We are social site and media outlet that allows people who love to party, attend big festivals, travel and explore to connect with similar people from around the world.
Our goal is a 100-million-member troll free site. Members will be able to find new people to connect to across the globe. They can safely share experiences of going out, traveling, and exploring. We will have a perfect blend of user and our media team generated photos, videos, and stories. Thousands of events this week will be explored to help our users feel more connected to the positive things in life. We will be profitable using advertising and unique marketing without being intrusive.
We’re building a niche social media network catered for people who are crazy about attending music festivals, nightclubs, traveling and exploring social scenes. Beachmonkey is creating a safe, fun haven for users to connect with people around the world who, like them, love to party.
Twitter does a poor job of filtering contacts while Facebook does the opposite—you get to connect with people you already know, not meet new friends. Where social media was supposed to bring people together, the onslaught of fake news, bullies, and polarizing politics has done the opposite and pushed people apart.
We started as a photo-marketing agency for the country’s coolest nightclubs and events. Through that, we’ve garned hundreds of thousands of fans who love our photography. They’re ready to grow their relationship with Beachmonkey beyond the lense and into a network of all the things they love.
94,765
Social Media Followers
180
Media Team Members
Launched first version of Beachmonkey.com
Our first beta version that had a photo gallery and user profiles.
Started photography marketing (in Louisville, KY)
Experimented with our first marketing and sales process to gain clients.
Gained first client (Pink door in Louisville, KY)
After seeing the quality and value of our product, they hired us on the spot.
Photography marketing clients in multiple cities
Louisville, Myrtle Beach, Miami, Charleston, Wilmington and Cincinnati.
First major client for photo sponsorship
Blu Energy Drink began sponsoring our Myrtle Beach Market.
Launched 2nd version of site
Upgraded our photo gallery, built 1st beta community, added direct photo upload to Facebook, automatic watermarking for media team, faster site and better design.
Gained first national festival as client
Life in Color hired us to shoot 3 shows that year and have become one of our best clients.
Added 100th media team member
We knew our hiring and training process worked and could be easily scaled to mass with more backend staffing.
Broke 400,000 members and 100,00 social media followers
We achieved this total without much effort and it still helps spread our brand awareness.
Start design and construction of new website and phone apps
It is important that we make sure we get the branding and design right the first time to attract our target market of users.
Launch new website and new phone apps
With a new foundation built, we can start increasing user engagement and building on our brand.
In 2007, I started taking photos in clubs and festivals for fun and uploading them onto social media. I quickly became known in the nightlife scene, and my experiences helped me form a basic idea: connecting people who love nightlife using visual media. With that in mind, I upgraded my photography gear and launched beachmonkey.com. After the first year, I knew I had something special when someone I had never met before, from a city I had never been to, approached me and said “I love your website!”
Over the next few years, I developed a large fan base made up of individuals throughout the globe. I put every extra dime made back into the company’s growth and never had a major fund raising campaign. I trained and mentored our media team into some of the finest people you could ever work with. All our marketing and sales processes have been tested and refined until I knew they were perfected and could be scaled to mass.
Our key mission has always been to connect people together who love nightlife, festivals, and traveling. Our fan base is made up of people from different ages, backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs, but they all agree on one thing: They would rather go experience life and be happy than sitting at home and being miserable.
Beachmonkey.com has always been about thousands and thousands of people coming together to do something unique and fun. Crowd funding fits perfectly with that. I want 100,000 small investors who fully believe in our project and can commit to a grassroots company. There is no reason a company cannot be these three things: behave in a socially responsible manner, bring joy to people, and make a profit.
It has been proven that when people of different cultures dance together, they feel more connected to each other and are less likely to commit acts of violence against others that are different from themselves. The heart of world peace is being able to establish connections like this on a grand scale. Maybe we won’t achieve world peace (and maybe we will!), but we would like to make a difference in people’s quality of life.
I want to personally invite you to become involved in our journey to create something different and great – a profitable and unique space you can call home.
Much love,
Michael Luczaj