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Client Accolades
Innkeepers
The WineCountry network brings me so many customers I don’t need to
advertise anywhere else.
John Paxon, Owner
Cabin on Winter Creek, October 2006
www.wintercreekcabin.com/
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
Hello Carolyn,
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
Hi Carolyn,
Nice talking with you today. As I told you today, after personal referrals
by guests. Sonoma.com is our # 1 source of new business. We get a least one
referral and booking each day from sonoma.com. Year to date ( and this covers
the slower first quarter) we have tracked a little more than $56,000.00 directly
attributable to your site. We hope that winecountry.com does as well for
you and for us. Thanks for the on winecountry.com offer.
Jim Caron
Applewood Inn & Restaurant
www.applewoodinn.com
I have dropped all other advertising, and i have found that "napavalley.com" is
bringing in all of my business now. At the latest meeting of
other people in this same business, your site was voted the " only
advertising that works" need i say more......
Leigh Milleur
Hacienda Guest House
www.napavalleybnb.com
"I have been amazed by the results of WineCountry.com
and Carolyn Lewis. Our spotlight advertisement and Mendocino
lodging listing have helped us grow our web traffic over 300%
in less than 3 months. The result has been a significant increase
in occupancy and profitability."
Sincerely,
Jed
Jed D. Ayres, General Manager / Owner
MacCallum House Inn and Restaurant
www.maccallumhouse.com
Hi Charles, Franklin, Karsten, Jennifer & Tom,
Now that we are ready to push the button and move all our domains to FreeRun
and launch our new web site I just wanted to let you all know how much I
have appreciated all your combined efforts in helping me get this big job
done! (Did I miss anybody?)
You have always responded quickly with solutions to whatever
comes up. I think you all make a tremendous team and I'm excited
about having Inns by the Sea's web site under your wings.
Thank you!!! -- Nancy
Nancy Lorenz
Inns by the Sea
www.innsbythesea.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. My first contact with Ms. Carolyn Lewis (Sales) and
later with Mr. Tom Biggs (technical support) was an enjoyable and pleasing
experience.
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
Patricia -
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
I am thrilled with the results from WineCountry.com. Within
the first few weeks of advertising, we received more than 20
coupons from what we tracked. Of that, 17 bought something ,
and the average spend was twice what we normally see. The promotion
is really very good."
Bruce MacKay
Ravenswood Winery, May 2006
www.ravenswood-wine.com
"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
Today a couple visited us at the tasting room because they
found us on WineCountry.com. They had their printed coupon in
hand, said they would never have found us otherwise (they were
from Washington DC) and bought 5 cases of wine!
Adam
Locals Wine Tasting Room
www.tastelocalwines.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. Supéry Vineyards & Winery
www.stsupery.com
Carolyn:
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
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
June 2006
In checking our statistics we have found that WineCountry.com
is the number 2 referring site to our business over all!!!
The WineCountry.com network has increased all aspects of
our business, I have been receiving 200+ visitors a day from
them. Coupons, Coupons, Coupons... THEY WORK!!! In short,
I am telling everyone about WineCountry.com.
Jill Brandt, Owner
Napa General Store
www.napageneralstore.com
March 30, 2005
Hi Lisa-
*I can't thank you enough for all your help and recommendations! I get at least
2 to 3 inquiries from your website each day. I have booked 3 positive weddings.
This is the best advertisement and I tell everyone in the business that they
should very seriously look into your website for advertising. * Also, I wanted
to know if you are planning to feature any weddings in the magazine and if
I should send a press release for a wedding I am doing in June. A majority
of the vendors for this wedding are part of napavalley.com. Do you know if
they like to send someone out to cover the wedding or if they perfer a write
up after the wedding with pictures? Let me know.
Talk to you soon,
Brandy
Bliss Event Productions
www.blisseventproductions.com
March 11, 2004
Carolyn-
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
Dear Carolyn and Samantha,
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 friends⑷nd 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
"We are absolutely thrilled with the response we received
with our listing. Thanks for a great site and a great job!"
Andrea Harrison
Sunset Shores, Santa Barbara
www.sunsetshores.us
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
Carolyn-
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
GoMonterey.com has been benefiting Monterey Peninsula visitors
as well as benefiting my company, Otter-Mobile Tours & Charters,
by making my services easy to find; and therefore, making their
Monterey experience all-the-more memorable. It's great to go
to my email and find informed inquiries from people praising
gomonterey.com and my web site. Thank you, gomonterey.com.
Paula DiCarlo
Otter-Mobile Tours & Charters
www.otter-mobile.com
WINECOUNTRY.com Publication
Hi Carolyn,
Nice running into you today at lunch - just wanted to take this opportunity
to send you a huge thank you for getting Rete involved in the editorial. It
has been great communicating with Greg and working in person with Brent.
I was actually very impressed when I saw Brent's work on the web-link where
the photo's are stored, not that I doubted he was good - but I guess I didn't
realize how good he was, until I saw it for myself!! Very nice. I loved how
he quickly took in the shop and found just the right backdrops to shoot the
models. Incredible job and a nice guy too.
Can't wait to see the finished layout and the write-up...........
Thanks again,
Merete, Owner
Rete Healdsburg,Sonoma County
www.retecalifornia.com
Our display ad in the October/November issue of the WineCountry.com
Magazine has been noticed and mentioned by several new customers
to our tasting room in Geyserville. Our Wine Club members also
loved receiving the latest issue with their club shipment.
Carolyn,
Locals Tasting Room
www.tastelocalwines.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
Hi Martha,
I wanted to drop you a note to let you know how amazed we are at the response
we've received from our association with the winecountry.com network. In
our first few months with you we have seen a marked increase in foot traffic
to our tasting room from the printable coupons we offer on the sites. And,
as we have discussed, an increase in foot traffic translates into an increase
in wine sales. Our location on Westside road is a bit off the beaten path,
but people planning their tasting prior to coming to the market have not
only found us, they are coming through the door with coupon in hand to taste
and buy! This is by far the most trackable and measurable marketing we have
done to date. Thanks!
Susie Bynum
CFO
Davis Bynum Winery, 2005
www.davisbynum.com
This all looks great! Thank you so much! It's amazing how much
help is out there if you just know where to look. I'll let you
know all the wonderful results we will be having soon!
Beryl Ryan, Owner
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