Name of your website?Amish Furniture
Your name?
Chadwick
Your Location (city, etc)
Detroit, Michigan
Please give us a short summary of your website?
This website informs people of where Amish Furniture is available throughout the U.S.A. Amish furniture is primarily made in Ohio, Indiana & Pennsylvania. Amish Furniture is 100% solid wood furniture that is created here in the United States.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
The Internet is a great medium to inform the public about Amish Furniture. Only with the Internet can you reach so many people so fast. Amish Furniture is well known throughout the midwest, and is often more expensive on the east and west coast due to shipping charges. I wanted to make it easy for anyone to find a store to purchase Amish Furniture!
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
One of my first websites oddly enough involved making Amish Furniture available for sale online.
What is your website about.
This website is about Amish Furniture and where to purchase it.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
This site will display unbiased information regarding Amish Furniture.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Keep It. I know you can't take it with you when you go, but it's nice to leave something behind.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It's an easy equation. The more time/effort I put in, the more successful the venture is. I will be spending some time to get the message out about Amish Furniture.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I would go all out, with a custom content management system similar to Drupal, but with my own twists. Who would thought Amish Furniture would be presented on such an innovative platform.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes, of course.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
I enjoy doing research about Amish Furniture, and writing about it. Amish Furniture is furniture that you just stare at and appreciate the hard word that went into creating it.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Modernizing the Amish craftsmen who build Amish Furniture. They seem resistant to change and advances in modern technology.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Search Engine Optimization
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It's everything I could've ever imagined!
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?
2 years, and the site will remain up forever.
What is your website address?
Amish Furniture
