'Saon Sales hair and beauty industry suppliers Interview'

Saon Sales hair and beauty industry suppliers Interview

By Interviewer at 08/24/07 06:53

Name of your website?

Saon Sales hair and beauty industry suppliers

Your name?

Alan Balsiger

Your Location (city, etc)

Birkenhead, Wirral

Please give us a short summary of your website?

Supplier of furniture, equipment and goods for the hair and beauty industry. Goods can be purchased online at competitive prices to allow beauty therepists and hairdressers to pass the savings onto their customers

What inspired you to launch your own website?

A friend suggested I sell my goods online

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

The first website was launched about 1999 and was originally www.salonsales.com . We notice a lot of traffic was generated fron the USA so we also bought the name salon-sales.co.uk and introduced that as the primary name for our website when we updated it in 2006 to try to get more local interest in the UK.

How did you decide on a name for your website?

Salon sales - thats what we do.

What makes it different from other, similar offerings?

Very competitive prices. Good customer service.

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

To become even more successful

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

On the up since I introduce some specialist SEO that a friend specialied in.

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

We would introduce a more automated system for stock level control

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

Eventually we would as we have a plan in place

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

Normal business headaches that we come to expect

What has been your biggest challenge?

Becoming more PC literate

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Good SEO

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

Its now progressing in the right direction

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?

Eight years and hopefully for another eight

How much money would you like to make online.

It would be a great dream to make millions

What is your website address?

Saon Sales hair and beauty industry suppliers

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