The internet has given virtually anybody with an internet connection the ability to run their very own home based business from home with almost no initial investment required. Become a web host reseller and take a big step forward towards running your own profitable home based business. What is a web host reseller? It is someone who leases server resources from a web host provider in order to resell it to others. When setup right, these others won't know that you aren't the main web host provider. People pay you to put their websites on the web.
So what does being a web host reseller require?
The first thing necessary for success in any business is a willingness to persevere through the pain of the initial learning curve. Any business requires work on the front end to setup. If someone is promising you big profits with absolutely no work on your part, chances are it is either illegal or a pipe dream. Becoming a web host reseller will require work on your part. It will require some good old fashioned sweat equity.
The second thing you'll need is a website to promote your new business. You can either develop this website yourself from scratch, buy a template and modify it to your needs, or hire someone to do it for you. The most expensive option is to hire someone else to do it for you but depending on your level of skill may be the most professional. Many people get satisfactory results from doing their own website design.
The third thing you'll need is a good web hosting company that offers a competitive reseller package. Given that a reseller is someone who is reselling someone else's web host access, you need to make sure that the package you choose has enough disk space and bandwidth to meet your growing business' needs. Keep in mind that in the web hosting industry, it is very common to oversell one's resources knowing that most people won't use even half of what you offer them. Based on that, web hosting providers and resellers offer end customers more resources in order to stay competitive with others in the industry.
Fourthly, you'll need to be able to accept payment from your customers. The least expensive option for that is something like Paypal. Paypal allows you to accept credit cards quickly and easily without a credit check or monthly fees. With a payment provider like Paypal, you'll also most likely want a billing software that will take care of keeping customers informed about what they owe and when.
Finally, you'll want to promote your website to get people to sign up for your hosting packages so that you'll make money. This can be anything from pay per click advertising to writing articles like this one to posting on forums and more...
Do you have what it takes? Are you ready to take on the challenge of being a web hosting reseller?
Joe Duchesne is the webmaster of StartaWebHost.com, a membership site dedicated to present and future web host providers and resellers. We provide training on how to start a web hosting business as well as training and support for existing web hosting business owners. We help existing web hosts take their business to another level.
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