We’re almost there!

December 1, 2009

The team has been working hard on the Market Vermont project. The logo has been completed, the ecommerce cart setup, design applied, vendor signed up, paperwork completed, products are largely loaded, and we’re working through the banking and transaction items now. We just moved the site to a new host (PAIR Networks) and have worked [...]

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Chicken soup

October 23, 2009

The fall colors came and went and we hardly had time to enjoy them. Several times I’ve sat down to write up a post to tell you what we’re up to only to get distracted on something one of the team members needed. As the project leader and decision maker, I’m the bottleneck. At least [...]

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Paperwork and ideas

October 9, 2009

We’ve been working on the vendor agreement all week. Will be early next week before it’s complete. Along the way I’ve been brainstorming new ideas on how to expand our marketing reach and help the vendors that participate in this project improve their websites. More news to come on this next week.

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First up, paperwork

October 3, 2009

On Thursday 10/1/2009 I met with Sam Matthews of CVEDC to go over the paperwork requirements of the grant. I was given the details of how to track our success and as expected it’s all tied to the jobs we create and save. At the time we applied for the grant the original 16 vendors [...]

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Vendor agreements are in the works

October 2, 2009

We’re working on the legalese of the vendor agreements and are hoping to have them completed soon. We’re also going to be sending out an email update to everyone on the mailing list very soon. Marketing team is working out a plan while design & development are meeting next week to talk over their plan. [...]

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We got the word – GO!

September 30, 2009

After months of no word, hearing about possible dates we might get word – only to have the dates come and go – we finally heard from the USDA last week. The Market Vermont project has been approved for funding!
Needless to say we’re very excited about this! We’ve lost precious months waiting and I know [...]

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Interested in participating?

August 26, 2009

Market Vermont has been waiting patiently for a decision on the grant for months. While we’ve been waiting we’ve been contacting local vendors to tell them about our offer. If you’re interested (no commitment) in participating, please let us know. You can learn more about how it works here. If we have enough interest, we [...]

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