Hello,
I'm interested in advice in how would you recommend one would go about
promoting a free web mail service which would offer later on a bit
more premium services at an added value. |
Request for Question Clarification by
ragingacademic-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 18:22 PST
lizardnation -
Hi again.
What kind of free Web mail service do you have in mind? Is it the
kind where you give away name@lizard.com or something like that? And
are the premium services you hope to add on related to Web mail - or
to something else?
thanks,
ragingacademic
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Clarification of Question by
lizardnation-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 19:04 PST
Hello Ragingacademic,
It's the kind that presents the mail.com in another language, such as
correo.com for Spanish as an example. It is now available in English
and in the native naguage of the language which that domain would mean
mail.com.
Premium services are more storage, POP3 access, Fax Intergration with
mail and on the desktop via a printer driver and bidirectional SMS
with folders and contact lists.
I've had the domain since around `95 and was offered reasonable
amounts for my $70 annual investment back then. ;-) Today, I've
opened up the domain online without advertisement and within two
months reached 1k registrations whom landed there by trying the
domain. My logs show a far more number of users arriving and that
number is a subset of those whom actually went ahead and registered.
I've checked the search engines for links to the domain and none exist
on other sites nor is it on the map as far as search engines as their
robots haven't gotten to it yet.
I know a thing or two about search engine optimization and paid
ranking. What I seek is advice on how to promote the domain.
I've always thought that asking people whom are active in mailing
lists to get very attractive user names at the domain with lets say
free for life 25mb storage and POP3 in return for using it as their
prime. I'm sure it's not that attractive, but it's something.
I also know of the existance of lists online showing free web mail
sites and what they offer in a table format and I should list there as
well. Also, was thinking of mailing lists and newsletters which allow
affordable paid sponsorship to be mentioned in text form somewhere for
a period of time.
The serivce currently has protection from Spam, viruses and porn based
on home brewed methods which are weak and slow and would not last long
and I'm evaluating the professionals out there in those fields to
outsource those issues to and protect my users. Though, from the
costs I found to be associated with that level of service, only
premium accounts will be moved to servers protected in latter
mentioned method.
Let me know if I may clarify a bit more what is not clear or if I have
confused you further.
/lizardnation
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 19:14 PST
lizardnation...
It seems to me that one of the easiest ways to promote
the site is to append a tag to the bottom of emails
sent by the members who have already registered.
Something along the lines of the tag used by Yahoo
mail. Have you considered this option yet?
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Clarification of Question by
lizardnation-ga
on
27 Dec 2002 19:38 PST
Hello Sublime1,
Already done.. In fact, I have done a bit of tweaking for that to
allow those sites that I'll setup with to have a different version for
the users they bring to me which co-promotes both of us in the footer
as a payback for the site.
Thanks for the idea though! :-)
/Lizardnation
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