Tour Bots / By Iso Rabins
I set up a bot that knows your business, connects to the accounts you already use, and handles your newsletter campaigns from start to finish. It checks your upcoming tours, writes the email, adds the dates, prices, and booking links, and builds the campaign in your email platform. You review it before it goes out.
I built this for my own tour business, ForageSF. Now I’m setting it up for other tour operators, using their booking system, email platform, and way of talking to customers.
Talk to me about setting it upTell me which tools you use and what you want the bot to take off your plate.
Proposed: $995 setup + $149/month. See what’s included ↓Harbor Trail Tours · Fictional operator
We have three mornings outside planned for November. Each walk starts at 10 and gives us two hours to look around without rushing.
Sample email for an invented tour company. These dates and prices are examples.
What you receive
The bot learns from your past newsletters and the details you give it about your business. It uses your booking information to prepare the campaign in your email platform, so you have a complete email to check instead of a blank page.
You check the dates, prices, links, and wording before anything goes to customers. You can keep scheduling and sending in your own hands. Any bot scheduling needs your approval of the exact email, audience, and time, and must be tested first.
What happens each month
Check your booking system for upcoming tours, available spaces, prices, and booking links. Ask you for any missing details.
Use the past emails you choose to share, plus your instructions, to draft the subject line, email text, and layout.
Build the campaign in your email platform, with the layout and booking links in place. Send you a test email to check, with the access we agree on.
Read the email, check the details, and make changes. You decide who receives it and when it goes out.
We check how your tools connect and test the whole process with you before it starts running.
Proposed pilot pricing
Proposed starting package: set up the bot for one newsletter campaign a month. We agree on extra campaigns and other jobs before starting.
Set up your email template, add your writing examples, agree on account access, and test the first draft with you.
Keep that email process running, with template updates, fixes, and support. Having a person write and manage each campaign costs extra.
Proposed prices. Your bot subscription, email platform, and usage charges are separate. We agree on the full cost and support before starting.
Talk to Iso
Tell me which booking and email tools you use, and which part takes the most work. We’ll look at one of your emails and decide whether to try this.
Email me about your emailsThis opens your email app. Nothing is sent automatically.
We agree on the price, what the bot will prepare, and which accounts it can access. Then we set it up together and review the first draft.
Your accounts stay yours. We agree on which ones the bot can access, how to remove that access, and what happens to drafts or scheduled emails if you stop.
The pilot covers monthly marketing emails. Guest questions and urgent tour-day decisions stay with your team.