Can You Make Money Selling Web Hosting? by Bedrich Omacka
There is a new fad in the web hosting market. Reseller hosting. Where
individuals like you and I can become web hosts (sell web hosting) without
having to buy all the infrastructure and do-hickeys that go along with setting
up such a business.
Becoming a web hosting reseller for a web hosting company is becoming a very
profitable past time for a lot of Internet marketers. Being able to earn a
monthly on going income selling a service every webmaster needs with out huge
setup costs is a hard business model to ignore.
So what exactly is reseller hosting and how can you get started?
Reseller hosting allows you to sell a web hosting companies services as your
own. This is called private labelling. Basically they offer you a discount rate
on their web hosting services and you sell it off as your own at any price you
want.
Reseller hosting can start for as little as $20 a month. That means you can
have a full featured web hosting business without any major start up costs.
The great thing about some companies offering reseller web hosting is that they
do all the technical work for you as well. They provide around the clock
support for you, they manage your servers and they can even bill your customers
for you, so all you have to sell is focus on selling their products.
There is more to it but you can find out more about a web hosting companies
reseller program by asking them directly. In this article, I want to focus on
how to make money by selling web hosting.
So how can you make money selling web hosting? Here are my favorite methods.
#1 - Create And Sell Businesses On Ebay
This is my favorite method of generating sales for my web hosting services. In
a nut shell, what I do is I create turnkey businesses (businesses built just to
be resold to other people) on Ebay and charge people a flat monthly fee to host
the site they just brought on my web hosting service.
If you go to Ebay and have a look in the website/businesses for sale section,
you will see people doing just this. It might look strange seeing a website
sell for a few dollars. I never use to understand exactly how they made any
money, then I realized, they were not making money from the sale of the
business, but on the back end. They would create good clean website site, sell
it on Ebay for a few dollars and then charge the buyer to host this site on
their hosting service.
This is perfectly legal, as long as you tell them up front that they must
continue to host their website on your web hosting services for a certain
period of time.
You could easily sell 100 small websites a week on Ebay. On average, you could
sell hosting for $10 a month. So every week, you could be making $1000 a week.
But that's not the best thing, since web hosting is paid monthly, you get paid
monthly for as long as they stay with your web hosting service. This is as
close as a steady pay check as you are going to get with Internet marketing.
You get paid every month whether or not you actually even work.
#2 - Become A Dedicated Hosting Service Just For Blogs
Blogging is hot right now. Very hot. There are an estimated 40,000 new blogs
started every day. EVERY DAY. Can you imagine that? Sure, most of them are
hosted for free, but there are a lot of blogs and bloggers who want the control
of having a domain name and their own web hosting for their blogs.
The great thing about blogs is that they take up very little disk space and
transfer (bandwidth) allowance. You can host many, many blogs with very little
Subscriptions and you can charge a good price for your services.
Another great thing about blogs and bloggers is that most successful bloggers
have more then one blog. This is great because blogs take very little technical
assistance on your part which means you can grow your business quicker and have
more paying customers without the need for costly and time sapping technical
support.
So how can you market your blogging web hosting service? Good question! Here's
an even better answer.
Forums! And not just forums about blogging. Any forum, any topic could be
perfect for a blog, and there are a lot of people in forums looking for a way
to express their interest in their hobby or passion.
You could easily position yourself as the service to go to for niche blogs. You
could target forums that talk about any subject. Fishing, gardening, dog
training, pie eating, you name it.
Posting in forums with helpful answers will no doubt bring you a lot of
qualified business. Just make sure you answer with helpful posts and not just
blatant plugs for your business.
The way to really make an impact with this type of service is to offer
something no one else is doing. Maybe you could get an ebook written about the
secrets to niche blogging and give that away with every hosting sale, or maybe
you could give away free unique content that they could use every month on
their blogs when they sign up for 6 or 12 months of hosting.
There are many ways to make money reselling hosting, and as you can tell, it is
quite the lucrative business model.
To your success.
About the Author
Bedrich Omacka is responsible for maintaining
web hosting reviews site which is full of customers experience with big
web hosts.
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