'Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online Interview'

Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online Interview

By Interviewer at 06/10/09 09:05

Name of your website?

Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online

Your name?

Vlatko

Your Location (city, etc)

Prilep

Please give us a short summary of your website?

A place where you can watch stunning, eyeopening, interesting, free streaming, full-length, online documentary films and movies.

What inspired you to launch your own website?

Passion for documentaries.

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

Year ago and it was about documentaries.

How did you decide on a name for your website?

Just common sense.

What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?

Maybe the design itself, simplicity etc.

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

My eventual goal is to open a membership site which will be "Online Documentary Filmmaking School"

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

I invested lots of time and energy in this site but I think it's worthed against the success.

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

Well I will hire a professional web designer and make it look really, really good and I will massively invest in marketing campaigns.

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

Not sure about that. Already the site is kind a "big" and the demands for time and energy are increasing. I don't know, maybe I'll try to find somebody to help me.

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

Mostly headaches related with coding, experimenting, promoting.

What has been your biggest challenge?

To create web awareness and presence on the net. I think this is the most difficult to achieve. But I think I'm on the right way. The site has PR 5 without any activities in link exchanging programs or exchanging links with anyone and it has about 130.000 visitors and 630.000 pageviews per month without any special SEO treatment. Seems the people like it.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Actually there was not any method. I think I had some luck there. Somehow several well established sites reviewed my site without any effort or investment from my side. Simply they thought the site is a valuable resource, good looking and they did their reviews. After that an avalanche of reviews from other smaller sites and blogs followed and that was "the boom". The word was spread around on forums and especially on the StumbleUpon system.

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

Not much different. I like what I do with this site.

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?

I run the site for a year and I will continue it as long as I have desire to run the site.

Whould you like this "webmaster thing" to be your full job?

Yes, very much.

What is your website address?

Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online

To whom it may concern

I'm the acquisitions co-ordinator of an independent television station that

broadcasts through the Western Cape. We are based in Cape Town, South Africa

and are registered under the name Cape Town TV. We are a non-profit community TV station.

As we are a free-to-air-channel, anyone with a TV

set and aerial can tune into Cape Town TV (CTV). We are committed to

broadcasting content that showcases local talent, strengthens communities,

promotes freedom of expression and access to information. CTV aims to empower

people with both knowledge and the ability to tell their own stories. I think

that your group could prove a valuable tool in ensuring that we

attain this goal, while at the same time these documentaries would receive a considerable

amount of exposure here in South Africa. We currently

reach an estimated 2.5 million people. If you have any content available for

broadcast please let me know. As we are a non-profit organisation, we cannot

pay a licencing fee. We do however broadcast non-exclusively, meaning that you

could still sell this footage or alternatively have it broadcast on other

stations concurrently. If possible, could you please mail me DVD copies of all documentaries that you could make available for broadcast, as well as a letter of consent allowing Cape Town TV permission to air the material. For more information you could refer to our website

(www.capetowntv.org). I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

For advertising enquiries please contact our marketing manager, Fahmie

Fredericks at fagmie@capetowntv.org

Physical Address: The White House

Lever Brothers Industrial Park

Unit 13C

18 Lower Scott Road

Observatory

7925

South Africa

Postal Address: P.O. Box 13863

Mowbray

7705

Cape Town

South Africa

Kind Regards

Lendyll Naicker

Cape Town TV Acquisitions Co-ordinator

Tel: +27 21 448 0448

Cell: +27 73 585 0034

Excellent article, sounds like Vlatko has a passion and great work ethic :) His site is amazing too, been visiting it for a while and a group of us have now started our own similar site>

http://www.blatantnews.com/documentaries.html

keep up the cool work, George

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