Name of your website?www.casatiavilla.com
Your name?
Paul Manczak
Your Location (city, etc)
Anse Jonchee
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Site advertises our Holiday bungalows in Mauritius, which we rent to Oversea Visitors and (Mauritian Nationals at discounted prices). It is descriptive and also has a large photo gallery, to give the client a taste of their holiday and the Island in general.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Neccesity - as a marketing tool.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
3 years ago, this was our first web-site
How did you decide on a name for your website?
A simple process of adding www.com to our business name.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
We try and make it user freindly, and hope the surfer feels they are viewing a site created by an human-being not a marketing machine.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
All the time we continue to manage our Holiday Accommodation we will keep the web-site up and running.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
After 3 years we are just beginning to see a profitable return on our investment
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Link to all relevant tour operators and directories, and increase budget on goole and yahoo add words.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Hope-so !
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Receiving credit card charges from google add words
What has been your biggest challenge?
Becoming compuer literate fairly late in life.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
exchange links
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
More time consumming than I originally envisaged.
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, until we retire, or win the lottery.
What is your website address?
www.casatiavilla.com
