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How many customers to expect in first 3 months?
| Posted by poncho2000, 02-11-2002, 11:13 PM |
| Hi,
I'm starting to resell windows hosting soon and I'm curious how many customers to expect in first 3 months for example?
I know that all depends of my costs, support and advertisement, but I need something like average numbers. 10, 20, 100?
Regards,
Peter
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| Posted by appletreats, 02-11-2002, 11:30 PM |
| A poll would be nice here.
I had 0.
Since I am the only one, the average is now 0. Hopefully I'll do better this time, with a new host, new plans, new website.
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| Posted by poncho2000, 02-11-2002, 11:44 PM |
| Are you reselling windows hosting?
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| Posted by Haze, 02-12-2002, 12:35 AM |
| Its really impossible to say how much you can expect in that period of time. It all depends on your marketing strategy and how much money you intend to invest into your company. But if you want an answer, I would say anywhere from 0 - 100.
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| Posted by 21inchguns, 02-12-2002, 01:26 AM |
| this question is basically impossible to answer just because of the number of variables involved....
but based on what I know and have heard, I would say anywhere from 0 - 400.....There is one guy around here that got something like 400 customers in 3 months.......
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| Posted by ASPCode.net, 02-12-2002, 03:44 AM |
| Yes, and to be fair the number of customers doesn't really matter. What is important is profit. I mean you might get 100 clients if you go for a $2.95 price, but only 10 if you charge $20.95 for the very same package.
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| Posted by akuo, 02-12-2002, 06:42 AM |
| And as has been posted here quite often - the lower the price, the more support work you usually have to do
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| Posted by royharyanto, 02-12-2002, 05:01 PM |
| 0 signup in 3 months is highly unbelievable.
Unless you did your website using Microsoft Word and did no marketing.
Care to share with us your website and your method of marketing?
We might be able to help out by giving some suggestions.
Cheers
Last edited by royharyanto; 02-12-2002 at 08:25 PM.
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| Posted by SeanTaylor, 02-12-2002, 06:14 PM |
| What's the best way to market a new webhost?
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| Posted by kickster, 03-12-2002, 01:12 AM |
| how is it possible to have 400 customers on reselling accounts. So far every reseller I talked to says I am limited to maximum of 60 accounts to 100.
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| Posted by ToastyX, 03-12-2002, 04:06 AM |
| Easy, multiple reseller accounts, or reseller accounts like MCHost where space and bandwidth are the only limitations.
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| Posted by kickster, 03-12-2002, 10:28 AM |
| you mean MC host will let you host 1000 accounts under your own DNS? How come no other reseller offer that. So far every one has told me that reselling is good for up to 60 70 accounts after that you should get your own dedicated server.
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| Posted by ukhost4u, 03-12-2002, 09:53 PM |
| Hi,
I used to have a reseller account with over 250 domains and using just under 10Gbs of bandwidth. The only limits I had were the amount of bandwidth.
I have moved on from there and I would never put a limited on domains in my reseller accounts as bandwidth is the only fair method when it comes to reselling...
Paul Hughes
Last edited by Chicken; 03-13-2002 at 02:31 AM.
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| Posted by (SH)Saeed, 03-12-2002, 10:17 PM |
| What does it matter how many customers you get in the first 3 months? I think the question should be "How much profit were you making after the first 3 months?". Anyone can offer plans with 10GB bandwidth for $20/yr and get hundreds or even thousands of customers, but they will offcourse be losing money.
Just my $0.02..
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| Posted by Choppy, 03-12-2002, 11:23 PM |
| Our first 2 Months till this day of Normal Hosting.. ( We have been doing expensive business hosting for a while)
We have spent over $6000 Dollars on OFFLINE marketing, i know this was a bad choice now, we had a couple of magazines, sales people going out to local companies and offering them hosting services, mail drops etc etc.
All this racked up customer to the amount of ZERO!
We did not get one customer out of anything we have tried...
Even on WHT we have advertised, this did bring some customers in through the door...
We are charging excellent costs to e.g 150megs 3 gig=$6m but still no big sales!
Its hard to come into a diffrent league or even to start!
Just hang in there and they will come... So we hope, we have another business to fall upon, if you dont make sure you dont waste all your money on this project!
Kind regards,
If you need to ask anymore questions you can email me or just pm me thanks!
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| Posted by dside443, 03-12-2002, 11:27 PM |
| In 2 weeks (exactly), we had 10 orders. Out of those 10 orders, 1 was for the smallest plan, 5 were for the highest monthly plan, 4 were for the yearly plan.
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| Posted by Incognito, 03-13-2002, 02:52 PM |
| If you just put your site up and don't do any advertising or promotion, the answer is zero....
If you spend money correctly to promote your business, results will come. It is a numbers game, and to present any business to numbers prices money.
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| Posted by hotice007, 03-13-2002, 05:49 PM |
| dang... 400 accounts in 3 months? what did you do... bought out those host indexes?
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| Posted by Neo3Net, 03-17-2002, 04:31 PM |
| It all depends on marketing.
Marketing is the key to success.
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| Posted by Aussie Bob, 03-18-2002, 01:07 AM |
| First 70 days - 59 accounts - 150+ sites - $50.00 spent at Overture.com - heaps of profit - /2002 - 500 clients easy. When that happens, Rob gets a BMW or a nervous breakdown
Last edited by Aussie Bob; 03-18-2002 at 01:14 AM.
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| Posted by MCHost-Marc, 03-18-2002, 05:24 AM |
| Couldn't agree more.
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| Posted by Aussie Bob, 03-18-2002, 06:23 AM |
| LOL. They can drive me in my BMW to the hospital where the nice nurses can help me to my new room.
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| Posted by nba2003, 03-18-2002, 09:09 AM |
| Sorry can you tell me more?did you advertise at other company other than overture.com?
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| Posted by Aussie Bob, 03-18-2002, 10:56 AM |
| ah, no
Nope. $50.00 got the ball rolling and word of mouth has done the rest. Oh and a little help from a Joint Venture and Google. Google is your friend
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| Posted by nba2003, 03-18-2002, 09:47 PM |
| Anyway,THX!
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| Posted by nba2003, 03-19-2002, 07:00 AM |
| I am planing to use banner exchange to promopt.Do you think it work?
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| Posted by jgriff64, 03-19-2002, 09:08 AM |
| When we started in the hosting business, under a different name and reselling we got an average of 2 customers a week from week one. This was from using google add words, which does not seem to work any more. We are now no longer re-selling and get on average at least 1 new signup a day.
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