Would you sell ads on your hosting company site?

When I was running a hosting company, I would get contacted by some web designers at least once a week and they’d always be wanting me to link to their site. Sometimes they’d promise me a percent of any business I send them. I never took up any of those offers. Why should I send them my customers? When I was running a hosting company, I would get contacted by some web designers at least once a week and they’d always be wanting me to link to their site. Sometimes they’d promise me a percent of any business I send them. I never took up any of those offers. Why should I send them my customers?

It occurred to me recently that I should have sold them an advertising link on my site. Even something cheap, like $5 a month, would have added up. Even if ust 5% of the people who contacted me asking for a link accepted my offer, I estimate about a hundred would have been paying for ads by the end of the first year.

That’s an extra $500 a month. I could have used that to hire a remote server admin in India or something, LoL.