Re:Dropbox-style Double-Sided Incentives for Sharing
by pavs on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @04:18PM
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I think dropbox style Double-Sided incentive would be great for web-host solution. The market is already very saturated with hosting services providing very competitive prices, if a new player wanted to enter this market (esp. VPS which I am interested in), they could use this kind of incentives:
- $20 for 300mb(memory) instances
- For each people you recommend both of you will get 50mb more memory for their VPS instance.
- Caps on 1gb
- valid for one year.
Since hosting solutions are long term investment, most people don't jump around hosting services that often; if you can retrain even 50% of those customers as a long term customer is a win! You probably have to incur a short term loss, but your hosting will probably explode like wild-fire.
- $20 for 300mb(memory) instances
- For each people you recommend both of you will get 50mb more memory for their VPS instance.
- Caps on 1gb
- valid for one year.
Since hosting solutions are long term investment, most people don't jump around hosting services that often; if you can retrain even 50% of those customers as a long term customer is a win! You probably have to incur a short term loss, but your hosting will probably explode like wild-fire.