About BAR-3 Enterprises
Company Bio - by Bryan Reese, owner of BAR-3 Enterprises
When I moved into the Town of Occoquan in April 2006, I was asked if I was
interested in volunteering to assist with the Occoquan Craft Show, which is held
every June and September. I was asked if I would help collect money at the
bus stops.
In September of 2006, I offered to set up a database or website to help
support the Craft Show. The offer was gladly accepted and the Official
Craft Show website went online in March 2007 with the help and coordination
between Greg Gilker, who was the Director of the Occoquan Craft Show at that
time; Leo Smith,
then a town council member and the liaison between the Town Counsel and the Craft
Show; and myself as webmaster of the new Craft Show Website.
While the Craft Show Website successfully provided needed information
about the show, Occoquan is a small town with around a 100 or so small
merchants, many of whom did not have their own websites and merchant
organizations which at the time did not have a web presence. So, in
July of 2007, BAR-3 Enterprises was established to help provide that web
presence to the merchants of Historic Occoquan.
The landmark site, HistoricOccoquan.com came online in November, 2007 and
was the first website to list all the town businesses, merchants, crafters,
service organizations, and Town Hall events. Since then,
HistoricOccoquan.com has added new features such as providing monthly
listings of town events, pictures of those events, and widgets and RSS feeds
to help provide information on all the town events.
HistoricOccoquan.com also provides some history of the Town of Occoquan and
will continue to provide information on Occoquan and expand in technological
offerings and town history.
In addition to maintaining and supporting the Official
OccoquanCraftShow.com and HistoricOccoquan.com, BAR-3 Enterprises provides
website services to merchants and businesses in the town. So far over,
a dozen websites have been developed in this endeavor.
BAR-3 Enterprises provides Excellence & Economy Exclusively for Occoquan
with the following objectives:
Mission
The mission of BAR-3 Enterprises is to promote and support
Occoquan, the shops and merchants in the Town, and the local Town
Government.
Vision
To provide best in class website presence for the
Historic Occoquan community.
Value
Through economic websites, BAR-3 Enterprises provides value to both Occoquan visitors and to the local community
by establishing and maintaining HistoricOccoquan.com as the one central hub that provides the latest Occoquan information
and links to local business, merchant and shop websites and Town activities
and events.
