Name of your website?Basedfaith.com
Your name?
Paul Avelino
Your Location (city, etc)
Etobicoke
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Theirs a lot of social network like friendter,myspace and facebooks to name a few where majority of filipino were registered. what inspred me to lunch basedfaith.com a new site lunch only this wwek is to reunite all filipino christian around the world to share their faith, help each other, meet new friends and creat their own christian groups.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
My first website I bought trulyunusual.com an 8 months old site last april at that time the site has not been promoted and Now its growing with more than 50K visitors 180K pages a month. But still needs more promotion which I spent 12 hours a week to update it.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
I search and most of the christian domain name were already taken. Basedfaith.com is my only choice which is easy to remember and people will know that it is a faith-based community
Please give us a short summary of your website?
"basedfaith.com is a Filipino Christian Network where members reach out to share their faith, comfort each other and meet new friends."
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
The site offer more features than other faith-based christian websites. Next month the member will have an option to used text or video chat. I want it to be interactive where the members will be involve in making decision. When the community grows will also offer a sunday worship, invite a pastor, priest to do a ministry and answers question from the members.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
My goal is to grow it. Make my site involve in the community not only in the internet but in the philippine christian ministry. No I will not sell the site. I dedicated my site in memory of parents who were both pastors.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
My success will depend on how the site grow and How filipino christian community used the site, their testimony and if the site help them to be closer to God and accept him as their personal savior.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
With unlimited budget you can spend your time promoting your site in the internet, newspapers, TV, billboard, train advertisement to reach the people you want to join your site.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
That's the question I can'r answer. All I can do is pray and ask god guidance to ensure I can financially afford it.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Right Now none.
What has been your biggest challenge?
My challenge will be promoting basefaith.com to reach the people I'm targeting to join my site.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
I don'r know I have to try all available promotion in the internet, like directory, classified, link exchange, google. yahoo amd msn.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
No. I will only experince it when basedfaith.com will have a lots of members.
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?
It's only a week, I will not shutdown even if I have only a few members after six months.
What is your website address?
Basedfaith.com
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