areas. We briefly experimented with offering free email, but determined that with so many free email services already on the market its value to our visitors was limited.
We avoided the Dot Com bust by keeping our costs low utilizing the wealth of free and low-cost services that the Internet has to offer and implementing them in a way that enhances our visitors' experience.
Essentially a one-person operation, in recent years the site has suffered due to the loss of our free database service. While all the coffeehouse listings remained active, their value has been limited without a functioning database to allow visitors to conduct coffeehouse searches.
Starting with a renewed search for a low-cost online database provider and supplemented with the reactivation of dormant revenue-generating advertisements sitewide, we are gradually bringing the site up to date page by page. Our goal is to have an online database in place before the end of August 2006.
What does the future hold for CoffeehouseNetwork.com? We envision adding more quality retailers to our Marketplace and Coffeehouse Owners areas, offering a wealth of coffee-related goods and services. A progressive, community-minded company, we also encourage our visitors to take control of their citizenship and get involved in the runnings of their community, country, and world. To this end, we would like to add a political issues area, where we will inform our visitors of selected issues and help them contact their lawmakers to express their opinion.
