According to the fire chief, every few months a news outlet will publish a story on the bulb, generating visitors and general interest, then it will drop back into obscurity for a while.
Unfortunately, most businesses only concentrate on generating visitors, not realizing the importance of turning visitors into buyers.
You can use the CGI service to provide dynamic content, collect and process user input, and generate visitor statistics.
The national advocacy group Americans for the Arts takes the idea — and the evidence — a step further with their Arts & Economic Prosperity reports, which spell out in real numbers how nonprofit arts organizations fuel the economy by creating jobs, generating visitor spending and using local goods and services.
And because the show draws crowds - last year, it generated 32,000 visitors - many other important auctions and gallery exhibitions are timed to the event.
Laurie Kadrich, the city administrator, estimated that annual taxes generated by visitors to the area produce as much as $1 million for Park County, which includes about a quarter of Yellowstone National Park's 7,000 square miles.
In both cases, iPrice takes a cut of any sales generated by visitors clicking its links, but it shares those fees with publishers.
It is hoped the move will boost rural tourism in the area and potentially add millions to the £4bn already generated by visitors to the parks.
While Quantcast reports the site only generated 9,000 visitors in September, Semple says internal numbers show 120,000 uses with 10% to 15% monthly growth since the site's launch in June.
"Which projects will bring the most visitors, generate the most visitor spend, stimulate investment and promote Jersey to the widest audience?" he added.
