More Profits in Your Website Hosting Business
By Raynay Valles
More Profits in Your Website Hosting Business
by: Raynay Valles
If you run a website hosting business, you already know the challenges in the business. Thousands of competitors are just a click away, ready to undercut your price.
Potential customers see hosting as a commoditiy and shop by price. Several directories like Hostreview, Acehosts and Hostindex make it easy to comparison shop.
How can you get more profits from your business under these conditions?
FIRST, GET THE CUSTOMER
Calculate the lifetime value of your customer. For example, let's say the average customer stays with you for 15 months and pays 16.95 a month. That means their lifetime value to your company is $254.25. So every customer you acquire makes your business (on average) $254.25.
If a visitor comes to your website, then leaves to comparison shop, you have more than likely lost that sale. Have you invested in sales copy that compels your visitors to buy from you? Does your website help him to see that you are the best choice for his situation? Showcase your credibility, guarantee services and offer incentives to try your service. Make it easy to buy from you.
NEXT, KEEP THE CUSTOMER
Because each customer is hard-won and the value of the customer is so high, you'll want to make sure you have the support services that keep your customers happy.
Once a customer leaves you for another website host, he's gone forever. You probably already make customer service a priority, with email answered in a timely fashion and well-trained technical support. Go the extra mile. Don't wait for customers to contact you. Ask your customer how you're doing.
THEN, SELL MORE TO THE CUSTOMER
The customer has already bought from you. There is familiarity and trust. You can easily offer complimentary items to your current customer list.
The major concern of your customer is how to succeed online. It's easy to offer online marketing tools, ebooks and additional services. It can be as simple as joining an affiliate program for an item your customer may need, then making him aware of the item.
Focus on these 3 areas, getting the customer, keeping the customer and selling more to him. You'll enjoy higher profits in your website hosting business.
About the Author
Raynay Valles is a Marketing Specialist and author of Profitable Website Hosting. Find out how to get the report at http://www.jawdrop.com/ebooks/webhosting.html.
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Unlimited Wealth Creation Through Reseller Hosting
By Ninad Gupte
Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. Here as a business owner, you are buying space from a big hosting company, and redistributing the hosting space to other website owners.
Resellers are nothing but entrepreneurs acting as middlemen, offering you hosting services by leasing time and space from another Web host's server rather than owning their own. Most of the times, the quality of services offered by resellers are so good that consumers do not even have the idea that they are dealing with resellers who do not have servers of their own. Resellers, since they can pick and choose their servers, are basically in a position to provide the customers with the best of services.
Reseller hosting business can be quite a profit making venture once you understand the figures and profit margins involved. Let us go through them. One can buy around 1000 MB space from a major web host at a cost of $25 per month. This 1000 MB space that you now own can in turn be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their site. Here you can give about 25 MB space for around $5 per month. Which means your monthly income comes to around $200 when you sell 40 hosting packages. Want more. some hosts allow you to oversell the space and do not charge you extra unless the actual usage of your account exceeds 1000MB. It is seen that a typical user uses less than half of the allotted web space. which means you can double or even triple sell your quota and make unlimited wealth.
And mind well, this income is residual income. It will keep coming to you month after month, year after year. You do the work once. and get paid for it over and over. All you are doing is buying space from a major web hosting company and becoming a reseller host. Your efforts are focused towards selling hosting space and the rest is handled by your web host. Some of them even handle customer service to your customers for a nominal fee. which makes it even easier for you.
If this is not enough. you can earn additional residual incomes by adding recruiting more resellers through you. By doing this you will earn regular commissions on their monthly sales. isn't this smart business. The profit margins in the business of reseller hosting is quite good and you can start on this exciting business venture even if you do not have the required expertise and access to funds for setting up the required infrastructure. Strange as it might sound, there are also times where a reseller can also be more scalable than a typical hosting firm. A true Web host is limited by its hardware; if a client suddenly requires an upgrade the host is not prepared for, the only way the host will be able to satisfy the customer is by upgrading its hardware - expensive and time consuming for both sides. The reseller host, however, can simply choose to locate with a different Web host that will better suit the customer's needs.
Happy Wealth Creation!!!
(About Author)
Ninad Gupte is the Founder, CEO of www.linuxresellerhosting.com. He has trained as an Electronics Engineer from Mumbai University, and has a Diploma in Advanced Computing from CDAC. He has served as the Director ¬Technologies in Webmoney India Pvt. Ltd. He has executed several turnkey B2B Web application projects like House layouts, Maharashtra State Electricity Board and portals & sites like McDonalds India, Air France and RPG Raychem. To take his dreams forward of forming a technology oriented diversified company, Interpole Solutions was formed in March 2001. The company was setup with a strong base of skills and a deep understanding of technologies mastered by Ninad.
He can be contacted at ninad@linuxresellerhosting.com or at 91-22-2436 4111 and
91-22-2436 4112.
About the Author
Ninad Gupte is the Founder, CEO of www.linuxresellerhosting.com. He has trained as an Electronics Engineer from Mumbai University, and has a Diploma in Advanced Computing from CDAC. He has served as the Director ¬Technologies in Webmoney India Pvt. Ltd. He has executed several turnkey B2B Web application projects like House layouts, Maharashtra State Electricity Board and portals & sites like McDonalds India, Air France and RPG Raychem.
It is time to become a web hosting reseller.
By Abdillahi Abdillahi
As we know the web hosting industry is a multi billion dollar market that has became easy and automated which enables anyone to offer high quality web hosting services without spending a lot money so if you buy a reseller hosting package today then you will be running your own web hosting company overnight in the same time estimating the sure profits that you will make.
Everyday people from all over the world start new hosting companies by buying a reseller hosting package from a hosting company. There are many reasons which make people start hosting companies and the following are some of them but are not limited to.
Add more value to your current business.
Adding a web hosting service to your current business will add more value to it. No matter what kind of business you are in you can add web hosting service to it.
You will be able to offer many different services to your current customers including the most important one which is web hosting because everyone wants to have a site online these days for many purposes.
Increase your monthly income.
When you add web hosting service to your current business then you increase your monthly income by 100%. Lets suppose you have 200 web design customers who spend $5.00 per month for web hosting service which you outsource to a web hosting company.
And now by calculating what these customers of yours spend the outsourced hosting services then it will be $1,000. So as you can see you are losing $1,000.
Wouldn't it be better if you offer them your web design service plus web hosting service and increase your monthly income by 100% ? Sure it is.
Even if you are not a web designer and have another service that has nothing to do with hosting but still you can offer hosting services to your current customers in the same time increase your income. So add web hosting service to your current business and see your income souring.
Set your own prices.
When you buy a reseller hosting package and start your own web hosting company then you will be able to set your own prices and be your own boss. You will be able to charge your customers what you want. Bill them the way you want.
You can even offer free hosting to whoever you want to offer.
Also can set lower prices compared to the prices of the hosting company which you bought the hosting reseller package from in that way you can get many customers in no time in the same time make profits
Set up Customer accounts
Before I started my hosting business I used to get hosting for some of my web design customers from a hosting company which was good.
But there was one problem which was about the account activation time and I found that a big problem. They used to activate accounts within five business days !can you believe that? If I knew that it will take all that time to activate account with them then I wouldn't have bought any hosting package from them. I think you see the point.
Having your own web hosting company lets you set up customer accounts instantly or whenever you want. You will not have to wait some hosting company to set up your customer accounts instead you will do it by yourself. It is your company and you are the boss.
No need to worry about getting customers.
Whenever someone stars a hosting company the first question they ask is "How will I get customers"? Even though most of those people have some ready customers like friends etc but the question still is being asked.
But you don't need to worry about getting customers because you already have customers. For example if you are a web designer then your current web design customers will get hosting from you so that means no need to worry.
Of course not only web designers have ready customers for their new web hosting service but anyone with any business that has customers have also ready customers for his new service which is web hosting.
Conclussion
These were some of the main reasons which make people start their own web hosting companies. So it is time for you to add a web hosting service to your current business and get your share from this muli billion dollar industry.
If you don't know what to look for in a reseller hosting package then make sure you read my article which is titled "Six main things to consider when buying a reseller hosting package".
That article has some of the main things you should consider when you are about to buy any reseller hosting package. Until next time good luck with your new web hosting company.
About the Author
Abdillahi Abdillahi is a web designer, founder and president of http://kooshin.com , a company providing affordable web hosting and web design solutions to small to medium sized businesses and individuals. For more information , please visit http://kooshin.com
6 Main Things To Consider when buying a reseller hosting package
By Abdillahi Abdillahi
Are you ready to start your own web hosting company? The best way to start your own web hosting company is to get a reseller hosting package from a hosting company and start your web hosting company instantly without buying or installing any softwares. But When buying a reseller hosting package, there are many things to consider. So today this article lists the six main things you should consider before buying any reseller package.
1: Control Panel and WHW(Web Host Manager)
This one is ranked number one I guess. Make sure you get a control panel, Cpanel is the best and widely used control panel for any reseller and non reseller accounts. WHM(Web Host Manger) lets you easily manage your customers and hosting business. It lets you set up, delete , monitor web hosting accounts.
I heard that some companies which offer reseller hosting packages set up accounts for you. You shouldn't go with such companies because You want to manage your customers and Your customers want their own control panel where they can manage their sites. So you need to make sure that you get Control Panel and WHM with the reseller package you get. Also any account you create should get its own control panel without paying any extra $$$.
2: Private Name Servers and Dedicated IP address.
These two are very important if you want to keep people from knowing the original hosting company. If you don't have a private name server then you will be using the original hosting company's name servers, e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com and ns2.hostingcompany.
You don't want people to make a who is search and find out about that the original hosting company. In order to hide the original hosting company you must be able to make your own private name servers. Most of the times companies that offer reseller packages give you that but sometimes you need to ask them before making any payment.
Why do you need a dedicated IP address for your site and the sites you are going to host? Well here is the answer. When you get a reseller hosting package, you don't get a dedicated IP address instead you will have to use the shared IP address which the company is using. Even though you can hide them with your private name servers but it will be easy to find them if the IP is resolved.
There are many tools out there that can be used to find out such things, so wouldn't it be better if you were using an IP address that your site and the sites you host will be using instead of the one which the company and millions of their shared hosting customers are using? I'm sure it would be. But getting a dedicated IP address can cost you like $2-$5 per month and as you can see it worths. After all you don't want potential clients to go the the original company so make sure you get those two ready for your new hosting company.
3: Quality Customer Support
Well here comes another important one. Once you start a web hosting company, it can be very stressful. Clients keep opening tickets. So for that reason and many other reasons you will need efficient and friendly support from the company which you are buying the reseller hosting package from.
They must be there for you 24/7 to assist you with any questions you may have. And make sure they don't charge you any $$ for offering support to your customers because Some companies do charge extra $$ for offering great 24/7 support for your customers.
4: Branding
They should allow Cpanel and WHW branding. What is this? Well let me try to explain it. Cpanel and WHWM branding is customising them with your own graphics using the branding function in WHM(Web Host Manager).
The reason of why this should be considered before buying any reseller hosting package from any hosting company is that you might need to use your own graphics for your cpanel and the cpanel of your accounts so for that reason and many other reasons it is better to make sure whether or not they allow Cpanel and WHW branding.
5: Established Data Center
Well most of the time web hosting companies have well established data center. But still you should check and read their network and data center information, e.g where it is located, security facilities they use, and any other thing that is needed to know about the data center.
After all you don't want to host your site and the sites of your customers on a server which is in the living room of someone :)
6: Acceptable Use Policy(AUP) and Terms of Service (TOS)
This one is also important. You must read the AUP and TOS of the company and see if they mention anything about resellers. Sometimes companies providing reseller packages will make you use their AUP and TOS , which means your site and all the other sites that you are going to host will accept that policy. So if you want to set up your own AUP and TOS then being with a company that doesn't allow such thing will be a big problem.
There are many reasons which you should consider this , lets suppose the company which you are going to get the reseller package doesn't allow adult hosting on the server but you want to host adult sites ,anysite, for just building a great client base so as you can see that policy of not allowing any adult material on the server will lose you many clients and also will make you look for another company. I think that is one enough reason to read and triple read the policies of any hosting company that you want to get a reseller hosting package from.
Conclussion
There you go, These are the six main things you should consider before buying any reseller hosting package. Now that you know these main things then you should start searching for the best hosting comapany that will meet your needs and your client's needs.
About the Author
Abdillahi Abdillahi is a web designer, founder and president of http://kooshin.com, a company providing affordable web hosting and web design solutions to small to medium sized businesses and individuals. For more information, please visit http://kooshin.com
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