Montpelier's Interesting Web Features
http://lone-eagles.com/montpelierwebtour.htmHere are some sites with interesting features to help you get an idea of all the different neat things you can do with web pages! Share contribute interesting sites and ecommerce success stories that you know of!
Bear Lake Tourism Site
www.bearlake.org
Notice their active moving notices, their nifty menus within menus, and click on their webcam to see a video shot. This site effectively promotes the whole region and dozens of businesses. Well done!Bear Lake Chamber of Commerce
www.bearlakechamber.org
Listen to the grizzley growl when you enter the Bearlake County site.
Audio can be automatic when you enter a site or you can have links to audio content.
Note their events calendar and directory of businesses.Magic Stables Designer Carousel Horses
http://www.magicstables.com/
Compelling music and animations on a very well designed site! Averaging roughly 100 visitors a day. Click on Pamela's MIDI page for more music. Created by Pam Bywater Email:"Pam Bywater" <spellbinder1222@hotmail.com>Hi Frank, thanks for the kind words (I love my website too!) I'm in Montpelier, and occasionally do websites through the Homestead webbuilders program, My website is my only business outlet, wouldn't have a business without it. (I'm not sure which I love most, working on the website, or working on my ponies) It has taken literally years of working on the site, and figuring out how to get on the search engines, get noticed, etc., but I'm about number one now for my keywords, so it is finally paying off, half the pleaure in that has been the doing! I haven't found many local business websites at all, the chamber and the museum are about the only sites that offer linking, we need to get more small business and handicrafters involved in the web, it does work if you understand it's not a matter of putting up a website and raking in sales. (wish it did)
I'm glad to see a seminar such as you're offering, that will be great for this area, and I'll be sure and stop by and register. Thanks, Pam Bywater
Canyon Estates at Bear Lake
http://www.canyonestatesatbearlake.com/
Check out the scrolling slideshows! Click on the scrolling pictures to see them displayed larger.Rocking Eranch
www.rockingeranch.com in Garden City, UT
See also their family scrapbooks and note the audio of the creaking rocking chair when you enter the site.
See the Panoramic Photos from
Spring comes to Swan Peak:
http://www.rockingeranch.com/bear_lake/roundup/april-02/swanpeak.html
Take a look at the kitchen and great room:
http://www.rockingeranch.com/bear_lake/roundup/october-02/index.html
The free software so you can do your own panoramas is at
http://stone.newton.cam.ac.uk/mirrors/PanoTools/20010626/Untraveled Road, Paris, ID
www.untraveledroad.com
See the detailed online photo tours of local communities, the Bearlake region, and more.
Maps are provided so you can pick the spots for which you'd like to view photos.
Literally thousands of photographs.Smith Realty
http://www.smithcorealty.com/
Click on the Menu Drawer on the left side to see the menus.Montpelier Ecommerce Success Stories
A Rural Ecommerce Success Story - http://batsbatsbats.com
http://lone-eagles.com/montpelier-bats.htm
Shane Johnson retired from his job as janitor at the local High School after creating a successful Ecommerce business selling baseball bats globally. He started with Ebay selling sports cards, then baseball bats, and after a couple years created his own website. 50-120 packages are now shipped daily both nationally and internationally. Shane is mentoring local Ecommerce businesses who are eager to learn from his success. This model can be replicated for many other products. He has successfully homesteaded his global niche and and is expanding with five new websites, which are:Halloween Products
http://www.alarmingproducts.com
Golf Supplies
http://theonlinegolfshop.com
Hockey Supplies
http://2playhockey.com
Sports Balls
http://jjsportsballs.com
Sports Cards
http://jjsportscards.comWalton Feed's Emergency Survival Products
http://waltonfeed.com and http://rainydayfoods.com
A success story of Ecommerce survival selling emergency food products.Magic Stables Designer Carousel Horses
http://www.magicstables.com/
Compelling music and animations on a very well designed site! Averaging roughly 100 visitors a day. Click on Pamela's MIDI page for more music. Created by Pam Bywater Email:"Pam Bywater" <spellbinder1222@hotmail.com>For Other Ecommerce Success Stories from Idaho
Go to http://lone-eagles.com/idaho-E-successes.htmSee also the Progress Report for the Montpelier Ecommerce Project
http://lone-eagles.com/montpelier-story.htm