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I see hosting vendors posting in the offer section. I have personally been reluctant but someone tell me how effective are these offers in terms of turning into real sales.
Truthfully, I think it's a combination of the know, like and trust factors you develop by participating in forum discussions AND your advertisements in the Marketplace forum.
I participate on a lot of forums, including Hosting Discussion, and I know over the years that my sites get a ton of visitors from my signatures. I know I got a visit from a thread I posted on here just last week from something I wrote in 2009.
Ads, for the most part, are simply specs and pricing, with a dash of infrastructure info and promos. Prospects understand that for what it is - marketing.
Combined with how you respond to threads - do you sound professional, do you sound like you know the industry and so on - puts a positive spin on a prospect's buying decision.
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I know I got a visit from a thread I posted on here just last week from something I wrote in 2009.
Ads, for the most part, are simply specs and pricing, with a dash of infrastructure info and promos. Prospects understand that for what it is - marketing.
Combined with how you respond to threads - do you sound professional, do you sound like you know the industry and so on - puts a positive spin on a prospect's buying decision.
When we check the analytics, we see a few successful purchases from these advertisement forum referrals. However, as I said above, not much. Never more than 10 in a week.
These advertisement posts can turn into sales I believe. However, I am no expecting too much. We post some of our promotions on some popular web hosting and web mastering forums. When we check the analytics, we see a few successful purchases from these advertisement forum referrals. However, as I said above, not much. Never more than 10 in a week.
:uhh: I am guessing you mean 10 in total and not from one advertisement post in particular (One forum post)
This made me laugh. Often we expect too much from communities we participate in. Forums like HD always help a provider gain traffic and a few clients, once in a while.
10 clients a week from one single community would be impossible. If it were possible that community would turn you into a millionare in a few years LOL. Communities do help to increase traffic and a few sales but not that big
Yes. except WHT, it can easily give you more than that with few sticky offers (paid).10 clients a week from one single community would be impossible. If it were possible that community would turn you into a millionare in a few years LOL. Communities do help to increase traffic and a few sales but not that big
Yes. except WHT, it can easily give you more than that with few sticky offers (paid).