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| FEATURE<br />
Midkota Solutions:<br />
Online in a Big Way<br />
By Wes Engbrecht<br />
There are many small<br />
business success<br />
stories in the<br />
Bismarck/Mandan<br />
area, and Midkota Internet<br />
Media and Marketing Group<br />
is among them. This group<br />
of Internet partners and<br />
developers are responsible<br />
for the maintenance and<br />
marketing of several, wellknown,<br />
local websites,<br />
including bismanonline.com,<br />
kxnet.com and fishingbuddy.<br />
com. As of August 2009,<br />
Midkota is delivering over 1.6<br />
From left to right: Stephen Schnaible, Gina Sandaker,<br />
billion Internet ads per year on their websites.<br />
Eric Kubischta, Mike Haas, Wade Vogel.<br />
Bismanonline.com has become a household<br />
name among local websites. If you have something great place for outdoorsmen to share information and<br />
to sell; whether it’s real estate, a used car, a trumpet or post photos and videos of their own. If you’re looking<br />
absolutely anything else, you can post a free ad and to sell outdoor-related items, you can post a free ad in<br />
photo of the item and get it sold.<br />
the classifieds or go shopping there, as well.<br />
You can then log in and maintain or alter your ad, KXnet.com has become an integral piece of Reiten<br />
as well as see how many people have viewed it. The Television’s media presence. Midkota developed and<br />
website also allows you to upgrade your ad for a small has been operating the new website since its launch in<br />
fee to improve its position.<br />
2006.<br />
According to Eric Kubischta, executive director of “We are especially proud of the live feeds we can<br />
operations, bismanonline.com is the busiest website in get rolling on the site when something exciting happens<br />
N.D., with 18 million page views and 170,000 unique in our area,” says Kubischta. Many local residents<br />
visitors per month.<br />
watched the Memorial Bridge demolition on the KX<br />
“We estimate between $25 and $40 million in site.<br />
transactions are completed on this website each year. The average website user probably doesn’t realize<br />
It is a boost for the local economy and brings a lot of that the Midkota group, through its Web portal,<br />
buyers and sellers together,” Kubischta says.<br />
totaloutdoornetwork.com, controls a large share of the<br />
Bismanonline.com has been owned and operated online outdoor market. If you consider upcoming and<br />
by Stephen Schnaible since 2003. Kubischta joined the current expansion plans, the group will have a market<br />
company in 2006 to help maintain and program the reach which extends into eight U.S. states and two<br />
website. They now have a group of partners operating Canadian provinces.<br />
the websites and adding value through marketing and Go to totaloutdoornetwork.com and check<br />
advertising.<br />
out the other local and regional websites operated<br />
Fishingbuddy.com is another N.D. “original” by Midkota. Look for them to continue to grow and<br />
promoting fishing and hunting. The amount of outdoor provide innovative websites for us locally and around<br />
information on this website is staggering. It is also a the world!<br />
22 thecitymag.com
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