Good Time Net

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Many of us put in our 8-to-5 so we can afford our fun afterwards. What if we can show you a way to spend your 8-to-5 involved with the recreational activity that is normally your after-work pleasure?

You can read how working toward our goals gives us a feeling of accomplishment, but make no mistake, we're in it for the fun, too. Recreation and the internet is a new field full of opportunities and risks, and we feel the door is wide open for people looking to blaze new trails. If you'd like to join us, the first step is to discard 8-to-5 thinking, and the second is to look over these job opportunities:

1. Recreation Specialist
2. Photographer
3. Naturalist
4. Volunteer

If you've looked over the Good Time Net and see a job that needs to be done that isn't listed above, let us know, especially if you're the first applicant.

Recreation Specialist

These are the people we're most in need of. As the name implies, you become a specialist in an area of recreation. The specialty areas match the keywords or categories used by the Good Time Net to categorize recreational events and destinations. You can find a list of these on the application form. They range from aerobics to zoos, and also include age categories from preschoolers to seniors.

Let's say you want to be a Golf Recreation Specialist. We look for someone who is familiar with the golf community, at least as a golfer. As a Golf Recreation Specialist, you would have two interwoven tasks:

1. You would help gather information on golf events and destinations within Orange County that we could put in the Good Time Net. You could gather this first hand, but more often you will seek synergistic relationships with the sources of such information. You will establish relationships with golf organizations with a recreation calendar, give Good Time Net demos, and encourage them to submit their recreation calendars and golf course information to us on a regular basis. You can refer to the programs we have in place to help you build such relationships. You will become our ambassador to the golf community and you will be the golf community's conduit to the Good Time Net for enhancements that make sense for them. In summary, you will be responsible to make sure that the Good Time Net is a valuable resource to the recreation specialty you choose.
   
   
2. Since the Good Time Net is and will continue to be free to end users and event promoters, we generate our revenue from ad listings. You will be able to demonstrate to prospective advertisers how we can place their ads on event and destinations that closely match the demographics of their prospective customers. For the golf example, we would put ads for pro shops, sporting goods dealers, and golf trainers on web pages summarizing golf events and golf courses. And because we have automated the whole process, we can do it for much less than other types of ad media. In summary, you will present the Good Time Net as a viable new component of the marketing strategy of people and companies promoting products and services to your recreational specialty.

You become an independent agent, much like a sales rep or a real estate agent, and we pay you a monthly fee and a commission on the sales you generate. The fee and commission percentage is negotiated for each individual based on qualifications. We also provide formal training, internet access, laptops for demos, voice mail, contact management software, brochures, business cards, shared office space, and management support.

You can focus on gathering recreational content or on ad sales, or mix both as the opportunity and your interest allow.

The process is simple. You fill out our application form, we talk, and if we have a meeting of the mind, you get started.

Is internet experience required?

Of course it would be a plus, but we are willing to train the right applicant who has basic computer familiarity, and most importantly, an ability to communicate.

Do I get an exclusive territory?

Yes. A territory consists of a keyword within a section of Orange County. Ads placed on lists of events or destinations under your keyword and located within your section of Orange County are commissionable sales. We do not remove choice ad customers from your income pool by calling them house accounts.

Can I work from home?

Eventually, yes, especially since much of your time will be spent in the field. But in the beginning there's a lot to learn, and that is best done at our facilities where all the resources you need are at your fingertips.

Can I do this on the side?

Depends on how much we're sidelined. If you already work closely to your chosen recreation specialty and you can show how your two tasks with the Good Time Net would fit in, our minds are open. We're looking for a full time commitment, but part-time options are possible depending on the specialty.

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Photographer

Photographers, like other artists, work hard to make ends meet until they establish themselves. With the arrival of the internet and the ability of web pages to display photos, photographers are using websites to help establish themselves. Our Photographer Program provides you a website that we setup and maintain for free if you provide us photographs of beaches, historical sights, museums, parks, trails, zoos, and recreational events in Orange County. You receive credits on each photo, and the website we maintain for you has links to all the web pages with photos from you.

We will also add you to the list of photographers we keep online for event promoters looking for photographers with experience in the recreational sector.

You begin by telling us a little about your background and interest, attach sample image files to the message if you wish, and we go from there. If we come to terms, we give you a list of the destinations in your area without photos. You can provide photos from your archives or take new ones while enjoying the destination.

Can I display photos on my website unrelated to recreational events and destinations?

Yes, just provide us with photos the Good Time Net can use as well.

What if I decide to part company with the Good Time Net?

We will remove your photos immediately from the Good Time Net if you request it in writing and terminate your participation in or Photographer Program. On the other hand, if you grow your practice to where you want to run your own website, we will help you transfer information to your new website and link to that, and keep you on our referral list - as long as we can still display your recreational photos.

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Naturalist

Many a budding naturalist (geologist, historian, ecologist, paleontologist, bird watcher, science writer, etc.) has something to say about the natural, historical, or recreational resources of Orange County, but few are lucky enough to get published. Enter the internet. Our Naturalist Program offers you a podium to change that. We will provide you a website that we setup and maintain for free if you provide useful information for the Good Time Net. We'll turn any trail into an interpretive trail if you provide interesting copy describing the little-known facts along the way. Drawings and photos are welcome. The same is true about beaches, historical sights, museums, and zoos. You produce the copy, and we'll put it up on the web, with credits and copyright to you, and with a link to your website. We'll also provide the use of our facilities, talent, and equipment - which includes a high-resolution color scanner, digital camera, map making tools, a wide assortment of software, and people who know how to use them.

On top of that, we'll provide a separate website where you can promote yourself and/or your ideals.

You begin by filling in the form we use to help you introduce yourself, then we talk and see where we can go from there.

What if my cause is political or controversial?

No problem as long as you don't advocate breaking the law. In the credits part of your website where we note us as the webmaster, we put a disclaimer saying we don't necessarily agree or disagree, nor even much track what you put on your website. In the information you provide for inclusion into the Good Time Net, we request you recognize the broad spectrum of our users and the fact that we will not abuse such a captive audience with any ideas beyond those in our mission statement.

What if I decide to part company with the Good Time Net?

We will remove your information immediately from the Good Time Net if you request it in writing and terminate your participation in or Naturalist Program. On the other hand, if you grow your website to where you want to run it on your own, we will help you transfer information to your new website and link to that - as long as we can still display your recreational information.

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Volunteer

Normally, this is an unpaid, part-time option for individuals who share our goals but don't yet have the time or skill set to participate in the above programs. If you have a favorite beach, historical sight, museum, park, trail, or zoo, we will put you in touch with the organization operating it, and almost all of them have a volunteer program that will support your effort to present their facilities better on the Good Time Net. If you have a favorite recreational activity, and wish it was better represented on the Good Time Net, we will provide you with the introductions and the tools to help fill out that part of the Good Time Net. If you have a favorite organization, non-profit, or government agency and would like to help promote their recreational activities, we'll give you the forum and the tools to do so. If you are retired and would like to see more recreational opportunities for seniors, this is the place where you can do something about that yourself.

Unlike for-profit entertainment such as restaurants and movies, most recreation is funded by community organizations with a shoestring budget, and a reliance on volunteers like you.

Our contribution is our time to train you in the relevant aspects of this emerging technology, and the use of our facilities and resources. If interested, you begin by filling in the form we use to help you introduce yourself, then we talk and see where we can go from there.