We make it look easy
At Bluehouse Group, we bring creativity, technology, and business smarts to every client relationship. We connect our clients with their audience, whether those people are customers, prospects, partners, members, or “users.” We are passionate about making stuff that works — websites that sell, extranets that enable collaboration and efficiency, databases that serve up information easily. And we’re
good at it.
With so much noise and clutter on everyone’s computer screens, our clients like our penchant for clean design and simplicity. We help them devise strategies and set priorities. We sort and analyze to identify what’s most important. We believe in clarity, ease of use, and applying the appropriate technology for each situation.
Our services include marketing communication (online and offline), Internet strategy, website design, e–commerce, content management systems (CMS), extranets, database applications, search engine optimization (SEO), website hosting and traffic analytics, hosting email campaigns, online advertising and promotion—every aspect of your Internet presence. Contact us for a free consultation.
Selected Portfolio
Returning Home
Bluehouse Group was honored and excited to receive an invitation to participate in the 2009 BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies in San Francisco. The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies is a ten-day residency for eight creative teams made up of independent producers or public broadcasters. The goal is to facilitate multi-platform projects inspired by, or based on, significant documentary films. We were invited by Dungby Productions to join their team at this prestigious residency. Our goal was to create a Web experience that builds on the story of their award winning film The Way We Get By. With the guidance of mentors from diverse backgrounds (Google engineers, world renowned installation artists and marketing gurus) Bluehouse and Dungby spent 10 days locked away at the BAVC facilities, conceptualizing and crafting what eventually became the Returning Home Project. Returning Home gives every American a way to show support for people serving in the military, in the spirit of the movie characters in The Way We Get By.
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Union Mutual of Vermont Companies
Union Mutual of Vermont Companies came to Bluehouse Group to redesign their site, and develop a website for their New York regional company, Eastern Mutual. Union Mutual and Eastern Mutual both offer a wide selection of insurance offerings through a wide network of independent agents throughout Vermont, and the New York region. Bluehouse Group worked with them to develop websites whose branding is unique to each company, but whose architecture and navigation similarly allow visitors to see their offerings, browse their independent agents, and offer seasonal safety tips, among other content. Now, each company has the capability to add content themselves to each site, as they continue to respond to the seasonal an situational needs of their customers.
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Opportunities Credit Union
Opportunities Credit Union came to Bluehouse Group by way of their mutual affiliation with VBSR. In 2008, OppsVT received a grant towards developing their online presence and Bluehouse Group, was pleased to partner with them. BHG helped to design and develop a website that reinforced Opportunities branding and would allow their staff to keep the website content current. By developing their site using an open source Content Management System coupled with the programming smarts that syndicated content brings to a bustling business like banking, Bluehouse Group crafted a website that will serve them well as their service offerings continue to evolve.
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The Way We Get By
The Producers of the independent film The Way We Get By came to Bluehouse group to redesign their site so they could ensure their site offered them the content management platform that would allow them to keep their site current. The site we developed is a dynamic marketing tool for promoting the reviews, upcoming screenings, and accolades for this thought provoking documentary that focuses on 3 senior citizen troop greeters in Bangor Maine.
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Resource Systems Group
Resource Systems Group has 4 distinct core services areas (Transportation Planning, Technology Solutions, Market Research, Energy, Environment & Acoustics) that have very distinct attributes, offerings, insights and case studies. We redesigned the site in 2008 to allow visitors of each service area to find their sub site easily, and to still remain connected to the core company. RSGinc.com, the main site is the entrance point for these subsites, their related news, contact info, news, and white paper topics.
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Upstream Group
The people at Upstream Group are experts in online advertising and digital marketing. They train sales and marketing people nationally, and their client list includes Yahoo, Disney, Facebook, to name a few. They’re a dynamic organization, so they came to Bluehouse Group for a complete website redesign. They brought a variety of branding elements and service offerings, plus an ever-changing schedule of upcoming training events. The new website brings the company into clear focus, offers customers online registration, and lets Upstream easily update the site to keep pace with the rapidly growing digital marketing world.
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FindandGoSeek.net
Parents love findandgoseek.net. It’s easy to find activities for the kids and the whole family— from after school programs to the best sledding hill. And anyone can submit a listing or write a review, which is the way of the new “social Web”. Of course it’s powered by a robust database and an easy to use management console so the site administrator keep it all fresh.
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Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center
VMEC has worked with Bluehouse Group ever since we designed their website in 2003. In 2008 it was time for a complete refresh and a state-of-the-art content management system. The result is a clean design and a site architecture that makes it easier to learn about the programs and resources VMEC offers. The Home page is always current with the latest workshops and success stories, automatically drawn from content found on deeper levels of the site. As a contribution to support the international open source community of Web developers, we later published our event calendar module for reuse by other developers.
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Pompanoosuc Mills
Bluehouse Group designed and developed Pompanoosuc Mills’ e-commerce website to showcase the company’s huge line of top quality hardwood furniture. Customers order online and customize their furniture, plus the website is fully integrated with the company’s existing back end systems.
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ToMyPath.com
This innovative organization creates wellness programs so employees and employers benefit from healthier lives and lower healthcare costs. The site gives administrators the ability to create customized user experiences for groups of participants. Each user is provided with a dashboard where they can engage in interactive adventures, take an assessment survey, measure their individual progress, and access valuable wellness information. Flash animation makes it fun. One measure of success has been the thousands of people who have chosen to participate, a number which grows every month.
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Richard Erdman
A successful sculptor whose pieces appear in collections internationally, Richard extends his reach with his portfolio site. The gallery style presentation is simple and elegant, consistent with Richard’s aesthetic.
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Vermont League of Cities and Towns
Navigating the VLCT website is easy and intuitive for town administrators because Bluehouse Group collaborated closely with VLCT staff to plan the optimal “information architecture.” The searchable Resource Library is the most popular section, providing easy access to a wealth of documents, easily managed by VLCT.
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Von Bargen’s
Von Bargen’s came to Bluehouse Group looking for a clean design to showcase their designer jewelry. The site has been a constant evolution, first with a small selection of items they chose to offer for purchase online, to where they are today, generating significant online sales nationally.
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RSG Inc.
The market research division of RSG has turned to Bluehouse Group for help with their clients Conde Naste, Time Warner, and Fortune Magazine, CNN/Money and others. Bluehouse Group’s Web expertise is a perfect complement to RSG’s marketing expertise. The partnership has enabled RSG to serve their clients with the highest possible quality, without having to learn the finer points of the Web business. We also redesigned the RSG website, after first developing a sub-site strategy so each distinct division of the company speaks clearly to its distinct audience. “We enjoy working with Bluehouse Group, they’ve been a great partner.” — Leslie Rimmer
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Bergeron, Paradis and Fitzpatrick
Law firm sites don’t have to look boring. Cross referencing practice areas with individual attorneys ’ biography pages has proven to be a user friendly way for visitors to “put a face” on the firm. This law firm website stands out for both design and usability.
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The Inn at Baldwin Creek
Enjoying a meal at Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn is to experience Vermont’s finest food, prepared from local ingredients with creativity and great skill. The Inn offers a wide variety of experiences—cooking classes, talks by experts, getaway events, wedding receptions—and chose Bluehouse Group for its website design because of our breadth of experience. Their website brings a continuous stream of new and repeat customers from near and far.
