Name of your website?www.booksforless.ph
Your name?
meldy fider
Your Location (city, etc)
Quezon City
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Our website hopes to serve the readers and booklovers all over the Philippines and the world by making available quality new & pre-owned books and magazines at very affordable prices! We have thousands of titles of books available looking to find it's rightful owner!
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
We launched around 4 years ago but went into hybernation stage until maybe 2 yrs ago when we went active again.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
easy..its the name of our bookstore
Please give us a short summary of your website?
It is a bookstore on the web...we will have more titles soon!
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
We have services like FREE book search and a mailing list for you to get special promos and discounts
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To keep it as an extension of our retail stores..where we cannot put up a store they can reach us through the web
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
So far more investment but that's because we were not active for awhile..it is picking up
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Adding more titles..if i could upload all our titles that would be great!
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Sure..lots of people to hire to do the job!
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
nothing that can't be solved!
What has been your biggest challenge?
hiring the right people for the job
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
posting on all our stores
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
as expected actually
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
Have just lately been more active and will continue as long as possible..our greatest joy is when we find a book for someone who has been searching for it forever!
What is your website address?
www.booksforless.ph
