'MS Media Service Interview'

Name of your website?

MS Media Service

Your name?

Morten Svenningsen

Your Location (city, etc)

Kathmandu

When did you start your website and why?

started my website one year ago to promote myself professionally as a photojournalist

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

The website has several categorized galleries of my best photographs. There are both hardcore documentary stuff from the revolution as well as happy people and festival photographs

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

Most difficult... to handle so many photo's (sizing, framing, captioning, linking)

What has been the easist part of operating your website?

Easiest... uploading with FireFTP, great and free program

What was your biggest mistake?

Once I mistakenly deleted all the captions. Had to do it all over.

Who maintains your website and why?

I maintain my website myself, since actually I don't trust anybody else to do it for me

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

When I contact new customers, I always ask them to look at the photo's on my website. It is my portfolio and my business platform.

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

Internet brings many changes, not least to my field (photography). It closes down old ways of doing business, but opens up new ones as well. Small businesses can now compete with big ones. Everything goes faster and faster, so it is more important now to stay up-to-date with new trends.

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

SEO is important, also for photographers like myself, but it is not everything. I mainly get my business from direct contacts I have created myself.

What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?

Search Engines, so far, haven't directly created any business for me

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Direct contact to potential customers, still the best promotion tool.

What method has been least successful for promoting your website?

mentioning my web-site in a radio-interview didn't give any extra hits.

What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?

better search algorithms

What is your website address?

MS Media Service

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