Google Inc (GOOG) Offering $15 Referral To Promote Its Office Apps

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now mustering all its strength to give a tough competition to Microsoft Office and Office 365 by offering a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user referred.

Prajesh Parekh, a Google marketing head, wrote in a blog post that the internet giant is providing the referral bonus. “we’re offering a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user you refer,” the executive informed.

Google offering variety

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its own office suite for business purpose, which is based on office suite. The package includes Gmail; Google Calendar; Google Drive; Google Docs; Slides, a PowerPoint-like presentation manager; and Sheets, Google’s answer to Excel.

There’s also Google Apps for Business with Vault. Apart from its indigenous apps, Google suite, also, offer some third party apps like Insightly, a small business customer relationship management program. Users, also, use some Google apps like Hangouts for video-conferencing and Google Voice, a VoIP for business purpose though it is not included in the official suite. Marketing head Parekh said that once Google finds out something amazing in the form of local coffee shop or a tool that enhances work, they share it with their users.

“For those of us who use Google Apps, the ability to access all of our documents from anywhere on any device, and being able to seamlessly collaborate with colleagues or customers across the world are impressive moments,” said Parekh.

Exciting deal to users

For accessing Google Apps, a user needs to pay $5 per month per user or $50 a year for users. After purchasing the suite, Google does not limit the number of users. In order to access Google Apps for Business with Vault, user needs to pay $10 a month.

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has offered an impressive deal for the users. A user will get $15 if he refers one user and he or she will be rewarded for each referral customer’s first 100 users. The user will be an individual belonging to the customer domain.  The earnings made by the user will be paid directly to his bank account. Users, who will save the referrals, will get coupons, which will provide $10 discount per user for the first year. A user can give referral to an unlimited number of users, and the amount will be based on the number of users, who have paid for at least 120 days.