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Web hosting is a profitable business. However, while you can earn a potentially large amount of residual income from this, you need to be endowed with the right technical skills for you to be able to make it work. If you believe you do not have such skills, an alternative is to go for reseller hosting instead. Reseller hosting works a lot like web hosting, but it is a lot cheaper because you do not have to invest a lot and you do not have the responsibility of setting up the business yourself.
For internet marketers, reselling web hosts is an easy way of earning money online. By becoming a reseller of web hosts, one of your responsibilities is to market the products and services of the web host as your own. Such services are being offered to you at a much lower price so you can sell them at regular price. With just a minimal investment of $20 or so, you can be in the web hosting business.
Besides being cheap, another advantage of getting into the reseller hosting industry is that you are basically free from all the technical works that are usually attached to the web hosting business. You do not even have to worry about customer support because the web host can provide your customers with 24/7 technical support. Server management and billing shall fall under the responsibility of the mother web host. For your part, all you have to do is concentrate in marketing the web host’s services.
You can be a reseller of web hosts through eBay. A good thing to do if you have an eBay account is to come up with businesses or sites that can be resold to others and then offer to host their site at a monthly fee. A lot of people are earning from this. The websites may be sold at a very cheap price, so you cannot earn a lot from the sale of the website, but from the hosting service that you will offer as an add-on. Some people are able to sell at least 100 websites weekly, so if you charge an average of $10/month as hosting fee, that will translate to about $1,000 a week. Further, if you are able to get your clients’ loyalty, you can earn this amount week after week for as long as you can maintain the same number of clients.
Blogs are another avenue by which you can earn money through web hosting. Most blogs are being hosted for free, but many bloggers choose to have their sites hosted. Blogs do not take a lot space and bandwidth, so it is possible to host lots of them. Moreover, blogs are easier to manage, and many bloggers maintain several other blogs, so you get to earn much more quickly without having to invest a lot of time, money and energy.
If you are going to offer your blogging web hosting service, one of the best and most effective ways of advertising your service is by joining forums. Any topic under the sun can be discussed in forums.
You need to create a big impression if you want people to get attracted to your service. Perhaps you can try writing an ebook about blogging and give it for free whenever someone signs up to avail themselves of your services, or you can offer something very interesting and unique as an add-on when they get your services.
Whatever avenue you choose, you are guaranteed to make money selling web hosts.
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