Every single day – well, except the weekend – we’re giving away a 1-year Basic Account package, worth almost $120.

This promotion continues and one lucky person every day has a chance to walk away with this catch.

What we do is that each day, at a different time each day, we post a message to one of our social media accounts – Facebook, Google+, or Twitter – with a link containing a discount code.

The code entitles the first person that applies it to a transaction to a 100% discount on a 1-year Basic Package, worth $119.40.

Each day’s discount code can only be used once, so the first person that applies it to a transaction gets it – first come, first served.

Note: This discount code can only be applied to new signups and upgrades, not to renewals. This is due to a technicality in our present system. However, we’re working on a new billing system, to be launched within a month or two, which will give us the ability to offer discount codes even for renewals.

Good luck to everyone!

Picture by Andrew Magill.

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