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HostingCon 2009 Wrap-up and Upcoming Events

Mou Mukherjee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:08:25 +0000

The OpenSRS team attended HostingCon 2009 last month in Washington DC. Since then we’ve been a little busy preparing for the Parallels EMEA Roadshow which is now in full-swing. However, we wanted to take a few moments to thank everyone that we met this year. We hope some of you had a chance to drop by our booth and pick up some old fashioned stick-candy, and maybe even one of our spiffy new “Service Guy’” toys which we debuted at HostingCon 2009.

This year we had a group of fourteen OpenSRS folks attending and we were able to meet many resellers, prospects, partners, and industry leaders. We also launched our brand new sub-resellers program. Adam Eisner, our Director of Domain Services, presented “20 Ways to Outsmart Your Competitors.” Did you miss it? No problem. You can download Adam’s slides from our HostingCon follow-up page.

Announcing the winner of the Dell Adamo laptop!

As well, we are very pleased to announce the winner of our booth give-away! Congratulations to Eduardo from Hosting Panama the lucky winner of a really cool Dell Adamo laptop!

See you in Austin, Texas for HostingCon 2010 (or maybe sooner)

A special thanks to the team at iNet Interative for putting on a very well-organized and well-attended show. We look forward to seeing everyone next year in Austin for HostingCon 2010. In the meantime we hope to see you again at one of our upcoming events:

Parallels EMEA Roadshow – next stop in Paris on September 14
WHIR Networking, Miami – September 24
Cpanel Conference, Houston – October 5-7
WHIR Networking, Washington DC – October 22

Adam Eisner: Outsmarting Your Competitors

OpenSRS Team — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:32:29 +0000

With just a few weeks to go until HostingCon 2009, I sat down with Director of Domain Services Adam Eisner to see if I could get him to reveal some nuggets from his presentation “20 Ways to Outsmart Your Competitors.”

Web hosting is a competitive business, and these are challenging times, but Adam has talked to hundreds of hosting companies over the years and has seen what separates the winners from the also-rans. According to him, so many companies do the same things, and it’s the ones who do things just a little bit differently who are having the most success. In this brand-new presentation, he’ll share some ways that web hosts can gain a competitive edge.

Though he was reluctant, I convinced him to reveal one of his 20 tips.

#16. Sell ONE package on your website. This is a popular practice among many successful web hosting companies today. Instead of promoting options like a “gold,” “silver” or “bronze” package, try selling one popular package and letting customers configure something different only if they choose to do so.

Simple, but effective. If you’re coming to HostingCon, make sure you plan to attend Adam’s presentation. It takes place on Tuesday August 11th, from 12:45-1:45pm in the Marketing and Sales track. We’re hoping to make it available later to those not able to attend.

As well, don’t forget to stop by the OpenSRS booth (#440) in the Exhibits Hall. We’ll have some fun giveaways, as well as a draw for a Dell Adamo laptop, valued at over $2,000.

Are You Coming to HostingCon 2009?

OpenSRS Team — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:02:18 +0000

HostingCon is fast approaching and if you want to take advantage of early-bird pricing, you’d better hurry, because it ends on June 29th. What’s HostingCon, you’re asking? Only the largest gathering of hosting professionals in the world. We have full details over at our brand-new events page, along with a handy registration link.

Find out more.