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TechCrunch.com
Small Business Spotlight: Drink Some Wine At Local Wine Events
By Michael Arrington
February 21, 2010 ~ The Local Wine Events website may be ugly as sin, but if you're a wine lover, you've probably already got it bookmarked. This is a small ten year old business being run out of Pennsylvania with about a million page views a month. It's a pretty straightforward business. You go there to find local wine events. People who are having wine events pay to list them there, and there is lots of other advertising as well. 1,500 new events are posted each week. Despite their size the site has gotten some big attention. Gary Vaynerchuck had owner Eric Orange on his show last year, and Apple has made their mobile site a staff pick and a Featured Web App for the iPhone. And this small business is profitable. Last year the company, with four employees, had $250,000 in gross profits.
Read More: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/21/small-business-sp...
Denver Business Journal
Websites catering to the bargain-minded catching on
By Ed Sealover
February 19, 2010 ~ ..... Eric Orange was on the forefront of the movement when he launched www. localwineevents.com in July 2000 as a way to alert vinophiles of special tastings at restaurants, liquor stores and vineyards around the Denver area. A wine seller at a Denver company at the time, Orange grew tired of attending tastings where six people showed up only to find later that other wine lovers complained they weren't able to find out about such happenings. What began as a local passion quickly mushroomed into a site that expanded to cities around the country and now features free listings in 504 localities across North America, England and Australia. Orange has relocated to Valley Forge, Pa., but said he finds people not only wanting to know what's happening in their neighborhood but writing to him to find out what is on the calendar in a certain location when they're visiting other cities.
Read More: http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/02/...
Wine Tonite!
LocalWineEvents.com iPhone Application - A Review
By Ed Thralls
February 18, 2010 ~ LocalWineEvents.com is a great website that I use quite often to find tastings, wine dinners and other wine-related events in the Atlanta area. After my recent review of the iVisit Sonoma County application on the iPhone, Eric V. Orange, CEO/Founder of LocalWineEvents.com reached out and asked if I’d take a look at their new application too. The app was just released on January 28, 2010 so it practically hot out of the oven.
PROS
1. Just like many iPhone apps, this program will be more valuable when you allow it to use your current location.
2. Once you select your location, you are given a list of today’s and future events that are closest to your current location.
3. The Details screen show some good information including the phone number of the establishment that can be pressed and automatically called. You can also view the establishment on a map and even forward the event in an email to a friend.
4. If you know you are travelling to another location other than where you are currently, you can easily select another city in a another country to find events.
OPPORTUNITIES
1. The event listing screen always defaults to 30 Mile radius and only has 4 options. It could be helpful, at least in my opinion, if it remembered my previous setting and offered more flexibility in radius options. For example, by having the radius options as buttons at the top, the number of selections are limited. The scroll list type of function could be used and allow more options to be made available, or it could allow the user to type in the radius directly.
Personally, I would like the option of 5 mile radius to be made available. In most cases, I will not be travelling 50 miles around Atlanta to go to an event, especially with the lovely traffic we get here 
2. Just like I found with the Sonoma County app, the map option on the details screen does not allow the user to get directions that is so common and helpful via Google maps.
3. I’d like to see a website link, if available, for the establishment on the Details page, which is often available on the event page on the website.
4. It may also be very helpful to add a calendar feature which allows the user to specify a date in the future to further filter the event list. If I know I am not available until this coming Saturday and want to see what’s going on then, I have to scroll through the list currently.
5. In addition to the mail feature, it might be nice to include some of the social media links like Twitter or Facebook so that a user can inform their networks they are attending an event and include the event link.
6. Unfortunately, as with many version 1.0 releases, I did stumble upon a few bugs that I am sure will be worked out over the next couple of releases. Some of these still occurred after deleting and reinstalling the app as well as hard-booting the iPhone.
Overall, I feel this application can be very valuable for those users looking for wine-related events in their cities while on the go. It can become even more valuable when even more valuable mobile and social features are added including those mentioned above. The more users can do with regard to filtering and finding events, making it easier to get to an event and finally sharing the event with others, the more valuable it will become.
Read More: http://www.winetonite.com/2010/02/18/localwineeven...
Food and Wine Magazine
Train Your Palate Online
By Staff
January 01, 2010 ~ Check out localwineevents.com. It lists wine classes and free tastings throughout the country.
Read More: http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/find-your-wine...
