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How many Spa, Hotel, HomeStay owners/operators on this forum? I am interested in helping promote retreats to go to Bali.

Unless you do it for free, this is an advertisement.

More, and you will magically disappear.

Hi Bert, I'm not advertising. I'm not asking because I'm looking for work. From what I have been reading, if I am retired in Bali, I am not allowed to "work". I'm only researching to get an idea of what expats are doing there in Bali, when/if I was to retire in Bali, what would I do, how can I help, where will I fit in? Because there are no recent posts in the Business in Bali section, my assumption is few people on this forum are in "business" (or do not converse about it). Or, they are afraid to talk about business cuz you'll make them... disappear. )

Sometimes people magically disappear, because they don't want to talk about Bali but like to make some money on the visitors / members of this forum.

People who have proven to be worthy members however, get a lot of latitude.

Otherwise this forum is about doing Business in Bali. Not to sell anything.

Being retired, and helping people without financial gain, sounds very noble.

BTW you look much to young to retire

http://www.magicbrad.com/

If you want to to something, do the Magic stuff !!

I guess Bali will grow fond of you...

But talking about Business...

What did you have to do with : http://www.questforglobalhealing.org/ ?

And I have been looking at your other activities and questions posted elsewhere about Bali a bit, if you don't mind...

I take the liberty to rephrase your question, if I am wrong, you can shoot me.

You run a event organizing business in the US. http://www.tradeshowsandevents.com/ My guess is that you would like to research how you can link this business to Bali, so you can do the local Bali organizing, while you get your clients from the US company.

Or / and you would like to start promoting spa's etc in the US and organize trips from there to, preferably, Ubud.

You are 50 at the moment, so a retirement visa is out of the question. Still you want to build up "relations" in order to be able to "test the waters", to try out a few options, to see if you can make some money, in order to live in Bali, in the beginning at least 6 months a year...

this is deja vous for me !!!
hey dont try and pull the wool over berts eyes .

trying to get free ads will cost you in the end as i found out it cost me the chance to be part of a fantastic panoramic web site !!!

but thats life !

No chance lost Peter .. You like fishing do you...

Dewi has been singing again in the Jax bar again.... probably will do one with her singing one day

yes i love fishing
sounds like you have been talking to leong !
because i aint ever mentioned fishing on any forum but i did ask leong to arrange a couple of boats for me in january

ok bert im looking forward to the panoramic shots and to hopefully joining you for a few beers in the future

there is one small favour i could ask of you , i am trying to explain to kadek that i want an internet connection for the bar and he is having a problem understanding when you are next in the area i would be gratefull if you could point him in the right direction if possible

Well... at least there's some activity here now. Yes, presently I am 50, and I am just starting my 3-5 year plan to retire in Bali (Ubud) at 55. I do not make any money with TRADESHOWSandEVENTS.com. All those events and resources on there are posted FREE. (although I've dabbled with PayPal stuff, I've yet to make a single dollar from it.) For a profession and living right now, I produce "local" Minneapolis health, home and hospitality expos, but I do not think this forum is the place to "advertise" for me to find exhibitors. What I did for the QuestForGlobalHealing is, I helped promote the event (no fee) via TRADESHOWSandEVENTS.com eNewletter and got 2 people from Minneapolis to go to the conference. The goal was to promote peace and get more people to go. She was going to comp me, but I only got two people. From what I understand, Bali is having a hard time right now promoting tourism. So, I guess the Business in Bali Forum is for discussion of "administrative operations" and "accounting and booking", but no discussion of "sales and marketing". It looks like I am "on the line" here in this forum until I am officially 55. Let me know if I am crossing the line here and I will just dissappear on my own and you will not need to use "your magic powers".

There is more to Business than administration Brad.

So, what Magic are you planning for Bali

as long as the magic doesn't include disappearing bintang i dont care

Are we breaking the rules by discussing this outside of the "Business in Bali" Forum section?

My plans are to establish some freindships (Expats) and relationships in Bali (specifically HomeStays, Hotels, Spas, Tour Operators etc in Ubud)

I hope to help drive some traffic to Bali (specifically Ubud) Spas, Hotels, HomeStays etc. (I stayed in Ketuts Place in Ubud when I was there.)

The "advertising" I do will be focused primarily outside of Bali.

Ok, you can advertise this on http://www.baliadvertising.net (free) or any other places, such as http://www.baliadvertiser.biz

And of course a Google search will give you a lot of "targets".