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Connect with travelers around the world

Add your rural tourism business or nonprofit to Directory 506 and take the first step towards more meaningful relationships with travelers in Costa Rica and abroad.

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Why join Directory 506?

Do you wish your rural community, enterprise, or nonprofit were more visible?

Are you eager to connect with new potential visitors—but struggling to find the time and resources for marketing or outreach?

Would you like to build stronger relationships with your existing visitors or supporters—but there aren’t enough hours in the day for you to create content for newsletters or social media?

At Directory 506, we believe that more people would support small, rural businesses and tourism-dependent nonprofits if their offerings were easier to search and read about. We also believe that the potential for outstanding storytelling and communications by rural communities is limitless, if affordable ways can be found to generate and share that content.

We’re building Directory 506 to offer an affordable and accessible way for Costa Rica’s rural entrepreneurs and nonprofits to share their offerings with the world.

How it works

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After a review by our team, your business or nonprofit will be live on the Directory 506 site.

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Upgrade to the Basic level with a click to unlock features that make your profile stand out, and access to our nationwide Events Calendar.

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Upgrade to the Premium level and put our communications team to work for you. We provide coaching to help you develop the content you need to connect with new customers, and spread the word about your work through our digital magazine.

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Create a free profile including:
  • Your business name
  • Description (up to 100 words)
  • Cover photo + 3 content photos
  • Contact (email and phone number)
  • One URL
  • Map location
  • Up to 3 keywords for our search engine
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$ 99
/year + IVA
  • Your business name
  • Description (up to 400 words)
  • Cover photo + gallery with
    10 content photos with captions
  • Contact (email and phone number)
  • Multiple URLs: links to all your
    social networks including WhatsApp
  • Map location
  • Up to 10 keywords for our search engine
  • Reviews
  • Direct access to upload activities to El Colectivo 506’s Event Calendar
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Premium

Access full communications coaching and services, with features including:
$ 250
/year + IVA
  • Your business name
  • Description (up to 400 words)
  • Cover photo + gallery with
    20 content photos with captions
  • Contact (email and phone number)
  • Multiple URLs: links to all your
    social networks including WhatsApp
  • Map location
  • Up to 10 keywords for our search engine
  • Reviews
  • Direct access to upload activities to El Colectivo 506’s Event Calendar
  • Priority placement among the first deals in the search engine
  • Priority placement on a rotating basement on the homepage (Featured Adventures section)
  • Social media widgets that link to your own feeds
  • Communications assessment by our editorial team to determine high-potential areas for storytelling and marketing
  • Access to monthly communications coaching through an exclusive WhatsApp group
  • Bilingual publication of stories about your business/organization in the Travel & Living section of El Colectivo 506
  • Thumbnails of your El Colectivo 506 stories on your Directory 506 page
  • Subscription to our Customer Content service (launching December 2021), which provides monthly content modules to support Directory members’ social media posts, newsletters, blogs and more
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Cover Photo
Photo Gallery
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10 Photos
with Captions
20 Photos
with Captions
Contact
(email and phone number)
URLs
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All your social networks
including WhatsApp
All your social networks
including WhatsApp
Map location
Keywords
Up to 3
Up to 10
Up to 10
Reviews
Access to upload activities
to Event Calendar
Priority placement among the
first deals in the search engine
Priority placement on homepage
(Featured Adventures section)
Social media widgets
to your own feeds
Monthly group training
on a virtual event
Subscription to our Customer
Social Media Content service
Bilingual publication of stories
about your business/organization
in the Travel & Living section
of El Colectivo 506
Thumbnails of your El Colectivo 506
stories on your Directory 506 page
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I’m not sure what level is best for me. Can I move between levels?

Yes! All Directory 506 members can start with a free profile and then upgrade to Basic or Premium at any time.

How does El Colectivo 506’s Event Calendar work (Basic and Premium Level)?

Directory members at the Basic and Premium level unlock direct access so that they can upload events to our national calendar—concerts, festivals, fairs, and more. After editorial approval, the events will be displayed on an Events section that is available to visitors to Directory 506 (directorio506.com) as well as our linked digital magazine, El Colectivo 506 (elcolectivo506.com). In addition, the editorial team of El Colectivo 506 will rely on the Calendar to help us identify event and cultural information that we can add to our articles and social media posts.

How will I be published in El Colectivo 506 (Premium Level)?

The editorial team at El Colectivo 506 will identify opportunities where the stories you have to tell about your business or organization fit well into our publication formats, and will create a personalized questionnaire that will help us complete the information we need to create a fully published piece with you. We provide our Premium Members with conceptual editing, copy editing, graphic editing/photo selection, and translation to create a full published piece that is shared in English and Spanish on elcolectivo506.com and all our social media. Members are encouraged to share the content on their own social media, blogs, newsletters and other materials.

Why can’t I subscribe to the Premium level on a monthly basis?

At the Premium level, our editorial team invests significant time in each member working with you to develop stories for our digital magazine, and more. This process requires significant dedication from our team and works best when we can get to know your business or organization over time so that we can identify the best ways to co-create content and position you within our digital magazine and outreach. That’s why we require a yearly commitment.

What if I just want to hire El Colectivo 506’s editorial team for a single featured story?

Our team of in-house and freelance content creators can be hired for specific stories and have created written features, photographic projects, and videos for clients. Learn more on our Portfolio Page and contact us for a quote.

What services does Directory 506 offer its members?

Directory 506 offers services on three levels (Free, Basic, and Premium), including:

  • Listings that are searchable by location, keyword and category
  • Profile pages that are customizable depending on the level selected, features including text, links, photos, videos, reviews, and social media feeds
  • A nationwide Calendar to which Basic and Premium members can upload events
  • A monthly gathering for a very specific communications training from the editorial team of El Colectivo 506, our bilingual, digital news magazine. 
  • Access to a growing community of Directory 506 members sharing ideas, resources and tools.
  • A Customer Content service, which provides monthly content modules to support Directory members’ social media posts, newsletters, blogs and more.
What are the communications products we offer?

The editorial team at El Colectivo 506 can work with your business or organization to review communications assets (capacity within your team and community for content generation and outreach) and storytelling potential (opportunities to put a human face to your work and to the experiences people have when visiting you). The results of the assessment will not only guide us in working with you to create a communications plan by also identifying action areas for your outreach on your own social media. We also have a group of professionals (photographers, videographers, writers, social media experts, grant writers, and more) ready to offer specific services to your business at a competitive price range created specially for MiPYMES. 

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