I'm just curious, for those of you who started in the past two years, how long did it take you to get to 100 customers?

hmmm, that would be 50 hosting accounts per year, an average of 4or 5 new accounts every month. Thats pretty darn good for a one-man-band webhosting reseller! I'm all ears for someones reply to this one!!

I'm just curious, for those of you who started in the past two years, how long did it take you to get to 100 customers?

we completed 100 customers in approx 3 month now we have 109 customers :agree:

we completed 100 customers in approx 3 month now we have 109 customers :agree:

That's fantastic. What was your biggest source of customers? Adwords, phone book, door to door sales, etc.

That's fantastic. What was your biggest source of customers? Adwords, phone book, door to door sales, etc.

social bookmarking , special discount promotion , local newpaper promotion

Since that we restarted the hosting business again...Since May 29th...We have almost 100 clients...and its only due to forum advertising.

I got my first 100 clients by local :)

It also depends on what kind of services you're selling. If we're talking 100 dedicated server/colo customers in 3 months, then I have to say, you're doing GREAT.

Your revenue will be much higher for servers as opposed to shared hosting. 100 shared/reseller hosting customers is pretty good too but I wouldn't be jumping up and down about it. You're still very far from the numbers that godaddy or hostgator are pulling today.

I'm just curious, for those of you who started in the past two years, how long did it take you to get to 100 customers?

I got 100 customers in my first month back in 2004. That was simply because my plans were underpriced. If your plans are too cheap you will get customers quickly but it's really a waste of energy.

So what you should really be looking at is the amount of ACTUAL PROFIT you get within a certain amount of time.

I am currently getting about 40 customers per month (from word of mouth...no advertising) and I have about 1500 customers. There were times when I had 4000 customers but that was a nightmare ! I was working all around the clock and made almost no money. I got overwhelmed and couldn't even send invoices. It was a big disaster. I ended up hosting 1000 customers for free just because I didn't have time to bill them or cancel their accounts...

So forget about all those numbers... This not what it is all about ! Something I learned the hard way.

It really depends on how you choose to market your hosting services (for example online vs. offline).. Per my experience, you get faster results in online marketing.. However, brand awareness is built through offline marketing (magazines, press releases, etc.)

It took about 3 months. Most of our customers come through word-of-mouth, but social networking has been a new (and fun) way to get buzz going.