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[quote author=Brand_new]Is it unlimited domains? That means you will have to design ur website where people can place orders from but it won't be automated.
Like customers will make payments to you and you will in turn fulfill their orders for them after confirming such payments.
Am I correct?[/quote]Everything is automated, go to there website to get more details

[quote author=Brand_new]Which we hosting provider has the cheapest reseller bargains.[/quote]You will need to check google for the cheapest but resellerpanel offers 2.5$ monthly

Some days ago I wrote about making money without spending a dime but today I will be starting a new series along the MMO topic. The online business idea for today is reseller hosting which I believe can help you make a lot of money with minimal initial investment and support mechanism.

What is reseller web hosting?
Reseller hosting is a business model whereby your web hosting account resources (disk space, bandwidth, cpanel like tools, software etc) can be shared with your own customers or third parties to help host their websites.

How can the reseller hosting business work for you?
The money making opportunity that I would like to discuss here can work very well in nigeria where web hosting is still an expensive thing due to localization. I am talking about $4 or 5 for very basic hosting services unless somebody opts for hosting abroad.
Now if you are able to provide quality hosting services for something like $2 per month, there will be a lot of blogs and mini websites that will be interested in your services. Now let’s calculate what it takes to run such a reseller business.

1. Find a good reseller host provider

You can find excellent reseller hosting services. They will provide you all technical infrastructure for disk space, bandwidth, email accounts,website design, maintenance and billing management of your own customers.

2. Brand name & website for your hosting service
Next, you need to have a website where you provide your hosting services. You need to have basic interfaces to promote your services, offer your packages etc. Rest of the things (e.g. billing modules) will be provided by the hosting service. If you are providing very cheap hosting service, you may not need to provide customer support. Otherwise, you may need to provide contact information for support. By the way, if you are a blogger, you can even offer these services on your blog itself. I know this part sounds difficult, well its very easy as all you need will be provided.

3. Create your hosting plans
Here we are talking about splitting your $20 per month reseller plan into something like 50 or 100 slices whereby you charge your customers $1 to $3 per month.
An example is given below.

Your investment
Your premium reseller package: $20
(Note: There are much cheaper options available)

Your returns
Please note that you can get up to 240 clients that fetches up to $480 pm on an investment of $20, just charge 2$ monthly and you good to go.

The tricks of the reseller business model
The following are the tricks and challenges for the reseller hosting online business model.
Go local

A lot of people who are exposed to unlimited good quality shared hosting for $5 or $7 per month may ridicule this idea. But to be frank, there are 1000s of people who pay big hosting charges in their local currencies every month – either due to their lack of awareness or they want to pay in local currencies only and want to be in touch with the local people.
Cheap service, good quality

Of course, nobody can provide unlimited bandwidth and disk space for a $1 or $2 service.
Offer attractive packages without support

Minimizing the customer support effort is the key to make a good margin in the case of reseller hosting business. You have to make the offers at very cheap prices with a disclaimer on no customer support. You can add a premium for email or phone support but even in this case it works out cheaper.
Low initial investment

You can start with one reseller account and keep upgrading it or go for additional accounts (recommended) as your business grow.
Challenges
Hosting is steadily becoming cheaper and cheaper especially due to dropping hardware prices and increased bandwidth availability. Hence at some point, it is going to affect your margins. But in developing nations, it is going to take five or ten years before hosting services are available at dead cheap prices.

uwem18: bt click bank don't accept nigerians

You don't have to tell them you are a nigerian

VickyHills: Please I'd like to know how to market/advertise/sale my product online. I make local juices(Kunu and Zobo)which are very medicinal.

this is some lowly targeted product but you can still make some sell by following this steps.

1:Sell it to yourself first. Before doing anything else, stop and ask yourself the major reason why you would want to order online rather than go to the local sellers. Now, think about how to translate that to an online profile(short article including the known sicknesses they cure).
Bring out the most salient features of your juices, your experience, your passion, and your reasons for making them. Make it clear to readers and JV partners why they should buy from you. If you're not great with words, find a friend who can help you with this really important aspect of selling online – the establishment of your credibility and reliability.

2: Join online juice communities. Depending on what scale you intend to sell your juices(individuals or corporate bodies), you may want to get an account on sites that provides recipes for zobo and kunu. Discuss with the article poster and tell them to market and write a review on your juices for a commission(you can offer them free test of both , also give them 20% commission on every referral)
Read the terms and conditions of every site very carefully. Know what commission or cut the site takes, know what protections (or lack of them) that the site offers, know what clientele generally peruse the site, know the general sales brought in by each sites (you need some tracking tools on your site), know everything you can that is relevant to your sales.
If your goal is to turn your juices into an investment property, then selling online is likely to be a much longer path to this end. This is largely because it is generally more difficult for unknown individuals to buy juice especially kunu and zobo online than it is through a traditional brick and mortal where such concrete decisions can be made safely. It is best to see selling juices online as an adjunct to your usual methods of selling juices, not your only means.

3: Make yourself public. Get yourself out there as best as you can by advertising yourself. Publish some "recipe on zobo" pieces around the web to show what you can do and to demonstrate your style. Be sure to add a link to your website or blog after every post.

Blog about your juices. Given the hundreds of free blogging websites, you have a lot of choice in keeping a blog. Most importantly, it's extremely useful to keep it updated regularly - this gives people something "pretty to look at", and a story to follow as your reputation increases and your sales story grows. A blog can pick up a lot of hits from search engines if you utilize the keywords feature accurately; use it to your advantage. Be sure to name your blog something simple but memorable – you'll want people to be able to find you with ease.
Read How to start a blog and How to increase website traffic

5: Create a mailing list. This could be your most effective tool if managed well. For every sale you make, every person who sends you an email that might be interested, get all of their email addresses in digital database ready for mass emailing. At designated intervals (once a month, every other week, whenever you start a new series) send them all nice, grammatically correct, friendly emails, complete with a neatly set-out testimonies as you claim its medicinal. This keeps you on the radar of past customers, which is important. And if it's a really wonderful newsletter, you might get lucky and they might send it to all of their friends as well – then even more eyes are seeing your work!
Every thoughtful mailing list includes an opt-out option. Don't be threatened by this; see it as good housekeeping and as retaining the clients who really do want to see your items.

8: Consider the option of creating your own site. Having your own site means that you can optimize every page for search engines and it sets you apart from the many recipe writers who only use general juice sales sites. Having your own website means that the viewer is not distracted by other juice makers . You can sell directly from your site via email correspondence with potential buyers (ask them to contact you for prices, location to deliver the juice etc.).
If you're serious about selling your juice online with your own site, then it's essential with a domain name that is either your own name or the name that you want people to associate you with your juice. For example, you could use a domain made up of your first and last name such as vickyhills.com or if you work under a pseudonym then you could use a domain name using that i.e. pseudonym.com.

9: Expect this to be a gradual process and don't expect to sell a lot right away. An online sells business needs to be built up little by little. It's much the same as putting together a company (indeed, you should treat your online juice sales as a business) – you will try to make your name known, or at least give people a hint on who you are as a juice maker, develop your services as you grow, and gain in reputation as time goes on. It may feel like a long time at the beginning but solid and patient foundations will set you up for a good future, as well as maintaining a positive attitude about what you're doing.
Attend as many relevant medical lectures to show your juice as you can. If the shows are juried, display the testimonies your zobo and kunu has attracted as part of your profiles or website backgrounds.
Sorry for the long post
All the best

bakare25: The truth is you need to read the terms and condition to understand this program, just get paid $125 as he claimed, you have to reach a particular number of referalls monthly before they pay that amount. They start with $50. Secondly, promoting affiliate link without a website is like making exhibiton without a show room, however it can work without a website, it will take a bit of effort, it is more than posting link on forums, you may have to make use of youtube,squiddo, ezinearticles etc. Some of these dont come free. Except perhaps there are easier way to do this that i am not aware of. We can share more opinion.

Thanks for the post but I have a question for you, have you promoted any hosting plan before?

gbolakpine: Pls am a student of funaab, abeokuta na dull place to work.... Pls i need to start making or earning a living
by working online, pls how can i go about this.

Look around the business section, lots of threads have been created about getting started. Don't pay anyone for any material as there have been issues of scams lately.
If you need more help ask questions here

haruna1970: @demoreon: Pls kindly help me with the fiverr ebook
too
My email harunanosiru@yahoo.com
Thanks.

Send and delivered

goddamcity: Pls kindly help me with the fiverr ebook too
My email goddamcity2010@gmail.com
Thanks God bless you.

Sent

bara pistis: you got it on point bros,this is a great thread but most of the post ve been seeing here are from kids spitting out nonsense
...it only in nigeria you can get get yourself into 3 businesses and still be a master in them
for me
i will introduce an online model of my offline biz...this will surely require brain work and capital but am sure i will fashion out a way to get it done...certification + security no be yam

Are you into info security?

TheJames: Great answers bro. Welcome to the Lounge Demoreon

You most welcome

maxibrainz: Tanx@TheJames and Demoreon. @Demoreon am sorry if i ofended you with my response on domain biz, i was just trying to be inquisitive, i did some research and got some info about it tanx

I took no offence, glad you found your answers.

2sexy: yeah yeah.. you can say that again. I like the guy question no be small...
and another thing I love about what he did, he checked to feed his inquisitive mind... nice

it doesn't hurt asking questions

albacete:
@2sexy
I must say i'm very much impressed after visiting d thread @ ur siggy. The business concept sure makes sense. Initially, i thought u were one of those guys that talk on paper without having anything on ground.

Even though you don't know exactly when to get paid, it seems to be a very profitable business.

Something just came to my mind now: What if d market become so saturated that there is no sensible domain to register? because d way u guys are going(some registering as much as 10 domains per day), there won't be any left for us that are yet to start.

you sure have a good question about the market getting saturated and non availability of domain names,well I want you to know that everyday over 100,000 domains expires so All you need do is pick some of those domains and you will be fine, also there are lots of softwares that will generate domain names and check if they are available.

Awesome7: I will be building my webpage with dreamweaver, what I dnt realy undastand is, how to set my price and link my homepage presentation with the package I created @ the WHM PAGE

The host coy should give you necessary support about your homepage etc, where did you got the package from?

maxibrainz: I wud like to start fiver but i dont know wot to market there and how do i withdraw the money i get from fiverr because i learnt u paid tru paypal and dis paypal stuff opening and managing it so it wont get frozen or blocked how do i go about that, lastly how do i make my blog to qualify for adsense my blog contain mostly browsing cheat and phone tutorials i get 100-400 visits everyday wot do i do.tanx

Hello bro,
Paypal isn't the only payment option available, fiverr will provide you with it mastercard which you can use anywhere in the world including nigeria.the only catch is that you need to be a level 2 seller(must have made 50sales).
Your blog won't qualify for adsense if it contains cheats as that violate google adsense terms of use, is this traffic unique visitors or average page view?
If its unique visitors why don't you try cpa offers, you can make between 1-5$ per lead,better still try building a list from the visitors, you can rake tons of $$ from that.

nimwin: I'm interested in affiliate marketing. D few products I've seen need you to have a paypal account for payment. How can a nigerian be involved in affiliate marketing pls?

there are tons of affiliate sites that accept nigerians technically,whoever accepts paypal obviously supports direct deposit into a us bank,you can signup for payoneer account, it does come with a us bank account that can be used anywhere in the world and you cashout at any atm location here in nigeria.
What exactly would you like to promote, that way I will be able to help further?

olasesi: ..........Dear webmasters......
..........if a domain name like e.g market.com already exist and i intend to get mine but with the "the" in front of it i.e themarket.com
.......would this be equivalent to copyright infringement?.......


.........tank u as i await ur responses......

.........they will sure be of great help....

No its not if you are adding prefix and suffix, but if you are replacing character e.g microsoft.com to micorsoft.com that's infringment.

2sexy: he means he has taken note of what you just recommended

Oooo my bad..thanks

Goldenheart: check!!!

Can't find it

suxes2005: I paid someone to do it 4 me

Sheyi

Seems to me that you have 2 options
1: contact who opened it and talk to him about withdrawal
2: send to a trusted friend or party, they can help you cashout and send to you via WU or wire depending on how much.

Goldenheart: thanks for the online tip. im working seriously on that.

you will love comics again; Believe it.

just remember me in ur prayers.

Am waiting for the release date of your comics, hope they will be available @ amazon?

suxes2005: How do you guys withdraw paypal funds?

I've been running from paypal since but got clients that trust PP only for payment.

I've read online hw to open a PP acct in 9ja but the prob is hw to get d physical cash.

Sheyi

How did you verify it

tedex1: Plz try and share that bizness plan that turn yur 5k to $1500, u are motivating someone right now.

He has explained that several times.

maclatunji: ^Hehehehe. You see, it isn't as easy as you want newbies to believe. See, no matter how good you think you are, there are 1,001 people better than you and the truth is people have to spend and work their butts off to get there.

Good for you, you have a system that works but don't come here and start making it look as if there is easy money anywhere.

You are right though, affiliate links can be posted and embedded in many places on the internet.

Mr mactunji, am sure you don't know much about me that's why you have this conception about my model.
When I say its free and involves no stress I meant exactly that.
Yes there are tons of people better than i am, FYI I have mentors also.
People fail cos they do the right things the wrong way.
You mention "spending and working your butt off" you don't need to spend 1 cent bt if you consider 1hr working your butt off then good luck.
Am not gonna keep argueing as am here to help people, if there's anyone that feels this isn't easy and stressfree so be it. It works for me and it will work for you

maclatunji: Let me have a look at your affiliate based websites. By the way, you are not telling people that they have to promote their websites which is a lot of hardwork for enough people to see the affiliate offers, click on them and then make purchases before you get a commission, no matter how juicy it is.

I understand your curiosity, but I must sy here "what you don't know, you don't know"
1: you don't need a website
2: you don't need to promote any blog or website
3:my methods are classified and there's nothing anyone can do about that.
4:sorry you can't see my affiliate site or any of my sites.
5:anyone with the will power to succeed will be able to see beyond my 4 steps.
6:I believe in my post I wrote how to get people to signup and I didn't mention any use of website, why did you ignore that part.

Google is your best friend, google each step and you will be fine.

maclatunji: It isn't easy. It takes know-how. @Demeron, do you have a website where you run only affiliate adverts and not Google Adsense?

Its very easy bro as the steps listed requires max of 1hr daily or 4hrs weekly.
Yes I do have sites running affiliate offers not adverts

goldplated: Sounds easy but why will you keep your methods classified? just throw little snippets, i can catch it quickly.

the listed 4 are the fragments you should be able to make some good bucks with that.

[quote author= Icee20]Click on this Link ;www.Azflipping.com for details on how to benefit. Thanks[/quote]So you wanna charge 2500 for a crap software and yet you can't afford 500naira to pay for a domain...you are one of the people that give every genuine marketers bad name.

For those that need a software that crawls the web for quality expired domain try googling PRPOWERSHOT. Its something I use personally and its very good, you can access it from your phone or laptop. also it tells you the age of the domain and you can select between PR1-PR9 domains.

2sexy: I have been away from IM for so long. hey demoreon, whats up. Thanks for the chat.

You most welcome brother

2sexy: @demoreon reply ur email

I have brother

2sexy: Hey I googled it and found a website " delawarenursinghomes.net" do u own that site? please let me know how u rank that site. I will like to learn from u.

nice to have you back 2sexy,missed some of your followup comments
www.delawarenursinghomes.net is one of my demo sites.
It took me exactly 3weeks 2days to get it rank top position.
I targeted exact match domain and I did some little spicin. Shoot me a PM

deji yusuf: the business of selling and marketing information which is desired by a certain group of persons..
pls guys let's keep it cool...

Thanks for the response

maxibrainz: The four steps is what you gave,needed the tricks and were to get the customers but as you said it classified

Why did you choose to ignore this part
[Quote author=demoreon]
At this point i know some would be asking how do i get people to purchase hosting. am sure we both know that making money online is the most targeted niche on the planet meaning at one point theres always a need for domain name and hosting. all you need is just 0.5 % of those hungry people and the rest is history
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I won't give you premium info as the four steps is enough info for anyone that isn't lazy. E.g step 1 says signup at a hosting company, what I expect you to do is type hosting company into google and you will get over 1000 of them.
I understand majority of the over hyped product has affected your judgement on everything you read. Pls ask questions next time rather than jump into conclusions.