Name of your website?Medellin Hotel VIP
Your name?
Albert Licht
Your Location (city, etc)
Medellin Colombia
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Medellin Hotel VIP is a quaint hotel in Medellin, El Poblado Colombia catering to executive travelers looking for outstanding quality accommodations in a bed and breakfast environment.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
I wanted to have control of my website so I could make quick additions and deletions without having to wait on someone else to do it for me
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
In March of 2008. It was www.medellin-vip-hotel.com We have changed to our legal name www.medellinhotelvip.com
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Legal name of our company
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
We offer full services including airport pick up, car and driver rentals, day and opvernight tours to Guatape El Penol and many other unique personalized services.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Keep it or income
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
We have been very successful, enoy high occupancy rates and lot of repeat business. Many single male travelers stay in our hotel.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Add a third story
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Absolutely. We also offer furnished apartment rentals under an affiliate web site with a large selection to choose from.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Very ew
What has been your biggest challenge?
Changing our URL from our old web site to our legal name.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Word of mouth, Blogs, Craigs List, Travel Web Blogs, Googls As sense Campaigns
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
Always more work than expected but very rewarding and fulfilling to have seen the results
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?
Old URL for 6 months. New web site for less than a week
Replace this with a question of your own
What is the best way to notify the public of a URL change. From www.medellin-vip-hotel.com to www.medellinhotelvip.com (our legal name) and avoid confusion.
What is your website address?
Medellin Hotel VIP
