Adventure Escapades - Tour and Adventure Bookings
Description:
AdventureEscapades.co.za
, based in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is a joint effort
between Gary Amstutz and Dianne Perrett. And if you’re
sure you saw these two in HELLO! magazine last week, well…
you’d be wrong. They’re not celebrities (yet),
but they are two of the sharper tools in the shed, with
a pile of good solid business savvy and a healthy sense
of adventure.
Dianne is an internationally acclaimed strategic business
and marketing consultant, with a client base that extends
across three continents. She has recently focused on Internet
Marketing and has two other websites of her own, lajamarketing.co.za
and themarketingmanual.com.
Gary has developed his own Internet start-up, RubberstampSA.co.za,
now the leading online supplier of rubber stamps in South
Africa. He has a background in retail and courier services,
and also owns a PostNet business service centre.
From two of the most adventurous places in the world…
Gary was born in the adventurers’ paradise of Cape
Town, home to kite-surfing, mountaineering, kayaking and
sandboarding; his broad-ranging education took place in
Switzerland, Italy, Qatar and South Africa. Dianne was born
and educated in New Zealand, birthplace of bungy-jumping,
zorbing, black-water rafting and jet-boating.
Getting down to business
After completing a law degree in 1993, Gary spent two years
working and travelling in Switzerland, Australia and New
Zealand. In 1996 he opened a PostNet Business Service Centre
in Richards Bay, South Africa, which he subsequently built
it into the leading business service centre in the area,
earning the award for the Regional Franchise of the Year
in 2001.
Needing a new challenge, he launched RubberstampSA.co.za
in 2005, after completing a course in Internet Marketing.
The company has grown exponentially and is today the online
leader in the provision of rubber stamps in South Africa,
consistently ranked in the top 3 on all the relevant search
engines. Gary is still closely involved with both PostNet
and RubberstampSA.co.za.
Dianne worked in a broad range of service industries before
departing antipodean shores to travel extensively. She found
her niche in the Marketing Agency sector and spent 4½
years in London working on a number of blue-chip accounts.
After her arrival in South Africa at the end of 1989, she
founded what is believed to be the first full-service marketing
agency in KwaZulu-Natal. Her consulting work has taken her
beyond South African borders and she has successfully completed
work for companies in Australia, the UK, Holland, Kenya
and Zambia. Dianne held the Institute of Marketing Management
chairmanship for two terms of office in the KZN Inland Region
and is an active Rotarian; in fact, she was the first female
member of the Rotary Club of Pietermaritzburg and is currently
a Board Director.
Dianne has also authored a book titled Simple Solutions
to Effective Marketing! – launched in June 2005, it
attempts to demystify marketing for managers and entrepreneurs,
helping them to build marketing strategies that will have
a profound impact on their businesses.
Adventurous tendencies
Gary is a qualified glider and motor glider instructor,
and gets a tremendous kick out of introducing people to
the wonder of silent flight. Dianne rates the Bloukrans
Bungy and a static line parachute jump as two of her major
adventure accomplishments. She has also been an active scuba
diver and snow skier.
And who are they when they’re at home?
Gary and Dianne are both married with two children (though
not to each other, and not the same children). Gary loves
listening to classical music and spending time with his
family; and Dianne enjoys getting away into the bush for
a spot of bird-watching, and making her way through the
pile of books that accompany her wherever she goes.
Contact Details:
4 Vlei Road
3201
Hilton
South Africa
http://www.adventureescapades.co.za
info@adventureescapades.co.za
0861 106 638
Contact Adventure Escapades
|
