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  1. #1
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    Where do your customers come from?

    Hi,

    Just wondering what any of your experiences were of getting customers. Where do they come from? Search engines for me seem so difficult to get a good position on with such a popular subject, so thats what made me think.

    So is it from Referrals, Search Engines, Affiliate programs, Directories or where?

    DM

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    I don't know. I haven't done any advertising at all for quite some time, yet I'm getting new orders. It's probably safe to assume referrals.

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    If you are an active member at WHT, then you may get quite at least quite a few inquiries, if not orders. Posting at WHT is like free advertising.
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  5. #5
    Originally posted by smidwap
    If you are an active member at WHT, then you may get quite at least quite a few inquiries, if not orders. Posting at WHT is like free advertising.
    Only if you offer plans for .50 cents a year!

    Seriously, local advertising and referrals are the way to get quality clients.
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    Please read the rules : "Participants may not use the forum to publish or discuss any information regarding their product or services, or future (possible) products or services, or any product or services they are, or have been, associated with. This includes, but not limit to suggesting your own services, or services of partners or family."

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    That's got to be borderline breaking the rules skyhost
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    Word of mouth/referrals always better then any advertising
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    Does anyone do any cold-calling?

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    Originally posted by alohahosts


    Only if you offer plans for .50 cents a year!

    Seriously, local advertising and referrals are the way to get quality clients.
    That isn't true. I ask my customers when they signup where did they find out about us. A good majority comes from WHT. However, I do have to admit word of mouth is the best form of advertisement (though I wouldn't really call that a form of advertisement ). Local advertising, well, ehhh...if you live in a small town like mine, you aren't going to get a huge customer base from it.
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    Originally posted by smidwap

    That isn't true. I ask my customers when they signup where did they find out about us. A good majority comes from WHT. However, I do have to admit word of mouth is the best form of advertisement (though I wouldn't really call that a form of advertisement ). Local advertising, well, ehhh...if you live in a small town like mine, you aren't going to get a huge customer base from it.
    Originally posted by jdwalte3
    Does anyone do any cold-calling?
    If you are refering to telemarketing, which I believe you are, then I would say that is the worst thing you can do. I have read about hosts who look for people who want web hosting, get their domain, do a whois on it, get his/her phone number, and call them. People hate that, and if the person knows about WHT, the host will be flamed and ranted upon like crazy!

    Oops, sorry for the double post. I accidently pressed quote instead of edit/delete on my earlier post.
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    Originally posted by skyhost
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    I don'tthinmk you can advertise your prices here
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    He wasn't advertising anything. Just stating a fact and helping people out.
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    Originally posted by isolsdotnet
    Word of mouth/referrals always better then any advertising
    Most of our customers come from referrals.

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    Our customers come from:

    1. word-of-mouth
    2. search engines
    3. hosting directories

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    cold calling
    local adverts
    telling EVERYONE you meet about what you do
    Search engines .... well I mean we are ranked number ONE!
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    My customers come from Pluto.

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    Pluto

    I guess it is an un tapped place ??
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    Originally posted by Marts
    Pluto

    I guess it is an un tapped place ??
    It is. You'd be surprised how many Plutonians are interested in hosting.

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    Ha, you think Pluto is good. 90% of ourcustomer base is derived from the Andromeda Galaxy! (Err...though we've had problems with money transactions taking over a million light years to get processed.)

    Yeah, okay, I'm just kidding.
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  21. #21
    Originally posted by smidwap
    Ha, you think Pluto is good. 90% of ourcustomer base is derived from the Andromeda Galaxy! (Err...though we've had problems with money transactions taking over a million light years to get processed.)
    I get way too many fraud transactions from the Andromeda Galaxy, so I block their IP.

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    How about Magazine advertising?

    Does anyone do this and does it pay off?

    DM

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    Originally posted by alohahosts
    Seriously, local advertising and referrals are the way to get quality clients.
    I agree, most of my clients are from local marketing.


    Originally posted by jdwalte3
    Does anyone do any cold-calling?
    Isn't that like "phone spam" or something?

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    A number of our clients come from WHT, the rest i have no idea?

    That's because I didn't ask.

    But i can assume it's from advertising in overture and ppc directories also maybe word of mouth?

    I've done print advertising, so far no results! must be something wrong with my approach there.
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    Most of our clients have refered their friends and family to us.

    We also have excellent ranking on Google, not for hosting but hey once they're on the site, it's a good first step. It's why the site layout is important so it always show on every page what services we offer.

    and this is funny but we got a lot of people coming to us because we're active (okay used to be) in roleplaying and were pretty known around the places we hung in... so when other roleplayers heard we had started a business, the curiosity got them to our site and we got some more clients.
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