Best way to get customers?

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Get out and hit the pavement. Talk to local businesses about what you can offer try seeing if they have a website if they don't ask them why and offer a solution to them. Most importantly keep them happy, happy customers bring in other customers.

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we've decided to try make some money via the ebay, i .e selling our hosting packages at a slighty discounted rate , we are just trying to get some early cash flow into the business until our promotion work kicks in, we have local press and stuff involved now you see, the carbon neutral idea seems very topical
 
Forum posting would be the best option to advertise your company online. You also try Adsense. I personally don't agree with advertisement through pay-per-click.

With the enormous number of hosting companies nowadays, I agree that local customers are still a viable market. Post ad on a local daily, distribute pamphlets, etc. You can also opt to provide discounts to your customers who can refer a customer to your company.
 
After re-reading this, if you only have 5 websites on your server and by server you're referring to a dedicated server, I highly recommend you consider downgrading to a reseller package which will save you more money to put towards marketing your company.
 
Yeah, do promotional stuff. Comment away in forums like this or blogs. Just simply make yourself "visible" in the world wide web.
 
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u have to give best services with reasonable price

and also the the customer should feel that u company is reliable,comfortable and affordable as well as reasonable
 
BobyKirov said:
if you want to have a good ad campaign you should invest a lot of money.. more money .. more customers
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That's truth, start a business without money is like to have a car without petrol. That's not a news; money makes money - more money makes more money.

If you don't invest you will grow as well; but very slow...
 
True, of course you have to provide quality services to your clients. Nothing beats the traditional advertising -- the word of mouth. Lol. :D
 
Posting in forums is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to market your company to get more clients. Also try giving away promotions on these forums.
 
It's really hard to get conversions on a newer brand/site - my advice would be to work on your site to make sure that you have the highest chance of converting any visitors you actually get.

While buying advertisements and banners is an option we personally took the route of contacting people (locally) to see if they were interested in hosting and then we did our best to get our name out there.

At every opportunity we've asked our clients for input (what they liked/disliked etc) and we've been lucky to get a fair bit of good ones that posted honest reviews in a few places that definitely helped.

Good luck.
 
That is absolutely true. Like for example if you start your own web hosting servie you must think about:
1. What funds you have for a year in advance;
2. How you will be targeting market and what markets to get started quickly, because money melts very quickly if you haven't optimized your expenses;
3. How many customers do you plan to drive per month (new sign ups);
4. Remember that everyday is very important to you (that importance would be for three years or so until you will get your regular clients to pay for web hosting).
 
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