| Posted by warg, 05-22-2011, 05:02 AM | | Hello,
I want to increase the customerbase of our services and I thought it's cool if they get a little freebie:
To get this I thought they need to advertise 2 people, which use one of our services. Domain need to be purchased by them, no subdomain included.
Any suggestion, if this is a good deal for them or bad for us or any suggestions?
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| Posted by HostXNow_Chris, 05-22-2011, 06:36 AM | | I think a proper affiliate payout system would be better.
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| Posted by warg, 05-22-2011, 07:16 AM | | The services are both free, we do not make money from it.
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| Posted by Forward Web, 05-22-2011, 07:31 AM | | From my experience, offering free web hosting never really pans out all that well. More than likely you will only attract spammers and abusers looking to exploit your server.
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| Posted by warg, 05-22-2011, 08:08 AM | | Do you have a better idea for more customers? Local advertisement isn't able.
Last edited by warg; 05-22-2011 at 08:14 AM.
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| Posted by $alesMan, 05-22-2011, 11:28 PM | | I second that.
There is no money in free. Not to say I didn't learn alot from it but I made to this day 0 dollars from it (and probably lost some)
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| Posted by Forward Web, 05-22-2011, 11:38 PM | | Or if you are going to offer free services, at least make them pay a one-time fee of $1 dollar to verify their info (that should at least detour some of the fraud and abuse).
Still, I think offering free web hosting, with the intention of eventually making money off of those clients is a very bad idea.
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| Posted by HostXNow_Chris, 05-23-2011, 06:10 AM | | I do this for another host so Free - Paid. It works well.
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| Posted by ahsima, 05-23-2011, 07:59 AM | | If you have the financial liquidity and not bothered about immediate returns from your business, freebies are cool strategy. However, you need to maintain the quality of service to make the customers persistant with your service. Thats the challenge.
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| Posted by under_gravity, 05-23-2011, 09:25 AM | | free is never a good idea for small business, some free add-ons with some paid stuff is better
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| Posted by warg, 05-23-2011, 09:29 AM | | The difference is:
We offer some services and one of this service needs more customer. That service is free and stays free - it's not thought for make money.
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| Posted by vchosting, 05-23-2011, 10:54 AM | | We offer some free services but we manually review them on the free plans to prevent against fraud. Although we also use Maxmind which is very good.
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| Posted by ivounnerry, 05-23-2011, 12:46 PM | | You're only attract spammers if you will always offer free.
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