Name of your website?Cape Coast HOOPS
Your name?
Claudius Thompson
Your Location (city, etc)
Cape Coast
Please give us a short summary of your website?
News and information on the Hoops basketball team, the Accra league and the Western Basketball Association League
What inspired you to launch your own website?
To make the awareness of basketball in Ghana be seen by the world.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
About a year ago and it was about basketball.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
The name was taken from the name of the team.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
It is diffrent as it deals with basketball in Cape Coast and Ghana which no other site has combine both.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Our goal is to use it and expose the hidden talen in Ghana basketball.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
Right now it is all investment and money is yet to come.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I would like to do live video streaming from our matches.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
The demand will be kept by regular updates and more activities done in order to report on the site.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Losing initial .com due to domain expiration.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Getting the girls in Cape Coast to take to the game.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Pay per click in google adwords and yahoo search marketing
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
Running the site has actually met my expectation.
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 has been run for over a year and it will run as long as basketball is being play here in Ghana.
What have you acheive so far from your website?
We have achieve the exposure of some players making four to gain scholarhips for colleges in the USA
What is your website address?
Cape Coast HOOPS
