Our “Jerry Maguire” Mission Statement
“At the founding of Simply Awesome Trips and its sister website, Knoxville Backyard & Beyond, we agreed to travel as we always have with our families—on our own dime. No free nights and no comped activities. We continue to feel good about that decision.
We do participate in affiliate marketing with some of the companies that we personally use with our own travel. They don’t pay us to write, we simply get a commission if you enter those sites through our “gate” as opposed to say a Google search. But we also recommend lodging, restaurants, and activities, where we don’t receive any commission, such as Airbnb or private rental agencies. If it’s good; it’s good. We don’t change our recommendations based on vendor.”
– Amy and Amanda, founders of Simply Awesome Trips and Knoxville Backyard & Beyond
Disclosures
All information, views, and opinions are provided solely by Simply Awesome Trips. We are not sponsored in any way and have never written a post at the behest of any organization or company. We do not accept any free services, travel, or other forms of compensation from the places we visit nor from the specific lodging properties that we personally recommend. We only suggest vacation properties and the occasional product that we truly enjoy and hope to pass that on to you.
Affiliate Partners
We are happy to be an Affiliate Partner with the companies we use with our own family travel, such as Booking.com, Hotels.com, VRBO.com, and IHG hotels, through an affiliate advertising program designed to let us earn commissions from these websites with no additional cost to you. Instead of say, Google, getting that commission for sending traffic their way, it lets independent publishers like us continue to put out free content.
Amazon.com
We are also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Again, we only receive a small commission from Amazon and no cost is added on to you. The products we highlight are the ones we personally find to be the best, and we do not receive compensation from the manufacturer.