'Let and rent Spain Interview'

Name of your website?

Let and rent Spain

Your name?

Neville

Your Location (city, etc)

Andalucia

Please give us a short summary of your website?

A site dedicated to long and short term rentals in Spain and the Balearic & Canarias Islands

What inspired you to launch your own website?

More people who move to Spain to live are renting long time while they decide if they like the area they have chosen, and before they buy which can be a long process

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

The site was launched late October this year

How did you decide on a name for your website?

The name let and rent Spain was chosen because it "does what it says on the tin"

What makes it different from other, similar offerings?

A large focus of the site is for long lets, there aren't many sites that currently cater for this audience

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

To build the site as a very long term investment

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

Currently the site is so new I can't answer that

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

An advertising budget!

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

The intention is to bring staff on board when that happens

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

Delays in implementing changes to the software have been a bit frustrating

What has been your biggest challenge?

Trying to understand the script that runs the site

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Some knowledge od SEO particularly with google has hepled enormously

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

The set up time was far longer than I expected

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?

Site is still almost brand new but I am confident it will be successful in the medium term

What would I do differently if I started again

I would allow more time for initial development of the script

What is your website address?

Let and rent Spain

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