As of November, 2017, Cris and I have retired from traveling with Marginal Boundaries. We still maintain the website as a portfolio.
Welcome to Marginal Boundaries, home to Tim & Cris. Tim works as a social media marketing and brand consultant/strategist/campaign manager, writes a lot of articles, manages a video game studio, has written a few books, dabbles in photography and videography, and founded this brand in 2011. Cris handles photography and social media management, and tours. Somewhere along the way we’ve worked with a slew of tourism boards and companies within the travel industry on blogger residencies, press trips, consultations, photo shoots, video projects, long-term social media management and campaign development, and bespoke content of all types within the new media realm.
We’ve presented at 18 events on social media, digital marketing, and brand management at events such as: keynoting the Last Tuesday marketing event in Playa del Carmen in 2014; TBEX North America 2014 in Cancun, Mexico; TBEX Europe 2015 in Lloret de Mar, Spain, and TBEX North America 2017 in Huntsville, Alabama; and TBEX Europe 2017 in Killarney, Ireland.
From August of 2016 until December of 2017, Tim was the social media strategist and manager for The Adventure Collection, a travel collective of nine adventure-travel companies. Spin-off projects include consulting Backroads Travel for two months in early 2017 on a Working With Influencers white paper, as well as content production for Off The Beaten Path. Completed 2017 contract with 325% increase in website referrals from social channels, 46% increase in audience retention, 21% increase in pageviews, 32% increase in pages/session, and 27% increase in email referrals.
They are currently working as marketing consultants + managing social media for Hidden Compass.
He is also the creative director of the Saga of Lucimia MMORPG, and the CEO of Stormhaven Studios, LLC. The team has been working on the project since March of 2014, and in late 2017 were part of the Top 10 at the Intel Indie Game Dev Showcase at the Austin Game Conference. The studio received an infusion of private investment funds in late 2017 that has seen them expanding the team. Tim has been working full-time managing the contractors since January of 2018.
Cristina managed Cancun Apartment Rentals, a rental service specially designed to help foreigners find long and short term apartments in Cancun, as well as two Airbnb units in Cancun, from 2013 until the end of 2017. She also runs her own brand: Viajes Con Cristina, which you can find on Facebook and Instagram.
In October of 2017 we spent the month working with the Failte Ireland tourism board, leaving the country with more than 10,000 photos and 10+ hours of drone & regular video footage for our 2018 campaign.
From July of 2015 until July of 2016 Tim worked with Oyster and TripAdvisor in Mexico as their lead on-site investigative writer for over 100 resorts in the Riviera Maya and Puerto Vallarta.
We spent March, April, and part of May of 2015 as #ResidentBloggers #InCostaBrava and #InPyrenees with the Costa Brava tourism board, as well as worked with Flipkey and Eurail during our time on the ground, during which time we shot more than 11,000 photos and recorded more than 80 hours of video content for an 18-month social media campaign.
As of February of 2018, Mexico City is our home base for the foreseeable future; we have left the Riviera Maya behind after nearly 8 years so that Tim can focus the bulk of his energies on managing the game studio up in Austin.
We are still available for press tours, consultations, social media campaigns/marketing, and speaking engagements, on a limited case-by-base basis. Please send us your proposal.
In short, we are a competent couple who work great together as a team, we have a laundry list of past companies we’ve worked with, and we have a reputation for over-achieving on our projects. And yet you’ll likely notice that we ourselves probably wouldn’t be classified as “influencers” in the traditional sense, because the bulk of the work we do is behind the scenes, creating bespoke content for other companies and helping other brands build up their profiles and successfully manage their own marketing campaigns.
Which is exactly why we are the perfect solution for you and your company or brand if you are looking for actual, real-world experience instead of someone trying to sell you the pipe dream of “influencer marketing” based on having huge amounts of paid-for-followings on social media. From presentations to videos & photos, from in-depth press trips to social media management, from consultations to bespoke content creation of all types, we are here to help.
We’ve also got a boatload of professional references and case studies available upon demand, to show you the successes we’ve had working with companies such as Backroads Travel, the Adventure Collection, TripAdvisor, the Costa Brava tourism board, the Failte Ireland tourism board, and beyond. When you’ve got a resume that’s as thick as ours, you don’t need a huge following on social media: our track record speaks for itself.
Shoot us an email and let’s talk about things in greater detail.
The Fine Print
We are partners both personally and professionally, and do not travel alone. All travel expenses, including accommodations, transportation and meals, must be provided by the client/host/tourism board/airline partners.
We charge a daily fee for content production on press trips; daily rate varies per contract. Every contract is different. We have a base rate, but we also customize every single project. Note that we don’t charge for impressions or for number of followers on our social media as many “influencers” do. Rather, we charge for the content that we produce and our authority in the space. Still not sure if someone is worth the time unless they have a huge following on social media? Well…we could always put on bikinis and take a lot of selfies and pay for followers to bloat our numbers if that’s what you really want….
Clients are free to use the stories and videos we produce through Marginal Boundaries and Viajes Con Cristina for marketing purposes, but we do require credit and a link back to our website and/or videos.
Please let us know if you’d like to discuss additional bespoke media services– including content generation, photography, social media marketing, or website management– for your company. We are happy to provide these services at an additional charge, and have references and testimonials available on request.
Coverage We Guarantee From Press Trips
At least one article per day of press trip (articles include at least 10 photos + 1 video) on Marginal Boundaries, with extensive promotion via all social media networks. At least one video per day of press trip via Viajes Con Cristina, with associated social media coverage.
All posts include links to host’s website, relevant hashtags, and account tagging.
We produce content in both English and Spanish. English language content is across all mediums. The Spanish language content for Viajes Con Cristina via Instagram (photos) and Facebook (photos + videos).
Contact us for more information on our bespoke rates and daily rates for press trips.
