Roadtrippers is a simple but powerful road trip planner that helps you discover, plan & book your adventure. The following interview is with James Fischer (CEO and CoFounder).
In the past 6 months, what has been the coolest development for your team?"It’s hard to be sure how to answer that—there’s been a lot going on. Watching everything grow has been great. We are putting in hard work, so to see actual growth come out the other end is awesome."
What stats would you say best highlight your growth?"Over the past few months, we have seen people stay on the site for an average of 6 minutes at a time. We compare our stats versus other travel startups, ones that have been around for longer and raised a lot of capital, and our stats crush it. We are punching above our weight in terms of metrics as a result of hard work and a great product."
How do you see the product changing in the next month?
"In the next month! The time will fly. We have a bunch in the pipeline. Today, we launched local deals, so people can search for deals along their route. It’s an aggregation of Groupon, Living Social and other local deal sites. We want people to see what’s around and have access to cool activities, sites, and food on-the-cheap. Next week, we are going to release our fully responsive site, so we’re working hard on that. That’s all within the next ten days. As far as the next month, I’m still making the plan. We have a lot going on behind the scenes right now with data—we will really be putting some effort to flush out our content."How about changes in the next year?
"For starters, our data is going to be way better—10x better. That means more data, richer information, more photos, an increased number of 3rd party comments/blogs/reviews, and better quality everything. We are also going to make the site much more social, so that people can interact with each other through the platform. The other big change is how “smart” our site is—the site will start to be able to predict what a user wants to see/do, so they don’t need to search themselves. For me, the best part of running Roadtrippers is watching our growth. We are building two things: a product and a company. They work hand-in-hand, as we improve the company, our processes and grow, we are also building our product. Every once in a while you do something big and sexy that makes an impact, but over time, it's the little tweaks that turn into the most substantial growth.
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James Fischer (CEO and Co Founder, Roadtrippers) Bio: James spent a large portion of his youth traveling in Africa with his adventure loving family. When in the UK, he worked with his father on his award-winning property restorations and his farm. Since childhood, James has worked as an innovation consultant to large real estate portfolios, a German clean tech startup securing VC and large EU grants, and on numerous real estate developments. Now, he is the business and creative genius behind the wonder of Roadtrippers.
