Name of your website?If These Walls Could Talk
Your name?
Claire Bingham
Your Location (city, etc)
Charlotte
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Providing a creative way to personalize your children's room or baby's nursery through hand-painted murals that are unique and fun. Each room is designed according to your specifications and painted.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
I needed a way to get the word out about my custom hand-painted murals.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
I launched www.ifthesewallscouldtalk.com in October of 2001.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
If These Walls Could Talk was a great to express the idea of my painting children's rooms and baby nurseries with beautiful hand-painted murals.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
I provide a personalized, creative atmosphere for your baby's nursery or children's room with a custom, hand-painted mural by a professional artist in Charlotte, North Carolina.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
My goal is to keep www.ifthesewallscouldtalk.com to help promote my children's room and nursery mural business.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
www.ifthesewallscouldtalk.com is a great balance as it has brought many clients to me without having to spend money on a direct marketing campaign.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I would add more pictures and have a more dynamic feel for www.ifthesewallscouldtalk.com. Since I paint rooms my clients want to see examples of the custom nurseries I have painted.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes. I have a wonderful hosting package and webmaster to keep up with all the demand.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
I have had to deal with not being as available in searches as I would like. If people can not find you by doing a search for the service you provide like my custom nuresy painting then it is hard to get traffic you your site.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Getting traffic to the site with search engines. They do not pick you up right away and do not put you at the top of the list. That and getting the pictures of my custom murals to work well so they are easy to see and find.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Getting links from related sites that promote custom nursery murals.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It is not an overnight success since you still have to help the search engines find you and like your site.
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?
www.ifthesewallscouldtalk.com has been running for 6 years and I intend to run it until I can no longer paint children's rooms.
What is your website address?
If These Walls Could Talk
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