Dedicated server tips to get better sales?

[Lukas|esnep.si]

Hi all,

 

As i see there is alot of people who is working with servers and other internet solutions.

 

Well i started a dedicated server provider company, since march 2009. To this day i havent sold nothing. So i need few tips and your idea's to get it better.

 

So here are my questions:

1.Shoud i change my website and domain to .com (http://www.esnep.si)?

2. Where to look for costumers? (gamecomunitys, companys, GSP providers)?

3. About Ad's they are pretty expensive (so at the moment there is no way i can do that)

4. How to tell people, you are existing?

5. How to get more visit at my site?

6. What does people like costume-built servers or well know brands (HP, DELL, Supermicro ETC)

7. Is someone intrested in exchangin banner or any type of partnership?

 

 

And another question wich is not really related with dedicated servers but anyway.

How to intigrate a CMS system in to a webpage. I have alot of problems with this and live support (livezzila dosent connect with a server)?

 

Thank you for your anwers, please share your expirience with me

[studeggle]

Patience, sorry but it is not a build it and they will come rushing in. 2 months is barely any time.

Yes dot coms are often a bit better here, but your site doesn’t cater to Americans at least not yet.

Depends on your product, not all dedicated servers are equal and not bandwidth is equal. Frankly trying to entice gaming clients to your dedicated servers without gaming past can be tricky. Most want to ask questions about putting the games onto the dedicated machine and want to know you will have the correct answer. Without the gaming past you may well want to look for different type of clients. But frankly this is all something that should have been taken care of before starting when you were working your business plan you should have been working up the numbers on the needs. You get in to fill a need, otherwise you are tying to sell ice to the Eskimos.

Yes advertising is very expensive, and if you haven’t worked out your market then you are flushing that money down the drain.

Search engine ranking is probably the best long term method, short term you can hunt out forums where you potential customers like to hang out. But it is best to establish yourself there first participating in the discussion demonstrating knowledge and becoming a part of there community. Many won’t pay much heed to a advertising post from someone with out any other posts except advertising.

Search engine rankings are often attributed to the best long term traffic, but it also depends on your cliental. Different customers look for goods in different ways. Falls back to that business plan and knowing your target market.

Once again it falls too the customer. Many high end business customers are interested in a name they can recognize like Dell, HP, ect. But most gamers are interested more in raw power specs and Bandwidth. Bandwidth is just, if not as, important as the machine gamers want specific carriers, low pings, stable connections.

Sorry not here, you have to have close to as much note as I have before my business considers exchanging links otherwise I am flooding traffic into you and not vice versa.

Comes down to the coding, you need to learn enough to understand what your doing with there instructions, or you need to bring in a web programmer. While they like to tote easy install there are a lot of possible unexpected reactions from mixing code. Easy install often works when one program can run independent without change, but as soon as you want to mix like adding support into a cms, or altering the look, your getting down to code level at least a little.

[Derek]

Patience, sorry but it is not a build it and they will come rushing in. 2 months is barely any time.

Yes dot coms are often a bit better here, but your site doesn’t cater to Americans at least not yet.

Depends on your product, not all dedicated servers are equal and not bandwidth is equal. Frankly trying to entice gaming clients to your dedicated servers without gaming past can be tricky. Most want to ask questions about putting the games onto the dedicated machine and want to know you will have the correct answer. Without the gaming past you may well want to look for different type of clients. But frankly this is all something that should have been taken care of before starting when you were working your business plan you should have been working up the numbers on the needs. You get in to fill a need, otherwise you are tying to sell ice to the Eskimos.

Yes advertising is very expensive, and if you haven’t worked out your market then you are flushing that money down the drain.

Search engine ranking is probably the best long term method, short term you can hunt out forums where you potential customers like to hang out. But it is best to establish yourself there first participating in the discussion demonstrating knowledge and becoming a part of there community. Many won’t pay much heed to a advertising post from someone with out any other posts except advertising.

Search engine rankings are often attributed to the best long term traffic, but it also depends on your cliental. Different customers look for goods in different ways. Falls back to that business plan and knowing your target market.

Once again it falls too the customer. Many high end business customers are interested in a name they can recognize like Dell, HP, ect. But most gamers are interested more in raw power specs and Bandwidth. Bandwidth is just, if not as, important as the machine gamers want specific carriers, low pings, stable connections.

Sorry not here, you have to have close to as much note as I have before my business considers exchanging links otherwise I am flooding traffic into you and not vice versa.

Comes down to the coding, you need to learn enough to understand what your doing with there instructions, or you need to bring in a web programmer. While they like to tote easy install there are a lot of possible unexpected reactions from mixing code. Easy install often works when one program can run independent without change, but as soon as you want to mix like adding support into a cms, or altering the look, your getting down to code level at least a little.

 

Your space bar broken ?

[studeggle]

Your space bar broken ?

 

Not sure what is up with your monitor I guess. But I see lots and lots of spaces, in addition I don't see anywhere where two words run together. There are a couple places where I missed the double space that should come after a period. Sorry didn't realize I was back in English class and having my responces proofed. Should I be check my sentence structure as well, before posting friendly advice for which I am not paid for?

[KingJ]

Not sure what is up with your monitor I guess. But I see lots and lots of spaces, in addition I don't see anywhere where two words run together. There are a couple places where I missed the double space that should come after a period. Sorry didn't realize I was back in English class and having my responces proofed. Should I be check my sentence structure as well, before posting friendly advice for which I am not paid for?

 

I think he meant the enter key, it does make it a lot more readable.

 

Patience, sorry but it is not a build it and they will come rushing in. 2 months is barely any time.

 

Yes dot coms are often a bit better here, but your site doesn’t cater to Americans at least not yet.

 

Depends on your product, not all dedicated servers are equal and not bandwidth is equal. Frankly trying to entice gaming clients to your dedicated servers without gaming past can be tricky. Most want to ask questions about putting the games onto the dedicated machine and want to know you will have the correct answer. Without the gaming past you may well want to look for different type of clients. But frankly this is all something that should have been taken care of before starting when you were working your business plan you should have been working up the numbers on the needs. You get in to fill a need, otherwise you are tying to sell ice to the Eskimos.

 

Yes advertising is very expensive, and if you haven’t worked out your market then you are flushing that money down the drain.

Search engine ranking is probably the best long term method, short term you can hunt out forums where you potential customers like to hang out. But it is best to establish yourself there first participating in the discussion demonstrating knowledge and becoming a part of there community. Many won’t pay much heed to a advertising post from someone with out any other posts except advertising.

 

Search engine rankings are often attributed to the best long term traffic, but it also depends on your cliental. Different customers look for goods in different ways. Falls back to that business plan and knowing your target market.

 

Once again it falls too the customer. Many high end business customers are interested in a name they can recognize like Dell, HP, ect. But most gamers are interested more in raw power specs and Bandwidth. Bandwidth is just, if not as, important as the machine gamers want specific carriers, low pings, stable connections.

 

Sorry not here, you have to have close to as much note as I have before my business considers exchanging links otherwise I am flooding traffic into you and not vice versa.

 

Comes down to the coding, you need to learn enough to understand what your doing with there instructions, or you need to bring in a web programmer. While they like to tote easy install there are a lot of possible unexpected reactions from mixing code. Easy install often works when one program can run independent without change, but as soon as you want to mix like adding support into a cms, or altering the look, your getting down to code level at least a little.

 

Some very good tips there, sure to help anyone starting out.

[ptadmin]

Lukas,

 

 

Try to gather a few customers, provide great customer service and your customers will sell your products for you. It takes a bit of time but once your customers have trust in you more will come.

[trancemode]

hm well why not post on WHT?

[Lukas|esnep.si]

Thank you for a few good advices. But i decided to change a domain to a http://www.esnep-hosting.com. Thats first thing. Then i will change my website template wich was for sale. And i will start offering gameservers to. So i belive i will get my new template today. So its gonna be ok. For domain i will ordered today.

 

So thats problem sold.

 

Next thing is somekinda user interfirance, wich you will be able to what you order for long you ordered and your server status, and support. Then next thing is live support.

 

So i belive alot work here for me.

 

But please share your testomonials

[dimitrifrom31]

Ive been running game servers for more than 6 years before starting it fully professional.

Of course you dont need to spend suh a long time depending the time you can spend on it per day. I mean I quit my job in december 2008 and between december 2008 and march 2009 Ive learnt as much as I did during the previous 6 years cuz I was working on my GSP business project 24/7.

 

I was well known in the sof2 community (yes old game i know) but it helped me starting with 25-30 customers who trusted me and my knowledge. Then for every new game I host I try to read everything I cna find on TCA forums and on the game dedicated forum.

You gota prove your customers you got a strong knowledge if you want them trust you enough to pay for your services. And once they did if they are satisfied they will do the advertising part for you as mentionned by ptadmin.

Basically the hard part is to get your very first customers then if your serious in your job more will come.

I "officially" started on may 1st 2009 (advertised, recruited some players to help in support) and got not +50 customers. So according to my business plan its a good start as my goal is to reach a minimum of 120 to start living of it (with same life standards I used to have with my previous job).

About your business and if I may give you my personal opinion, game servers are ways more interesting to sell than dedicated. I used to offer various services for 2 months (web hosting, game servers, dedicated servers) and finally saw that only game servers were interesting enough in terms of profits/time spent. but thats just my personal experience and im sure some would disagree with it.