You may have noticed I haven’t been putting up much posts recently. This is because my Youtube uploading has been few and far between and that’s because I’ve been developing a new website.
I, like many others have been hit by the credit crunch. My music hasn’t been making hardly any money. Although I share a lot of my music for free. So I decided to dedicate a good deal of time in developing an idea I had a number of 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. The idea was to create something that provide some sort of income so that I could spend more time developing music and be able to survive.
First I’ll tell you a bit about my new site, and then I’ll fill you in on my latest youtube statistics.
The site is a bit like an enhanced directory for accommodation and events and it’s called Megabunk. I’ve seen some similar sites about that charge commissions and take bookings for those with rooms to rent. My site does not handle bookings. It’s a contact site. So it’s completely free to use. The search elements of the site are tuned towards accommodation and work together with Google maps. I’ve got to say that I’m very satisified with what I have produced. 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. It’s free so people might just want to have a listing on the site that points to their website and not use the internal messaging system. Also I allow up to 10 profiles per host user. This is going to be great for those that have more than one place to rent. They can have different profiles pointing to the same email address.
Just before I went live I spent several days making some instructional videos and the total viewing time of them all comes to over an hour.I combined the videos into a playlist, and as is usual with my posts, I’m going to give a link to the vids:
It’s advisable to at least watch the introduction vid before going to the site. The following link will take you to megabunk, and take into account that this whole site was written by one person (ME!!) . I did use some open source functions but I adapted them all:
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.I’ve always believed that membership sites should be free. Commercial TV channels have done it for many years.
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. It wont cost them anything but a little time in setting up a profile, and that will hopefully bring them more enquiries and/or visitors to their website. 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 and I’m hoping to let you know about them in the next few weeks.
Jeff Edwards