Name of your website?Cruise Ship Magician
Your name?
Brian & Lola, The Palmers
Your Location (city, etc)
Mosta
When did you start your website and why?
The website has been online since 2005 when Brian & Lola decided to change their names to The Palmers, a move which successful, since this combined them as a coupled act and not as indivual performers.
Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc
The website is a promotional one, desinged to attract entertainment agencies to our services, i.e. International Magic and Illusion shows. It's design and coding is simple and fast with easy interactive options for users. Online promotional videos have been embedded through Youtube to enable easy viewing of promotional videos, but a full promo kit including high qulaity photos and videos is available to download if required.
What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?
The most difficult part has been deciding on a look that fits with The Palmers' characters. Since those who have seen us perform, a high volume of vistors was expected and therefore a structural planning was defined to cater for an efficient server to sustain the required bandwidth. Apart from that the hardest part of running the website is coping with the high demand of fan emails.
What has been the easist part of operating your website?
Since the website was designed to be self efficient and automated, running the website is child's play and the easiest part is to update recent news events, photos, videos and downloads.
What was your biggest mistake?
Not creating such a website ealier.
Who maintains your website and why?
Martin Custo of Marcus-Webcast Productions maintains the website. Martin is one of the best designers who specializes in creating websites for performing artists. He has desinged and created our website from scratch and maintains it for us.
Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?
Since this website does promote us worldwide and offers instant downloads and online videos, those interested in booking our services can view our promotional material on demand. This also saves us alot of time and money since it has cut down on sending out promotional packages.
What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?
Ecommerce and the internet are here to stay because they provide the perfect way to find and discover sources from all over the world. Using the internet to provide or receive a service is definetly time saving, cheaper and easy for everyone which makes it the ideal tool and here to stay for many years to come.
What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Search Engine Optimization is a great way to provide those looking for something the best choice of services or products available. Everyone should have their website optimized for search engines, in order to make their service more visable to millions of users worldwide.
What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?
Search engines are the best tool for anyone looking for something to find it easily and effeciently. They have helped our website and service in many ways but especially they have help us to make us visable to anyone looking for our services. We are happy to spend money on search engines in order to promote our services.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Search engine and targeted emails have been the best source. After those word of mouth and business cards.
What method has been least successful for promoting your website?
Television adverts seemed to work less for us.
What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?
The internet seems a perfect place as it is but if it were an option I'd like the internet to be freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world and faster.
What do you offer on your website.
We are an international Magic and Illusion entertainers. We offer a wide choice of services from close up magic to grand scale shows for cruise ships, casinos, variety productions, gala dinners, corporate events amongst many other options available. Those interested in our services for a future event may view our promotional material on the website itself or else download a special package. Fans may also read our biography, view our photos and videos and get to know us better.
What is your website address?
Cruise Ship Magician
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