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Client Accolades
Lodging
Sonoma.com continues to be by far the top referrer to our site. I
just looked at our stats and you are referring about ten times
more than our number two referrer. Keep up the good work!
Bill Blum, General Manager
MacArthur Place, May 2006
www.macarthurplace.com
Congratulations on a job well-done. I am very happy with my affiliation with
FreeRun, both directly through my website and indirectly through Sonoma.com Rick Harrington, Manager
Riverlane Resort
www.riverlaneresort.com
Hello Heidi -
I just wanted to pass on to the people at Freerun how happy I
am with the service you provide. In my two dealings with you,
(Tom Biggs), I was treated with the utmost professionalism,
warmth and most importantly, complete and accurate information.
Tom goes above and beyond the scope of his job with assistance
in anything and everything, whether or not it is his "job". The
internet can be daunting and confusing and having people around that welcome
my questions and provide clear and articulate answers are a god send!!
Thank You. I am a completely satisfied customer.
Jamie Leighton
Frog Hollow House
www.froghollowhouse.com
To the Winecountry.com team:
"In today's fast paced and mostly impersonal business climate, rarely do
I get to experience the level of professionalism and excellent service that
I received from your team.
I am pleased to be associated with Winecountry.com and look
forward to working with your team over the next 12 months. I
was initially impressed with the Winecountry.com site and as
a long term surfer on the net found your site to be above and
beyond most others. The site has a professional yet simple and
cleanlook and is VERY easy to navigate through all the valuable
information. I can see why your Monterey, Napa and the other
wine regions are so successful and listings are numerous.
Thank you again for all your help and support in getting us
up and listed so quickly. I look forward to all the new business
that will be generated from our Spotlight and Featured Listings
located in SantaBarbara ."
Victor Evarone, Owner/operator
Cabrillo Inn at the Beach, Santa Barbara, CA
www.cabrillo-inn.com
Just want to let you know that we are very happy with the results from our
Featured Listings on WineCountry.com. I appreciate your service and are
delighted with the steady increase of referrals to our site. Thanks for
doing a great job of marketing your site so we can enjoy the results!
Tom
Beedon
General Manager
Santa Barbara Inn
www.santabarbarainn.com
Wineries
"We really feel that WineCountry.com, NapaValley.com is where
we need to be...year after year, we find this is where we get
most of our consumer traffic."
Toni Hunt
Marketing Director
Merryvale Vineyards
"Being an incredibly small and over stretched staff, NapaValley.com
has been incredible with doing the work for us. We simply don't
have the resources in-house to handle internet marketing. Our
listing on NapaValley.com and WineCountry.com has brought us
several visitors in the last few days that have all purchased
wine. In addition, we are developed relationships with future
customers that where looking for more information on our product
that found us through NapaValley.com. We are not interested
in large numbers of visitors so focusing our feature listing
on NapaValley.com has produced the right results."
Mimi Gaten
Kuleto Estate Family Vineyards, 2005
www.kuletoestate.com
I noticed that visitors to our website are originating from
your website - you're one of our best "suppliers" of
visitors. Nice! We track visitors to our site by referring domains,
and napavalley.com is the top outside "supplier" of
visitors to our site. Thank you.
Lesley Keffer Russell
Director of Consumer Marketing
St. Supery Vineyards & Winery
www.stsupery.com
We recently started advertising our winery through GoMonterey.com and have
noticed a significant increase in the number of visitors to our web site
to the point that you are our number one referral. That, plus your responsiveness
when I have questions about your services makes our relationship with the
WineCountry.com Network a winning combination.
Terry Titus, Marketing Manager
Smith & Hook and Hahn Estates
www.hahnestates.com/
The aboutwines.com site designed by Freerun Technologies for
The Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Company has been launched
with significant fanfare and praise by our many constituencies.
By creating a comprehensive, creative web site that was designed
with the end user in mind we have solved many problems in one
fell swoop. Whether you are a company salesperson, a distributor
or a retailer, aboutwines.com is a "one stop shopping" information
and image bank source for all the brands, wineries and vineyards
in our portfolio.
While we have barely tapped the full potential of the web as
a medium for servicing the needs of our salesforce, distributors
and customers, I am delighted with the valued added by aboutwines.com.
Stephen Brauer
Senior Vice-President
Marketing
Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Company
www.aboutwines.com
Additional Client Accolades
May 2008
My business does not have a physical location, so web ads are critical to introducing potential guests to my service. I am extremely pleased with the results I have experienced with WineCountry.com. Approximately 80% of my home page hits are a result of my ads on your website. Additionally, the ads (one of which your company designed) are experiencing a better-than-average click thru rate. The reports I get on ad views and click thru rates are timely and informative. The assistance with "tweaking" my campaign is personal and on-target. With the exceptional service my account representative (Azita) has provided, this makes advertising with FreeRun a home run, for me.
Kim Ryals
From Farm To Table
www.fromfarmtotable.com
October 2007
Dear Heidi:
Many thanks for your compassionate support during these difficult changing times and for continually exceeding our expectations.
The level of service you and your team provides makes it seem as if you are a part of our organization. Many of our other tourism partners agree on this point.
While we are certainly not amongst your larger clients the knowledge, support education and responsive service makes us feel we are and has made a huge difference.
Rest assured that we will be increasing our commitment and relying more upon your guidance as the New Year approaches.
It is amazing to reflect on how much has occurred since you introduced your services to us in 1994. Almost half a million, yes '500,000' customers have been delivered to us during that time because your service.
We will always be grateful to the incredible difference your expertise, patience in educating us, and commitment has made in our business - indeed, to the entire Napa Valley brand.
We will look forward to once investing in growing our business with your help, and wish Wincountry.com as much success (or more) as you create for us.
Erica Ercolano
Napa Valley Wine Train,
Director of Marketing & Business Development
September 14, 2006
Here's the truth: Advertising on Napavalley.com and Winecountry.com has been
the single best paid advertising my business has ever done. We get calls every
day generated from these great websites.
Amanda Lewis, Owner
Amanda's Massage & Bodycare
www.napamassage.com
March 11, 2004
I want to thank you personally, and from our entire Chamber for choosing
our Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz Festival as the featured event in the last issue
of WineCountry.com. That was unexpected and very exciting! I am already experiencing
a number of calls about the 'Fest because of the article. (I always "track" by
asking where folks hear about us or our events.)
Jan Harris
Redwood Coast Chamber of Commerce
Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz Festival
All of us here at Safari West - our elegant animals and their human companions
plus Nancy, Peter and I want to say thank you and let you know how delighted
we are with the exceptional work and customer service you and your staff
provide to us here at Safari West. Our partnership has become critical to
our success, and as we are approaching a new season, we once again are looking
forward to an enjoyable, successful year.
You both have been extraordinarily adept at understanding our
needs and coming up with just the right solutions. Plus, everyone
at Winecountry.com is genuine, down to earth people who make
working with you easy and a joy, because you all clearly take
your clients best interests to heart. Not only have you assisted
me numerous times in professional advice and support, you are
our portal to many new good friendsâ‘·nd we've made several! I'm
always hearing people mention that they only learned of Safari
West while perusing winecountry.com looking for unique venues
and fun things to do with the family.
As you may know, we at Safari West make a very conscious decision
regarding our business partners. Indeed, our main focus will
always be on the welfare of our animals and our guests, our mission
and our goals. Simply stated, without the support of friends
such as you, we would not be able to continue our work and with
our passion.
Wild About our Partnership and Safari West!
Cordially,
Aphrodite Caserta
Safari West
Director of Public Relations and Strategic Partnership
Heidi:
"I love the web site! You guys did an absolutely fabulous job! I would be
proud to be a reference for your company - you certainly did everything you
said you were going to do, which is surprisingly rare in business these days.
I very much appreciate your work.
Thank You!
Mike Gallagher, Marketing
City Pass
www.citypass.com
I wanted to let you know how pleased I am with the results of my listing on
Sonoma.com. After being with you for only a couple of months I can definitely
track at least 1 closed escrow ($14,000 commission on my side) as a direct
result of somebody contacting me because of the ad. I am also actively working
with a number of other buyers who have also found me thru Sonoma.com. My
traffic statistics indicate that 25% - 30% of all my Web visits are coming
through you, which is an impressive number. This is far and away my best
source of new business.
Thanks for the great service.
Deke DeKay
Healdsburg
www.dekedekay.com
Special Offers
March 2006
"The special offers are working! We received more inquiries and appointments
since we ran the specials." Lynn Alcantara
Massage to Go
June 17, 2005
Jambo! It's hard to believe everything worked so fast. As you know, we had
a very large group block of our safari cabins cancel on us at the last minute
for the upcoming weekend and we really needed some help fast in filling the
void! You responded immediately and designed a special discount - 'summer
kick-off' and had it up and running within hours. We joined in by sending
an email to all our previous guests letting them know about the special.
Together, we drove business to our website and by Friday, we were 95% occupied.
The owners were ecstatic and I know a lot of our fuzzy and four footed friends
were too. Again - thanks for the incredible results!
Kwaheri Rafiki (/Swahli/ /for thank you, Friend/)
Safari West Wildlife Preserve and African Tent Camp
www.safariwest.com
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