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Cold Calling To Do Website Design - What About Hosting?

by FlippinGirl
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Hi I'd love to get some opinions on this:

I'm going to start cold calling businesses (not local) and trying to pitch them website design. I'm wondering how to approach the subject of hosting?

Most people who aren't into internet marketing or websites won't know the first thing about it.. so I don't really want to send potential new customers to hostgator to set up hosting only to see them get lost along the way or feel like there's too much techy stuff going on.. I know I'm losing out on commissions but how would you guys do it?

Should I keep these new clients' sites on my hosting and charge them for it as part of a maintenance fee?

I'd appreciate any ideas.
Thanks!!
#calling #cold #design #hosting #website
  • Profile picture of the author Lance K
    Get a host gator reseller account and just charge them what they would pay for their own hostgator account. That way you make sure you get paid every month. Plus you can include other offers, referral requests, customer satisfaction surveys, etc. when you send the invoice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    Hosting is a topic for quite far into the conversation. It's part of the "how", and that goes at the end. You'll often be able to simply bundle it in then. Let us know how it goes...how far you get in your conversations.
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  • Profile picture of the author nyk24
    I mention hosting at the end (when you know the sale is almost in the bag).

    A little tip here: Hosting is a monthly fee, however I do not charge monthly I charge every quarter in advance (helps prevent non/slow payers). I am experimenting with offering clients a yearly fee upfront but at a discount.

    Let's face it some of us like paying for things like our tv licence, yearly, monthly, weekly or quarterly, why not apply the same concept to hosting?
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  • Profile picture of the author Adrian John
    Can't you just offer free hosting? What $5/month means to you when you charge $xxx-x for the designs? and open the relationship for other monthly services that you can outsource?
    At this stage for a monthly fee offer: free hosting(+ free domain if it;s a new website), monthly backup of their website, 2 free revisions, on page seo ...
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  • Profile picture of the author natebunger
    That was what I was also going to say: offer free hosting since you are already earning from your other services.
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