If Facebooked the S#!t Out of Britney

Posted by chris.whiteley

February 7, 2009

britney_search

This whole trying to make money and actually doing projects is tough!

I spent last night converting my mock up for the Britney Spears Search Engine to an actual website. As far as turning a mock up into a site, it was pretty easy to do. The main trouble was adding in the search functionality and positioning the search bar exactly where I wanted it, and making sure it looked good in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Ya know standard boring web guy stuff.

This evening I have taken care of my primary promotion method: Facebook. I figured that Facebook was the best place to promote the site, as I can specifically target people who are fans of Britney Spears. I could have used Adwords or YPN with similar effect, but I felt that Facebook was the best avenue to test on. The fact that I also added a few Social Bookmarking tools to the search page which will hopefully get used by the Facebook users. I may also spend a little bit of time on Twitter promoting the site, but I spend so little time on Twitter that I may need to research a few effective Twitter promotional tactics.

I will give it a few days and see what becomes of it.

If it does end up being semi-profitable then I will put together some instructions and make a web template for those that want to replicate this search engine.

As I am working on this project I keep thinking about the next project that I should do. I spent a bit of time this evening with my list of projects in front of me. I shouldn;t do that as I always end up never completed my current project before going onto the next. I guess since the main parts of the luvbritney.com project has been completed I can move onto the next.

Of course it would be cool to get some feedback. What do you think of the luvbritney.com site? What do you think it needs? (if anything)

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