Name of your website?www.visualpreviews.com
Your name?
Brian Pescod
Your Location (city, etc)
Cambridge
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Visual Previews is an affordable computer visualization service that enables homeowners or businesses offering home building, renovation, landscaping or decorating services to explore project ideas before the work begins.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
The reason Visual Previews launched this website it to show people there dream home, renovations, or landscape project before they spent any money with a contractor. This ensures that the homeowners money is well spent and that they know exactly the outcome of the project they want
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
2006 and it was Visual Previews
How did you decide on a name for your website?
It is the same name as our company which is what best tells what we do.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
There is not too many services like this on the market at this point we are the only company that will do the work for the homeowner, and or business.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To have this service grow into an international company providing our service to everyone in the construction, renovation, and home remodelling business.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
We are fresh out of the gates as we took over this company in August so it is hard to tell. So far its been rewarding with the people we have helped choose construction products on there renovation projects.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I would go national with commericals and radio advertisements and continue with that until I had a commerical in the superbowl.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes Visual Previews core people are dynamic and very result driven so I think we would grow to the needs of our customers
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Revamping our website and severing ties with the previous website designers.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Developing the system to be used by our sales reps as we get bigger we need to have a bullet proof training regiment so our sales staff can start with confidence in the field and get results immeditaly
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Good old fashion word of mouth so far which is done by providing superior customer service and over delivering on your product.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
Not much differant it will be better when we redesign the site and relaunch later this month so stay tuned
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?
Its been around for a few years and the only thing to do is to keep it up to date and make sure its functional and dynamic and provides our customers with the great service they deserve.
What is your website address?
www.visualpreviews.com
