Camps & Schools · 9-minute video

How camps and outdoor schools book more registrations from the requests they already get

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Try it the way your customer would.

This is a real instant quote funnel, the summer camp registration form template, shown as Loonwater Camp, a sample business. Pick a job and see how fast you get a price.

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Loonwater Camp: the funnel's first screen

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We'll look at how your requests come in today, where work is slipping through, and show you Everybooking set up with work like yours.

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Transcript

Everything the video says.

0:00Who this is for

If you run a summer camp, a day camp, a sports camp, an outdoor school or student tours, this is for you.

I'll show you how to fill more spots from the calls, emails and registration questions you already get.

Without hiring extra help for registration season, without buying more ads, and without learning a complicated new system. You just talk to it.

You'll simply be the first one to answer every parent with a real price, day or night, and the one who follows through until the registration is paid.

0:27Why I built it

How do I know this works?

My name is Kevin Penner. I've run service businesses all my life. Powerland Computers. Wilderness Edge. And a few that flopped, which taught me more than the ones that worked.

And for years, we lost work the same way you do. Requests sat overnight. By the time we called back, they'd already booked whoever answered first.

We were paying for ads, then losing those leads to slow callbacks. Not to better programs. To faster ones.

0:54Where the work is really lost

Everybody tells you speed wins. Answer first and the family picks you. That's true, but it's only the first five minutes.

Think about where you really lose campers. The sibling-rate question that takes two days to answer. The allergy question nobody got back to. The registration left half-finished at midnight. The family who came one summer and went somewhere else the next.

The first reply gets you in the door. The camp that handles everything after it wins the camper. And the one that keeps showing up gets the family back every summer, little brother included.

Everyone has access to the same AI. The difference is what it's connected to.

A chatbot knows your website and your rules.

Ours knows that too, plus your open spots, your sessions, your invoices, and every call, text and email, in real time, twenty-four seven.

A chatbot guesses. Everybooking knows.

Let me show you three things that make that possible.

1:481. A funnel that sells and sorts

Number one. A chatbot says hi, asks how old the kids are, asks for an email, then offers to add the parent to the mailing list.

That parent still hasn't seen a single price, and she's got three other camp websites open in other tabs. That's not registration. That's a brochure with a chat box.

Everybooking's funnel sells what makes your camp different, and sorts the families right away. One tap: overnight camp, day camp, sports camp or a school group. Each one sees the right sessions and price.

And you choose how price shows up. The full price for every session, with the sibling rate already off. Some prices, with the rest held back for a call. Or let a teacher build the whole class trip, students, chaperones and buses, and see the total when they ask for the proposal.

Then you pick the next step: register with a deposit, a camp tour, or a call with the director. Your best pitch goes to your most serious families, and nobody spends an hour on the phone with a maybe.

Don't take my word for it. Below this video is a real instant quote funnel, built for a business like yours. Try it the way your customer would, and see how fast you get a price.

2:532. Priced in seconds

Number two. Right now some of you are thinking, that's fine for a simple business. Mine's different.

You've got one-week and two-week sessions. Day camp and overnight. Sibling rates. Age groups and cabins that fill at different speeds. Add-ons for every camper. And schools and churches booking blocks of spots.

Most directors believe only they can price that, with a calculator and the registration spreadsheet open. So the answer takes a day or two, and the parent keeps looking at other camps.

Everybooking prices it in seconds, and gets it right, because it works off the same sessions, spots, rates and rules you do.

You sell four kinds of things, and it tracks all four. Spots in every session, by age group and cabin. Sessions and day camp weeks. Add-ons like bus seats, by quantity. And your rules, the same on every quote.

It never sells a spot you don't have, and it never overfills a cabin because nobody checked the list.

And it doesn't stop at the first quote. They ask about day camp for the youngest instead, it sends a second option. They say yes at midnight on a Sunday, and the deposit is in your account a minute later.

So no, your camp isn't too complicated for this. Your camp is exactly what this was built for.

4:023. Your office, done by talking

Number three. The paperwork that piles up all season: invoices, cabin lists, payment plans, the numbers your board wants.

Now you just talk to it like you'd talk to your office manager, and it does the work. Move the Garcia twins to Session C and email their mom. Send the Lees their invoice with the bus seat added. Give me Session A's open spots by age group.

Not advice. The actual work. Like an office manager who knows every session, every spot and every family, and never goes home.

It even answers your phone when you can't. It takes the message and puts it on your dashboard as a new inquiry.

Turn on auto-reply, and it gets back to them with a price they can book and pay. You choose which registrations it handles on its own, like anything under one thousand dollars.

And you stay in charge. Turn on approval to see every quote first. The tricky ones, like a refund request or a worried parent, come straight to you.

When it needs an answer only your team has, it asks the right person. Your director replies from her phone between activities, and the parent gets a proper answer.

When camp's over, it keeps showing up. A thank-you. A follow-up to the family that started registering and stopped. A reminder when next summer's registration opens. One summer becomes a family that comes back for years.

5:20One job, start to finish

Let me show you one registration, start to finish, in a demo camp set up like yours. Eleven twenty on a Thursday night in February, a mom wants both her kids at camp before Session B fills up.

She taps overnight camp, picks Session B, adds two campers, nine and twelve, adds riding for her daughter, and hits get my price.

Four seconds later, she has a real price with the sibling rate already off, and two spots in Session B held for her.

She asks if her son can bunk with his best friend from school. Everybooking asks Jen, your camp director. Jen says yes, and the answer's back before the mom has found her card.

At eleven forty, she registers both kids and pays the deposit. Twenty minutes from a question to two campers registered and paid. You were asleep for all of it.

In June, she gets a reminder with the packing list and bus times. On drop-off day, she asks for a canteen card for each kid. Your counselor adds them from his phone, and she approves the change right there.

The final balance goes out with the deposit taken off, and she pays before the bus has left the parking lot. Form to paid, and nobody in your office touched it.

6:26Where it came from

Now, where did all this come from? I own Wilderness Edge, a retreat and conference center. Not a summer camp, but every bit as messy to quote.

I used to be on call from early morning until late at night, so I could be the first one to answer every inquiry with a real quote. Today, I have my mornings and evenings back. The first answer goes out without me. Our instant quote funnels and our AI answer nearly every first inquiry, twenty-four seven.

But that was only the first hard part. Once a lead is warm, they have questions. Changes. Details my staff have to check. That used to take me anywhere from twenty minutes to three hours, building spreadsheets, updating the quote, and chasing my team for answers.

Now the twenty-minute ones take one to two minutes. The three-hour ones are done in under ten.

Because I just talk to it. It knows every detail of every deal, and it has over a thousand different tools inside the system to get every detail of every registration right.

I built Everybooking to fix my own problem first. My venue or your camp, the problem is the same. The first real price wins the family, and the fastest follow-through keeps it.

7:32Your math

Now let's do your math, not mine. For example, say your average registration is eleven hundred and fifty dollars.

If Everybooking turns just two more inquiries a week into registrations, in this example that's almost ten thousand dollars a month, before the brothers and sisters who come next year.

Compare that to hiring someone to answer every call and form in registration season: about fifty thousand dollars a year with wages and benefits, and they still go home at five.

There are really two ways to grow a camp. Buy more ads and camp fair booths, and still answer the questions days later. Or win more of the families who already ask, by being the first to answer with a real price.

8:10How we work with you

Here's how it works. We build it with you, in two stages.

Your instant quote funnel is answering requests within days. Within thirty days, your foundation is running. Then we connect the rest of your camp, every piece agreed in writing. Outside services you choose, like texting, calling or your AI assistant, are billed separately.

And try it completely risk-free.

If you don't feel the difference in your first thirty days, for any reason at all, we'll give you a full refund of everything you paid Everybooking. No forms, no friction, no questions asked.

8:43Book your call

Want to see this on your camp?

Click below and book a call. It's not a high-pressure sales call.

We'll look at how your registrations come in today, where families are slipping through, and show you Everybooking set up with sessions like yours.

We only take on a few new businesses each month, so each one gets done right.

Worst case, you leave knowing exactly where you're losing campers. Best case, your first funnel is answering requests within days.

Not ready for the whole system? Right below the button, you can start with just the instant quote funnel.

Book your call below. I'll see you there.

Businesses, prices and conversations in the video's examples are illustrations. Wilderness Edge is our founder's own venue.