Popular Internet Service Provider PlusNet announce new referral scheme
Added: (Fri Jul 27 2001)
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Much more than your usual referral scheme. Why it pays to recommend PlusNet
PlusNet announce further improvements to their already popular customer referral scheme.
(Friday 27th July 2001, Sheffield UK) Customer referral schemes: once you’ve seen one you’ve seen ‘em all, you might think. That is, until now. PlusNet, the popular UK Internet Service Provider today announced an exclusive new method of generating new business based upon word-of-mouth recommendation.
Four weeks ago, PlusNet first announced to their customers the launch of ‘My Referral’ - a scheme whereby a discount is offered against a customer’s subscription for every signup generated upon referral. Applying to a range of PlusNet’s unmetered ‘Connect’ and broadband ADSL products, this scheme enables a customer to effectively get free Internet access when they recommend enough people.
Unlike most referral schemes, the discount is not a one-off payment but continues for as long as the recommended party remains a paying customer. “The ‘My Referral’ scheme has been well received from the outset”, stated Alistair Wyse, Product and Service Development Director for PlusNet, “Already, upwards of a third of our new subscribers are coming directly from referral”.
Today however, PlusNet announced that they are going one step further and encouraging their customers to actually MAKE MONEY on the deal! Once the total amount of discount generated through referrals becomes greater than the cost of your subscription, the difference is credited to you.
Wyse continued, “From the outset we have always generated most of our customer growth through referral. Today’s further enhancement to the scheme should go a long way to ensuring that this continues well into the future”.
By logging in to their state-of-the-art web site portal, PlusNet’s customers are able to make referrals with the aid of a simple form, and check on the results of their previous endeavours. They can see, at a glance, which of their referrals have signed up, how much discount this gives them and how much in total they are making from the scheme.
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About PlusNet.
PlusNet (http://www.plus.net/) has been one of the major success stories in the UK Internet market. Together with its parent company, PlusNet Technologies Ltd. PlusNet has seen steady and consistent growth. Backed by Insight Enterprises Inc. (Nasdaq ref NSIT), a Fortune 1000 "one of the 100 fastest growing businesses in the US" company, PlusNet is led by key people who have been involved in the ISP industry for many years.
PlusNet Technologies Ltd. (http://www.plus.net.uk/) was formed initially to enhance the achievements of the Force9 Internet service (http://www.force9.net/) and has gone from strength to strength, becoming an industry leader with services such as PlusNet, Force9 and FreeOnline (http://www.free-online.net/). Now, together with Insight ASP (whose brand MyOpenApps (http://www.myopenapps.com/) currently provides Web-based groupware applications for both residential and business users), PlusNet Technologies Ltd. provide Business Critical Web-based applications and automated Business Execution tools that are deliverable over the World Wide Web.
For more information, please contact:
Peter Jackson,
Communications Officer,
PlusNet Technologies Ltd.
Internet House,
8 Furnival Road,
Sheffield.
S4 7YA
Tel. 0114 220 0051
Email: pressroom@plus.net.uk