Name of your website?joyrul.com
Your name?
Abdul Batin
Your Location (city, etc)
Birmingham
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Mainly a designated gift delivery service for Sylhety people living in the uk.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
An inspiration of owning a business that also provided employment for people of Bangladesh. Sort of a joint venture. Also providing a service that made people happy.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
December 2007.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
joy- means happiness joy-bangla rul- we wanted to make it to more friendlyness.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
We offer a site that is userfriendly, easy to navigate, we offer a customer service here in the uk as well as Bangladesh, our staff are friendly, cheerful and always willing to help. Our products are amongst the best. We recruit a quality controller to maintain our product at top level.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To expand joyrul.com to other fields. But for now, its here to help people happy, who want to make that extra effort to say to people in Bangladesh: "I miss you" or "thanks for the time while I was there"
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
Any Business will intially involve time and money, How sucessful you are will tell in time.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I would designate cetain task to more specialize people. What Im having to do now is learn or be self-taught every aspect.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
I would like to think so. One things for certain, in Bangladesh there are lots of man-power.And everything more or less can be done.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Delays on web-developments (change the layout of site 6 times) and araising costs from that. Banking and sorting of online banking is different from traditional banking. Keeping the Bangladesh Office open for 1-2 yeras running without actually having to go live on website due to unexpected delays.
What has been your biggest challenge?
To believe in myself. It was challenge for me to keep it going. Some of partners left the company during the long process. But I couldnt turn my back.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Early stage yet. But tv advertising is on the plate. (Have a look at the commercials Ive done for tv). Will keep you guys inform on that.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
You intially think that internet site shouldnt take to much of your time. Think again!
What is your website address?
joyrul.com
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