I am in the process of starting a webhosting bussness, and I am looking at the webhosting dir's and thairs so much comp. How do you buys market your services and compeet with the leaders and still stll make a profiet? Most of the prople out thair dont even cover the cost of the domain name untel the 3rd mounth of service. If you have any other advice for me please list that aswell.


THANKS.
kks

Hello kks,
May I suggest that you survey the landscape abit, and determine the following:
1. What kind of clients do YOU want.
2. What market will you cater to.

Thats just to get your gears turning abit. Figure out those details, and I believe you will then answer your own question :)

Your mileage may vary, and it would be wise to have some cash on hand for your expenses because you will be spending money.
Write down what you would like to do first, and then branch out from there. This is a business and you will need to learn that your clients from here on out will need to be treated professionally.
You have taken the first step :)
-Bones

hold 'em at gunpoint ;)

I started out on a few forums, where I was well known, and offered services to people via instant messaging, just a few people who I supported like crazy, gave out a good impression, the word then spread like wildfire.

1 Word Of Mouth reccommendation from someone who has genuinely enjoyed your service is worth 100,000 adverts.

Dude... I hope to God English isn't your native language.....

Complete, there is (or there's), guys, profit, there, their, until.

Point being, my advice is to at least try to spell right. If English isn't your native tongue, I'm sorry, but things like this count a lot to a potential client. I didn't buy hosting from a guy when I first started doing websites because he used AOL lingo. As in, u, ur, ther, yer, y, omg, liek, on the rest. Really gave me a bad opinion of him. Made me think: "Geez, the guy doesn't even try to talk to me like a normal person, what an immature person..."

yeah...