Five public house or accommodation businesses in the Symonds Yat area and one in Ross-on-Wye town have approached me during the month of March, taking up the £45 per annum, full page advertising option on Wyenot.com and the feedback so far has been extremely encouraging and good to hear. The two accommodation establishments which have so far reported feedback both reported bookings over the Easter period as a direct result of their new page on Wyenot.com, one of them reporting seven Easter period bookings and having to refer overspill, directly as a result of their new advertising page on this web site.

Thank you to all, in both Symonds Yat both East and West for your word of mouth recommendations! Wyenot.com has worked both as a community web site and as a tourist resource from the very beginning for those who had faith, but it has taken me five years of extremely hard work for the word to spread. The success of this web site has not been achieved by hard sell. I do not like pushy sales people calling on, spamming or telephoning me and would never do that to others. Much of my problem spreading the word in fact, can be put down to web salesmen bombarding the area, charging extortionate advertising costs and with no real end product. Rather, Wyenot.com's success has been achieved by maintaining an easy to navigate web site, which is constantly updated with interesting and useful local information and which people want to visit regularly. And by allowing my customers to discover the benefits for themselves or by word of mouth recommendation.

Together, we can make Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire and all of the local area prosperous, not only during 2005 but for the foreseeable future! Ross-on-Wye and the Wye Valley is a beautiful area and people from all over the world like to visit, whether they wish to relax and enjoy the scenery, explore the local historic buildings or take up fishing, canoeing, horse riding or one of the many other local activities. An extremely high percentage of these visitors look at Wyenot.com rather than any other local information resource before visiting! Thank you to all of those who have supported me so far.

Wye Angling Conservatory Coffee Shop Deck The Halls GL-International Printers for All The Phoenix Group Bridge House Hotel The Wye Knot Inn Trilemma Music

Forest Edge B & B Radcliffe Guest House Hope & Anchor Norton House Mr. T Dry Cleaners Minerva Interiors Norton Cottages The Saracen's Head Walnut Tree Cottage

Revolutions Cycles Ross Records Truffles Delicatessen The White House Treetops B & B Architectural Ironmongery The Ark B & B Wye Valley View The King's Head

A. .J. W.

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