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Wherever I Choose, a Book by Tom Ecker Website

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Wherever I Choose Book CoverWe, at WebWise Design & Marketing, have had the pleasure of working with Tom Ecker since 2004. Obviously, we were happy to hear from him when he called about developing a website for his latest book, Wherever I Choose, an Unauthorized Autobiography.

“Interesting” and “remarkable” are just two words commonly used to describe Tom Ecker’s life. The dictionary defines a raconteur as a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly. Ecker is a raconteur in the fullest sense. His latest book demonstrates that very well. A long-time friend says, “Humor, love, and good jokes fill this joyful book but cannot disguise a life well and fully lived.”

Discover more about Tom Ecker and his latest book at tomeckerbook.com. You may also purchase another of his books, Olympic Facts and Fables, or some of his Wuzzles word puzzles booklets on the “More Books” page. Of course, those are stories in their own right. Enjoy!

New Milkhaus Dairy A2 Protein Milk Website

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Milkhaus Dairy LogoMilkhaus Dairy is a small, family-owned dairy nestled in the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin. Recently, WebWise Design & Marketing developed a website for Milkhaus Dairy announcing their decision to market their own milk to the consumer.

The Holthaus family has been selectively breeding their award winning cows to produce only A2 beta-casein milk.

Many people feel that A2 protein milk causes less bloating and other intolerance symptoms than does A1 milk. Wholesome A2 protein milk is milk nearly anyone can drink.

Milkhaus Dairy A2 Protein Milk will be available soon. Check out Milkhaus Dairy today.

New Website for PMC the Pequea Machine Corp near Boscobel, WI

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Pequea Machine CorpPMC, the Pequea Machine Corp., needed a new mobile-friendly, device-responsive website. We were privileged to design and develop it for them.

PMC, located near Boscobel, Wisconsin, has been in business since 1989. Their most popular products are their PMC Heavy Duty Round Bale Livestock Feeders on skids that save hay. PMC has models for a wide variety of livestock types and sizes.

Their convenient Fence Line Feeders for calves, cows, and bulls can be easily connected. The PMC Feeder Wagons and Portable Bunk Feeders can be quickly moved to where you need them.

For those in need moving large round bales, PMC Big Bale Transports have the features you want and the quality you expect.

The PMC quality and innovation is readily apparent in the three models of PMC Combine Header Transports. Take the worry out of moving combine headers.

Also, PMC is quickly becoming known their Anhydrous Riser Fill Stations and Anhydrous Handling Equipment.

From the moment you contact PMC, you will know you made the right call!

All New Edelweiss Cheese Shop Ecommerce Website

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Edelweiss Cheese Shop Bruce Workman, a Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker with 12 Certifications, and his wife, Kathy, invite you to check out the new ecommerce website for their Edelweiss Cheese Shop in New Glarus, WI developed by the WebWise Design & Marketing team.

Their wide variety of Authentic Wisconsin Cheeses includes their own Edelweiss Emmentaler Swiss cheese and other award-winning Edelweiss Creamery cheeses. The Workman’s invited other local cheesemakers to share their products and offer you a variety of excellent Wisconsin traditional and artisan cheeses. Each cheesemaker’s brand label is proudly displayed on their cheese products.

You will also find locally-made, award-winning sausages and meats, cheese spreads, jellies, mustards, and more.

If you have the good fortune to travel to New Glarus, Wisconsin (It is “America’s Little Switzerland), visit the Edelweiss Cheese Shop in the heart of downtown , and enjoy a sample of cheese with a local Wisconsin beer from breweries throughout the state. While there, browse their variety of unique Fun Wisconsin and dairy gifts for sale.

The Edelweiss Cheese Shop in New Glarus, WI, is a place where you will be happy you said , “Cheese, please!”

New from WebWise! Small Business Starter Websites

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WebWise SMB Stater Website Example 1Starting a small business is a daunting task. There are so many pieces of the puzzle to think about and put in practice. It also seems as though every time you turn around, there is another check to write or bill to pay.

  • We both know you need a website for your business.
  • We both know you need it quickly.
  • We both agree you need your website pages to do well in Google search results.
  • We both know you don’t have extra cash for a fully customized website right now.

WebWise Design & Marketing has a solution for you!

Introducing our inexpensive WebWise Small Business (SMB) Starter Websites: Taking what we learned from over two decades of custom designing, developing, and marketing professional websites that get found and perform,  WebWise Design & Marketing now offers professionally designed and developed “starter” websites for Small Businesses.

Our SMB Starter Websites* can be from one to four pages and can be expanded easily in the future.

  • Free domain name registration for first year
  • You may choose from some popular layouts and color palettes.
  • You provide your logo (We can help with that.), or we can simply use your business name in a font/style you choose
  • You provide your content (text and photos)
  • We proofread your text and edit it judiciously, and add Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tweaks if needed.
  • We add your logo/business name and content
  • You review and approve
  • We create Google Analytics and Google Search Console accounts for you, and GA tracking code to your web pages.
  • We launch your WebWise Small Business Starter Website

*  WebWise SMB Starter Websites require a website hosting account. (We can help with that.)

WebWise SMB Starter Website Example 2Make a positive impression with your Google My Business listing!

WebWise will provide you with free support for setting up your Google My Business account so you may take advantage of the most important element of marketing any business locally

Ask about our SMB Starter Websites Payment Plans.

Call Us Today! 1-800-281-9993 or 608-822-3750

Carr Valley Cheese Wins Big at the World Cheese Awards 2013

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Carr Valley Cheese
Sid Cook and his team at Carr Valley Cheese represented Wisconsin’s Dairyland well, as international cheese experts meeting at the World Cheese Awards 2013 in London, England awarded Carr Valley Cheese ten awards.

Billy Blue Goat Cheese
Billy Blue

Bringing home the gold is nothing new to our friends at Carr Valley Cheese. In the past five years alone, Carr Valley cheeses have won more than 400 top awards in U.S. and international competitions. Here are the latest award winning Wisconsin cheeses from Carr Valley’s artisan cheesemakers.

Super Gold Award Winners: Billy Blue  (Goat Cheese), and Cave Aged Marisa (Sheep’s Milk Cheese)

Gold Award Winner: Black Sheep Truffle  (Sheep’s Milk Cheese)

Silver Award Winners: Smoked Billy Blue, Virgin Pine Native Sheep, Smoked Ba Ba Blue, Bessie’s Blend

Bronze Award Winners: Aged Marisa, Virgin Pine Native Blue, Menage

Cave Aged Marisa
Cave Aged Marisa

More than 250 cheese experts gathered in London at the World Cheese Awards 2013 event to whittle 2,777 entries down to just 58 SuperGold cheeses, as well as awarding gold, silver, and bronze medals to nearly 700 well-crafted cheeses. The cheeses were chosen by a panel of 16 expert judges representing 13 nations. Organized in 1988 by The Guild of Fine Food, the World Cheese Awards has grown into the largest international event of its type in the world.

All of us here at WebWise Design & Marketing want to congratulate Sid and his entire team including his cheesemakers and support people for the latest awards acknowledging the skill, pride and care  they put in crafting their Wisconsin cheeses and in making it available for everyone.

Visit the Carr Valley Cheese retail website www.carrvalleycheese.com or their website for chefs, cheesemongers, and other wholesale customers www.artisancheesesource.com where you may purchase their award winning Wisconsin cheese.

 

Our 2013 American Cheese Society Contest Award Winning Clients

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Congratulations to everyone in the Artisan Cheese industry for their outstanding 2013 American Cheese Society competition held last week in Madison, Wisconsin! We are pleased to tell you how well some of our clients placed.

Carr Valley Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Carr Valley Cheese, LaValle, Wisconsin, won a total of 13 ribbons including a 1st place award for Bandaged Billy goat cheese. Carr Valley also received four 2nd place awards and eight 3rd place awards.

Edeleweiss Creamery
Edeleweiss Creamery Edelweiss Creamery, Monroe WI, brought home a 3rd place ribbon for their Muenster.

 

Maple Leaf Cheese English Hollow Cheddar Maple Leaf Cheese Coop. received a 3rd place ribbon for their English Hollow Cheddar.

 

Uplands Cheese Uplands Cheese Uplands Cheese, Dodgeville WI, won a 3rd place ribbon for their Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese.

The 2013 ACS Judging and Competition was the largest ever, with 257 companies submitting 1,794 different products. What a remarkable accomplishment for these talented artisan cheesemakers!

We are privileged and proud to work with several of Wisconsin’s finest cheesemakers providing them an online presence that befits their status. Congratulations to Sid Cook and his team at Carr Valley Cheese, Bruce Workman and his team at Edelweiss Creamery, Jeff Wideman, Paul Reigle and their team at Maple Leaf Cheese Coop, and Mike Gingrich and Andy Hatch at Uplands Cheese.

2013 Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Contest Winners

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Congratulations to all the winners and participants in the Cheese and Butter Competition at the 2013 Wisconsin State Fair! We especially want to acknowledge the prize-winning entries from our clients.

Carr Valley CheeseSid Cook, Carr Valley Cheese, LaValle WI

  • Cave Aged Cardona, 1st place, Natural Goat Milk Cheese
  • Creama Kasa, 3rd place, Soft and Spreadable Cheese
  • Caso Bolo Mellage, 3rd place, Sheep & Mixed Milk Cheese

Bob Koenig, Carr Valley Cheese, LaValle WI

  • Menage, 1st place, Sheep & Mixed Milk Cheese

Edeleweiss Creamery Bruce Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello WI

  • Cellar Aged Grass Based Gouda, 3rd place, Open Class – Hard Cheese

Again, congratulations to all the excellent Wisconsin cheesemakers!

 

Members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia Visit Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, WI

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RRC Members touring Uplands CheeseMonday, May 20 UW Professor Andy Lewis, Broadband & Economic Development Specialist at the Center for Community Technology Solutions, UW-Extension, led a group visiting the facilities at Uplands Cheese north of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The group included three members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, who are members of the Rural and Regional Committee. They were Mr Paul Wellner (Chair), Mr Geoff Howard MP,  and Mr Andrew Katos MP. They were accompanied by Lilian Topic, Executive Officer of the Rural and Regional Committee. I was privileged to participate in this event. Mike Gingrich of Uplands Cheese graciously acted as tour guide. He was a wealth of information and ended the tour with a tasting of the multiple-award winning Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese.

The Rural and Regional Committee members were in the United States as part of their Inquiry into the Opportunities to Use Telecommuting and E-Business in Rural and Regional Victoria. After touring Uplands Cheese, the members of the committee, Andy, and I continued with discussion of the pros and cons of telecommuting and remote working. We also discussed entrepreneurship challenges in rural areas, including broadband access and costs. I related my experience of bootstrapping a small business and over seventeen years of running WebWise Design & Marketing in a small community in southwest Wisconsin. We discussed how a committee of dedicated members (including Andy and me) helped establish local dial-up Internet service availability in 1997 to nearly everyone in Grant County, WI. That local access grew from the city of Platteville only to covering nearly everywhere in Grant County in approximately six month’s time.

We concluded the day with a bit of a hike to a rocky point with a panoramic view overlooking Wyoming Valley, followed by dinner at a local restaurant, where our Australian visitors enjoyed their first taste of fried Wisconsin cheese curds. Thanks to Andy and Mike for making this wonderful exchange of conversation, information, and ideas possible.

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