Been very busy with work of late hence no posts, but earlier this week I had a day off and really didn’t know what to do with myself, so I got down and dirty, back to my roots and started to throw together a site.
The site in question, www.loveuktv.tv
I’ve never had a .tv domain before so felt obliged to use it even though in reality the .com would probably be able to reach better positions in the search engines. What’s it going to be? Well basically a TV guide, the homepage is likely to be one of the last things I do so currently it doesn’t have much to it but if you have a look at www.loveuktv.tv/myguide you’ll see one of its ‘sections’ which is a custom TV guide, pick your day, choose some channels and watch it all fill itself in – lovely.
What else is going to be on it, im not overly sure! A friend said they wanted to be able to search by TV programme, so at some stage ill add that in as it sounds fairly simple, but if you have any ideas let me know. This is one of my sites that isn’t out to make money instantly im actually trying to make it useful!
But of course in the back of my mind im always thinking of the bank balance and looking at ways to monetarize it, as one of the first things someone said to me when I showed them this was “how does it make money” … they know me oh to well. Well there are a number of tie ins that I’ve thought of, the obvious and simple one being adsense, quick easy and targeted. There’s also Sky digital subscriptions which pay £60 via the buy.at network which would be nice, a possible DVD retailer & DVD rental company tie in for any film listings that are showing but ill need to look into that a bit more see who has product feeds and what sort of integration options they offer. There will also be some sort of subscription to start gathering email addresses for a mailing list (double opt in of course!).
Well that’s all for now, think I might go and tinker some more with my new project!
