Putting a store locator on sites - adding a clickable map - I found a solution
I needed a site store locator for 2 different clients and after doing a lot of searching, found Brightwing which has worked out well for me - it's very inexpensive and it updates the maps with new location dots each time I add a new locations list. It lets you custom design it to match your site design (yay!) and you don't need to have the company set anything up for you. Anyway, if you don't want to host a whole (expensive) zipcode database or write the scripts to run it, this is the best system I have found - the customers I have love how professional it looks and it has been increasing their business (and lessening their endless phonecalls of "where can I find a store near me") noticeably. You can see it work at http://www.brightwing.com Just a heads-up in case anyone needs something like this.
Wanda
timjpriebe posted this at 12:26 — 5th July 2005.
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Looks like you have to pay each time someone uses it. I can't think of any of my clients that would be willing to do that.
imgsrc posted this at 04:23 — 6th July 2005.
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Huh? No, you buy enough credits to last for a year of having the map locator on your site dependent on how many locations you have, there are no other costs for hits, traffic, etc. The client likes to pay for a year of service one time, I have found.
timjpriebe posted this at 15:14 — 6th July 2005.
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My mistake. I looked at it a bit further, and it looks like zip codes are even indexed. Cool!
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