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Making Risk-Free Home Based Income With
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In a nutshell, start-off as an affiliate marketer referring
visitors to hosting plans provided by another merchant, equip
yourself with the necessary technical know-how and finally upgrade
to become a hosting reseller under your own brand. Take my words,
that's how many of today's small scale resellers have come into
existence. As a hosting affiliate, your success depends not
only on the efforts you make but the appeal of the plans you
are promoting.
Now there are two broad categories of hosting plans. Firstly,
those typical ones devised along the grids of web space quota
and price. Secondly, those which are conceived to fulfill some
specific need of the hosting consumers e.g. hosting facilities
for sites built on various database technologies, plans for
mini resellers etc. You can do a search for hosting plans on
web host comparison portals such as ISPCheck.com
etc.
To keep the risk level to the minimum, and on the other hand,
to score higher conversion ratio, partner with a host that offers
plans from the latter category of hosting packages (In another
article, I've discussed my experience with such a unique
hosting solution). In the long-run, it's easier to establish
a client base and retain it through need-fulfilling hosting
solutions because these customers are more sticky and less attracted
to everyday sale offers.
Once you see a steady flow of customers being referred through
your web pages, you can start thinking about reselling these
services under your own brand name and claim much larger piece
of the pie than the typical 10-15% cut for the affiliate.
Reseller Plan is a special package that allows one to buy web
space in bulk and sub-divide it into smaller accounts that he
could put up for sale to other clients. Almost all hosts offer
reseller plans. Payment processing capability is also required
to resell these plans online and it's worth to invest in such
a solution.
Let's assume you opt for a $30/month reseller plan that allows
you to host 100 domains within a limit of 1000 mega bytes of
space. Even if the cheapest plan you offer charges $3/m to the
customer on a recurring basis, you only need 10 subscribers
to achieve monthly breakeven figure. The moment your clientele
touches the figure of 11, you are making profit. And depending
on the number of hosting customers that you referred to your
host as an affiliate, you could very well be earning this $30/m
from him and upgrade to a reseller plan for free.
Definitely, there are other aspects that need to be taken care
of, but the scope of this article is limited. It only introduces
you to the opportunity provided by hosting industry - one of
the easiest ones to upgrade from an affiliate marketer to a
service provider. For in-depth knowledge on managing your web
hosting reseller business, visit http://www.reseller-hc.com
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