Name of your website?Animal Pet Urns . com
Your name?
Ernest Baca
Your Location (city, etc)
Tucson
Please give us a short summary of your website?
We sell urns for pets made out of bronze, marble, wood, granite. Photographic urns, poems urns, keepsake jewelry, memorial markers, garden benches. Most items can be personalized with the name of your pet, dates, personal sentiment or a variety of poems. We can also put a picture of your pet on the Rainbow Bridge. We have links to help with loss of your pet as well as advise for parents on how to explain the loss to children of various ages. Free eulogy as well. We are caring people.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
We lost our pet to cancer and were looking for a way to memorialize him.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
November 2008
How did you decide on a name for your website?
I thought it was good name considering what we were selling.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
All of our products can be personalized with the pet's name, dates, personal sentiments and a photograph. We also offer pet loss support and advise on how to tell children what happened to your pet.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Keep it for income.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It matters very much. It will be awhile before I have it completely dialed in and getting the traffic to the site that I need.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Submit it to experts for advise to improve it.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Advertising.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Submitting the site to search engines and trading links that are valuable.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
I am still working out the bugs as far as driving traffic to my site. I probably need to change some meta tags and key words on the pages of my site. Add a blog and maybe a forum and a newsletter as well.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
Yes, I am more aware of web site building and meta tags and meta descriptions than before I started.
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?
A couple of months. I am going to keep on developing the site until it is successful. I feel I do offer many products that will help people who have recently lost a pet. We offer loss support that is very valuable for grieving people, also we give good advise that we have researched very extensively.
What are my goals?
To help people with their loss and a way to memorialize their pet if they choose to. Also, generate money while doing this. Adding more products and even more help for those who are grieving.
What is your website address?
Animal Pet Urns . com
