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FreeRun Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that Howard "Chip" Bissell has joined the company's Web Agency in the newly created position of Sales Director. Jennifer Kirchman, formerly National Accounts Manager for FreeRun, has been promoted to the position of Creative Services Director, replacing Carrie Markham, who left the company this month after five years of service. FreeRun wishes Carrie every success in her future endeavors.

Chip's contact information is chip@freerun.com and he is at extension 102. Jennifer's contact information is jennifer@freerun.com and she is at extension 213. Carrie asked that we let you know she can be reached at carrie@markhams.org.

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Welcome New Clients

Above the Clouds - www.abovethecloudsbb.com
Beaulieu Vineyards - www.beaulieuvineyard.com
Bed & Breakfast Inns of Napa Valley - www.bbinv.com
Body Suite Day Spa & Salon - www.bodysuite.com
Bounty Hunter Rare Wines - www.bountyhunterwine.com
Cabin on Winter Creek - www.wintercreekcabin.com
Café Lucy - www.cafelucy.com
Cakebread Cellars - www.cakebread.com
Camellia House - www.camelliahouse.com
Celadon - www.celadonnapa.citysearch.com
Chablis Inn - www.chablisinn.com
Chateau de Vie B&B - www.chateaudv.com
Cole's Chop House www.coleschophouse.citysearch.com
Flamingo Resort - www.flamingoresort.com
Floral Expressions in Napa Valley - www.flower-express.com
Folie a Deux Winery - www.folieadeux.com
Freemark Abbey - www.freemarkabbey.com
Hannah's House - www.hannahshouse.com
Hawthorn Inn & Suites - www.napavalleyinns.com
John Muir Inn - www.johnmuirnapa.com
Kopol Bonick Studio - www.dkbphoto.com
Mary Ellen Murphy Events - www.maryellenmurphy.com
Mendocino Hotel & Garden Suites - www.mendocinohotel.com
Napa Sonoma Vacation Rentals - www.napasonoma.com
Napa Valley Casa - www.napavalleycasa.com
Napa Winery Shuttle - www.wineshuttle.com
Old Yacht Club Inn - www.oldyachtclubinn.com
Pajaro Dunes on Monterey Bay - www.pajarodunes.com
Reed Manor - www.reedmanor.com
Rio Inn - www.rioinn.com
Riverlane Resort - www.riverlaneresort.com
Rustridge www.rustridge.com
Sea Ranch Escape - www.888searanch.com
Sonoma Country Cottages - www.sonomacountrycottages.com
Sonoma Creek Inn - www.sonomacreekinn.com
Sonoma Hillside House - www.sonomahillsidehouse.com
Sonoma Spa on the Plaza - www.sonomaspaontheplaza.com
Sonoma Wine Experience - www.sonomawineexperience.com
Spa at Montecito Heights - www.montecitoheights.com
St. Helena Olive Oil Co. - www.sholiveoil.com
St. Helena Road Vineyards - www.sthelenaroadvineyards.com
Sweetwater Spa & Inn - www.sweetwaterspa.com
The Learning Faire - www.learningfaire.com
Vagabond's House Inn - www.vagabondshouseinn.com
Vineyard Creek - www.vineyardcreek.com
Yorkville Cellars - www.yorkville-cellars.com
Zin City Cottages - www.zincity.com

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WineCountry.com Network News

Portal Traffic Holding Steady and Growing
FreeRun is pleased to see a steady increase of user sessions throughout the WineCountry.com network in comparison to last year. Although our national economy is experiencing some difficulty, FreeRun is holding steady and maintaining traffic to our sites. You will be pleased to know that throughout the last four months the WineCountry.com network has experienced an average of 20% more user sessions per month over this same time last year. With strategic on-line marketing and effective site design the WineCountry.com network remains a leader of destination travels sites for the wine country regions of California.

WineCountry.com Redesign
FreeRun Technologies, Inc. has redesigned the WineCountry.com web site to better highlight wine country businesses and allow the destination traveler better access to information. The new WineCountry.com web site illustrates the various wine regions of California and their corresponding appellations using Macromedia Flash Player 5. Utilizing a "three click" philosophy, FreeRun's designers presented the information on the web site in an obvious and practical manner so that the traveler can quickly scan through the page and efficiently find the appropriate information for planning their trip-all within three clicks of a mouse.

The redesigned web pages allow for wine country businesses to position themselves very effectively by placing ads or specials on detailed pages such as the "Discounts/Promotions" link or on specific regional pages.

WineCountry.com not only highlights the various regions and business specials, but also contests, newsletters, message boards, and useful "tell a friend" links. The Winecountry.com network of California wine regions includes the Napa Valley, Sonoma, Mendocino, Monterey, Santa Barbara and the Santa Cruz areas.

Seven Years Running Strong!
FreeRun is proud to celebrate seven years on-line. With the beginning of Napa Valley Virtual Visit the network of destination travel web sites has grown to include over 500 clients, 6 regions, over 12,000 WineCountry.com Lifestyle Newsletter subscribers and over 2 million site visitors each year. FreeRun is dedicated to continuing to bring you another seven years of sophisticated marketing opportunities, reliable web services and exceptional customer service.

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Design and Technology Update

Our Updates Process Has Changed
FreeRun would like to bring to your attention a change in our updates policy. In order to insure your updates are efficient, timely, and accurate FreeRun is requesting that you use http://www.freeruntech.com/updates to request any changes to your web pages. We suggest that you bookmark this page in your browser now, and use this form for your next request.

This new process will allow our designers to gather more complete information from you, and execute your changes more quickly and efficiently-eliminating the guesswork.

Please make note that the previously used e-mail address for updates, updates@freerun,com, and the update hotline phone number will no longer be used and will be phased out entirely.

FreeRun Servers Have Relocated
In order to continue to provide a superior hosting environment, FreeRun Technologies has made the difficult decision to leave Exodus Communications as the physical hosting location of our servers due to their financial difficulties. After careful evaluation of five different co-location facilities, the technical team at FreeRun decided in favor of AT&T.

AT&T has been consistently rated by matrix.net as the top performing transit ISP during the last two months that we have been evaluating move options.

As an example on Friday Oct 5, AT&T was the top performing provider in all three categories measured (100% reachability, 0% packet loss and 34.8 ms average latency across 293 different locations across the world).

FreeRun is dedicated to keeping you informed of these types of changes and feel this move only strengthens our promise of consistent and reliable hosting and services.

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Hot Tips

Domaine Serene Design is a Success
Check out our latest design for Domaine Serene at www.domaineserene.com. Domaine Serene is our first winery client in Oregon and is a special success due in part to their effective use of our product UniDox, a content management system. Domaine Serene utilized pages created in UniDox to develop an appealing presentation of their content and information, which saved them time and money. Also, Domaine Serene chose to use a sophisticated and eye catching Flash intro that provided them a stylish site.

Pop-Up Window Special is Extended
Based on the demand for the Pop-Up Window Special, FreeRun has decided to extend the special through the end of the year.

FreeRun is offering a specially designed Pop-Up window to add to your web site for just $199. This Pop-Up window is a perfect place to showcase your latest special, discount, or your exclusive holiday offer--not to mention provide eye-catching attention to your site!

This effective and inexpensive Pop-Up window includes your site's background color and typeface or fonts, and displays up to 60 words. If you took advantage of this special offer earlier and would like to change the content of your Pop-Up window, FreeRun will be happy to do so for a change text fee of $75. To see examples or to request a Pop-Up window, go to http://www.freeruntech.com/products/specials/. If you would like to take your Pop-Up window to the next level and customize more details contact Jennifer Kirchman at jennifer@freerun.com or
707-265-1835 x 213

Design Reminders
Reminder #1. Use a Flash intro before your home page to bring attention, class and sophistication to your web site without having to spend a lot of money. You can use a special holiday design and highlight your winter promotion or special, or give your site a face-lift without having to redesign the entire site. For more information check out http://freeruntech.com/portfolio/index.html or contact Jennifer Kirchman at jennifer@freerun.com or
707-265-1835 x 213

Reminder #2. As you purchase your banners and tiles, remember you can always utilize FreeRun's design team to create for you catchy and attractive tiles and banners. Contact Jennifer Kirchman at jennifer@freerun.com or
707-265-1835 x 213

Reminder #3. If your rates and hours have changed to due the change in seasons, double-check your site and FreeRun can help. If you have information that needs to be updated visit http://www.freeruntech.com/updates.

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FreeRun and the Community

Napa Valley Symphony League Festival of Trees
FreeRun is very pleased to be a sponsor of the 9th Annual Festival of Trees Fashion Show and Luncheon, which benefits the Napa Valley Symphony. This year's theme for the trees was "Let Us Entertain You". FreeRun's own Mark Potampa, Suzanne Cimo-Potampa and Jennifer Kirchman are the masterminds behind the design and theme of the FreeRun sponsored tree. Our tree has a warm American cowboy movie theme with most of the decorations handmade by the Potampa's. In addition, the winner of the tree will receive gift certificates to "be entertained" generously donated from Adventures Aloft Napa Valley, The Napa Valley Wine Train, Stag's Leap Winery and The Napa Valley Symphony. The tree was on display until Friday, November 16, 2001 at McCaulous Department Store located at 1580 First Street, Napa. On November 19, the designer trees participating in the festival were raffled off after a fashion show featuring The Mustard Seed Clothing Company and Craig Williamson's Menswear.

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