1. Start a contest giving $1000 to the person with the best/more innovative idea for advertising a hosting company (only after say 50+ ideas are shared). Spend the other $4000 putting the best ideas into action.
Rinse and repeat.
2. Give $5000 worth of free hosting (real costs) to active members on hosting forums. Pray that this creates a buzz and pays off in the long term. On a second though, why pray: ask them to write a review every 1 month or so in order to keep hosting them for free.
3. Buy a hosting directory/resources website/forum with decent traffic and plaster the host's name all over it as banners, text link etc. Even better, buy a "top hosts" site , create 3 alises for my company using slighly different prices and put them as top 3. Change their order every month -- I want the branding to be spead over equally.
4. Put fliers in everyone's mail box in my town. The beauty of living in a coutry with few regulations I guess.
5. Pay someone (a woman) $3000 to climb the tallest building in the country wearing only a T-shirt (with my company's name on it) or create an adhoc $3000 prize wet T-shirts contest in the middle of the busiest avenue in the capital. All T-shirts shall have the company's URL on them.
I'll have someone tip off the media. They're always hungry for a story -- at least this one would be fun. That should give me some serious media coverage. Maybe even international!
Spend the remaining $2000 partying in jail.
Sorry Art, I just couldn't resist sharing the knowledge. :agree: