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Contests are your friend.
Here's some suggestions on how to realize such.
First, figure out a percentage of your profit that you are willing to reinvest as a contest budget.
Then, deduct the cost of any of your own services that you would be willing to offer as prizes, at cost if need be, and deduct the cost of any additional prizes that you would like to purchase to offer. For the latter, try to work out product-for-ad space deals with as many sponsors as will have you to minimize out-of-pocket costs. If this can be done, make sure that your sponsors are willing to offer you a reduced "rate" on their product when tallying the value to be exchanged for ad space to maximize your potential, but be prepared to do the same in exchange for them. This has the potential to counter itself out, so be cautious not to overextend. Any leftover from your budget should be pooled together for grand prize contests (quarterly, end of year, etc).
Then design contests for existing visitors and customers, such as best new site design of the month, best traffic increase of the month, etc.
Once those are up and running well and bug-free, then start designing contests for prizes that you can offer in the message boards of your sponsors (with their permission), such as trivia contests.
There are countless ways to promote your hosting site, just be creative, logical, effective, and determined and you will have no choice but to succeed.
EDIT:
Please note, this requires common sense.
Don't expect good results if you plan to reinvest 100 percent of your profit into buying coffee cups with your site name on them that you give away on a message board for people that hate coffee cups.
Treat each prize and contest as a new target audience and test the market before getting in deep. Sometimes more than one test is required.
Here's some suggestions on how to realize such.
First, figure out a percentage of your profit that you are willing to reinvest as a contest budget.
Then, deduct the cost of any of your own services that you would be willing to offer as prizes, at cost if need be, and deduct the cost of any additional prizes that you would like to purchase to offer. For the latter, try to work out product-for-ad space deals with as many sponsors as will have you to minimize out-of-pocket costs. If this can be done, make sure that your sponsors are willing to offer you a reduced "rate" on their product when tallying the value to be exchanged for ad space to maximize your potential, but be prepared to do the same in exchange for them. This has the potential to counter itself out, so be cautious not to overextend. Any leftover from your budget should be pooled together for grand prize contests (quarterly, end of year, etc).
Then design contests for existing visitors and customers, such as best new site design of the month, best traffic increase of the month, etc.
Once those are up and running well and bug-free, then start designing contests for prizes that you can offer in the message boards of your sponsors (with their permission), such as trivia contests.
There are countless ways to promote your hosting site, just be creative, logical, effective, and determined and you will have no choice but to succeed.
EDIT:
Please note, this requires common sense.
Don't expect good results if you plan to reinvest 100 percent of your profit into buying coffee cups with your site name on them that you give away on a message board for people that hate coffee cups.
Treat each prize and contest as a new target audience and test the market before getting in deep. Sometimes more than one test is required.
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