Here’s a small business using the Internet as a marketing, sales, and customer support medium:

“I have had a Web site for 10 years, http://www.crittercorn.com,” Nyffeler said. “It is not a big moneymaker — most of my bread-and-butter business is from supermarket chains — but it gets my name out there.”

He said some of his larger sales have stemmed from businesses seeing his name on the Web site.

In addition to attracting customers from California to Maine, Nyffeler said, he uses the Internet as an effective communication tool with clients.

— Some farmers counting Internet as farm asset, By ADRIAN SANCHEZ, Columbus Telegram, vi AP, 3 March 2007

No more telephone tag. Nyffeler says now everybody uses e-mail, “and the messages are short and sweet.” Continue reading →