 | View Full Version : promotion mikeh 09-18-2002, 08:32 AM hello all, about a month ago i started my hosting company visionhost.net, and i currently only have 1 paying user, whats the best way to promote my hosting business, i dont have alot of money. Regards, Mike. Akash 09-18-2002, 09:10 AM posting in the wrong forums definitely isn't the best way..... ;) ...but do a search as this question was asked not to long ago... local advertising meta tags paid online advertising word of mouth... ...just to name a few AussieHosts 09-18-2002, 09:43 AM Originally posted by akash paid online advertising Argh...we just got bitten by one (recommended) online ad agency. I'm giving them the chance to make things good before considering our options. We were racking up hits and not receiving that traffic at all. We'll have to be more careful where we spend our money in future. Cheers Gary Akash 09-18-2002, 09:52 AM Originally posted by Editor Argh...we just got bitten by one (recommended) online ad agency. I'm giving them the chance to make things good before considering our options. We were racking up hits and not receiving that traffic at all. We'll have to be more careful where we spend our money in future. Cheers Gary very true, i got ripped by hostpr - you have to look for cost effective targeted advertising and you should try to get a CTR of about 0.1% or higher, anything lower than that and you probably won't get many leads AussieHosts 09-18-2002, 10:04 AM This was an ad clicks program, with x amount of unique clicks. I figured since it was recommended, we'd give it a go. Found some hits and tested one of the referrers. Refreshed the casino page until our ad appeared, and it required that the browser click and visit our site to win a free game back in the casino. The click registered a split-second hit and then a redirect back to the casino playing page. Not a single page loaded from our site. Very disappointed. :-) Gary HostSector 09-18-2002, 11:42 AM How about something like this: You find a local design company, you call them and propose the following - you'll sent them your clients which are interested in web hosting and in return, they will allow you to host their clients on your server. Everybody wins. Boris |