Alibre $99 Challenge Offer Goes Viral with “Refer-a-Friend” Marketing Program

Alibre’s very popular $99 Challenge offer for Alibre Design Standard V11.2 ended on September 29th, the same day we began shipping Alibre Design Version 12.  

The results exceeded our expectations. We are happy to report that we had record sales and profits in August and September. We added thousands of new customers worldwide, including hundreds of multi-seat business customers. Approximately 40% of new customers were business and 60% individual designers. Unit sales increased by an order of magnitude and lead volume more than doubled. We also received excellent blog and media coverage, with more than a dozen articles including several blogs that discussed the offer more than once. German, Japanese, UK, Australian and other Alibre VAR’s reported similar results.

CAD users apparently haven’t gotten enough though. Every day since September 29th folks are telling us why “they” still deserve to get the $99 offer. We have heard everything from “I didn’t realize it was the 29th already” to the equivalent of “the dog ate my sticky note.”

So to reward our customers, and because we don’t like to turn down business, we are going to authorize existing customers to offer the Alibre Design V11.2 for the $99 price to their friends and associates. Effective immediately, existing customers can authorize up to 10 of their friends or associates to buy V11.2 for only $99 each. Existing customers must use the Alibre “Refer-a-Friend” process to authorize the new referrals. In other words, to qualify for the $99 price, an existing Alibre customer must refer you.

Refer-a-Friend leads are the best ones to get, so we reward customers with free maintenance when their referrals buy. You can get complete details on Alibre’s Refer-a-Friend program and begin inviting others immediately at http://www.alibre.com/company/programs/refer.asp.

Customers that purchase Alibre Design Standard V11.2 for $99 can also upgrade to V12 by purchasing a maintenance agreement for $299. In addition to V12, the $299 maintenance agreement includes one year of telephone and online technical support and rights to any new versions or upgrades released in that 12-month period.

Oh, one more thing, for those lonely folks that don’t know anyone that already owns Alibre Design, or for those that just want to get V12 at the best possible price, we are selling Alibre Design Standard V12 plus maintenance for $398 ($99 + $299) to all comers, through the end of October.

Comments

[David]

How about a great deal for existing customers to upgrade from Alibre Design Standard to Professional or Expert? Now that would add even more excitement!

[Andrew]

David,
Give Alibre a call. We do have a promotion for upgrades. Ask for Yulia.