If you're reading this article, you've probably already thought about whether or not GDI is a real business or a scam. To figure out if GDI is a scam, you should first ask yourself if they are selling a good product or service or if they are just another MLM or pyramid scheme designed to take your money without giving you anything but promises of great rewards and riches. The correct answer is that they do have a real product or service. In this case, hosting a website.
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They offer a service to host websites. You can get free website hosting on the Internet. In fact, this article is an example of a free web host. They can work well, but you have to give up a few things.
First of all, if you use a free web host, you will always have to pay something. Usually, you will have to put free ads on your site. (web1000 is an exception, but its editor is hard to use and you can't even put banners on it.)
At first, it may not seem like a big deal to have ads on your website. However, if you want this site to be your main business hub, you may end up advertising your biggest competitor, which is not a good idea. Your site does not belong to you. You may own the intellectual property, but you can't do anything if the free web hoster changes their rules, goes out of business, or just changes how their system works. Even with blogger, you have to give them half of the money you make from Adsense. So, if you are serious about having an online business, I think your main site should be one that you own, which means you have to pay for it.
For GDI, this means $10 per month. That's US dollars, so if you're like me and live in Australia, that's not so good. If you use Euros or pounds, though, that's great. For that, you get a website with 6 pages, 10 email addresses, and a domain name. It also comes with a domain/site builder, domain and email forwarding, use your own web builder, and a parking service. The only thing I don't like is that there are only 6 pages. I think 10 pages would be better. But each page can have a lot of information. If you have 10 different businesses, affiliate programmes, or other things, you can give each one its own email address. You can also use the forward feature to send all of those emails to a single box.
You can also choose a domain name, which is another big plus. Most good.com names have been taken for a long time. Also, for many of the other endings, like.au,.us,.uk, etc., there are companies whose sole purpose is to buy up the best domain names and sell them to someone else at a very high price. GDI with the.ws avoids this trap by making sure that the domain name is only sold with the web hosting service and not on its own. This stops people from keeping domain names for themselves. Since.ws is still new, now is the time to get the domain name you want. No extra $20 a year for just registering the domain name.
As their country code, Western Samoa was given the ending.ws. But since it was a small country that didn't need a computer country code but did need hard foreign currency, it made a deal with the founders of GDI to take the.ws ending to the rest of the world (rebranded as .ws for website).
The chance to make money
It's true that not everyone needs a web host. Let's talk about why people have websites. People usually have a website for either BUSINESS or PERSONAL reasons.
In the case of personal websites, many people want their own e-mail addresses and websites for a variety of reasons, such as to stay in touch with family by writing an open letter, to share their beliefs or opinions with the world, to boost their ego and sense of importance, to make photo albums, to join a community, etc. Some people will pay $10 a month to have a website. I think this will get worse as time goes on, as more and more people learn about the web and want their own address or place on it. With people moving around more than ever before in the history of the world, the internet will be one of the best ways to stay in touch with friends. Think about how many people you still know from school after twenty years. If you've moved to a new city, state, or country, you may have lost touch with them. How would you find them if you wanted to? I'm sure I'd do it on the web. As more and more people get their own web pages, this will become easier and easier.
In the case of a website for a business, most companies have one to spread the word about their business. Some also sell directly over the internet, and some, like Ebay, only do business on the internet. I think that what GDI has to offer for a business website is not big enough to meet their needs. GDI is made for small Internet business users, except for a landing page, redirect page, or just the Domain name. That doesn't have to be a bad thing, but it is a fact that affects the business chance. If GDI wants to grow even more, they will have to think about making upgrade packages for the bigger players that are affordable.
For a small business that wants its own six-page website for the first time, GDI is not a bad choice because it also gives them a way to make extra money.
It could be a good way to make money because for every person you bring in, you get $1 a month. Not a lot, since you'd need 10 people to pay for your hosting fee, but the best part is that you get $1 for each person they bring in up to five levels down. The ability to use the work of those below you is what makes this appealing. That can bring in a lot of money. You won't get a million dollars overnight, but you can have a great source of income.
You might be thinking, "It's too late, I missed the GDI wave." No, I don't think so, not at the time this article is written. There are now tens of thousands of GDI members, but the wave won't stop until there are 100s of millions. I don't think there will ever be no more new customers, either. Every year, more and more tech-savvy students graduate from school, and they've been taught that they need their own modern gadgets, like cell phones, e-mail, and even their own website. For kids who spend $50 or more on their cell phones alone every month, $10 a month for their own website is nothing. I can't wait until you don't have to send a resume to a potential employer and can just give them your web address so they can look up your life on their own. So, I think GDI has long-term potential. Yes, there will be a slowdown after the first wave, because there is no such thing as an infinite possibility. There are 6 billion people on the planet, and once the majority of them are customers, you've reached the limit. If a company doesn't have plans to improve a service or make new products, it knows that a market will reach a point where it is full and growth will slow. Since the customers of an MLM company are also its business partners, this is not so good. Any MLM that wants to be successful must either sell a product that needs to be replaced over time, like Tupperware (where did I put that lid? time to go to another party and order another), or offer new services or products to the same downlines.
There are many ways to spread the word about GDI online. I myself am no great saleman. I hate cold calling, knocking on people's doors, and feeling like I'm in their space or coming off as pushy. This is why I love advertising on the Internet. There are no pushy salespeople, and if you don't like the sales pitch, you can go to another site. There are a number of programmes, like turbo GDI and Hits2U, that can help you market GDI. Both of these programmes are affordable.
In short, GDI is an option if you need a web host, especially for Domain names. However, if you don't need a web host and don't know anyone who does, it's probably not for you.
