I launch a Local Web Directory
I’d had the plan of launching a web directory for about a year, and bought the domain name a long time before I got the chance to work on it. The idea was that a directory would provide the following benefits:
- Advertising opportunities, with special features to offer to my customers
- A chance to increase my skills, resulting in a new site to add to my portfolio
- Something to test out various advertising and marketing strategies with
- The possibility that it could make some money
- And of course the possibility of it bringing me more work in web development via links on the site
This blog section will report on progress in developing and marketing this Devon Web Directory. View all posts in this section.
[...] 7/9 Set up free listings and assigned usernames to my customers, transferred their listings to them and emailed them. Wrote about the site in my blog post ‘Stairway to Devon: I launch a Web Directory’. [...]
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