'Rapid Prototyping Interview'

Rapid Prototyping Interview

By Interviewer at 03/06/08 03:50

Name of your website? Rapid Prototyping Your name? Bill Bounds Your Location (city, etc) Bellingham, WA Please give us a short summary of your website? Alpha Prototypes manufactures prototypes and conceptual models using CNC, stereolithography - SLA, FDM Fused Deposition Modeling, ZCORP 3D Printing, and Polyjet technologies. Alpha Prototypes also offers silicone rubber RTV molds and cast urethane parts for short runs. Prototypes are delivered to you on time, with excellent customer service, friendly communication and expert management at each step of the process. What inspired you to launch your own website? We started out as consumers of these services and could not find providers on the web, so it seemed natural to try to fill this niche. When did you launch your first website, and what was it? 1998 Software / Programming How did you decide on a name for your website? Tried to find a name that was easy to remember, we like short names. What makes it different from other, similar offerings? We feel our site is easy to use we offer instant quotes on some services and you can purchase straight from the site. What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?) Keep it for income. How does your investment of time and money balance against your success? You can definetly see the difference with the more time spend developing the site with the income produced. If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site? Just fine tuning, more graphic design, more user testing etc. to make a better user experience. If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand? Yes What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with? With websites there are always people that just want to call and take up time, it can be difficult to filter out the actual customers with the people who are just looking. What has been your biggest challenge? Same as above. What method has been most successful for promoting your website? Referals tend to do most of our promoting, just keeping the site easy to use seems to be the key for converting customers. 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? Thankfully this has not been an issue, and hopefully it will not be in the future. What is your website address? Rapid Prototyping News Digest Blog Tags: • cnc prototypes • conceptual models • stereo lithography • web interview • - Permalink Previous (Newer) Post Next (Older) Post Comments Thinking about making a comment on this blog post? Great! But please remember that this space is for just that, comments about this blog post. It is not a place to post random thoughts about other stuff. We found that most of the "comments" posted here are not comments at all and should have really been posted in our forum. So: If you have something to say that's not exactly a comment on this blog post, please post it on the CNC Blog Forum If you are just planning to spam... go away as all the comments are premoderated Have something to actually say about this blog post, please submit your comment here: Leave a comment: We welcome your comments on this post in the CNC Blog. That means a comment on this post, not something about some other topic. Name: (required) Email: (required, not published) Comment: Note: Your comment will be immediately submitted and you will have no opportunity to review to edit it. It is recommend that you register on CNC Blog and login so you can include full html (ie: links). We don't have a chapta because we think we're smarter than the spambots.