Hi, I'm Tim
The business behind the booking websites.
Clare Media is led by Tim Davies: nearly 30 years running businesses, 25 building for the web. We build custom booking websites for family-run tour, hire, experience and accommodation businesses, and we stay on after launch, refining them as the business changes. Based in the Clare Valley, working with booking businesses right across Australia.
I've been leading businesses for nearly 30 years, developing websites for 25, and deep in marketing and agency life for over 15. I'm also the author of An Absolute Must-Do. When you work with Clare Media, the person leading your build has run businesses like yours, so your marketing and your brand are considered, not an afterthought. We'll make sure you put your best foot forward.
25 years building websites
Mostly WordPress, that whole time, but I'm a programmer, so I've always extended it in whatever ways a client needed. These days I lead the engineering and let AI carry the grunt work, which lets my business head and my development skills work together in a way that's never been possible before.
Bachelor of Technology, Web Design
From RMIT, with a minor in web design, graduated with distinctions. Programming languages, databases, software engineering fundamentals, abstraction: the core understanding for building better applications.
Grew a business onto BRW's fastest growing companies list
In my twenties I spent seven years in a wholesale art and craft business and touched every role in the place: graphic designer before there was one, web developer before there was one. I built the R&D programme, developed new manufacturing processes, imported the first container, set up an office in China for sourcing and quality control, then led the sales team into the US. My final three years I was general manager, and those are the years we made BRW's fastest growing private companies top 100.
Author of An Absolute Must-Do
A concise framework for building a tourism business that people love, pay more for and rave about. Written while we travelled during COVID, after eight years in tourism: destination marketing with some of Victoria's best, Great Ocean Road, Phillip Island and Geelong Bellarine, right down to working with individual operators. The book is the best of what worked, pulled into one framework I trust, from brand and marketing strategy down to the doing.
Business advisor, RDA Yorke and Mid North
On the Drought Support Programme, a two year government funded programme supporting small regional businesses across South Australia. My patch is marketing, AI and websites.
My values
Back yourself
I'm here to help regional businesses own what makes them different and move forward with confidence.
Keep it simple
Clear, focused strategies cut through the noise and give people back their time. I don't waste time on busy work in my business, and I won't waste it in yours either.
Create with purpose
Every idea I produce is grounded in strategy, so it delivers impact where it matters most.
Challenge the status quo
Always searching for better. I stay curious and keep learning, then put what I find to work in my business and in yours.
Regions deserve more
I give a damn about the next generation, and I believe regional communities deserve the same access to high quality creative work as the city does.
For the risk takers and job makers
The gritty, the ambitious, the ones having a go. That's who this is built for.
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We look at your business and tell you straight whether a website helps and what it would take. We reply within one working day.