In a newsletter sent out by eFolkMusic:

efolkMusic Moves Into New Digs

We've moved into our new store, and boy is my back sore from lugging all those mp3s around! Come in, take a tour, let us know what you think.

What's better about it?
First off, it's faster, thanks to smart programming (web-services.org), our SQL database and dedicated server. Get faster downloads, too, all legal and virus-free.

That's good- What else?
Great new search capabilities to help you find what you want, easier purchasing and downloading of mp3s, more info on artist pages, plus more hi-fi real-audio previews, more artists, more cds and downloads added every day.

A note from Chris Frank, owner of efolkMusic...

In 2000, Chris wrote: "We have worked with web-services for the past two years, and they have done a great job for us. They customized their CartExpress to enable us to securely sell mp3s, and have continued to develop our application into a world-class e-commerce web site. If you can describe a feature you want to add, they can realize it and help you implement it. Their service is timely and their prices are reasonable – I highly recommend Web Services."

Chris Frank
CEO, www.efolkMusic.com

And now, over 5 years later, eFolkMusic is a non-profit organization as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. I sit on the Board of Directors as the Webmaster and I am developing a backend for our artist-members to manage their music, allowing them to upload their albums without having to send in a physical disk.

Chris' comments (Feb 15, 2005):

efolkMusic has been extremely fortunate to have connected with Lynda Postal and Web-Services.org for the past seven years. We are consistently pleased and amazed at her expertise in creating and continuing to improve efolkmusic.org. Our site is not a simple retail or informational site- our needs to securely deliver and track our digital content (MP3s) as well as physical merchandise are quite complex; Lynda has risen to every task and achieved our objectives in a timely fashion. I can't recommend her highly enough.

Many people label Steve Jobs a visionary for developing a working digital music delivery system in 2004- too few people know that Lynda Postal and efolkMusic developed and implemented our "Digital Music Distribution" application in 1999, delivering single and bulk sales plus tracked promotional distribution- and you can rest assured we spent millions less than Apple for our programming! This was and continues to be groundbreaking work; Lynda couldn't go to the web (as many developers do) and find code to copy – she was among the first developers to successfully implement such an application, "inventing the wheel", so to speak, and making it work for our artists and users.

"You want a testimonial? Just take a look around www.efolkmusic.org ; still not convinced? Email me chris@efolkmusic.org and I'll be glad to help you see the light."

Chris

efolkMusic.org "Pick it up & carry it on"
201 N Greensboro St
Carrboro NC 27510
919-968-4810

From CommuniCreations...

WSO has been instrumental in helping a client of ours migrate from a basic off-the-shelf e-commerce solution on UNIX to the robust capability ASP Shop Plus offers on NT. Throughout the entire process, the company has been extremely helpful, innovative and responsive to our ever-changing needs. Thanks in particular to Lynda for her ideas and programming magic. Because of WSO, we're able to offer our clients a higher end solution that we couldn't have offered otherwise.

Email Robb Zerr
CommuniCreations, Inc.
www.communicreations.com