Here's ALL about us!

Cowbells.com is the cowbell expert! 
We help customers choose the right bell for them. 

  • On-line Since 1997
  • Why Bells?
  • What Makes Us Experts
  • Our Herd (Team)
  • Ring it up for Charity! Program
  • We be GREEN!
  • Locations

 

ON-LINE SINCE 1997:
Maggie Moo (that really is her nickname) made our very first web site in 1997, but it didn't have e-commerce... That's the Internet olden days!  We have been ringing up sales on-line since 2001. 

 

WHY BELLS?:
We sell cowbells because Bessie wanted to be in the Olympics when she was 7.  Years later, she started the  business in 1995, with the objective of becoming the Official supplier of the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games Cheering Bell.  Yep!  We made for a noisy event.  Bessie got her wish and won three Olympic President's Awards.  Even bought herself a silver belt buckle (like the rodeo awards), but doesn't wear it much... it's kind of showy for California.

The MOEN Bells of Norway were the most popular souvenir at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games in Norway.  Bessie brought them to Utah for the 2002 Olympic Games and lots of other events.  Bells became big and other styles and price points were added to the line. 

 

WHAT MAKES US EXPERTS:
Our herd (team) has been to lots of events from the Olympics and world-class bike races to little league baseball games. We have years of experience and know which bells works for different kinds of projects (cheering, sales bell, fund raising, give-aways, wedding bells, trophies, awards, cyclocross, etc.).  

We've been very official as an Official Licensee of fun events and companies.

Official Licenses Previously Held:

  • Salt Lake Olympic Committee
  • United States Olympic Committee
  • Coca-Cola Company
  • United States Ski and Snowboard Association
  • Jamaican Bobsled Team
  • World Alpine Ski Championships
  • Birds of Prey Men's Downhill
  • Vail Resorts
  • Aspen Resorts

 

OUR HERD (TEAM)
We have a great team of independent people, whose theme is happy people having fun.  But we take our work very seriously... sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we don't do brain surgery, we deliver cool cowbells.  Here's an introduction to the people supplying customers with more cowbell... 

EvaMae, Super Rep, Imprinter, Utah Coordinator
(She's moovelous!  She even has a bell named after her!)  email: SuperRep(a)cowbells.com

Bessie the cow puppet, (alter ego of Elisabeth)
Spokesbovine for the company  email: Bessie(@)cowbells.com

Elisabeth (Rita calls her boss cow) 
Company instigator (founder too)  email e(@)cowbells.com

Behind the scenes: 
They're focused on what they do and don't answer phones or emails, and they are buddies who help out and deserve some credit.
    Kevin - Master engraver in Utah for the MOEN Bells
    Lena - Head honcho and sometime engraver of MOEN Bells in Norway
    Karl - Zippy fast imprinter for Bargain Bells
    June - Sewer of webbing loops  
    Del - Sewer for ribbon loops
    Laura - Bear bell builder
    Eddie - Webbing and ribbon weaver    
    Rita - Trade show expert (She's a dog expert too!  She raises seeing eye dogs)
    Charlotte - Trade show afficianado (She likes to help at InterBike)
    Amanda - Event sales expert
    Chris - Graphics Guru, web site #2, co-winner of "Look of the Games" President's award for ribbon design
    Peter - Our triathlon team, cycling billboard
    Maggie Moo - Web site initiator, for web site #1
    Bob - EvaMae's honey, he can fix anything!
    Dave - Elisabeth's honey, self proclaimed buro
    Bruce - (Responsible for the popular line "MORE cowbell" in the funny skit on Saturday Night Live)
 

RING IT UP FOR CHARITY!
Cowbells.com has a community support program called "Ring it up for Charity!"   In addition to random things, each year we pick a non-profit to support.  Here's a list of some worthy program recipients:

  • The Humane Society
  • Women's Ski Jumping - let them fly in the next Olympics!
  • The Lance Armstrong Foundation
  • Tour de Cure - American Diabetes Association
  • The American Cancer Society
  • Team in Training - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  • Nepalanese Youth Organization - bought 5 piglets so girls could go to school instead of work
  • Heifer International - bought goats and bunnies for families to raise and pay it forward 
  • St. Bonaventure Indian Mission & School
  • Save-a-bunny
  • The Seeing Eye (dogs for the blind)
  • Community Action Marin
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

 

WE BE GREEN!
Way before it was popular, Cowbells.com was GREEN!  BIG things and little things we do to help the environment:

  • Since 1922, MOEN Bells of Norway have been made out of recycled bullet casing from practice ranges
  • We round up used shipping boxes and add our "It's not pretty, but it's recycled" stickers
  • Cowbells can be used over and over... not thunder sticks!
  • We don't commute
  • We use both sides of our recycled paper
  • We turn off the electronics at night
  • We have drip irrigation
  •  We changed to florescent light bulbs
  • Next we want to collect rain water!

 

LOCATIONS:
Cowbells.com sells on line.  From the main office near San Francisco, Bessie has a view of Brutus the bull (hence the Brutus Bell) from her office window.  Bells are warehoused in different locations in the US, but mostly in Utah where EvaMae is the boss.  Some specialty catalogs carry the MOEN Bells of Norway that they buy at wholesale from us.  Cowbells.com is the exclusive importer of MOEN Bells in North America.