Name of your website?COOKIES Personal Chef Service
Your name?
Ivan Maminta
Your Location (city, etc)
Paranaque
Please give us a short summary of your website?
It chronicles the adventure of a personal chef in manila
What inspired you to launch your own website?
My passion for cooking and bringing a smile of contentment in all my clients
How did you decide on a name for your website?
COOKIES was a term coined by Alain Bourdain for cooks in his kitchen brigade
What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?
It is the only personal chef blog in the Philippines
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To build up a reference for my first restaurant
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
It is a question of maximum efficiency...minimum input, maximum output
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Make it more dynamic, more interactive
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes. being a personal chef provides me a lot of material as well as time
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Nothing that is not expected so far
What has been your biggest challenge?
TO get the right exposure
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Using social networking websites and linking up with other blogsites
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?
Been runnning it for a little over a year, and will keep it up
What is your website address?
COOKIES Personal Chef Service
