Name of your website?Golden Bonsai of New York Home Page
Your name?
Heather Hartman
Your Location (city, etc)
Farmingdale
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Golden Bonsai is a Long Island bonsai nursery, specilizing in finished trees, raw stock for creating your own bonsai, tools needed including soil, seives, wire and imported chinese and japanese tools. We carry a wide variety of pots, including high end japanese imports. We also offer classes for the beginner and advanced student of bonsai alike. The website will showcase completed trees, special pots, a calender of events and listings about the local bonsai community, the Bonsai Society of Greater New York.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
I am the webmaster, not the site owner, but the owner of Golden Bonsai and I have spoken about getting a website together for the business for some time now. He wanted a place not only to showcase some of his prize trees, but also to let people know that we were out there.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
My first website was a personal site I coded from scratch over ten years ago. I still shudder to think of the strange things my highschool mind though was humor!
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Very simply, it is the name of our business. We didn't want to risk throwing people off, and it's just easier to say, Golden Bonsai.com rather than anything more complicated
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
We have a very user friendly set up. Our site focuses on the nursery and how we relate to people, not simply selling crummy stock over the internet. Golden Bonsai is focused on our store location, we are not an e-business. Though we do ship if requested, contact information is available on the page.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To continue building the site. Not only as a store, but also as an online resource for bonsai enthusiasts.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It's still too early, as the website has been up and going for only just a week now, to tell how this time heavy investment will pay off.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Additional greenhouses, more advertising budget, free pizza parties... oh, wait...
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
With only one person maning the web? Unlikely. But if that were the case, we would bring on additional people as needed.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Word of mouth to our current customers to start. Also SEO, something as a non-professional web builder I am only now really learning about. Our advertising budget is limited at the moment, though I am hoping that will eventually change.
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?
THe site has only been up for a week, but it has been a growing project for over a month now, and will continue to grow. I anticipate this lasting for many years. The business itself has been in it's current location for over thirty years, and we have no intentions of it not going another thirty to boot!
What is your website address?
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