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Equilibrium
06-08-2002, 06:56 PM
Have you had a slow down in business?

I know I have!

Have you been making less money?

Are you being forced to lower prices?

Are you getting less and less signups?

Are you spending more on advertisements?

Let us know?

:rolleyes: (Thinking)

bteeter
06-08-2002, 08:55 PM
Originally posted by bahres
Have you had a slow down in business?

I know I have!

Have you been making less money?



No, actually our business is picking up quite a bit. :-)



Are you being forced to lower prices?



No, although, we just doubled the bandwidth allotments on our Deluxe packages. The top plan now includes 50,000 MB of traffic per month.

This was planned way ahead of time, and wasn't in response to a drop in sales though...



Are you getting less and less signups?



No, more actually. :-)



Are you spending more on advertisements?



We don't spend on advertisements right now. We do spend on our affiliate program though. That could be considered an advertisement. (But we only pay when our affiliate refers a sale, about 1/4 to 1/3 of our sales come in that way.)



Let us know?



Apparently yes, I am letting you know. :-)

Take care,

Brian

Annette
06-08-2002, 09:21 PM
Originally posted by bahres

1. Have you had a slow down in business?
2. I know I have!
3. Have you been making less money?
4. Are you being forced to lower prices?
5. Are you getting less and less signups?
6. Are you spending more on advertisements?
7. Let us know?


1. No.
2. Sorry to hear that.
3. No.
4. No.
5. No.
6. We have never advertised.
7. My pleasure.

Equilibrium
06-08-2002, 11:09 PM
Annette

Things are beginning to pick up a bit for us but it could be better!

Bteeter

Wooooooooow - What a response.


;)

Deb
06-09-2002, 03:41 AM
Have you had a slow down in business?
Actually it's been shocking this year as we're hitting our projections right on. This is the first year I've ever been this close. If I projected "99" for Jan we got "99" in Jan and "75" in Feb..we got "75" in Feb. Not slower at all just "right on target" in a spooky sort of way ;)

I know I have!
Hmmm, You didn't really specify a slow down "since when". This year has been better than last year for us however June is usually slower than March. Possibly this is just a short term "slow down". It's hard to say without having a time frame...

Have you been making less money?
Depends on how you look at it. The company is bringing in more but the expenses have gone up which has kept the income "about the same"

Are you being forced to lower prices?
Requested yes.... forced? No.

Are you getting less and less signups?
No...

Are you spending more on advertisements?
No... but we are spending more on improvements and staff.

Let us know?
I'd rather not :D

cyansmoker
06-09-2002, 05:24 AM
For us, May was horrible.
But May always is.

Actually, June is looking good so far...

Equilibrium
06-09-2002, 06:57 AM
"Deb"

I really like your website!

In May of 2001 we had 5x as much signups as we got this May 2002! In May of this year we only got 20 new signups!

I think its because of competition but we will have to start more advertising.

"Cyansmoker"

I think the June pick up is due to summer and people who have more free time!

Thanks for your post GUYS!

;)