Co-Marketing with companies help!!?

[The Reptile Guy]

Alot of companies offer free stuff when you buy their products.. for instance, ipage, a web hoster, offers $75 adwords for google, $25 for yahoo, $50 for facebook, free yellow page listing, and free memberships to site lock, wordpress, and shopsite. ALL for paying a woping $3.50 for a webpage.

I would be happy to be able to offer just one of these!!

The only i found info on is google. https://www.google.com/appserve/adwordsc...ing/en-gb/
HOWEVER, when signing up, USA is NOT AN OPTION. Only european companies.

Is there anyway to find information about this stuff, or how to offer it to customers. I sell ad space for about $200/ month, only 20% is profit, so i don't have money to play with to offer free stuff, but maybe 'comarketing' can help, if i can figure out how to do it!! The facebook one would be my favorite!

THERE are hundreds of sites and productys you can buy and get this free stuff, why cant i find how to offer it too!!

please help!

[Hussain]

When they offer those 'free' things, you must see the terms + conditions of that. that $3.50 may be for a 3 year period of hosting. So it's 3.50 a month for 36 months which you pay upfront. Then you're tied down to them for 3 years and by the time you need to buy hosting again , you're so used to them that you just buy another 2 years from them. This is how they attract new clients.

As far as that offering goes, I'd say that they're buying coupons or some sort of virtual tokens or credits from facebook, google, etc and then they give it to you under certain terms and for a limited period. Try contacting the sales departments at those companies to find out about buying those things to use for your company as a marketing tool.

Also, please don't give your profit margins on an answers forum, it's something that should remain personal.