What Is GDI And What Do They Provide?

Author: Tawn Smith

GDI provides a web hosting and domain registration service. You may now say I can find free website hosting on the internet and in fact I will mention later in this post an example of a free webhost and make it work, but you will face a number of sacrifices.

Firstly if you are using a free web host provider there is always some form of cost, normally they require you to carry free ads on your site. While having ads on your webiste may not seem so bad at first, you should consider following, if you are using the free webhost as your main business site/ portal (your FRONTDOOR), you may end up advertising your biggest competitors and may divert them, not such a great idea anymore? There are a lot of things to consider. If you use a free webhost you are under their roof and have to operate within their rules. You may own the intellectual rights of the contents but the webhost runs the site and decides on rules and contents of their sites. Imagine that – you build yourself a great reputation and your site has many links from other sites and in search engines such as google and then the webhost decides to disallow your particular product or service or it may well just be some wording or content it does not agree with. For example if I would write here something totally different and Tissa does not agree with my post he will just remove it. It’s simple – you get what you pay for.

GDI’s hosting package costs $10/ month and you get a .ws domain name (it’s not a .com domain fair enough – but you are likely to get a decent name and not like icannotfindabettername.com) as most decent .com domains are far long gone.

You will get:

1. A .ws Domain Name
2. Hosting Service - 100 MB (6 page website with free SiteBuilder software)
3. Email Accounts – 10 (100 MB each)

Now the important bit – the Business Opportunity

The fact is not everyone out there needs a web host. Let's examine why one has a website. Normally one either has a website for one of two reasons - BUSINESS or PERSONAL.

In the case of personal websites many people want their own personal e-mail addresses and have a website for a number of reasons, stay in touch with family with an open letter, express their beliefs or opinions to a world stage, to satisfy their own ego and sense of importance, create photo albums, join a community, etc. Some people will pay the $10 a month to have a website. As time progresses I think this will increase as more and more people become web aware and want to have their own address/ place on the web. With the highly transitive nature of the human population with greater movement than ever before in the history of the world one of the best ways people will be able to stay in contact with friends will be via the net. Consider how many people from school do you know twenty years later. Have you moved, if you have you probably have lost contact with them. If you wanted to track them down how would you? I know I would do it via the web. This will be increasingly easy as people have personal web pages. “I am just going to predict the next reply to my post and say – YES – I could just use acme-people-search “

In the case of a website for Businesses most companies have a website for further advertising their company, some do have direct sales as well over the net, and some are nothing but internet based businesses, e.g. Ebay. In the case of a website for a business, I would think that what GDI offers is not big enough to meet their needs. Save for a landing page, redirect page or just the Domain name, GDI is aimed at the small internet business user. Thats not necessarily a bad thing but it is a fact that has a bearing on the business opportunity. If GDI wants to grow further they will need to look at offering reasonable upgrade packages for the bigger players.

In the case of a small first time business wanting their own website with six pages GDI is not a bad option as it also gives them a source of secondary income.

It has the potential to be a good source of income as each person you bring in gets you $1 a month. Not a huge amount really, you would need 10 people just to pay for your hosting fee, but the winner here its that you get a $1 for each person they introduce down to five levels, the power to leverage the work of those below you is what appeals here. That can result in some good returns. You won't become a millionaire over night, but you can have a great income stream.

You might be thinking, I'm too late and missed the GDI wave. No I don't think so, not at this time. GDI members now are in the tens of thousands, not until its reaches 100's of millions will the wave subside. I don't think new customers will ever complete dry up either, because each year more and more tech. savey students finish school, and they are brought up to believe they each need their own modern gadgets, including mobile phones, e-mailing, and even their own personal website. $10 a month for their own website is nothing. I'm waiting for the day you no longer send in a resume into a prospective employer but just give them your web address and they can look up your life themselves. Thus I think the potential of GDI is long term, yes after the initial wave there will be an eventual slowing - there is no such thing as an infinite possiblity - there are 6 Billion people on the planet, once the majority of them is a customer you have reached the finite limit. Any company unless they have plans to further develop a service or introduce new products knows a market does reach a saturation point where growth slows. Not so good for a MLM company as their customers are also their business partners. Any MLM that wants to succeed must either sell a product the needs replacement over time - i.e. tupperware (where did I leave that lid, oh well time to another party and order another), or offer new services or products to the same downlines.

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