Name of your website?Scrap-n-Country
Your name?
D. Noreen Dermas
Your Location (city, etc)
Columbus
Please give us a short summary of your website?
The web site contains my offer to scrap for YOU, tips, quotations, featured products, stories, my portfolio, an "email me" option, cartoons/jokes, and more.
Scrap-n-Country is the PROUD sponsor of the Ohio State Fair Scrapbooking Competition!
What inspired you to launch your own website?
Scrap-n-Country's mission is to document lives and preserve memories using the art of scrapbooking. To create cherished books and calendars for friends and family. [And eventually, to provide the space, equipment, basic supplies, inspiration and exposure to techniques so scrappers can relax, be inspired, spread out, and create pages of their own.]
The web was a GREAT place to START!
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
September 2008 -- www.Scrap-n-Country.com is it.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Daydreams of having a Scrap-n-Country Inn, Store, and University in the rolling countryside of Ohio.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
While the original focus is of scrapping for YOU, the idea of offering my favorite products for sale at a GOOD price makes me happy. Scrapping is an expensive endeavor and I can make it more affordable...
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To inspire, to preserve memories, to tell your story, to sell product at a good price to those who love to scrap themselves!
To develop Scrap-n-Country into one of the GREAT web sites.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
If I never break even, the joy of working toward this web site has been worth it.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Since Scrap-n-Country is still new, and is growing and changing already, I have a list of adjustments we are still working on! Photos at the shoping cart, color refinement for featured Bazzill papers, newsletter archives...
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
I plan to!
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Costs are ok.
Finding a web developer that took my ideas and implemented them took some time!
What has been your biggest challenge?
Climbing the learning curve on web design and development and learning how it works so I can do some of the updates myself.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
emailed newsletter to friends and family business cards
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
TIME just preparing the pictures for the portfolio took HOURS
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 site has been active for four months and I plan to keep it going for the rest of my life. Scrapbooking is a PASSION and I paid GoDaddy for 3 years to start!
What do you do for a living?
I'm a banker :-)
What is your website address?
Scrap-n-Country
