Richmond Free WiFi Blog

Hello everyone! We continue to plug away our marketing efforts in contacting various entities that might benefit from our initiative. This time, we’ve focused on various restaurants throughout The Fan.

We’ve focused on establishments that offer breakfast and lunch menus with a bit of dinner.  Reason being, we feel the owners might see how they may benefit by offering their patrons free wireless access, particularly during these periods when many of their customers might desire to check email and/or conduct business, etc.

We’ve contacted the following restaurants:

• Buz & Neds’ Barbeque
• Couscous
• Mrs. Marshalls (specifically for the cafe, of course)
• Mulligans
• Nile
• The Robin Inn
• Six Burner
• Strawberry Street Cafe

If you have a favorite hangout, place to eat, etc., and feel they could benefit from our project, let them know about us!

The Richmond Free WiFi sample t-shirt, sticker and magnet are here! If anyone’s interested in purchasing any, check out RFW’s CafePress store. Proceeds go towards paying for the server space to host the network as well as maintain the network itself.

Help support our cause to build a community-driven wireless freenet around Richmond!

Looks like John over at Buttermilk & Molasses learned about our project which he mentioned on his blog. Thanks, John. We returned the gesture!

Exciting news! We were contacted by a reporter from Richmond.com for a possible article which would be published soon. Since none of the local media has yet written about Richmond Free WiFi, it’s extremely encouraging to be noticed. More to follow!

As part of our marketing efforts, introductory emails were sent to the following apartment complexes, with the majority of these locations being in the West End area. If anyone lives in any of these apartments and would like their contact info so you can mention us to them, please feel free to drop us a line at info at richmondfreewifi.org and we’ll send you their email addresses. Or, drop by the rental/management offices and tell them in person!

• Addison at Wyndham
• Addison at Kings Crossing
• Aspen Station
• Breckenridge
• Bremner Woods
• Canterbury Square
• Carriage Hill West End
• Colonial Village at Chase Gayton
• Colonial Village at Hampton Glen
• Colonial Village at West End
• Copper Spring
• Courthouse Green West
• Creek’s Edge at Stony Point
• Crossings at Short Pump
• Crown Square Townhomes
• Culpeper Farms

We’ll keep on with our efforts!