This Thursday at my BNI meeting we collected presents for Toys for Tots. We’ve done this for a number of years, and it was very pleasing this year to see that despite the economy members were as generous as ever! Super folks at the Marlborough BNI!

Here’s pics of us cutting it up before the gifts were taken out for delivery.

Katherine Wright, Mike Curtin and Me posin'

Dennis Maroney, Beth Bryant, Suzanne Spero and me showing off the gifts.

Photos by Emily Greenwood, EKG Networking, Marlborough, MA.

Congrats to Kevin Lister of Paradigm Strategies on the new look-n-feel of his website. Adventures Online worked on the website October through early December. The new website is based on WordPress blog software and includes a number of plugins and widgets.  Now that the website is in WordPress, Kevin will be able to update the content whenever he wants as long as he has an Internet connection. 

New look-n-feel for Paradigm Strategies

Wishing Kevin a bushel or two of fresh, new prospects!

See Paradigm Strategies.

Congratulations to the The Sudbury Foundation of Sudbury, Massachusetts who recently unveiled its redesigned website. Adventures Online had designed and developed the non-profit’s original website in 2002 and was delighted to be asked to do the redesign and development of the new website.

2011 Website Redesign

The newly designed website is SEO-friendly, and features a wider pallet, two page layouts, a blog, and the ability for The Sudbury Foundation staff to update the content on all the web pages as well as the information in the left and right sidebars whenever they want.

Staff received two hours of in-office training and 3 documents that comprise the custom-written User Guide – and they are already blogging like pros!  Kudos and best of luck to The Sudbury Foundation!

I am very happy to announce that earlier this week, Adventures Online completed developing a website for marketing consultant Evelyn Herwitz of  Herwitz Associates, Worcester, MA.

Creation of the website was a collaborative effort.
For any website, you need:

1. A design
2. Content to go on the pages
3. Someone to put 1 &  2 together… to build the vision… 

The design was created by a long-time friend of Evelyn. The content and search engine optimization were prepared by Evelyn herself.  Their vision was built by Adventures Online. 

The build consisted of creating web pages and a blog that looked exactly like the design created by Evelyn’s friend, and contained the content and search engine optimization components created by Evelyn. 

The website was developed on a WordPress platform.  Why WordPress? Because it has a content management system that Evelyn can use to maintain her blog and update her pages – and create new ones if she wishes.

Wishing Evelyn many prosperous projects generated from her website!

when a client calls to tell you that they have made  a(nother) “look-ma-no-hands” sale. That’s when their website did all the talking for them and the purchaser contacted them, having already made the decision to purchase from/work with them.

It’s happened a number of times, and most recently, yesterday (Friday, March 25, 2011). Early afternoon I received a call from  Emergency Signal Systems of Leominster, MA. They had just closed a deal for a 4-figure project. They were most surprised that their website was out there “working” for them, and called to let me know that it really did work!  

They said that when their new client called, it was a “done deal” - ”When can you start my project?” Best of all, the project is a pilot and has the potential to grow into a much larger grossing project.  

I love to receive these calls.

Emergencey Signal Systems’ website went live in early December 2010.