Marketing Idea

serverbear

Agree ^_^

pubcrawler

What heck is that list from @ServerBear? Actual web stats for your site?

(thought I was making funnies about your domain name when we were on the LinuxBench domain auction --- and it oozing, ummm strange sex undertones)

serverbear

@pubcrawler said: Actual web stats for your site?

Yes, I created a subdomain that features a daily picture of some servers/racks (i.e. server porn) & it took off pretty quickly (almost 1k subscribers now). Unfortunately the side effect is that I'm getting a lot of visitors looking for the other type of porn (assuming from Google images).

concerto49

@pubcrawler said: What heck is that list from @ServerBear? Actual web stats for your site?

Looks like Google Analytics to me.

pubcrawler

That's a total howl @serverbear!

Damian

Was reading http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-15/great-product-dot-now-how-to-sell-it :

 says Rick Farrell, a sales training expert at Tangent Knowledge Systems in Chicago. “Too many manufacturers, in my opinion, look at the selling of their product as a secondary goal. They put their heart and soul into their product that they deeply believe in and expect it to sell itself,” he says.

I think we're guilty of that, and potentially most of the providers on this board too. Not sure how to have a sales force for an intangible service, though.

natcoweb

From our experience free VPS trials do not work.
If someone wants to test services $9.99 isn't a problem, especially when there's 30-day moneyback. Curious enough, people very rarely ask for moneyback, while those on free trial leave without giving any feedback.

hostingwizard_net

@Damian said: Not sure how to have a sales force for an intangible service

Affiliation is one possible answer (if your margin is big enough and you don't have the time/will to do marketing yourself). This is especially true if you have a good but unknown product.

erhwegesrgsr

@natcoweb

people tend to see first, then pay