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10-28-2009, 11:49 AM #1Newbie
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Best Place to Advertise ???
Where is the best place to advertise a Web Hosting company?? AND Why??
Personally I find Google to be to expensive, $10 a click or something like that.
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10-28-2009, 11:53 AM #2Newbie
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Buy a bunch of bumper stickers and start throwing them on random cars. Be sure to get the real nice expensive cars since the owners will hesitate to remove them.
But seriously, Google is a good place to advertise as that is the first place anyone looking for hosting will turn to. Web Hosting Talk would be another good choice but it won't be much cheaper than Google.
Do you have a budget in mind? This can help figure your choice more efficiently but remember, you will not reach as good of an audience as Google or Web Hosting Talk. Unfortunately sometimes you just need to pay up. Trying to do it on the cheap will cost more in the end and produce less desired results.
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10-28-2009, 12:43 PM #3Disabled
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What's your budget? WHT is obviously one of the best places for you to advertise and promote using the appropriate methods. You can also be posting your ad once a week in the hosting offers section which is free.
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10-28-2009, 12:47 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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The simple free solution would be to simply post on forums, Twitter, Facebook, etc. You could put up fliers on bulletin boards or hand out fliers on a street corner. There is an unlimited amount of possibilities, you just need to be creative.
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10-28-2009, 01:04 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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You are the one to answer this question. What's your targeted audience. What kind of site owners are you looking to attract as customers? You should have answers to these questions and to many others as well. Otherwise you will target a general audience only.
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10-28-2009, 01:06 PM #6Web Template Master
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These forums are certainly a good place to start. Try and advertise locally, you should see some good results.
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10-28-2009, 01:28 PM #7Newbie
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O.K. I appreciate the above answers, but I was also looking for other members experiences and where they advertised.
Not specific to myself...
I currently have not done much advertising for my web hosting company as I work full time and find limited time to do much outside 65 hrs a week.
My hosting company is just a hobby for myself.
Currently I advertise in HostSearch.com, but will soon expand to advertise on WHT (here) and WebHostDir.com
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10-28-2009, 04:17 PM #8Newbie
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10-28-2009, 04:22 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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All ideas that have been listed are great. Posting on forums is a great start as there are so many to choose from. Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook pages, or Digg can be very helpful also. PPC advertising such as Google Adwords, MSN Adcenter, or the many others can be helpful with the right keywords selected. Keyword selection can be helped with the use of Google Analytics to see where your traffic is coming from.
I think the best advertising that hasn’t been listed yet is keeping your current clients happy! Word of mouth is the absolutely best advertising you can get!Currently hosting with Big Brain Global Networks
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10-28-2009, 04:28 PM #10Newbie
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Word of mouth definitely is the best form of advertising. Most of our new clients have joined us from word of mouth. Remember, if you have one satisfied customer, they will tell 10 people. A dissatisfied customer will tell 100. Always do your best to help a customer and make them happy, even if they are in the wrong
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10-28-2009, 04:51 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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10-28-2009, 06:01 PM #12Newbie
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I learn 1 thing: don't buy traffic! It's the worst thing that you can do! 100% it's not human! it will only stress your server, nothing more. Social networking now are in expansion, but you have to work a lot on them to have enough contact!The best is find some freelancer that is expert in these things...
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10-28-2009, 06:06 PM #13Aspiring Evangelist
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Start a thread in the WHT hosting offers section and offer an amazing coupon/special deal to get new users quickly
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10-28-2009, 06:58 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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WHT advertising forum is free and a very good start. I would suggest google though if you budget allows for this.
It all depends on your budget. The best place in the world could be something like a wrap around on the Empire State Building but does your budget really accommodate this? You may be thinking what a complete Tw*t but you get the moral, your advertising is as good as your budget!
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10-28-2009, 09:56 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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10-29-2009, 03:20 AM #16Newbie
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I'd say to start, take the money you were going to spend on advertising and instead offer some sort of super-cheap limited-time wacky promotion.
Get the word out via WHT or Twitter or something, and get the beginnings of a userbase. Use them to improve your service, and work really hard to make them happy, then offer a referral reward to them and let them know about it.
Come up with some new super amazing promotion and your now existing users will tell people about it. Repeat!
Once that stops working so well, start testing various regular advertising venues..
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10-29-2009, 06:12 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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10-29-2009, 02:29 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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Who is your target market?
Where does your target market frequent?
Are you looking for online only or are you interested in offline methods as well?HostGator.com - A worldwide leader in Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server Hosting.
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10-29-2009, 11:36 PM #19Newbie
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Thanks some of the replies helped.
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11-02-2009, 05:39 PM #20New Member
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what if a guy is limeted in budjet but is willing to work hard, where would i start?
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11-02-2009, 05:42 PM #21Web Template Master
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11-02-2009, 05:45 PM #22New Member
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well that was very nice of you to get back to me so quick, could your surggest some forums, blogs any where that you advitised on to start ioff with?
thanks so much
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11-02-2009, 05:51 PM #24New Member
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yeah, but this site is filled with big boy hosts im just a small time starter
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