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Thanks a bunch, Greg. Every other person that walks in my store has found me through your site. I truly appreciate your time and efforts. You are the man!!! Thanks again for your wonderful service! Carla
November 2007
Bella Beads

Dear Greg, I want to thank you for making A Guide to Beadwork available. You offer a great service, and although I am new to the listing, I want to tell you that I know, first hand, that the listing is working for me. I recently had a lady from out-of-state stop in at my shop - by way of a search she did on her way into town in her RV. Her online search brought up the Guide to Beadwork site, and she found my shop because of it! Thank you! Nicola
October 2007
RaneMaker Beads at Nic's Nax (in South Dakota)

Hello Greg. The longer I'm in this business the more I value what you are doing with GuideToBeadwork.com Lisa
April 2007
1 Stop Bead Shop

Hi Greg - I discovered your site in two ways. First a friend of mine told me about it as a good source for bead shops in various states. Then, I came across it in a google search for my product. I've already had 4 hits since posting my store only a few days ago. Thanks for doing this. Laura
August 2006
Antelope Beads

Hi Greg!
Thank you! We had someone in who googled for bead stores in Brantford on their Blackberry and we popped up - how great is that! Thanks for offering a super way to let people know we are here. Barbara and Joy
June 2006
Designing Sisters (in Ontario, CA)

Hi Greg: We're very pleased with the response to your website. The majority of our customers find us on the Internet and, specifically, through your website. Thanks! P.S. The map and directions are great! Janet
June 2006
Rabbit and Rooster Beads

Hi Greg, I just 'stumbled' onto your website and it is FABULOUS!!! Thank you so much for doing this for me. I'm in the process, very early in the process, of trying to open my own bead store and will certainly contact you as things become more complete. Thanks and I will definately let people know about your site. Debrosha
March 2006

Hi, First and foremost.... Thank you, thank you, thank you.... The Riverwalk Bead Shop opened it's doors in January, 2006 and about 65% of my buying customers have come from your website. Nancy
February 2006
The Riverwalk Bead Shop (in Massachusetts)

By the way, Greg, your internet listing is a good place for shops to be listed -- With your list, time after time we've had people walk into the shop and tell us they found us on your list. Some came with printout in hand. Obviously we think this is wonderful! THANK YOU! Jackie
February 2006
Elegant Notions (in Texas)

Hi Greg, Let me start by saying the $36 per year is the best money i've ever spent!!! Your site and placement with search engines have steered more customers to my site than i could ever do on my own. Jay Johnson
January 2005
Adelia's Closet
(in Illinois)

This is just such a great service and I tell customers about it all the time. Lorri
October 2005
Ocean Beads Gallery (in North Carolina)

I just wanted to let you know that I've had tons of people find me because of your website and being a new bead store, I'm really happy about that! Thanks for your time! Kristen
September 2005
Manifest Beads
(in Connecticut)

I heard about your site from one of my customers. She suggested that I sign up, and that's just what I did. I greatly appreciate your compiling a list and your prompt responses. I like to check out other places too, besides having my own. Benicia
July 2005
Beading Paradise (in Indiana)

I would like to thank you very much for taking so much trouble with this page. you'll be glad to know that I have had some clients that have known my shop through this web page. Thanks again and have a nice summer. Delia
July 2005
Talismania (in Spain)

Thank you for all the time you have put into this site. I recently listed my store on your site and many customers were able to find us. I was able to list my store in the internet while I was still having my website designed and set up. I greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Leslie
May 2005
SLR Beads
(in North Carolina)

I appreciate this website so much! I just opened a week ago, and business has been VERY slow so far. I think every customer I've had has found me through this site - my newspaper advertising hasn't helped at all. Thank you thank you thank you! (I will definitely pay the $36 per year. Just let me know where to send the check.) Lynnette
December 2004
Bead-Bayou.com
(in Georgia)

Thanks for your letter about the new fee-for-active-links program. We were about to contact you to order some advertising or offer some other financial support for the valuable service your directory provides. Many of our new customers found us with your directory. Keep up the good work and count on us for our support and thanks. Jerry and Karen Glaser
November 2004
Just Bead It

I am a member of a group of Jewelry designer/bead artist/bead crafters on the Internet. We have approximately 1500 members and grow every day... One of our members sent me to your site and said I should list our store there. I did that yesterday. Our online store is an eBay store and we have a brick and mortar store in Alabama.
Since I registered yesterday I have seen an increase in our traffic and have bids on almost every item I have listed. I can totally attribute our increase in traffic to the listing with The Guide to Beadwork Bead Store Directory because I haven't done anything else different. I had no idea how well being listed with you would work.
I'm very excited about the increase in people coming to our eBay Store and I've even had one young lady stop by the studio today after seeing us on your site! And after only one day of being listed!! Fantastic!! All I can say is THANK YOU and keep up the GREAT WORK!!
Cebrina
June 2004
CPaul Designs
(in Alabama)

I was so glad to get your email this morning. It is gratifying to get such a quick reply. I rely on this ad very much and it is quite a large part of my advertising. I receive a lot of hits from this source to my website so I truly appreciate your attention to it. Timisha Moody
June 2004
The Bead Attic
(in Louisiana)

Thank you for providing such a valuable service. We get lots of visitors who tell us that they found us through your site. Love your quote about integrity being gold in an information economy. As a former librarian I soundly agree! Anita Cluett
May 2004
Toad Hollow Beads
(in New Hampshire)

Thanks Greg! I appreciate you updating our info so quickly and contacting me. Thanks for your wonderful site and all the hard work that you put into it. It is a great resource. Thanks again. Kim Brosam
May 2004
Whispering Winds Trading Post (in Missouri)

Hi Greg, I appreciate all your help. I get lots of hits from this site. We are had the women's bowling congress here and at least two people who came in the first weekend had your list printed off. Debbie Atkins
April 2004
The Bead Hive (in Kansas)

Hi Greg, many thanks... I really appreciate your pages, we do get some virtual visitors and even real ones in the shop who claim they found us with you (visitors from UK, Switzerland etc). So keep it up, beads are so addictive. Our new shop is my dream come true,good selection, nice space, happy employees. Life is beads. Aneta Kvist
April 2004
Perlehuset (in Norway)

Thanks for your website which is very helpful. I refer beaders to it all the time. Barry Kahn
April 2004
Caravan Beads (in Maine)

Hi there Greg! Thanks for your time, and keep up the GREAT work on the website! I get so many out of town guests thanks to you! I even have customers walk into the store with print outs of your online listings IN THEIR HANDS! As if it is a MAP or something!!! ( Well I supposed it IS a "Bead Store Map" in a sense! ) The site reaches potential customers all over the world, for I even recently had a customer come in from England and another from Australia! Both visited the states within a month and both had found us via your site! Thanks again! Georgia Wilson
March 2004
The Bead Shop
in Louisiana
(2 Locations)

We get a lot of customers off this website which is updated and run really well. Also, as a customer, I use it to visit other bead stores! Shu-Shu Perugino
February 2004
San Gabriel Bead Co. (in California)

Thank you for listing stores free! We, or at least I myself, with a wee miniscule marketing budget greatly appreciate your willingness to help us grow. Sherrill Lewis
February 2004
Bead Ranch! (in Oklahoma)

I've been receiving a significant percentage of my hits through your site. Regardless of my software investments and time spent studying search engines, I've noted that a significant single source of hit stats on my sites (other than Google and MSN) has been through yours. Thank you! BeadMan
December 2003
Beadopolis
(in Alberta, Canada)

Dear Greg
Thanks for updating my link so quickly, your site is great as it sends loads of customers my way. Susan Allen
December 2003
Little Beader (in the UK)

Hi Greg,
Thankyou so much for this site and all of it's info.
I have had many customers because of you.....Thanks! Heather
December 2003
Over the Moon
(in New York)

Hi Greg,
Thanxs for keeping this site going, I am truly amzed at how many people have discovered the shop from it!!! Lizzz
July 2003
Red Roses' Bead Haven (in Wisconson)

I was looking for a bead store that I had been told of near my area. So I looked at the information pages for the city to no avail. Nothing on the city site nor the chamber of commerce. So I tried looking for "bead stores, Ohio" and found your site right away and there it was! I was excited to be able to get our store listed. Thank you for this service. My partner (Lora) and I appreciate being able to get our name out on the web! Carolyn Carson
and Lora Banks
February 2003
the Beaded Spirit (in Ohio)

We owe you a huge THANK YOU!!!! We get at least 3 people a week that see our store on your site...I ask every one! We so appreciate your service. Randy and Denise Foster
December 2002
Bead-Studio.com

I swear!!! You are doing SUCH a good job with the bead website!!! Someone on my list posted the address... and I had forgotten just how chock full of wondrous info your site is. I was compelled to write you and express my gratitude dude.. tis a noble thing you do kind sir! ;-) Cindy (Beadlady)
December 2002
Cindy's Crafts
and ListMom
for Beadtalk

This is a great site. Your site is one of the reasons I opened my store. There are just not that many stores in my area. In fact, the closest one is approximately 45 miles from my home. I found that store from this site, visited and decided that "I can do that!" And so began the saga of Beadfreakie Designs and Texas Bead Store. Keep up the good work! Marilyn Rodery
October 2002
Texas Bead Store

Yesterday was only the second Saturday we have been open. TWO different groups of people who were in St. Louis for other reasons said they had looked up the Bead stores on the Internet, and came by our place!! Donna Neumann
November 2002
Bead On A Wire,
Inc. (in Missouri)

I have told meany people about your wonderful site because they come to our store and then tell us they don't have bead shops back home ...but then maybe they do and don't know it...so I send them to your site to find out... Lorri
November 2002
Ocean Bead and Craft (in North Carolina)

Thanks for the listing.. I too, found you easy to find, easy to navigate and have referred you to customers I have met at shows... who are too far from us to come to our shop. KATYA
November 2002
Katya's White Nights (in Connecticut)

THANK YOU for having this resource available for us. We truly appreciate it. I found your informative site in the early stages of my bead store research. I think I did a Google search, keyword "Bead Store". It was "KEY" to alot of the decisions that we made about our store early on...truly. Please let us know we can do to thank you for your time and effort! (so I wrote and asked what decisions were helped. --greg) As we researched bead stores, one of the most important decisions we made was locational. We used the information on your site to define and refine our store loction criteria as well as "industry standard" hours and days of operation. Randy and Denise Foster
July 2002
Bead-Studio.com

Thanks so much...we get alot of traffic from this listing and we really appreciate it! Your site is a wonderful resource for beaders and suppliers alike. Renee Gomez
Apr 2001
beadmerchant.com (in Oregon)

Let me compliment you on the completeness and usefulness of your site. It is certainly one of the most (if not THE most) comprehensive bead information sites we've ever seen. We will place a link to your site on ours. Carl Kupersmit
Feb 2001
2bead.com
(in Florida)

I want to tell you how clear and concise your web site is, and what a joy to read about all the bead businesses out there. Thank you for the opportunity to put my name in your web site. Gary Fine
Apr 1998
Paramount Beads (in California)

You have a great [screen] background. It's very memorable. I paged through hundreds of links yesterday. Today, I pulled up your page one more time, I remembered the background, and hence the web-site. Most sites seem to use a white background, and a graphical layout like so many others. These sites all blend together. Warren S. Feld
Feb 1998
landofodds.com (in Tennessee)

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Thanks a bunch, Greg. Every other person that walks in my store has found me through your site. I truly appreciate your time and efforts. You are the man!!! Thanks again for your wonderful service!	Carla November 2007 Bella Beads
Dear Greg, I want to thank you for making A Guide to Beadwork available. You offer a great service, and although I am new to the listing, I want to tell you that I know, first hand, that the listing is working for me. I recently had a lady from out-of-state stop in at my shop - by way of a search she did on her way into town in her RV. Her online search brought up the Guide to Beadwork site, and she found my shop because of it! Thank you!	Nicola October 2007 RaneMaker Beads at Nic's Nax (in South Dakota)
Hello Greg. The longer I'm in this business the more I value what you are doing with GuideToBeadwork.com	Lisa April 2007 1 Stop Bead Shop
Hi Greg - I discovered your site in two ways. First a friend of mine told me about it as a good source for bead shops in various states. Then, I came across it in a google search for my product. I've already had 4 hits since posting my store only a few days ago. Thanks for doing this.	Laura August 2006 Antelope Beads
Hi Greg! Thank you! We had someone in who googled for bead stores in Brantford on their Blackberry and we popped up - how great is that! Thanks for offering a super way to let people know we are here.	Barbara and Joy June 2006 Designing Sisters (in Ontario, CA)
Hi Greg: We're very pleased with the response to your website. The majority of our customers find us on the Internet and, specifically, through your website. Thanks! P.S. The map and directions are great!	Janet June 2006 Rabbit and Rooster Beads
Hi Greg, I just 'stumbled' onto your website and it is FABULOUS!!! Thank you so much for doing this for me. I'm in the process, very early in the process, of trying to open my own bead store and will certainly contact you as things become more complete. Thanks and I will definately let people know about your site.	Debrosha March 2006
Hi, First and foremost.... Thank you, thank you, thank you.... The Riverwalk Bead Shop opened it's doors in January, 2006 and about 65% of my buying customers have come from your website.	Nancy February 2006 The Riverwalk Bead Shop (in Massachusetts)
By the way, Greg, your internet listing is a good place for shops to be listed -- With your list, time after time we've had people walk into the shop and tell us they found us on your list. Some came with printout in hand. Obviously we think this is wonderful! THANK YOU!	Jackie February 2006 Elegant Notions (in Texas)
Hi Greg, Let me start by saying the $36 per year is the best money i've ever spent!!! Your site and placement with search engines have steered more customers to my site than i could ever do on my own.	Jay Johnson January 2005 Adelia's Closet (in Illinois)
This is just such a great service and I tell customers about it all the time.	Lorri October 2005 Ocean Beads Gallery (in North Carolina)
I just wanted to let you know that I've had tons of people find me because of your website and being a new bead store, I'm really happy about that! Thanks for your time!	Kristen September 2005 Manifest Beads (in Connecticut)
I heard about your site from one of my customers. She suggested that I sign up, and that's just what I did. I greatly appreciate your compiling a list and your prompt responses. I like to check out other places too, besides having my own.	Benicia July 2005 Beading Paradise (in Indiana)
I would like to thank you very much for taking so much trouble with this page. you'll be glad to know that I have had some clients that have known my shop through this web page. Thanks again and have a nice summer.	Delia July 2005 Talismania (in Spain)
Thank you for all the time you have put into this site. I recently listed my store on your site and many customers were able to find us. I was able to list my store in the internet while I was still having my website designed and set up. I greatly appreciate it. Thanks.	Leslie May 2005 SLR Beads (in North Carolina)
I appreciate this website so much! I just opened a week ago, and business has been VERY slow so far. I think every customer I've had has found me through this site - my newspaper advertising hasn't helped at all. Thank you thank you thank you! (I will definitely pay the $36 per year. Just let me know where to send the check.)	Lynnette December 2004 Bead-Bayou.com (in Georgia)
Thanks for your letter about the new fee-for-active-links program. We were about to contact you to order some advertising or offer some other financial support for the valuable service your directory provides. Many of our new customers found us with your directory. Keep up the good work and count on us for our support and thanks.	Jerry and Karen Glaser November 2004 Just Bead It
I am a member of a group of Jewelry designer/bead artist/bead crafters on the Internet. We have approximately 1500 members and grow every day... One of our members sent me to your site and said I should list our store there. I did that yesterday. Our online store is an eBay store and we have a brick and mortar store in Alabama. Since I registered yesterday I have seen an increase in our traffic and have bids on almost every item I have listed. I can totally attribute our increase in traffic to the listing with The Guide to Beadwork Bead Store Directory because I haven't done anything else different. I had no idea how well being listed with you would work. I'm very excited about the increase in people coming to our eBay Store and I've even had one young lady stop by the studio today after seeing us on your site! And after only one day of being listed!! Fantastic!! All I can say is THANK YOU and keep up the GREAT WORK!!	Cebrina June 2004 CPaul Designs (in Alabama)
I was so glad to get your email this morning. It is gratifying to get such a quick reply. I rely on this ad very much and it is quite a large part of my advertising. I receive a lot of hits from this source to my website so I truly appreciate your attention to it.	Timisha Moody June 2004 The Bead Attic (in Louisiana)
Thank you for providing such a valuable service. We get lots of visitors who tell us that they found us through your site. Love your quote about integrity being gold in an information economy. As a former librarian I soundly agree!	Anita Cluett May 2004 Toad Hollow Beads (in New Hampshire)
Thanks Greg! I appreciate you updating our info so quickly and contacting me. Thanks for your wonderful site and all the hard work that you put into it. It is a great resource. Thanks again.	Kim Brosam May 2004 Whispering Winds Trading Post (in Missouri)
Hi Greg, I appreciate all your help. I get lots of hits from this site. We are had the women's bowling congress here and at least two people who came in the first weekend had your list printed off.	Debbie Atkins April 2004 The Bead Hive (in Kansas)
Hi Greg, many thanks... I really appreciate your pages, we do get some virtual visitors and even real ones in the shop who claim they found us with you (visitors from UK, Switzerland etc). So keep it up, beads are so addictive. Our new shop is my dream come true,good selection, nice space, happy employees. Life is beads.	Aneta Kvist April 2004 Perlehuset (in Norway)
Thanks for your website which is very helpful. I refer beaders to it all the time.	Barry Kahn April 2004 Caravan Beads (in Maine)
Hi there Greg! Thanks for your time, and keep up the GREAT work on the website! I get so many out of town guests thanks to you! I even have customers walk into the store with print outs of your online listings IN THEIR HANDS! As if it is a MAP or something!!! ( Well I supposed it IS a "Bead Store Map" in a sense! ) The site reaches potential customers all over the world, for I even recently had a customer come in from England and another from Australia! Both visited the states within a month and both had found us via your site! Thanks again!	Georgia Wilson March 2004 The Bead Shop in Louisiana (2 Locations)
We get a lot of customers off this website which is updated and run really well. Also, as a customer, I use it to visit other bead stores!	Shu-Shu Perugino February 2004 San Gabriel Bead Co. (in California)
Thank you for listing stores free! We, or at least I myself, with a wee miniscule marketing budget greatly appreciate your willingness to help us grow.	Sherrill Lewis February 2004 Bead Ranch! (in Oklahoma)
I've been receiving a significant percentage of my hits through your site. Regardless of my software investments and time spent studying search engines, I've noted that a significant single source of hit stats on my sites (other than Google and MSN) has been through yours. Thank you!	BeadMan December 2003 Beadopolis (in Alberta, Canada)
Dear Greg Thanks for updating my link so quickly, your site is great as it sends loads of customers my way.	Susan Allen December 2003 Little Beader (in the UK)
Hi Greg, Thankyou so much for this site and all of it's info. I have had many customers because of you.....Thanks!	Heather December 2003 Over the Moon (in New York)
Hi Greg, Thanxs for keeping this site going, I am truly amzed at how many people have discovered the shop from it!!!	Lizzz July 2003 Red Roses' Bead Haven (in Wisconson)
I was looking for a bead store that I had been told of near my area. So I looked at the information pages for the city to no avail. Nothing on the city site nor the chamber of commerce. So I tried looking for "bead stores, Ohio" and found your site right away and there it was! I was excited to be able to get our store listed. Thank you for this service. My partner (Lora) and I appreciate being able to get our name out on the web!	Carolyn Carson and Lora Banks February 2003 the Beaded Spirit (in Ohio)
We owe you a huge THANK YOU!!!! We get at least 3 people a week that see our store on your site...I ask every one! We so appreciate your service.	Randy and Denise Foster December 2002 Bead-Studio.com
I swear!!! You are doing SUCH a good job with the bead website!!! Someone on my list posted the address... and I had forgotten just how chock full of wondrous info your site is. I was compelled to write you and express my gratitude dude.. tis a noble thing you do kind sir! ;-)	Cindy (Beadlady) December 2002 Cindy's Crafts and ListMom for Beadtalk
This is a great site. Your site is one of the reasons I opened my store. There are just not that many stores in my area. In fact, the closest one is approximately 45 miles from my home. I found that store from this site, visited and decided that "I can do that!" And so began the saga of Beadfreakie Designs and Texas Bead Store. Keep up the good work!	Marilyn Rodery October 2002 Texas Bead Store
Yesterday was only the second Saturday we have been open. TWO different groups of people who were in St. Louis for other reasons said they had looked up the Bead stores on the Internet, and came by our place!!	Donna Neumann November 2002 Bead On A Wire, Inc. (in Missouri)
I have told meany people about your wonderful site because they come to our store and then tell us they don't have bead shops back home ...but then maybe they do and don't know it...so I send them to your site to find out...	Lorri November 2002 Ocean Bead and Craft (in North Carolina)
Thanks for the listing.. I too, found you easy to find, easy to navigate and have referred you to customers I have met at shows... who are too far from us to come to our shop.	KATYA November 2002 Katya's White Nights (in Connecticut)
THANK YOU for having this resource available for us. We truly appreciate it. I found your informative site in the early stages of my bead store research. I think I did a Google search, keyword "Bead Store". It was "KEY" to alot of the decisions that we made about our store early on...truly. Please let us know we can do to thank you for your time and effort! *(so I wrote and asked what decisions were helped. --greg)* As we researched bead stores, one of the most important decisions we made was locational. We used the information on your site to define and refine our store loction criteria as well as "industry standard" hours and days of operation.	Randy and Denise Foster July 2002 Bead-Studio.com
Thanks so much...we get alot of traffic from this listing and we really appreciate it! Your site is a wonderful resource for beaders and suppliers alike.	Renee Gomez Apr 2001 beadmerchant.com (in Oregon)
Let me compliment you on the completeness and usefulness of your site. It is certainly one of the most (if not THE most) comprehensive bead information sites we've ever seen. We will place a link to your site on ours.	Carl Kupersmit Feb 2001 2bead.com (in Florida)
I want to tell you how clear and concise your web site is, and what a joy to read about all the bead businesses out there. Thank you for the opportunity to put my name in your web site.	Gary Fine Apr 1998 Paramount Beads (in California)
You have a great [screen] background. It's very memorable. I paged through hundreds of links yesterday. Today, I pulled up your page one more time, I remembered the background, and hence the web-site. Most sites seem to use a white background, and a graphical layout like so many others. These sites all blend together.	Warren S. Feld Feb 1998 landofodds.com (in Tennessee)