Name of your website?France Connexions
Your name?
Edward Antonet
Your Location (city, etc)
Nevers, France
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Customized shuttle services to cater everyone's needs in Paris and around France but to neighboring countries too.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
I had many tourists visiting france but didn't know who provides shuttle services to go to their destination in france. We wanted to launch a website on this.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
Franceconnexions.com was launched in July 21st, 2007
How did you decide on a name for your website?
we came up with the name franceconnexions.com to connect tourists all across the world
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
Just pay 20 Euro to confirm your reservation and the balance on arrival. Many sites ask their customers to pay the total amount.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To provide highest level of service and satisfaction to their customers
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
We agree we except good rate of investment but our main goal is to provide level of service and satisfaction to their customers
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
We would develop franceconnexions.com more user friendly site and provide online model of cabs in the site.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Definetely yes since we a team of determined and intelligent people with us.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
To main issue to get to the people who are really in need of this facility
What has been your biggest challenge?
Approaching of our customers
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Exchange link and Google Adwords and email campaign
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
We have received emails and enquiries from numerous people all our the website which means they have visited our website. We are sure that we will have revisits from these customers.
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?
IT is running for last 1 months. We would like to keep this as long as we cater our customers.
Do you think this business model would work in france ?
Yes. This is new concept and different from other travel sites.
What is your website address?
France Connexions
