They request and receive continuous upgrades and additions. One county tourism office sold tickets to a Country Music Festival from their site. Music fans printed order forms and mailed them with their payment. Another used a site to promote an International Birding Photo Contest and received entries from as far away as Malaysia. An economic development office was contacted by Kuwait for information.
Counties advertise industrial park sites and another advertises an available industrial property .
The web has become a useful marketing tool in addition to traditional advertising outlets. We monitor the successes and failures of our web sites by the responses we receive . They are as diverse as the audience that visits. The type of mail ranges from questions about business financing and startup to environmental and sustainable development. We get questions about how to steam or where to buy crabs as well as inquiries from businesses looking for crab and oyster distributors.