Name of your website?My Wedding Planners
Your name?
Annette Burgess
Your Location (city, etc)
Caersws
What inspired you to launch your own website?
These days my customers want to be able to access the wedding planner information in another way and be able to share it with people that are hundreds (sometimes thousands) of miles from them. The only practical way of doing this is providing a website. It is also a really good way of finding new customers.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
This website is my first website. It was made much easier by getting Richard at http://mybranding.info to do it for me. He is remarkably cost effective too!
How did you decide on a name for your website?
When you want to go to the hairdressers you make an appointment at "my hairdressers" - same with the Doctor, Dentist etc. So couples can make appointments with "my wedding planners"!
Please give us a short summary of your website?
The site exists to promote cost effective wedding planning in the UK and to act as an information portal for current customers by utilising a password protected area to store documents, and photographs. It also has an online cost estimator for prospective clients
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
Our site provides cost estimation long before the customer needs to contact us. There is no one else in the UK prepared to do this - and we believe that is because couples are being overcharged!
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
This site will exist as long as I and the team are providing wedding planning services, which (God willing!) will be for a long time to come
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
If I am perfectly honest I thought that Richard at http://mybranding.info wanted a lot of money - until I was quoted £25k by another local company! The cost involved has paled into insignificance against the results and the removal of the stress.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Nothing just yet - but we will be adding future content - features - and online tools for people, it is just a case of time, not money
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Oh yes - we have a team of planners and co-ordinators and we are very lucky to have an extensive portfolio of suppliers who are very responsive
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
None - Richard detailed everything and it was all very accurate.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Making the decision to invest the money
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
You'd have to ask Richard that one!
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It is MUCH easier! But I am sure if I had to actually do things on a daily basis it would be much harder.
What are you most pleased about on the site?
Definitely the cost estimator. (http://myweddingplanners.co.uk/estimator.php) It is a very straightforward way for our prospective customers to get a broad estimate as to what it may cost to hand the stress of their wedding planning over to us. It has already proven a success with those that have contacted us and were surprised at how affordable it is.
Do you have plans for any other websites?
Maybe is the simple answer. We are trying to develop a way of writing a speech (Best Man's speech for example) that will enable people to create the majority of their speech without having to write it all. If we can crack it - we'll pop back and tell you about the new site!
What is your website address?
My Wedding Planners
Index for 
