Name of your website?Basketball-Goals.com
Your name?
Jeff McDonald
Your Location (city, etc)
Southington
When did you start your website and why?
Webstite started 5 years ago as a means of income.
Online retailer selling factory direct sports equipment at discount prices.
What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?
I guess the most difficult part is to always be current. Current with your merchandise and prices, current with your web site design and optimization. Its an ongoing thing that never stops.
What has been the easist part of operating your website?
Taking orders.
What was your biggest mistake?
Putting too much faith in what others had to say instead of trusting myself.
Who maintains your website and why?
I maintain the web site. When you've been in business for yourself for most of your life it's hard to release control, doing so means you risk your success to others who dont have as vested an interest in succeeding as you do yourself. My ultimate goal is to turn over the reigns of the day to day business and supervidse but I am still a few years off from that happening.
Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?
I began with a website for a business I owned for 20 years , that website attracted some customers to my business (which at the time was a service business). On day I received a call from a manufacturer asking if we would like to sell their products on line and our current site was born. My service business grew smaller and smaller while my ecommerce business grew larger and larger , to the point where for the last 4 years has become my only business and has turned out far better than I dreamed it would.
What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?
The internet is still in its infancy, and just the way the Supermarket surplanted the general store so will the internet surplant standard bricks and motar stores for most industries. People dont have time to waiste driving, looking for items and standing in line.
What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Well its not as easy as it once was to get highly positioned in a search engine. My site has been around for a while so its trusted and receives excellent positioning. With all the new entrants to the internet on page SEO and link building are needed today more than ever.
What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?
I would not be where I am today unless there were search engines so they have helped me, tremendeously I might add, thank you search engines!
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Search Engines
What method has been least successful for promoting your website?
I guess links would be the least directly successful way of promoting a web site but because they add to search engine positioning its hard to quanitfy thier value.
What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?
Greater integration with appliances like TV's , yes you can hook a computer up to a TV now and surf the web but the computer itself should be built into the TV. It's seems to be taking a long time for this convergance to happen.
You can enter a question of your choice and the answer here:
It's hard for someone like myself to find others working on the net as entrprenures to talk shop with, can anyone suggest a place on the net to check out.
What is your website address?
Basketball-Goals.com
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