How To Make Money Reselling Website

Web hosting forms the core of all kinds of e-business opportunities today. The reason is simple; every website needs a web server to function, and hosting space to secure the files required for its functioning. Web hosting is a big business opportunity in itself, though not too many succeed in deciphering this simple secret! .By making use of reseller hosting plans, you can literally start a brand new web hosting business without investing a fortune and without having any prior expertise.

How Reselling Works

When you sign up to resell domain names and web hosting, you will be given a website that is a replica of the company you will be selling for.  It will look something like this.The site will be synched with your unique reseller ID so you'll automatically get credit for every sale. You'll have the opportunity to customize your storefront, set the prices for domain names, web hosting and other products and services.  Every time an order is placed from your reseller site, you earn a commission.There is no technical experience involved in reselling, and you'll have access to a control panel that you can use to customize the reseller site with your own name, colors, text, etc.

Income Potential

Think of all the people you know who need a website.  You could just print out business cards with your reseller website address and hand them out to anyone and everyone you know. Also, if you have a blog or a website that targets people who need domains and hosting, you can refer them to your store.How many people do you know with Blogger (or other free sites) that hate having that long, awkward address? Encourage them to get a REAL domain (website.com) and forward it to their blogger blog. You don't have to help these people build their sites because the registrars support staff handles all that.  Or if you are capable, you can setup their sites for them. So don't worry if you are not a web programmer.  You don't have to be.  You just have to know how generate customers to your store -- whether that's through the Internet (SEO, video, etc.) or offline through web classes, seminars, etc.

 Needless to mention, no matter how simple it sounds, it is hard work to kick off any business in the world and not everyone's attempts pay off; having said that, if you go by the simple steps described here, you have all the chances in the world to succeed in this field.

1. Research

All good business plans begin with adequate research: How much competition is there? How successful are they? What are they doing right? What do consumers want that these companies don't already provide? Research of web hosting and reselling is relatively easy compared to some other businesses. Web-hosting companies and resellers have an online presence, and the information you need is literally at your fingertips.

2. Create a Business Plan

Web-hosting resellers can sign up for a reseller account and be "in business" in a matter of minutes. The very ease of getting started leads many of these businesses to fail. Many people start with unrealistic revenue and work expectations and no plan. Customers don't automatically flock to a new company. Plan how you will market the company. To write a proper business plan, determine how much money you will need to get the business running and how much will be needed for the first year. There is a lot of competition, so identify a specific customer base or genre, such as local businesses.

 

3. Select a Hosting Company

Many web-hosting companies offer reseller accounts. Identify the well-respected hosting companies during your research phase. The business plan should help determine which hosting companies will likely provide the best services for the new business. Narrow the list of hosting companies down to a few choices, then contact each to discuss your needs and your plan. This contact will also let you gauge how responsive the company is to inquiries.

4.  Choose the Right Reseller Hosting Plan

The reseller hosting plan needs to be chosen wisely, during the initial stages because that's how you'd gain access to wholesale server resources, which can be bifurcated at a later stage, as per your convenience, and then they can be dedicated to your customers as per their needs.
Hence, it becomes a matter of paramount importance that you pay attention to the attributes and features your plan offers, before you actually put your money on it. If you buy bulk server resources, you'll naturally be getting big discounts and thus you will be able to tap more profit from your clients. Yet another thing to be kept in mind is the reliability and reputation of the source, you are buying the hosting reseller plans from. A reliable source will offer great service, and their reputation will help you grow your business faster, while cheap reseller hosting plans come with their share of pain .

5.  Coming Up With Effective Hosting Plans

The key here is to be able to make your web hosting package different from most of the other offerings in the market. You need to step into the customer's shoes and think realistically what would suit you... The best way is to include more and more services as freebies in your hosting package early on, which are otherwise offered at extra cost by even the top web hosting service providers. As an example, you can offer site creation and SEO in the same package as web hosting, at no extra price; but, again you need to learn how to manipulate the pricing, without letting the customers sense the fact that there's some extra cost involved towards the freebies that you're offering.

6.  Branding and Promoting Your Business

Some of the reseller hosting plans give you the liberty of controlling the customer's hosting accounts' control panel and thus you can put the logo of your company over there for promotion and branding. This will show professionalism on your part, which will in turn impress your clients, and they might stay longer with you.  You also get some free of cost advertising credits in some of the reseller hosting plans allowing your customers to promote their business across the social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. You can use these free credits for targeting specific audiences through pay per click advertising, which appear either at the top of the search result or on the side of search results. Of course, these are just the basics of starting a web hosting business through reseller plans, but it is an uphill task to say the least, which demands hard work, patience, dedication and careful market study. If you get the basics right, with strong determination and some nice tactics, you can definitely go a long way in the web hosting arena. A web-hosting reseller purchases services from a larger web-hosting company, splits those services into custom hosting plans, and then resells the services to her own customers. This is similar to the typical wholesaler-retailer business model. It's easy and inexpensive to become a web-hosting reseller, and a properly planned reselling business can make a profit.

7. Get the Word Out

The most challenging part of becoming a web-hosting reseller is marketing the business. Thousands of web hosts are selling services on the Internet, so standing out from the crowd is difficult. Use every opportunity to get the word out about the new business. Use social networking sites, blogs, and online message forums to spread the word while minimizing advertising costs.