Saturday, October 15, 2011

Humans respond to incentives.

We are selfish in just about every way.

Recently I noticed that Hostgator.com has some handy easy-to-access incentives. This is very out of the box. They do the equivalient as McDonald's saying to me:
"hey alex, if you wear this mcdonalds shirt today and get one guy to come in and buy a bigmac, we'll give you a comission!"

Hostgator allows anyone to put a block of html on their personal site and then Hostgator backtracks the link, and if anyone who clicked on the Hostgator link from your site made a purchase at Hostgator, they give you up to a $150 comission.

Just for kicks i put the Hostgator HTML banner on a static HTML page that has my portfolio:
www.leetmarketing.com

Businesses, Governments, Families, and people in general need to pull a HostGator and think out of the box a bit with the incentives we've set up in our society.

here's what the banner looks like:

if anyone clicked this banner below, and purchased hosting @ hostgator.com, I'd make $150.



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