Fife Tours and Photography

Things are certainly coming together now with Fife Tours and Photography.  We received great 5* reviews on trip advisor afterwards the free wildlife tour. That's 3 reviews now which is enough to move us up to no.5, all my main competitors lie below us. I suppose you have to have a goal, ours would be to be no1 tour operator in St Andrews by this time next year.

Had a great mini wildlife tour today with Tracey despite the weather, grey overcast then rain. Started at the coast, lots of waders, swans and ducks as well as a scrawny looking crow! We then headed inland to try and see roe deer before heading for St Andrews for fulmar and more sea birds. We finished off at some freshwater lochs, more ducks, swans, grebes, finches and tits. Due to time restraints, 3 hours for the total tour, all visits where unfortunately too short however, despite the weather, we still managed to see over 35 different birds and animals.

Well it's 6 days since I last posted, doesn't mean I had nothing to report, in fact, it's been quite a productive week. Visit Scotland page has been updated and I've contacted them regarding getting 2 more pages, one for the wildlife tours and one for rhe walking tours. My trip advisor business cards arrived and look good. Got first review for a wildlife tour, 5* review. Had communication back from one of the big golfing websites / groups, they are going to add us to their 'what to do when not playing golf' page, hope to get a few golfing widows inter3sted in the tours. Lots of little things to do and going on in the background, binoculars to buy, organised hire of a lens to try out, looking at flasks for tea and coffee........ just need some clients.....

Today we made it onto the Visit Scotland website. Hope that between this site and trip advisor we manage to get some good publicity and future customers, all very positive at the moment. Visit Scotland

It has been a successful and exciting week at Fife Tours and Photography, the company has been formally registered as a Ltd Company, the web site is looking good, the blog is up and running and has been viewed by almost 100 people, we are now on trip advisor and we are added in the things to do category of Visit Scotland. In the next few weeks we will be concentrating on marketing and hope to take some invited guests / critics on the walking tour as well as on a wildlife tour. Hopefully it will not be long until our first bookings start arriving. St Andrews Castle

Still waiting to hear about being promoted and advertised on other groups web sites however have now received all my official paperwork, Fife Tours and Photography is now an official Ltd company. Next move is to further promote the business with flyers. I'm hoping to have everything in place and my first clients by June, time will tell. Took some friends out recently on a wildlife tour, they seemed impressed, even though they had lived in the area all their days they had no idea the place i took them to existed. Managed to see quite a variety of wildlife, which for a rainy day, was very pleasing. Hopefully they will be completing a trip advisor review which will get that kicked off, nobody likes seeing no reviews............. Planning an invited walking tour on the 22nd April, this is mainly a trial for me! If anyone is interested in sparing me 4 hours of your time, please contact. Red Squirrel Little Grebe Bank Vole

As I wrote the other day, managed to get our services onto trip advisor, well this got me thinking, there's lots of Web sites we look at before we visit anywhere, how do i get on these sites? Spent a wee while doing a bit of research before managing to get us onto visit Scotland,  result! Well by the end of the day I hope we are now on about a dozen sites and the best bit is they are all free. It's only been a day or so, and I know things take time but, can't wait for 1st customers.

Jings, what a couple of days, website is looking good, still a bit to do but that will have to wait, the tours have now been published on trip advisor and today I registered the limited company. Time now to take stock, plan the next few weeks and get things properly up and running......

Hi, I am going to write a blog for each tour, I would be grateful if you could leave your comments attached to the blog or on this page, cheers Phil

Been a bit of an uncertain period at work regarding the future, things look ok for the next couple of years but who knows? I decided late last year to look at setting up my own wee venture, this blog is to let you know how i'm getting on. My plan was to set up a walking and photography tour in St. Andrews, this then grew to customised tours in Fife and wild life tours. The photography element will be just guidance as i don't feel comfortable with teaching people how to use their cameras however I will carry out specific commissioned photographs. Walking Tour I have completed the route, written up the history and tales i'm going to tell, found the best 'non tourist' positions for photos. The tour is planned to last about 4 hours and will take in most of the centre of St Andrews. Wildlife tours I love taking photographs of wild life, Ive been doing this for the last 10 years and have built up a good bit of knowledge on where to take people to see...