.
Questions we get
Can we trial something before committing?
The website audit is free and takes about two minutes. It is the honest way to see how we think before you spend anything.
Do we have to sign a contract?
For the software products, no — you are subscribing on the product’s own terms and can stop when you like. Strategy projects are scoped and contracted individually.
Who do we actually pay?
Sorenson Advertising LLC, doing business as Brand Revolt. That is the name that will appear on an invoice and the entity your vendor file should carry.
Still not sure? Ask us — a scoping session is free and is a working session rather than a sales call.