Cellar Door Consultants Weblog

AngeloTavernaro.com goes live! Book Sales within hours!

cellardoorconsultants — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:42:40 +0000

Cellar Door Consultants just finished deploying Angelo’s new website www.angelotavernaro.com . In less than ten days, we went from concept to completion with a website design that includes:

Home Page with interactive sidebar
About Page with background information and images
Classes and Event Calendar with administrative interface
Photo page that includes user definable albums, slideshow and PicLens capability
Press & Blog page for posting Press Releases and Blog Entries
eCommerce for Book Sales and Shipping, Services Payments and Class Registrations
Shopping cart tied to Paypal Payment System
Services Page outlining Angelo’s numerous wine related services
Testimonials Page
Subscription Services for informing and contacting registered site visitors
Newsletter Services for distribution and tracking of newsletters and email blasts

Within 24 hours of the shopping cart going live, we had our first book orders. The combination of services provided by Cellar Door Consultants have been so very valuable to my business. They even helped me to publish my first book! – Angelo Tavernaro

Contact Cellar Door Consultants or click here for our free website needs assessment. We have a great online survey to help you identify your web design needs and desires and turn them into a productive 24-7 marketing and sales presence.

European Community challenges use of ‘traditional expressions’ on domestic wine labels

cellardoorconsultants — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:05:29 +0000

Imported Wine Labeling and Terminology Rules established in 2006 with the European Commission expired a few days ago. What does this mean for those using “Chateau” and other “traditional expressions” on their labels? Trouble with a Capital T.

Article Details at Wines and Vines

I am certain we will see more about this in the coming weeks. We will keep the information and links posted here.

Brad

Cellar Door Consultants

GiddyUp Tours launches business and new website

Mel@Cellar Door — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:31:02 +0000

Exciting things are happening with Cellar Door!

GiddyUp Tours has launched its new website! Check out www.giddyuptours.com. Additional content and beautiful photos of the Yakima Valley are sure to entice riders to book a tour through wine country. With a new logo and website, GiddyUp Tours is already becoming the focus of several magazine articles. This website was developed for ease of deployment and maintenance by our client, Jennel. She wanted to be able to manage her website with a minimum of training and tons of freedom. Cellar Door is proud to offer many levels of website hosting from simple hosting of your domain all the way to custom graphics, SEO, and custom forms.

GiddyUp Tours received custom designed business cards, which seem to be flying out the door!

Good luck to Jennel and her new business, GiddyUp Tours!

TTB Offers Online Compliance Seminars

cellardoorconsultants — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:45:05 +0000

Cellar Door Consultants in Grandview Washington is providing a link for our clients and visitors to the new online wine compliance seminar available from the TTB.

New Client Whitstran Brewing in Prosser

cellardoorconsultants — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:51:41 +0000

Cellar Door Consultants in Grandview, Wa are proud to announce the addition of Whitstran Brewing Company in Prosser, WA to our list of active clients. We have started constructing their new website this week and will be working with Larry and Sue Barbus and Brian Morton to flesh out the content and design over the next few weeks.

Our class just won a silver at our first wine festival

Mel@Cellar Door — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:43:59 +0000

The winemaking class at YVCC just won a silver award for our rose. The wine bears a label design that I am proud to say came from our class. I did the front graphics and other classmates did the tasting notes on the back. It is so fun to name a wine and watch it earn awards for what is in the bottle! Check out Yakima Valley Vintners “Teachers Pet”, rose wine made from cofermented Mourvedre and Viogner.

The awards are lsited on a great blog, Wine Press Northwest. Way to class! And thanks so much to Mark Wysling of Parejas Cellars who directed our class in making this wine. And thanks to our prof, Trent Ball at YVCC for keeping us on track and Naches Heights Vineyards for the grapes.

Two French Wine Makers Die Making Wine

cellardoorconsultants — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:37:48 +0000

Here is an article that our Cellar Door Consultants clients should all read. Especially since so many of us are out there making wine right now.

French Wine Makers Suffocate While Making Wine

We have had the privileged of assisting winemaker Mark Wysling in his cellar at Parejas Cellars in Grandview, Wa this season. Check out his Parejas Cellars Winemakers Blog and Photo Page to see us at work. Our new wine-making journal is nearly ready for publication chronicling our adventures with Mark this year. It can be found here on our Journal page .

Learn About Web Conference

cellardoorconsultants — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:54:51 +0000

In our quest to bring our Cellar Door Consultants clients the latest information and make sure we keep up with new ideas and technologies, Melodie and I are attending an inaugural conference in Kennewick, Washington today. The focus is on “Learning About Web” and is focused on using the web to your business advantage.

We’ll be blogging throughout the day with insights and information.

Today’s Topics include:

1) What the Web can do for you.

2) Web Security

3) Link Building

4) Local Search

5) Site Architecture

6) Small Business Marketing

7) User Interface Design

Blogging for Business

9) Marketing to a Younger Generation

Stay Tuned. If you are attending email here.

Benton Irrigation District

cellardoorconsultants — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:59:26 +0000

The Benton Irrigation District has selected Cellar Door Consultants of Grandview, Wa to develop and deploy their new website. The project is currently underway and Cellar Door Consultants is proud to serve the Benton City based irrigation district and their clients.

The new website for Benton Irrigation District can be found at www.bidwater.org . Branded Email for the district has been created and they can be contacted directly at info@bidwater.org

Website Redesign for Lower Valley Hospice Completed

cellardoorconsultants — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:12:20 +0000

Lower Valley Hopsice has received a new website with assistance from Cellar Door Consultants. The new site was re-designed just in time for their annual charity auction August 2nd 2008. Preparations are underway to include an Auction Catalogue prior to the event which serves as a major fundraiser for the LVH organization.

Check out the new site and giver generously. www.lowervalleyhospice.com

Cellar Door Consultants offers special pricing for non profit organizations and is a proud supporter of Lower Valley Hospice.