'Michigan Mobile Wash Interview'

Michigan Mobile Wash Interview

By Interviewer at 05/26/08 13:58

Name of your website?

Michigan Mobile Wash

Your name?

Mark Long

Your Location (city, etc)

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Please describe

We offer information about our business as well as information about who needs our services and why.

What inspired you to launch your own website?

We needed to educate our customers and potential customers about the services we offer.

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

We first launched our site about 5 years ago, it started as a free site and then we upgraded as we saw the need and are currently upgrading again to include more information about local and state regulations as well as a photo gallery.

How did you decide on a name for your website?

We thought using our business name would be easy to remember.

What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?

Right now not allot, but we see that as something to build on and this is the focus of our latest upgrades.

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

Keep it as a marketing tool.

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

Not very good now, but we see a long term benefit.

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

We would add pages of information as well as a site where leads can be given to other contractors in other markets.

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?

As far as the website?, it is difficult to keep the site updated as we learn new things about our business. We do not get picked up by many search engines and that is dissapointing. We are hoping by adding more information this will change.

What has been your biggest challenge?

search engines

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

adding it to sales materials, etc.

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?

approximately 5 years, indefinately

What is your goal with your website?

To gain an advantage over our competition. We want people to call us first.

What is your website address?

Michigan Mobile Wash

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