Name of your website?Wallcoverings by Mark Balkovec
Your name?
Mark Balkovec
Your Location (city, etc)
Pittsburgh
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Site Includes wallcovering information, Photos, Videos
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Show video and photos of our work. Inform our city of our services.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
1990 Interiors-Online.com
How did you decide on a name for your website?
I used my name so it would match the company name.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
We video tape our wallcovering installation and post them on the internet for others to see.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
My goal is to get people to call me from seeing my company online.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
I put way to much time trying for the amount of money in return.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Per Job not by hour.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Coming up in search engiene
What has been your biggest challenge?
cumming up in search results
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
url submitting
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It is way to hard to get your site noticed without spending money. I don't like or trust the click adds that are popular right now.
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?
3 years. As long as I feel the site is necessary.
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How do these pay directory Listing sites such as merchant circle and city search get ranked so hi in google. Is there something going on with these sites that make it impossible to get ranked above them without spending a ton of money every month?
What is your website address?
Wallcoverings by Mark Balkovec