Yodel 11-25
Transform your event calendar into an engine that funnels traffic into your community with Yodel. Imagine this, your website isn’t just a bulletin board of “what’s happening.” It’s a vibrant portal that invites people to arrive, to stay, to discover, and even to belong.
For towns along Route 66, Yodel and the upcoming Route 66 centennial, this is a golden opportunity. By combining the power of this AI-driven platform Yodel with the legendary allure of this iconic highway, you can save time and money, engage the international Route 66 community, generate income, and transform your community into more than a stop-over. With Yodel it becomes a destination for visitors, and for people looking to move, to start a business, to retire or to raise a family.
Managing event listings is a morass of endless spreadsheets, duplicate calendars, and missed posts. But when you deploy Yodel’s AI-powered event calendar curation, you automate much of that grunt-work. Instead of spending hours chasing event details or manually updating across channels, your team can focus on curating, storytelling, and connecting.
That matters because every hour saved is an hour reinvested in engaging local stakeholders, building partnerships with businesses, and shaping the vision of your community along Route 66 or anywhere in the country.
Think of your website as the hub for everything on Route 66 or in your region. When Yodel keeps your calendar current, searchable, and meaningful, the site becomes the first place someone considers when planning their next road-trip adventure. And it becomes the go-to place when someone begins considering a family or business relocation. That transforms your destination message.
Visitors can see “What’s happening this weekend on Route 66? That transforms your community into a travel planning tool.
For locals and community, regular engagement fosters a stronger sense of place. That also has an impact on prospective residents, business owners or retirees checking out your town. They browse your calendar and see an active, vibrant community,
Once your website is more than a listing and becomes a platform and a planning portal, the monetization possibilities bloom. It opens the door for featured listings and sponsorships. Local businesses linked with tourism pay for prominent positions in the event feed. In turn that fuels the creation of affiliate or event packages.
That well curated event calendar can also be used to develop premium event-organizer tools. As an example, you can charge event hosts for enhanced listing, analytics, social snippets, etc.
Your event-calendar-portal doesn’t just serve visitors. It provides a valuable service to the community itself.
For Route 66 towns the calendar link legacy, authentic character and heritage. According to studies, communities along Route 66 see significant economic benefits when preservation and heritage tourism are placed at the forefront.
That translates into more jobs, and more investment. And it also fuels historic business district vitality by promoting events in those zones. Again, that creates a sense of belonging and purpose for residents. This is their calendar and their place.
Integrating Yodel on your site ensures that the event calendar is front-and-center, mobile friendly, and is searchable by date or interest. As motels, restaurants, car clubs, the tourism office, and local businesses feed events into the system, it becomes comprehensive and dynamic.
Creating and promoting stories through the calendar inspires road-trips and builds a sense of community as well as community purpose. Using Yodel to transform your website through the event calendar will magnify the opportunities have for capitalizing on the Route 66 centennial.
With Yodel your calendar becomes more than dates. It lets the world know that your town isn’t just a stop, it’s a destination, a community, and a story worth experiencing.
Written by Jim Hinckley’s America
