It's been a long time since I last posted. This is because my Youtube uploading has been few and far between and it's all down to me spending most of my time making a new website.
My finances have been hit hard because of the global ecomonic downturn. My music sales have made me just enough to buy a weeks shopping for one. That's not good for 2 years figures. That's probably because I give most of it away for free. So I decided to dedicate a good deal of time in developing an idea I had a number of years ago. I can finally report that I've finished the site and I sent it live about a week ago. Sure, there might be a bug or two floating around, but I've tested it well and i'm very proud of my achievement. I did it to try and provide me with the means to live and the freedom to develop my music.
First I'll tell you a bit about my new site, and then I'll fill you in on my latest youtube statistics.
The site is a bit like an enhanced directory for accommodation and events and it's called Megabunk. I have spotted a number of other sites that cover similar areas to my site, howver they charge commissions etc to those renting out. Mine is a bit different. It's a contact site, so it just puts you in touch. So therefore it's completely free to use. The search elements of the site are tuned towards accommodation and work together with Google maps. I've got to say that I'm very satisified with what I have produced. I also added a calender so that people could switch days on and off if they wanted to manage available dates on the site. I also thought about how the site could be used. It's free so people might just want to have a listing on the site that points to their website and not use the internal messaging system. Also I allow up to 10 profiles per host user. This is going to be great for those that have more than one place to rent. They can have different profiles pointing to the same email address.
Before I put the site live, I spent a lot of time making instructional videos and the total viewing time of them all comes to over an hour.I combined the videos into a playlist, and as is usual with my posts, I'm going to give a link to the vids:
I'd recommend watching a couple of the vids before visiting the site. The following link will take you to megabunk, and take into account that this whole site was written by one person (ME!!) . I did use some open source functions but I adapted them all:
The way I intend raise funds to maintain the site is by placing advertising instead of charging the members. There aren't many overheads (just me myself and I) so I'm hoping to plough anything spare back into improving the site and promoting it. I've always believed that membership sites should be free. Commercial TV channels have done it for many years.
So, if you know anyone with a hotel, villa, apartment, flat, caravan etc. Even if they have a spare room to rent for a week in the summer, then please let them know about Megabunk. It wont cost them anything but a little time in setting up a profile, and it might just bring them some interest. It's a bit like a free entry into an accommodation search engine. Oh that goes for any event organisers as well :)
Now for those interested in my Jeffstunes youtube channel.There's been quite a bit of momvement since my last post, due to the long gap. Here we go with the stats.
Channel vies have topped 50k at 50,976.
Subscribers have gone over two thousand at 2,209 and the total viewing figures for all my videos is a heady 1,463,739.
There are 5 music videos I've uploaded since my last post so I'm hopefully going to be telling you about those in the next few weeks.
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