FireNews.net

FireNews.net is a website dedicated to fire service professionals. We focus on Breaking News, fireground photography and fire apparatus. We have recently begun selling fire apparatus on our site.

Many fire departments in North Carolina have a website. Their users are our core audience. To get our message out on their websites, we implemented the WebPastie RSS Ticker. All a website owner has to do is send us an email requesting the code, and they are typically up and broadcast for us within minutes.

We typically update our site every weekday. When we do, we extrapolate the headlines of the day with any news announcements. It is very simple to do and quick as my time is at a premium.

Having the FIRETICKER available to other sites drives surfers to our site. In addition, because we frequently update the ticker, the sites that feature it look "fresh" as well.

DumpYork.com - Save the 49ers

DumpYork.com takes advantage of the News Ticker pastie to display the latest news feed from ABC Channel 7 News. That way 49ers fans can be updated with the 49ers losses instantly.

Surf City Hash House Harriers

Basher Shack uses the News Ticker, Slideshow, and Visit Tracker WebPasties for their Surf City Hash House Harriers site.

The News Ticker keeps the members of the club current with the latest events. The Slideshow provides an easy to use means of updating photos from each run.

Basher Shack uses the Visitor Tracker for two purposes. First, it gives them an idea of the screen resolutions that visitors to their website use. Second, it gives them a good grasp of how international of an audience they have.

BirdShirts

BirdShirts uses the Visit Tracker WebPastie to get a good idea on the visitor traffic at BirdShirts.

The monthly hit count statistics are useful in determining whether a marketing campaign is working.

Browser statistics are useful in determining how complex to build the Web site. The referrer information provides an unobtrusive means of gathering what brought the visitor to BirdShirts. In effect, the Visitor Tracker is used as a marketing survey tool in gathering usefull information about the people that come to their website.