Reselling

I have been looking into reselling. I am wondering how much profit you are actually able to make off of reselling.

if you can keep a good customer service front, as much as you want. Hook up with a web designer who is secure with your applications. They can bundle your hosting into their purchase price for web site delivery.

Originally Posted by auctioneer

if you can keep a good customer service front, as much as you want. Hook up with a web designer who is secure with your applications. They can bundle your hosting into their purchase price for web site delivery.

Thanks for your reply auctioneer! Reselling is something I would seriously like to look into.

you have to take a risk
you can get a profit
if you are a good businessman/woman then you can make money

Joe

Originally Posted by Daisymae

I have been looking into reselling. I am wondering how much profit you are actually able to make off of reselling.

If you want an easy way to get into the domain reseller business, I would consider a reseller program that handles all billing and customer service for you. Ideally the program will also build the website for you.

Wild West Domains is pretty good at this, but the annual fee is pretty steep. You can sign up with one of their super resellers that sell the same reseller program as they offer it at a better price. ResellerRightNow is such a super reseller.

Good luck!

Hi, Daisymae...

Yes, you can make great money with a Domain Reseller account. But, you have to work at it, as well.

If you are a web designer or developer, an ISP, or an Search Engine Optimization Pro, I would think that this would actually be quite an easy thing to add to your current line of services and/or products.

I am also a Wild West Domains Super Reseller. I run DomainHostmaster.com using my instant reseller store and I resell WWD Basic and Pro reseller accounts (for less than WWD offers them) through my w3DN.com site.

As charly says, the expense may be a little steep for some, however, I have found that if you grab a really good reseller Domain Name (or a few), you should be able to be making a profit within your first year.

If you are a Domainer, the savings over your retail prices for Domains and Hosting, as well as all the other site tools, can be incredible and well worth the annual fee. When you add the fact that you can also resell Merchant Accounts which also can provide a substantial reoccuring revenue stream from your e-commerce clientele, the WWD plan shines.

However, if you simply want to get your feet wet, I would like to recomend that you try a simple and yet very effective program available for free through HDWebHosting.com. Here, you can compete effectively as a web hosting reseller, allowing your clientele great and full-featured shared web hosting solutions that come with a Domain and Site Studio (website builder) both for free as a part of the web hosting account.

While you can setup an account that you could sign-up for at HDWebHosting.com as a Domain Name Sales Reseller site, these plans are primarily for reselling web hosting and lack the complete and advanced Domain Manager that most Domainers would require. But It is great for hosting and these Linux Apache accounts offer more features than is available from Wild West Domain's shared Linux web hosting plans.

As I am primarily spending a great deal of time in Domainer forums and bulletin boards, I try to keep my prices at my WWD and HDWebHosting reseller stores as absolutely low as I possibly can. Domainers, Designers and Webmasters know what Domains and Internet Services cost and aren't about to pay too much to line a reseller's pockets.

However, it is always possible that if you are marketing to the end-using consumer, that you can easily increase your sales traffic with effective PPC marketing campaigns through Google (Adwords), Overture (owned by Yahoo), Kanoodle or some other online advertising method. This would allow you to charge more for your services to recoup your advertising costs.

I and some freinds are currently exploring this opportunity. We believe that by offering domains at reasonable prices (say $9.95 to $12.95/year) we can take advantage of other advanced features of running a Wild West Domains Reseller Store, by allowing affiliates to sign-up and support us, generating commission checks for themselves. At the same time, we can do some real PPC advertising (instead of simply posting our links for free).

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. -Doug

Thank you all for all of your great information. I will carefully check into it. After reading this, I am not sure I will have the time it may take to put into something like this.

Thanks again!

Well, it's not like you have to work on it full time, Daisymae. Obviously, you will get as much out of it as you put into it. This only makes sense. But as I have mentioned, you can get PPC ads working for you, as well.

I am a web designer, Search Engine Optimization and Domainer. I have clientele to keep happy, websites to design, developers to meet with, some 600 domains to promote and possibly sell, several hosting solutions to promote, PPC parking to check-up on, my own websites to maintain, a kid to take care of, a wife to do odd things for, etc... and I am looking into getting another reseller site specifically for the PPC angle, where I am marketing it to the mainstream public at decent, but affordable rates.

But it's just like any venture, you have to either invest some time or money.

I certainly wish you luck no matter what you decide to do.

-Doug

I think customer support is key. I have some accounts I get hosted for some domain names that are joint ventures, even though I have access to a master reseller account. The host I pay for has some boutique features needed to support the domain name owner, and I like not worrying about it when temprary glitches occur in the reseller's end, which sometimes has outages due to that part of the country.

great info dudes thanks a lot