'www.booksforless.ph Interview'

www.booksforless.ph Interview

By Interviewer at 07/30/07 12:07

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 News Digest Blog Tags: • used books • web interview • - Permalink Previous (Newer) Post Next (Older) Post Comments Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So: If you have something to say that's not exactly a comment on this blog post, please post it on the Philippines Expat and Travel Blog Forum If you are just planning to spam... go away as all the comments are premoderated Have something to actually say about this blog post, please submit your comment here: Leave a comment: We welcome your comments on this post in the Philippines Expat and Travel Blog. That means a comment on this post, not something about some other topic. Name: (required) Email: (required, not published) Comment: Note: Your comment will be immediately submitted and you will have no opportunity to review to edit it. It is recommend that you register on Philippines Expat and Travel Blog and login so you can include full html (ie: links). We don't have a chapta because we think we're smarter than the spambots.