INTRODUCING FREETURES

One day in January 2009
                                                            

                                                             6:43 PM 

                                                                                                                   Freetures!

You say "Enhancements", I say Freetures! You say  "Added Value", I say Freetures! You say "Free Features" I say Freetures! No, this is not about gremlins, not about anything resembling gremlins or any other animal for that matter; but it is about value. An enhancement, though it does increase value in most cases can cost a buyer more. Added value means exactly as stated and can also be tacked on to the price of an item. Free features, the parents of freeture(s) are  adornments and added benefits delivered with the purchase at no extra charge/cost to the buyer, but I rather not repeat free features in rapid succession; thus the term "freetures"

For the purpose of this page, a freeture is defined as: "anything of value that is added to a product or service in order to enhance its attractiveness to a prospective purchaser without extra costs/fees to the purchaser". Freetures are utilized on a daily basis in the sales and marketing profession to attract a larger portion of the buying public and gain better market share.

A good example of a freeture would be a printer which usually retails for $200.00 that is added to the purchase of a $1,250.00 desktop computer and delivered to the purchaser for a total price of $1,250.00. In this example the freetured value of the package would be $200.00.

It must be pointed out that any item which has traditionally been provided with a purchase at no extra cost, like a sipping straw with the purchase of a soft drink or a refrigerator with the purchase of a single family home (in most places) would not fit the description of a freeture.

In the example above, if the waitress/waiter poured an additional glass or half glass of the same soft drink in the patron's empty glass without adding it to the tab, the extra portion would be considered a freeture; or if a second refrigerator of comparable value to the first one was delivered to the home purchaser at no additional cost, the second unit would fit our "freeture" definition.

There are many instances where a freeture has made the difference between sales and non-sales of products and services. From automobile showrooms to insurance and real estate agency sales offices, and retail outlets throughout the world, freetures are making business happen and the various markets are better off for it.

The internet market has been one of the biggest utilizers of freetures but did not identify the various product enhancements and added value features as such simply because the term as it is being used here had not been introduced in such a manner, but nevertheless it remains that, based on our definition, freetures are abundant throughout the internet. We'll just have to find them.

Take websites, for example. Some websites cost money to build, and others don't. How do we recognize when a freeture is being utilized by a web host provider? Or you may ask, is it the website that costs the money or is it the hosting of the website that costs and the website is the actual freeture used to sell the hosting? Since a website is almost useless without web hosting, maybe we should explore this needed resource in an effort to answer our website freeture question.

Here's the suggested approach to searching web hosting companies for freetures. We'll will look at five companies that currently offer web hosting packages to website owners who are entering the internet marketing place. We'll compare what they offer with what we consider minimum website hosting requirements to get a website up and running satisfactorily. Then we will look for freetures in each of the web host's packaging. For the sake of clarity, we will look at only one hosting package per 72 to 96 hour interval because we then have to identify what we believe to be specific freetures when compared to our minimum requirement web hosting package as outlined above. It should be a lot fun. Join me!

Our basic web hosting package will fit the following description:

At a minimum, a web host must include in a basic package; a server space of 10 MB, CGI-BIN, Server Up-time of 99%, Three Email Accounts, FTP Access, Web-based Email, A User-friendly Control Panel, Free Scripts and an Interface to let you know your website statistics. These are the minimum requirements based upon our basic plan standards.

Although we will only look at one web host every 72 to 96 hours, the names of the five companies are being provided in order to establish a degree of continuity and keep the exercise as simple as possible. The five companies are Globat, Host Gator, IPower, Lunar Pages and Think Host. Each one can be accessed from the "Start Marketing" page on this site or simply by a click of the respective link above.

We'll start the ball rolling with Globat's package, based upon the latest information obtained from that provider.

Globat's Basic Plan includes:

Unlimited E-Mail Accounts, Free Domain Registration, Free Setup, 25 MySQL Databases - 8x More!, Free Domain Privacy Guard, Free Site Builder & Templates, Free Blogging Software, Free Photo Album Software, Free Shopping Cart, SSL, & Stats, Supports FTP, CGI, PHP, & Perl, World-Class, 24/7/365 Customer Support, 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee.

Any and all Freetures discovered in Globat's Basic Web Hosting Package will be posted here seventy two to ninety six hours from today.

Please feel free to browse this site and post any comments or suggestions you have regarding our search for Freetures as described here.


Please Note:
information regarding the minimum required to be offered by a good web host was researched by the Wealthy Affiliate team and provided to this writer as a benefit of this writer's membership in Wealthy Affiliate

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