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Co-operativehost
12-22-2009, 04:16 PM
Free web design , Free web development, Free Search engine Optimization, Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Web Space, Unlimited Databases. all for Free for the 1st 3 months then £3.50/m. UK Servers
This is what I am offering please give me some feedback of what else I need to add to make it more attractive

Brittain93
12-22-2009, 04:33 PM
Wow thats very cheap, they say if something is to good to be true it normally is, im afraid this is one of them, lets look at the figures if you get 10 clients a per week how are you going to design 10 websites yourself, i mean you cant expect to outsource designs at £3.50, mate your going to make a huge loss, so what i would say is have £3.50 p/m for everything but then charge a £50-100 one of fee to cover the design work ,

MikeTrike
12-22-2009, 04:39 PM
Don't take this the wrong way, but this sounds like a long term strategy for fail. Setting the bar too low will now allow you to sustain operations. Unless you somehow found a way to do things for 5% of the cost that everybody else pays.

SenseiSteve
12-22-2009, 04:44 PM
More attractive? ... price wise it's already attractive enough. Free web design, development and SEO services thrown in? I'd have to agree with MikeTrike.

the_pm
12-22-2009, 04:50 PM
They're all saying exactly what I said in your last thread ;)

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6555708&postcount=8
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6557086&postcount=14

Here's an idea - offer Web design services with free hosting for a limited period of time. Give away a year or two of hosting if someone enters into a design contract with you. A busy, established firm should easily be able to charge $x,xxx - xx,xxx for even traditional design services.

With your current model, you'll have to sell 80-100 hosting packages to equal the same profits as a decent design contract, and you'll have to wait a year to realize those profits (and hope none of those customers don't up and take their free Web site somewhere else.

By the way, where did you get unlimited space and bandwidth? I want some :)

oliviakitty
12-22-2009, 05:07 PM
If that's what you're offering,
It's safe to say your package isn't what's preventing you from getting customers.

Unless they are the few savvy ones who avoid unlimited disk space/bandwidth packages.

Sam [Vissol]
12-22-2009, 06:07 PM
No. It sounds like a recipe for failure.

graphicguru
12-22-2009, 06:36 PM
your offering far too much as said above, take the time and develop customers offering reasonable deals instead of offering ridiculous packages like that.

cpoalmighty
12-22-2009, 08:39 PM
Yea dude. Take it easy. You will undersell yourself soo much you may go out of business tmr :D Take your time and everythig will come to you. Not everyone here got their first client in a month you know. Sometimes you have to make some serious losses before you are recognized in this industry. You will get there

Co-operativehost
12-23-2009, 11:18 AM
Thanks for all the feedback, I will givfe you a bit of background. I have 12 developers and designers and 12 more in feild sales and a small call centre for customer service. I have about 25 servers UK based and my idea was to spend the 1st 2 years increasing my customer base and offering real value for money and keep it like that for th loyal customers who started the journey for me. I understand it is a lot to offer for cheap however I made a budjet for marketing (while obviously paying my staff) and I found it will work cheaper if I give freebes than to advertise properly with no customer benefit from the money I will spend on advertisement .
co-operativehost.com

afam4eva
12-23-2009, 01:15 PM
That's too cheap to say the least....Web development?