How do you promote your Web Hosting Business?

Promotions work especially well when consumers are in need of a jolt to take buying action. Just be clear about what you want to achieve. Set the number of sales you want to ring up, dollars you want to bring in, customer names you want to collect, buying patterns you want to change, or any other objective you want your promotion to achieve. Then determine what your desired change will mean financially to your business.

By knowing the potential bottom-line impact of your promotion, you'll have the information you need to allocate a promotion budget, dedicate staff time and invest the energy necessary to host a strong promotion that will deliver business-boosting results over the time period it covers.

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Originally Posted by webspider

Run some promos regularly. But these should be promoted in high traffic sites where potential clients can be reached out. The key however is that your web hosting service should have a good track record and must not create an impression that it is a one man team.

Usually i always use forum signiture, forum marketing, blog marketing, PPC marketing and article marketing. Its really help me when i did that promotion. So far, i glad that i really can make money today.

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Originally Posted by HIG-Jerry

PPC can be powerful if you do it correctly. If you don't know what you're doing though you'll just be wasting large sums of money.

I fully agree. I've also heard that the first campaign will be ineffective either way. It's a long process and you surely need a professional to guide you or do it for you. But sooner or later all successful companies move on to Google ads.

I prefer article marketing because you will get not only bakclinks to your website but also real visitors through the link in the "about the author" box.

Try to write on topics related to your website. This way, your backlings will be also related and visitors which you get through the author links will be good targeted. It is good way to make some sales.

Like dedica75 said, social media can help alot, FB, twitter, reddit youtube etc and many others out there.
IMHO - if you are starting i would advice you to go look for local business etc customers in your area city/town, if all goes well in no time "word" starts to spread around etc:)

Search engine ranking remains to be key area of traffic and one can adopt multiple approach rather than focusing on one or few areas. Traffic analysis can lead you to know which one is working more, so devote more time on such areas while keep experimenting on others.

Run some promos regularly. But these should be promoted in high traffic sites where potential clients can be reached out. The key however is that your web hosting service should have a good track record and must not create an impression that it is a one man team.

For promotion of any website forum posting with signature,blog commenting,article marketing,blog posting are the best off page seo techniques which can help in increasing more no of visitors towards the site and also increase the page rank.

Free advertising and SEO techniques are what we have found to work the best in terms of long term, good traffic. It doesnt take as much money as paid advertisements do but the time needed to spend to do it successfuly is alot.

The best way to promote your business is using the advantage of social media marketing which are now common strategy to get more potential customers. Social media site that usually used in this works are Facebook and Twitter.

Do advertisement, paid and free, online and offline.
If you just started and you struggle with money focus on free ads, forum, blogs, groups.
We you get the money try to target sites that are close to you business.

First, start posting on the forums. Then create a page on Facebook and Twitter. Invite new members to your community. When people learn more about you, then you can order advertising adwords. Work with existing clients.

Web hosting and other related forums are best for promoting a Web Hosting Business. Other then this, show your presence on social media. SEO is also important along with paid ads on various Ad Networks.

The best way to get traffic is via search engine, and I am promoting my website via forum submission, directory submission and article submission, this way i get lot of traffic from google,

1. Forum Posting
2. Blog Commenting
3. Run Forum,Blog on your Hosting site(Good for seo, google create a lots of links...index...etc)

Well, I don't think so ... Your backlinks can only be counted if the thread or the post you're creating is quality and unique content.

PPC can be powerful if you do it correctly. If you don't know what you're doing though you'll just be wasting large sums of money.

I've posted a detailed aritcle on this topic listing 8-10 suggestions http://forums.build-reciprocal-links.com/ ...

Forums is a good place but a lot of people do the same. Try to go to some local business meeting.

I recommend just getting your name out there. We primarily use forums, SEO, and social networking

I find forums are one of the best forms of traffic generation, Also sponsor sites

I do promotion using the following: forum, directory, google, yahoo,search engine

I agree with this ... Forums are one of the best way to promote your business.

Most of customers we got, was from forums, then search engines :D