Name of your website?Cobdar.net
Your name?
John Wright
Your Location (city, etc)
Calle San Juan 10, Cobdar, Almeria.
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Cobdar.net is here to show Cobdar Studios to the world. We produce a wide range of screen printed garments and airbrushed fabrics. After returning to my roots in the nineteen seventies when I studied for my B.A. in Printmaking at the London Collage of Printing. My life has lead to this place for a reason, I believe that I needed to be involved in some form of artisan life style working and teaching some form of printmaking.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
We would love to bring more people to our village.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
my first website was a healthfood wedsite in 1998
How did you decide on a name for your website?
We felt that the name should be named after our village we live in.
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
We are offering a unique holiday business next year which is based teaching silkscreen printing to students here in cobdar, spain.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Our life goal is to be able to share our life and the spanish culture with people we have not met yet.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It takes time to build up the brand.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I love building websites my self...
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
yes...that would be a nice problem to have.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
the cost of promoting our site.
What has been your biggest challenge?
dealing with spanish
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
word of mouth and network marketing
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
be a small fish in a big pond.
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?
We have had our site up and running for 18 months.
What are you developing for the future
We are starting a silkscreen printing school with the added technique of airbrush for students to experiment on t shirts and fabrics. The courses can be tailored to a wide range of requirements, The standard course would comprise of six days over a period of a week.So if this is something that interests you please contact us for details of our courses.
What is your website address?
Cobdar.net
