Hey,

Is anyone else seeing signups slow down by 15-20% (hosts that have been around a while). We even increased our advertising by 30% and barely saw a 15% increase in signups.

Sales are still going strong here.

Actually it appears things are still improving gradually as the summer lurches on. I'd definitely emphasize "gradually"... I'm not sure if shared hosting can improve exponentially as far as sales any longer. :D

Certainly is a far cry from last fall/winter... thankfully.

At any rate, best of luck.

yes we also have seen a improvment in sales lately.

Guess we need to try other advertising venues then =).

The only signups we are getting right now are from referrals (our biggest always) and a few from our advertising campaigns.

Sales are up by 30% for us this month

We also have seen an increase (as opposed to standard summer trends).

sales are defintely up this month , of course I hope this trend continues :stickout

We are getting hit with the normal flow.. No advertising just running off referrals.. :D

We're getting slammed here.

However a lot of it is due to the problems currently being experienced by a certain web host.

However a lot of it is due to the problems currently being experienced by a certain web host.

The majority of our reseller sign-ups are leaping from notorious hosts.

Its a bit slow on this end - but this has partially to due with the fact that I'm still implementhing the new software.

Same level here, I saw incresed the fraud attemps from bulgarians and indonesian.

Actually, I've gotten Angolian and Indian fraud attempts.

I think that generally things are looking up in the industry ;)

I won't go as far as saying we're getting slammed - but the last 2 weeks have been pretty incredible.

No complaints here :)

Sales are up, and we have a higher than usual signup rate from clients who were with previous hosts.

No complaints here with our sales numbers. :cool:

Wrong forum. :D

Ours are up - but so are the fraud. Alot of that going around.

Ours up by around 50%, 20 new signups a day on average now.

Hiya all

just wondering how many you all get per day?

Myacen, you getting about 20 per day???? where are they all coming from...2 months back I spent $1500 on google adswords program and got about 15 in a month.

How do you guys get so many per day?

At $2.95 and $5.95/month hosting, you'll get a lot of signups too :)

- John C.

Resellers, resellers...
everybody wants a piece of the cake, so a lot more people sign for reseller plans now...

Originally posted by roddo22
Hiya all

just wondering how many you all get per day?

Myacen, you getting about 20 per day???? where are they all coming from...2 months back I spent $1500 on google adswords program and got about 15 in a month.

How do you guys get so many per day?

Word of mouth, we have done no advertising and things are going great. 6 servers in our farm at the moment. I think the end and start of april/may was slow.

Regards

I have noticed quite a high level of fraudulant orders through our firm over the past few months. But i have heard it is to be expected during the summer months. Quite strange that:confused:

Our signups are down a lot here, but we haven't been doing TOO much advertising. Trying to program the backend better so that when go on another advertising push, we'll be better able to serve the old and new customers.

I'm just glad I started my July sale a few days BEFORE the shoe dropped, else people might think I was trying to capitalize.

And we're still slamming over here, 30-50 orders a day, think I'm gonna pay my car off next week, that's $300 a month and another $50 thanks to dropping full coverage insurance! Means if things slow down less bills to pay :D

Originally posted by barrywien
I have noticed quite a high level of fraudulant orders through our firm over the past few months. But i have heard it is to be expected during the summer months. Quite strange that:confused:

Summertime = most kids out of school.

Kids = source of a lot of fraudulent orders.

Mystery solved. :-)

Take care,

Brian

30/50 a day???????????

dixiesys.com where do you advertise?

Past 4 days I've spent $100 on findwhat.com $100 on kanoodle.com $100 on findyourhosting.com $100 on ispcheck.com $100 on overture.com $200 on google.com

orders = 0

:-(

Advertise?

Nowhere. Not a dime is spent on it.

Not sure why people worry about what others have for sign up numbers. Most cases they are lies (like when you ask woman how many men she has been with). Just do some looks at their name servers. Also, if you are selling your basic plan for $9.95/mo vs. $4/mo, then you selling 10 accounts is much better then someone else selling 25 the $4 account. Less support, more chance for upsell as people willing to pay more, will spend more, and you have a much better opportunity to sell your company as you have margins that are dedicated to success.

So if your competitor sells plans for $4 and gets 100 clients a day, who cares? If you want to get 100 customers a day - lower your cost to where you lowball everyone. There is no rocket science to getting customers. There is rocket science to making your business succeed long-term.

On a side note, can anyone name a low cost provider that actually sold? Look how many grow fast and then run into trouble. There are three I know of right now just on these boards.

*These comments are not related to any one host*

good point UmBillyCord thank you...it's made me see things in a different way now.

What 3 compaines have grown fast and got in trouble?

UmBillyCord makes a very valid point - which will be right in a lot of cases.
However, if hosts have multiple servers, with different nameservers for each server, or if they offer resellers the ability to have their own custom nameservers then looking at their nameservers will not always give a representative figure.

Matt

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
Just do some looks at their name servers.

What's the easiest way to do such a search/check?

John C.

Originally posted by UmBillyCord
There is no rocket science to getting customers. There is rocket science to making your business succeed long-term.

I really like your wording. :)

However, if hosts have multiple servers, with different nameservers for each server, or if they offer resellers the ability to have their own custom nameservers then looking at their nameservers will not always give a representative figure.

Very true. I always keep this in mind. However some host who make claims of thousands, but only show a hundred on their name servers will valadate my point. Also, it is easy to run the search with a wildcard ;). We know a lot of host will set up name servers on each server when they start, but as they grow they eventually move to redundant, dedicated nameservers. These are easier to see.

What would you type to see list of domains on a set of name servers ?

Roddo, don't worry, after +1 year in bussines, I rarelly get more than 3 daily sign ups, and I like it in that way, I like to grow slow.

Originally posted by roddo22
What would you type to see list of domains on a set of name servers ?

Yeah... I'd be interested in knowing how to do this, too

Originally posted by Jedito
Roddo, don't worry, after +1 year in bussines, I rarelly get more than 3 daily sign ups, and I like it in that way, I like to grow slow.
Couldn't agree more :agree: 1 to 2 new accounts per day is good fishing. :)

Couldn't agree more 1 to 2 new accounts per day is good fishing.

You missed the praise post in the main forum! I will catch moby dick!

-Abe