Google Apps for Business will pay users $15 for each referral
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 11 (UPI) -- In order to promote its business apps, Google is offering users $15 for every referral of its Google Apps for Business, a move that signals it is ready to take on Microsoft's Office 365.
Google Apps for Business is a cloud-based suite that comes with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Slides and Sheets -- similar to Microsoft's Powerpoint and Excel, respectively. The service costs $5 a month or $50 a year. The service can be paired with Vault, an email archiving application, for $10 a month.
'The referral program makes it easy to share Google Apps with your network and show them how they too can use these tools at work,' said Prajesh Parekh, a Google marketing lead. 'To show our appreciation, we're offering a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user you refer.'
According to the referral program, a referral will get a user $15 and also be awarded for each referral customer's first 100 users. So if a business signs up for the service and lists 100 of its employees to use it, the person who referred them will make $1,500.
'When we discover something amazing -- whether it's a new local coffee shop or a tool that improves the way we work -- we want to share it with people we know so they can also benefit,' said Parekh.
The rewards program is available only in the U.S. and Canada and the rewards will go directly to a person's bank account. Users are free to refer as many potential customers as they want, but to keep a check on things new customers will have to pay for at least 120 days of the service.
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