Client Accolades
Site Examples
• Accolades
What makes it all worth it is when clients get great results from
their sites, provide great feedback, or pass along an email from someone
who visited their site. These are some we have received.
"I LOVE THE NEW WEBSITE!!!!! GREAT JOB! WOW!
Love the photos, layout, etc.... I am just REALLY impressed, and wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate the work put into the website - THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS AND TIME - I can easily see it becoming a great new hub and central place for LCMHCs to communicate!" Heather Pierce, past-president Vermont Mental Health
Counselors Association, 1/13/12.
"Everything is BEAUTIFUL! I love it!" Susan Gulrajani, REALTOR®, 12/21/11, My Home in Vermont.
"People contact me through my site noting it has been an avenue for them to get to know me. They commonly share with me 'You sound like someone I want to work with.' My private practice client base has consequently grown." Amy Miller, APRN, 9/28/11, of ConnectwithAmyMiller.com
"I had a meeting yesterday with my first "web-based" client... they found me via the web! Thanks
again!" Matt Giroux of Grounds
by Design (who launched in March, see below), 4/19/11
"The website looks great! ... It's so good to have it live..."
Hannah Skalecke, co-owner of Elevation
Physical Therapy, 4/7/11
"A note of great appreciation and gratitude for your hard work
and patience in putting together my website. Obviously, I could not
have done it without your many contributions. Your cooperation has
been above and beyond and again, it is greatly appreciated."
Matt Giroux of Grounds
by Design, 3/29/11
"I just wanted to say how happy I am with the way that the Online
app is working. I think that we have had a good amount of people use
it so far." Dan Mattice of Reinhardt
Home Heating, 3/28/11
"We get many compliments on our site." Ann Johnson of A.
Johnson Co., Inc., 12/8/10
"The pictures look great!" Bob Deeb, Christmas
Tree Inn, 9/16/10
"I love the olive background--bright, crisp--love what you've
done so far; a great start, a great revision. I've always had it in
the back of my mind to work with you. I'm so glad I contacted you.
This worked out great, very happy, excited to get it live." 7/25/10,
Steven Place, Green
Mountain Post & Beam; ""
"Thank you for everything. We are very happy with the whole
site." 4/27/10, Adam Whitney, Whitney
Tree Service; and in a note 4/28: "Great job, we love
it."
Jerry Fuller of Paul
Oil wrote on 3/19/10, "The new system works great!! No
problems so far. As we tell customers calling in that our online payment
system is up and going, they are very excited to know and we repeatedly
hear "great, I pay all my bills on line, so next time I'll use
that."
"The sample pages all look more contemporary and what we were
hoping to achieve. Good job!" Leigh Quigley, White
Rocks Inn Bed & Breakfast, 1/21/10
Dr. Frank Yeomans of the Personality
Disorders Institute wrote on 10/7/09 regarding a custom admin
interface, "I agree that the system is intuitive... Thanks for
setting all this up - it's a great system."
Liz Levey of Reinhardt
Home Heating, wrote on 6/15/09, "The site was received
well, and we are good to move forward. ... The look, feel, and navigation
all feel good to people, so that says plenty about our work to date."
Margaret Donovan of Manchester Advertising, the firm that maintains
Josiah Allen
Real Estate, Inc., wrote on 6/3/09 regarding the programming
work we did, "Looks amazing to me." Shaun Mitchell, colleague,
wrote on 6/2: "I used the admin console this morning to upload
a few properties ... and everything went smoothly (really excited
about this!)", and again on 6/3: "Again, Thank You! This
is wonderful!"
Jean-Sébastien Chaulot, IT Manager at Heritage Flight, wrote
on 5/26/09 about the upcoming launch of Heritage Aviation:
"Everything is looking great. Sincerely. I like this website
a lot." On 8/26/09: "The site looks awesome, especially
the tour. Every time I look at it, I rediscover it!" (Note: Website
changed, new developer.)
Dr. Frank Yeomans of the Personality
Disorders Institute wrote on 4/25/09: "Thanks for all
the hard work, and persistance, on the site. [...] The Europeans LOVE
the new website and they're already asking for articles they didn't
know we had published." On 5/8, regarding some search utility
research, he followed with: "You are invaluable! Thanks for bringing
all this to our attention."
Derrick Martens of Brothers
Building emailed on 4/22/09: "Thanks... The site looks
and works great." And again on 5/14, "Thanks Darlene, I
am so glad you are on our team. Everyone loves the site." On
6/19, Derrick reported: "We continually get great feedback from
website. In fact we looked at some land with some people who said
they called us because of the website; that's awesome!"
Ruth Lacey, Marketing Executive of the Vermont
Summer Festival Horse Shows wrote on 2/5/09: "We've experienced
a real evolution since the inception of the Vermont Summer Festival
website six years ago. Our customers now look to our site for resources
to enter our event, information about the area and results, photos
and news during the show. ...we have the tools to continue to improve
our website every year."
Caryn Feinberg of the Vermont
Mental Health Counselors Association wrote on 9/15/08, "I
am getting a lot of compliments re: the site!" Heather Pierce,
President, wrote on 2/5/09: "...our site visits have doubled!"
On 9/3/08, Carol Thompson, (former) Executive Director of the Mad
River Path Association wrote "Fantastic, thanks so much.
Our website is a million times better than it ever was!" (Note:
Website changed since this note and developed now by client.)
On 7/24/08, Liz Levey of The
Big Basin Band wrote: "Wow! I am thrilled. ... I like
the fonts, colors, ..." And on 7/25: "It really looks great!"
Mary Kerr, previous editor of the Valley Reporter, wrote to Susan
and Fred Spencer, owners of Mountain
View Inn, "Suzy & Fred: was checking some info and
found your gorgeous website—really lovely, reflects your beautiful
Inn so well—one of the best I've seen." 5/31/08
(Former agent) at David
M. Dion Real Estate wrote on 3/26/08, "Just a quick note
to thank you for the extensive work you've done on renovating our
home page over the last months. I've had several compliments from
customers that it is much easier to use and more of a pleasure to
come back to. We're lucky to have your technical and design prowess
and I appreciate it. It makes a real difference for our business."
On 10 Jan 2008, Tara Hamilton of the Green
Mountain Global Forum Board wrote "...and was again impressed
with how really nice the GMGF web site looks, and how well it works.
Thanks for this!"
Kathleen Burns Kingsbury of the Battleground
Condos Board noted on 5/30/07, "...homeowners loved the
new website at the meeting this past weekend. Nice job!"
On 5/17/07, Rita Swogger of White
Rocks Inn wrote "Did you see the AP news article on destination
weddings in Vermont? One of my photos was featured. USA
Today picked it up, as well as a lot of local papers. Great
press for us, and they found us through our website!"
In an email 5/14/07 from Judith A. Hancox, MSW, LCSW, BCETS, regarding
Shiome Therapy:
"It looks beautiful, you did a great job!! ... Thank you so much
for your help, again, it's wonderful! Really am amazed! Great job."
And again on 5/21, "Everything does look beautiful! I love it.
Thank you!"
While finishing the last details of Johnnycake
Flats, Debra Rogler wrote: "I just took a quick peak...I
really love the way its coming together! It looks so clean, professional
yet retains a certain charm that is important to me." Received
card 5/12/07, "...how pleased I am with the new website. In fact,
the whole experience of working with you turned out to be a very good
one... Thank you for all your time, energy and creativeness..."
"We continue to get lots of compliments on our website. People
love it." White
Rocks Inn, 2/9/07
On 2/1/07 Kristin Russo reports "[Unit owner] from #5 called
me at home last night to tell me how thrilled she was with the site.
It was just what she was imagining and what we had talked about."
BattlegroundCondos.com
"...many thanks for jumping on a solution to the website right
away!" David Dion, David
M. Dion Real Estate, 1/31/07
Kelly Wood, Billing Manager at Back
to Action Physical Therapy wrote on Nov. 17, 2006, "Joe
[Grant] and I have discussed the great value that we have derived
from this website. I have opportunity ... to see many other professional
websites and ours is better looking and works better than many of
the ones I visit. Not to mention the way we pop up first in so many
different searches – You have done a wonderful job and we truly
appreciate it."
"I still get all sorts of comments on how wonderful the website
is!!" Marcia Pierce, The
Hidden Gardens Bed and Breakfast, 9/10/06
"At least 5 calls a week from website turn into business."
Jim Franchino, FranchinoInsurance.com,
4/6/06
"In an email from Kristin Russo on 1/25/06, "Once again,
thank you for making our website so complete. It looks great!!"
BattlegroundCondos.com
"I wanted to call you and tell you this in 'person.' Two or
three times a day by email or by phone I get calls from contractors
looking for insurance. Whatever you did, don't change it." Jim
Franchino, FranchinoInsurance.com,
1/25/06
"The value of my website and the impact it has had on my business
are way beyond what I would have anticipated, in both dollars and
from where the leads come. I can't imagine not having a website now.
Not only does it act as a brochure, but it gives me the ability to
communicate detail with people outside the geographic area."
Dave Weigand, TimberworksDesign.com,
12/28/05.
"Website seems to be working as we are still getting lots of
inquiries. Steven Lowy, PorticoNY.com,
9/26/05
"Level of spam still delightfully low." Steven Lowy, 6/2/05
"You are doing a great job. The formatting of the Hilla works
on paper is excellent." Steven Lowy, PorticoNY.com,
5/18/05
"YOU ARE SO GOOD. I TRULY APPRECIATE IT." Anne Moore, Taylor-Moore,
Inc. 3/13/05
"I have had very positive feedback from friends and customers
-- good work!!!!!!," Lesley Smith, Pepper's Lodge and Restaurant
(now Slide Brook Lodge), 12/22/04
"Whatever you did has removed all the junk mail that came into
[my email address]. Instead of 30+ notes each time I check, I've had
two notes in checking twice today. Hooray!" Anne Moore, Taylor-Moore
Agency, 11/20/04 "I have received maybe 25% of what I was
getting. That's great. Instead of 65-90 e-mails this morning, I had
about 15." 11/22/04
In an email from John
Williams on 9/15/04, "Pages look great!!" In a follow-up
note on 9/28, "Thanks for a great job!" (Website removed per customer request 2011, career change.)
From Mike Kelley (former owner) of the Waitsfield Inn on 9/8/04:
people frequently tell him that "movement within their website
is easy" and sometimes is the factor that solidifies a booking!
Ruth Lacey, Marketing Executive of the Vermont
Summer Festival Horse Shows, passed along an email from equine
author Steve Price, "Congratulations and thanks for the most
user-friendly website of any horse show I've encountered. The results
are posted quickly, and the cross-referencing makes finding information
a breeze and a pleasure." Ruth's response: "Thanks. I really
appreciate that. I'm pretty proud of what we're accomplishing with
the site, and a lot of credit goes to [...] Mad River Consulting."
8/7/04
A visitor to The
Hidden Gardens wrote to the owner on 3/22/04: "Love the
new website - it is really creative, informative, and beautiful! It
captures much more of the beauty of the gardens than the previous
site."
"The website looks GREAT!" Kenneth Kehs of Ridin' For
The Ranch (non-profit, no longer active), 3/13/04
"...site looks excellent." StevenLowy.com
3/9/04
"Thanks so much. I have been getting great responses to the
web site from both the owners and the renters. The renters can finally
have a general picture of what they are getting before they book.
Thank you again," Kristin B Russo - (former) Office Manager,
The
Battleground Condominiums 3/4/04
Scott Beebe of Peter's
FUNd Racer wrote on 9/19/03 of their on-line auction database
management console, "I finally had a couple of minutes to play
around with this and it looks awesome. I think it's EXACTLY
what we are looking for and it seems very user friendly." After
the 2004 event, on 3/13, Scott reported that the on-line auction management
generated excitement and more active bidding from event participants
and a larger bidding volume.
When Ruth Lacey, Executive Director of the Vermont
Summer Festival Horse Shows, saw their new site design on-line,
her response was "I love it, love it, love it." 3/9/03
Davis Weigand, Timberworks
Design, Architect in South Burlington, VT, called on 9/26/02
to request additional pages be added to his website because "things
are going quite well." In a follow-up conversation on 11/12/02,
he reported that it acts as a brochure, it familarizes prospects with
his ability, and it gives people a starting place. During one week
he had a serious inquiry every day. He has sold his largest home design
nine times and it is generating opportunities for him to do custom
work.
Claire Wallace of Wallace
Realty received a referral from a firm in southern Vermont
because she was able to assist a prospective buyer in finding a home
that met their needs.
Cheryll Patti of Sportive
Inc. has people calling from all over the United States to
purchase ski clothing from the unique and extensive Bogner line.
In a message to Vermont
Frames, a prospect wrote: "Your site is spectacular.
My wife and I work in the online world (education -- http://voltt.org)
and have critical eyes. You have done really well!"
"The work you have done is absolutely fantastic and exactly
what I envisioned. Thanks for turning it into a reality." Erin
Guarnieri, The Olive Branch Imports (no longer in business),
Dec. 2001 |
