'apartmentinchile Interview'

apartmentinchile Interview

By Interviewer at 01/22/08 12:07

Name of your website? apartmentinchile Your name? Florus Kerkman Your Location (city, etc) Santiago Please give us a short summary of your website? Website gives all the information about the apartment, what you can do in Santiago and Chile and cheap ways to get to Chile. What inspired you to launch your own website? To set up a business renting apartments in Chile and a central point with information. When did you launch your first website, and what was it? this is first one and nov 2007 How did you decide on a name for your website? Kind of what was available and connected to the business What makes it different from other, similar offerings? We have a luxury apartment and will help the people when they arrive. What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?) Make a good running business out of it. How does your investment of time and money balance against your success? About to break even. If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site? Do it as an hotel and restaurant If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand? yes no problem What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with? Cost of internet and community charges. What has been your biggest challenge? Advertise and get first people in What method has been most successful for promoting your website? indirect websites How has running your website differed from your expectations? Not really different but we keep developing it. 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 month's running and hopefully another couple of years Will it be a succes? I hope so, I have a good chance What is your website address? apartmentinchile News Digest Blog Tags: • santiago • apartment rentals • 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 Chile 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 Chile 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 Chile 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.