Name of your website?Cinechance.com
Your name?
Sriram Ramakrishnan
Your Location (city, etc)
Chennai, TN
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Cinechance.com is providing free membership to new faces and talents worldwide, anyone who wish to become an actor, model, singer, music composer, cameraman, etc., can join with us free of cost.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
As most of the new faces and talents don't have the knowledge about film industry and modeling industry, we started this service free of cost.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
We luanched our website in the year 2002 and has been appreacties by leading portals and newspapers for our service
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Well, we coined the terms Cinema + Chance = Cinechance
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
Eventhough there were one or two in the world while we started our service, in India we are the first portal providing this facility and the difference is we are providing FREE of cost
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Our aim is to make our portal the world No 1 in it's category
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
Well, we are looking for more success for our time and money invested
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
As of now, we are only providing photograph and profile placing free of cost, if we get unlimited it means we can add video sharing facility etc.,
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes, why not ?
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
As the question implies its "Unexpected", so we have to meet it.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Low speed internet connections in some part of the world. as we planning to provide video facility it would be a biggest challenge.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
as of now portals and newspapers writing articles about our free service.
Any new plans ?
yes, we are planning to provide video sharing facility and adding blog section for our users to add their blogs, blog facility would be avaialble soon
Where are the members coming from ?
Our database includes variety of members, starting from American to Asian. We are having members worldwide, so we are international.
What is your website address?
Cinechance.com
