Name of your website?rickyentertainment
Your name?
Donna office manager Borovets
Your Location (city, etc)
Borovets ( Hotel Flora ) and sofia
Please give us a short summary of your website?
our site is all about providing the best quality service to meet our clients needs. Our ski school has highly qualified instructors, what ever your level. Equipment hire, group or private lessons, nothing is too much trouble. We partner with a number of hotels and local companies and can offer big discounts and packages if accomadation is booked through us. We also have many great fun activities and excursions for the summer or winter and offer transfers and car hire !
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Ricky, being an extremely experinced skier and Instructor had a dream, of having an exceptional ski school of his own, so he could pass on his knowledge and passion for skiing to others. To provide the best quality of service to every client. 3 years ago he made that dream a reality
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
the original site was launched 3years ago, a basic site outlining our services and activities. Today our site has been improved and upgrated to accomadate on line booking and details of our extended services
How did you decide on a name for your website?
As I'm sure you are aware most Bulgarian insructors will have a nick name - RICKY was his nick name, he named his company ricky entertainment as that is the name he is known by, the Entertainment would cover the range of activities offered.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
Is clean crisp and clear text menu boxes and of course the exceptional range and quality of services
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To reach a wider clientel - To provide exceptional service
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
The initial site was extremely successful. The new site is obviously more expensive, but we believe it will continue to be a success and attract new clients aswell as old
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
The site ia exactly what we asked for and looks how we wanted, so don't believe we would change it at present
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
we have two offices one of which, until this year was only a winter office. Now our Borovets office will remain open all year to hopefully deal with the extra demand
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
In respect of the website nil. We have had an extremely professional company
What has been your biggest challenge?
putting our vision of the site across to the developement team
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
search engines and forum sites
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
initially we expected more interest than we had but patience paid off
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?
The new version has been running for 3 weeks , the old version was run for 3 years. We believe it will continue to grow, should it not then we would access the situation and viability then
What is your website address?
rickyentertainment