[mou] Bird Guide Workshop

[Sharon Stiteler]

Explore Minnesota is offering a workshop for people who would like to  
be bird guides or have already started and might want to learn how to  
increase their business.  This is not a workshop on identifying  
birds, this is a workshop on organizing trips, customer service, and  
networking and promoting yourself.

Explore Minnesota Tourism in partnership with MOU, Audubon,   
Minnesota DNR non-game , and the Minnesota Bed & Breakfast  
Association announce The B&B&B Pilot Project!

Here is how it works:
  A select group of Bed & Breakfasts  ( B & Bs) in Minnesota will  
develop packages that will include guided birding trips for their  
guests.  These packages will be advertised by the B & Bs and will be  
listed on Explore Minnesota Tourism’s web site.  Guides that  
participate in this training will be matched with B & Bs in their  
area to provide birding trips for a fee to be retained by the  
guides.  Two training sessions for the B & B owners and the guides  
will be offered in June of this year to help make this pilot project  
a success.  Following the training sessions there will be a  
“practice” field trip for the B & B owners where the guides will  
practice their guiding skills.  Once the training is completed the B  
& Bs will be designated as “ Birder Friendly”, and the guides will be  
partnered with the B & Bs.

Training for the guides will include:
Explore Minnesota’s data base and why it is important.
Customer Service training.
Basic First Aid.
License & Liability.
Landowner Concerns.
Logistics of organizing a field trip.
Family field trips w/children.
Plan B…for when the birds don’t cooperate.
Value….it’s OK to charge for your services.
Plus a Questions & Answer  period.


Training sessions will be held June 20, 2007 at the Log House and  
Homestead Bed & Breakfast near Vergas, MN. and on June 27, 2007 at  
the Auf Deutsche Strasse Bed & Breakfast, 404 South German Street in  
New Ulm, MN.  Cost of the training sessions, including lunch and the  
joint field trip will be $25.00 for guides and will be due along with  
your sign-up form by June 1, 2007.  Questions? Contact project  
coordinator, Dave Vogel, Explore Minnesota Tourism at 1-888-975-6766  
or via e-mail at  dave.vogel at state.mn.us .



Sharon Stiteler
www.birdchick.com
Minneapolis, MN




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