 | View Full Version : How do you get customers gohosting01 03-21-2003, 06:02 PM Well I have a hosting company.. just started around 3 weeks ago. I only have around 17 paying cusotmers how do all you big hosts get so many customers? What do you do? Advertise? Where? cweb 03-21-2003, 06:03 PM Hi :) I'm thinking that 17 is not too bad for 3 weeks of being in business. You'll do just fine if you keep that rate up :D gohosting01 03-21-2003, 06:08 PM out of 17, 7 are my friends :P the others were forund from the friends that i host or from here, WHT imitech 03-21-2003, 06:16 PM You could start off by trying to advertise locally to businesses and local clientele :) gohosting01 03-21-2003, 06:21 PM locally? :P How? Go to the 7-Eleven across the street to hand out fliers? cweb 03-21-2003, 06:24 PM You could make some fliers, yep (but, maybe broaden your handout area beyond 7-eleven ;)) Put an add in your local yellow pages... contact the local business association. Also if your able to do it, to do a bit of research on a couple of business' you know that could do with a web site and then make an appointment to see the manager/owner and offer them a 'special deal'. If they accept and are happy with your service, word of mouth is a powerful advertising tool :o) MaxDuty 03-21-2003, 07:45 PM 17 client in 3 weeks sound good to me. PixelAxis 03-21-2003, 08:09 PM You can find quite a number of customers by advertising in these forums and responding to hosting requests :) And 17 in 3 weeks isn't bad even if 7 are your friends. Spingen 03-21-2003, 10:02 PM Originally posted by gohosting01 locally? :P How? Go to the 7-Eleven across the street to hand out fliers? Takes a little more effort then that. I am sure local market was implied. To us and I am sure many other hosts local market is probably your best bet. They can come and see how you run operations, etc. Alot of businesses also seem to find hosting locally more reassuring. JeremyV 03-21-2003, 10:06 PM local marketing = $$$ ;) CyberSol 03-21-2003, 10:07 PM Hehe your doing great to have 17 customers in 3 weeks... I have 1 in 3 months :\ IGobyTerry 03-21-2003, 11:05 PM You stole dot5hosting.com's plan table. Ew and you offer unlimited webspace. Lemme ask you a question... do you expect to be around in a year? Synthetic 03-22-2003, 12:00 AM Do you own speeddrive.net? Spingen 03-22-2003, 12:54 AM The website looks nice except for the fact that they are using dot5's rate page. Nymix-CB 03-22-2003, 02:38 PM Seems busted? DirectNetz 03-22-2003, 04:21 PM I agree that 17 customers is pretty good for just 3 weeks...but I also agree with people here regarding your price table. I would suggest changing it before you get a rep on here as a ripper. |