Sno Shack Inc.

Sno Shack Inc. is one of the premier suppliers of shaved ice equipment. As a supplier, Sno Shack required an e-commerce web site that provided a way for long-term customers to easily place orders for materials they need to keep their own shaved ice operations running smoothly.

Gaddio Enterprises designed an ASP.NET web site with a custom database that allows customers to log in and view purchasing reports over a customizable time span, allowing these shaved ice vendors to better understand their seasonal costs.

In addition to the customer portal, the Sno Shack web site includes an administrative back-end site where Sno Shack employees can log in, fulfill orders, add/edit products, etc. They can also view sales reports and send correspondence to customers.

VideoIpodAccessories.com

VideoIpodAccessories.com was an experiment by the owner of Gaddio Enterprises in affiliate marketing. The site contains thousands of iPod Video related products that are completely served up using Amazon's Associate program's API. In other words, when you search for products at VideoIpodAccessories.com, the web site sends the query off to Amazon.com who returns its results. The web site displays the results in a slick recreation of an iPod screen. Click on a product, and you can see more details of the item (again, served up by Amazon behind the scenes). Visitors to the site are then given a "Buy from Amazon.com" link that, when clicked, takes the visitor to Amazon.com where they can purchase the product if he/she so desires.

The great thing about this site is that it requires no database and hardly any programming to set up. Just plug in your Amazon Associate ID, and you've got a customized affiliate site. The trick is to find a good area like books, cell phone accessories, or whatever.

Of course, driving traffic to such a site is another task, but assuming this can be done, such a low-maintenance site could be a affiliate cash cow.

Premier Powder Coating & Custom Fabrication

Premier Powder Coating & Custom Fabrication is a great company located in Rexburg, Idaho. They provide powder coating, laser cutting, and custom design and fabrication of metal products from park benches to 4-wheeler frames to hydrolically supported construction trailers. Their site didn't require a hefty backend, since its purpose was mainly an extension of their impressive printed brochures.

The key for www.ppccfab.com was to show off the pictures of their great products while including as much textual description as possible to make the site noticable by major search engines. Gaddio Enterprises performed an important consultational service by encouraging the company to write-up interesting case studies about their projects and the customer relationship building they do so well.