Guide4Fun celebrates 5th year anniversary on Perdido Key

Guide4Fun celebrates 5th year anniversary on Perdido Key
Local company publishing its 2nd annual Orange Beach cartoon map

It hardly seems possible that four years have gone by since Guide4Fun published its first cartoon map. But here they are rolling into 2017 and the fifth annual publication. It took several years to get the project off the ground as Hurricanes Ivan,Katrina and the BP oil spill interrupted the normal course of business for everyone along our Gulf Coast and they were no exception. However, once they got a toe hold they have flourished.
Guide4Fun is a colorful, entertaining guide and a keepsake publication. They print over 100,000 copies annually between Orange Beach and Perdido Key. Furthermore they have a tremendous state of the art, mobile friendly, interactive web presence, Guide4Fun.com.
Because they are available on the web folks use Guide4Fun to plan their trips before they get here and because they are available in print locally, at hundreds distribution points throughout the these beach communities, visitors use them while they are here. Publix Super Markets is one of their major sponsors and they are one of the few local publications that are distributed from their local stores.
Other distribution points include condominiums, hotels, property management companies, restaurants, stores, gift shops, Visitors Centers, Chambers of Commerce and other attractions and locations. Most advertising vehicles here on the beach are solo type, such as rack cards or magazines. It is easy to see how your ad can get lost in the wall of rack cards or as a side bar ad of an article.
The Guide4Fun map offers a unique perspective in that you can see the whole area and all of the advertisers at a glance as you look at the map. And at the same time it leads them right to your front door. They also offer enhanced ads that will punch up your presence on the map and panel size ads to help boost your appearance even more.
They have designed the map to be informative as well as colorful and fun. If you look close you will find local icon’s and funny figures at different locations, personalizing the maps. The Maps feature many of our local characters that have gone home as well as several that are alive and well and deserve to be honored for their contributions to our beautiful communities.
The Maps are easy to read and small enough to be able to navigate within your automobile. Guide4Fun has found many of our visitors take them home with them as coffee table decor and children really love the maps, they find them very entertaining. A limited number of posters of unfolded maps are also offered, at no cost, for display at your business, rental property or home and snowbirds love them.
Their motto: “It is our business to tell you where to go” is a tongue and cheek statement that people giggle at but understand that it is true. They are 30 year veterans of beach life here on the Red Neck Riviera and refuse to take things too seriously.
Any business that wants “to be on the map” can call 850-287-5815. You will not regret it. With advertising costs going through the roof they are a breath of fresh air with prices starting as low as $1.36 a day for a basic ad and it provides you with a cartoon drawing of the front of your business, a listing in their business directory within the category’s of your business as well as a link to your website on their state of the art interactive map. It is probably the only advertising medium that has not gone up in price in five years.
Pictured: Dorothy Garrett, owner/operator of Guide4F