Jeffstunes on Youtube

This blog follows the progress of Jeffstunes on Youtube

Making an accommodation site

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted in quite a while. This is as a direct result of not uploading much to youtube 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. It might have something to do with my giving most of my music away. So I took a bit of a gamble and dedicated myself to building an idea I had several 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.

 

Before I tell you about my latest Youtube stats, I'll give you a bit of info on my new site.

 

The site is called Megabunk and it's basically a contact site for accommodation and events. I've seen some similar sites about that charge commissions and take bookings for those with rooms to rent. 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 facilities are geared towards accommodation and work in conjunction with google maps. I'm very pleased with how it all works. There is also an easy to manage calender so that people can keep track of booked dates. I also considered that people might want to use the site in different ways. Someone might like the fact that it has internal messaging on the site, but it can also be used to just provide a profile with a link to a website. A host user can have up to 10 profiles. This allows those who are a bit flush with multiple places to rent to receive mail on the same email address.

 

Before I put the site live, I spent a lot of time making instructional videos and there's so much information that the total duration of all 6 vids is over an hour. Phew!I made them into a playlist, and as is fitting with my posts, I'm going to give you a link to the videos:

 

 

It's advisable to at least watch the introduction vid before going to the site. You can go directly to the site at the following link, and remember that I wrote the whole thing myself (including a few small open source functions that I adapted).

 

Megabunk

 

The way I intend raise funds to maintain the site is by placing advertising instead of charging the members. The overheads for the site are very small. Just one person running it (Me!). I'm hoping it will do well then i can put more into it to improve and promote it.Commercial TV stations have been providing free television for many years, and have been earning their money through advertising. That's how I believe it should be.

 

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. The only thing it will cost them is a little bit of their time to set up a profile, and it might just bring them some interest. It's a bit like a free entry into an accommodation search engine. It's not only for those with accommodation. Event organisers can set up an event profile that gets returned with the accommodation results :)

 

Now to the business of my Jeffstunes youtube channel.There's been quite a bit of momvement since my last post, due to the long gap. So here goes the figures.

 

My channel views are now 50,976

My subscribers have topped the 2k mark 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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