Making Money as Reseller of Web Hosting Company

September 1, 2010 by admin  
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Starting your own hosting site means shelling out lot of money. It involves lot of programming and maintains and after sale services cost. But best option for web masters is to become reseller of existing web hosting company. A reseller hosting account is a particular type of web server hosting plan that allows the reseller to buy the hosting services at a discount, or at wholesale, and then offer the hosting to a third party. The third party then becomes a client of the reseller and their hosting resources, such as their allotted hard drive space and bandwidth allowance.

Web hosting companies saves lot of money from marketing by appointing resellers. Resellers of web hosting plans are simply entrepreneurs who are acting as middlemen. They offer the hosting services that they have leased from another web host’s server rather than purchasing and maintaining their own equipment. Resellers simply use their medium to market someone else products and make money.

Most of the time, the quality of services that are offered by resellers is so good that the consumer is not aware that they are dealing with resellers who do not own their own web servers. Because they can pick and choose from many dedicated hosting services, the resellers are in a position to provide their customers with the best of web server hosting plans.

There are many reseller hosting businesses that are quite successful and profitable, and anyone who understands the margins and the numbers can turn some profit in this way. The basis of the profit comes from the fact that a reseller can purchase, for example, approximately 1,000 MB of hard drive space from their web server hosting provider for about $25 a month. They can then repackage that allotment of resources into smaller packages for numerous customers.

Though some companies provide partial access to their products but most of the companies prefer to offer all of them. It is typical to be able to sell a web hosting plan that provides people with about 25 MB of space for a price of about $5 per month. The reseller then has the ability to create 40 hosting packages, and the monthly income could be about $200. While this is not a huge amount, it is basically turning a $25 per month investment into $200, and this process can be repeated to support as many customers as the reseller is able to find.

Often, when a new hosting company is first starting out, there isn’t enough capital to provide the necessary round-the-clock server maintenance, in addition to trying to market and grow their new web server hosting venture. In this case, a new hosting company can start out as a reseller of hosting services and operate that way indefinitely, or until they have enough customers and revenue to justify the capital expenditures to purchase their own dedicated web servers, and hire the support staff to manage and troubleshoot the equipment.

Resellers are making money themselves and also helping web hosting companies to expand their business. So it is a win situation. In almost all cases, when a reseller hosting arrangement is established with the web server hosting company, the reseller is able to set up custom web hosting packages to appeal to a target market. They are also able to put their company name and logo throughout the reseller site so that it is the reseller’s “brand” that the customer becomes familiar with and recognize easily.

 

The Power of Windows Hosting – Save Time and Money

August 9, 2010 by admin  
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Back in 1997 when the majority of web sites were being served from UNIX servers I chose to use Windows servers. I chose Windows servers because they gave the fastest server side development environment with ASP and Access databases. I could cut my teeth on server side programming without killing my brain trying to learn Perl and CGI.

I am an entrepreneur. I don’t care much for technology for technologies sake. I care about technology for what it can do for us as humans. Business is where we can bring about products and services that we can all gain value from and improve our lives.

Windows servers allowed me to focus less on the technical aspects and focus more on the business rules, functions and features of the products and services I wanted to deliver. At that time my sites were simple directories for real estate, motor cars and local sites. Over the following 2 years I got more excited about the Windows platform as a means for more and more people like me to bring about innovations to the internet – fast.

Windows continues to be a great platform to develop dynamic, interactive, database driven sites with ASP, ASP.Net with Access or SQL Server database back ends. This is a wonderful platform to learn the basics of what it takes to develop such a site. ASP and Access provide a solid environment for anyone to learn the basics of coding and databases. The work produced with ASP and Access can be easily converted to ASP.Net and SQL Server to be far more scalable (handle more people using the site at one time).

ASP is a server side programming language based on Basic. Basic is a beginners programming language. Access is a simple desktop database application available with Microsoft Office that provides many wizards and tools to quickly develop a functional database. You will find many learning resources, tutorials and free code and samples for both ASP and Access across the internet.

Once you have developed or copied and pasted some code and server side databases together you will gain an incredible amount of confidence. You will naturally move on to more advanced projects. You will also be open to a whole new world of freely downloadable web applications (open source and generally free) to modify and try on your sites. In doing this you will come across sites written in PHP and ASP.net requiring MySQL or SQL server databases. If you are running your sites on a Windows server you can plat around with the whole world of server side scripting languages: from ASP to PHP, ASP.Net and even Perl!

The Windows Server hosting environment will help a beginner gain confidence and skills in the basics of developing a dynamic web application. Then it will allow you to progress to more advanced web applications using a mix of ASP, ASP.Net, PHP with MySQL and SQL server back-end. A good Windows host will allow you to run ASP, ASP.net and PHP with MySQL or SQL server all on the one site. You will find a Windows hosting account will give you far more freedom and flexibility to run a wide range of web applications and allow you to get a dynamic web site up and running fast.

Today I still prefer to prototype a site with ASP and then once proven move it to ASP.Net or PHP so it is scalable. ASP allows me to quickly get my ideas up and running fast. With feedback and if it is successful I can invest more time in a more appropriate language for the application with ASP.Net or PHP. A Windows hosting environment provides me this flexibility.

If you’re looking to start in the world of developing web sites or want to take your web design skills to the next level, the world of Windows hosting is a good place to start. It will allow you to develop your skills with a very simple coding language and database with ASP and MS-Access. The Windows hosting environment will feel familiar with concepts you are used to, from using the Windows operating system on your desktop or notebook. And when you’re ready to take your projects further with ASP.Net or PHP your Windows server will be able to handle that too.

In a world where time is money and both are in short supply, flexibility is key. A Windows hosting environment will provide you with the necessary flexibility to save both time and money and get your web projects up and running faster.

DomainGraduate – Make money online buying Domains

August 9, 2010 by admin  
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Expert Sean Stafford shows the average Joe a step by step plan to making 6 figures a year of passive income by simply understanding the domain market and investing in undervalued domain real estate
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The Domain Selling Business …. How to Really Make Money on Internet !

July 28, 2010 by admin  
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The Domain Selling Business

How to really make money on Internet

The Domain Selling Business.

A real business where insight and timing are critical. Where smart people can make money by making smart moves. In other words, a true Internet business that could make you a millionaire. If you have the skills, the smarts and the moxie, and the key insights.

Why do People buy domain names?

Everyone in the business industry is aware of the value of the right domain name. It is the company’s brand name and it is critical to driving traffic to the home website. The right domain name is worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars to a business. The right name is so generic that a user might type in a random phrase and add .com or .net and land on that respective businesses site. Check out what some very recent domain names went at public auction.

Lips.com sold for $135,000 on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Note.com went for $115,000 on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Forest.com for $110,721 on SEDO.

And Coed.com for $88,240 on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

How to really make money on selling Domains?

That’s some serious money. Imagine where you would be right now if you had purchased any one of these a few years ago when domain names were so cheap people could buy these basic names at less than $10.00 per name. Better yet imagine where you would be if you had the foresight to have purchased any two of these basic domain names.

Here is how lucrative domain reselling can be – these six entities each sold for $10,000.00 at the recent

TechnologyFund.com on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

PinkRoses.com on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Pensions.net on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

FreeSoft.com on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

EatFree.com on Afternic/BuyDomains

212.net on Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Four of these break the rules of a single word domain name yet they met the needs of a specific company and were worth the thousands that the right company put forth to secure the name

A wealth of web sites exist devoted to the marketing and sales of domain names

Moniker.com

Moniker is the only provider of the trademark Domain Asset Management services. The company provides a single-point-of-access to manage domains and maximize the selling of those names. Moniker is the company that recently handled the sale of the domain name Porn.com for $9.5 million. The company also handled Sex.com which sold for $12 million in cash and stock. How about Autos.com for $2 million, Cameras.com at $1.5 million and Scores.com for $1.2 million? Moniker also handled the sales of student.com, ethanol.com, cardiology.com, and more.

SEDO.com

SEDO has more than 500,000 members trading domains around the world. SEDO currently has more than 8 million premium domain names available and is working globally in more than 21 languages. SEDO offers it users all of the tools necessary to buy and sell domains including domain name appraisals, brokerage services, promotion, and a domain parking program.

Check out these numbers – 1,500 domain sales a month yielding $3 million in sales – 8,000,000 domains available, 3,000,000 of them parked.

Afternic.com

Afternic.com is another leading domain name company that is recognized for its work in the secondary-domain-name business. Offering an extensive exchange network, the company works with partner domain name registrars and then refers buyers for aftermarket domain purchases. Afternic is another one stop shop that provides anonymous sale environment for potential bidders.

Afternic managed the $1 million sale of Fish.com. Since 2002, the company has experienced triple-digit annual growth rates.

1DollarDomainPage.com

1DollarDomainPage.com is a one stop portal that features the latest in the domain marketing field. The site advertises domains for sale by category and offer free classified advertising space, options such as hosting services, leasing, job opportunities and other items wanted or for sale. It also offers a series of live chat rooms that are available to every pixel owner including rooms that offer discussion options devoted to beginners and newbies to the domain business. The site also offers chat rooms broken out for those people who selling or buying and even offers one chat area focused solely on those who are seeking one specific domain or website.

MillionSnapNames.com, TdNam.com, GreatDomains.com, and more.

How much will people pay for the right domain name? A Lot!!

We have already talked about Porn.com and Sex.com but how about diamond.com, business.com, and beer.com? Each sold for 7.5 million dollars apiece in 1999. After the dot com bubble burst in 2001 the general consensus was that no other domain name would reach the lofty heights that business.com was able to attain. Man, were folks wrong! Casino.com sold for 5.5 million in May of this year, Korea.com sold for $5 million in January and Shop.com sold for 3.5 million in 2005.

Domain Names Have Their Own Image

Let’s face it, image is exceptionally critical to ever business and domain names foster their own image. Short, one word names with the dot com after them are in extreme demand. A domain name must be memorable because a domain name must be able to stand alone. Customer’s today type in the most used domain names simply from memory. A great domain name means search engines simply aren’t necessary.

Though everyone wants that one word name, it is possible to create some really useful domain options using simple prefixes. A simple example is the use of the word auto and the long ago sold out auto.com domain name. Other options can work for that same term, automart.com. autodepot.com, autoland.com, usedauto.com, etc. The trick is to be creative but to get something simple that sells the business at hand.

Do you have skills predicting future trends? What names might be big in the next few years if a woman or a black man were elected president, if an issue other than terrorism begins to creep into the world psyche? If green becomes in or America revamps its health care system what will be the key domain names that will represent the future? What names today represent a great business opportunities for you tomorrow?

Understanding the Method of Making Money Through Web-hosting Service

July 23, 2010 by admin  
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Web hosting can be considered as a subscription oriented business. Once a customer subscribes to your hosting service, you will then earn constant money, on a monthly basis and that too with no additional investment from your side. If you don’t have the right quantity of money towards a web hosting business, then in that case, you can start a reseller web hosting business for a far lesser price. You will then comfortably be able to offer the reseller hosting package, along with the whole seller free and domain name registration facility. On the other hand, investing in a web hosting business through the traditional way will involve huge investment whereby you would be investing big time money towards purchasing the equipment and software. Hence, starting a reseller web hosting business is the right choice.

Starting a reseller web hosting business is a better option to earn money. A reseller hosting account involves a particular web hosting plan, by which the reseller can buy the hosting service at a discount or at a wholesale rate and then offer the same hosting service to a third party. Resellers of web hosting plans are nothing but entrepreneurs who act as middleman. Resellers of web hosting plans basically lease their hosting service from another web host’s server rather than taking the pains to purchase and maintain their own equipment. By this way, a seller saves on basic investment over heads. This is because a reseller who deals with web hosting service, don’t have to worry about maintaining equipment or software. In case there arise any problem with the server, it is the whole seller who will resolve the issue, not the re-seller. The customer will not be aware as to who actually restored the server issue.

A reseller web hosting business can be conducted from anywhere around. The basic criteria required for a web hosting business is the internet access. If you want to be successful in your web hosting business, you need to think local. Check for new customers who are around you. In other words, look out for customers at your workplace, your neighborhood, friends and relatives too. You could also find customers from your cell phone numbers and email contact list. This is a simple idea of fishing for customers who are within your source of contact. You can promote your web hosting business by posting on relevant blogs, forums and using text link ads. You can send your company related information through news letters to targeted customers. You can also have a website, containing various sections, in the form of advertisements. Your visitor will then select on the appropriate advertising section of interest and thereby get access to more information about the concerned web hosting package and thus be tempted to buy what they need. By this method, you are actually helping your visitors to narrow down their search and be able to select a package that is suitable for their business.

A reseller web hosting business can be started by a person who knows basic windows experience. You don’t have to be an expert in java developer or any kind of software programming expert. When you enter into the reseller web hosting business, it is important to know the reliability and the credibility of the company. Otherwise, you can be in losses and ultimately end up in subsequent closure of your reseller hosting account. I would like to conclude this article by encouraging you to take up a re-seller web hosting business which involves a very small investment plan. The investment is in the form of a monthly or yearly fee for availing this opportunity of conducting the concerned reseller web hosting business.

Money Making Secrets from Expired Domain Names

July 17, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Domain Name

Once you have registered an expired domain of your choice, you will be ready now to devise and plan ways for making money with the expired domain. You can use a number of monetizing methods to make money from your expired domain names. Each expired domain sold by domain traders is unique and two domain names are never similar. Thus, you can never find a monetizing method that works in a similar way for all domains. Above all, there is no one monetizing service that can work and perform better than other domains.


Almost all expired domain speculators and traders use a number of monetizing services for their expired domains. The first service that they use for monetization is domain parking offered by a number of domain parking firms. Almost all domain expired traders use this service as a tool to drive traffic to the domain. Domain parking firm works almost like a Pay per Click engine, when every successful click on the ad banner hosted by the firm will provide a small share of income.


Some of the popular domain parking services is Sedo, Domain Sponsor and Fabulous. Pay per click services provides a parking space for your expired domains. Under normal circumstances, as the owner of the domain, your share of the income will be roughly 50% of the amount paid out. The web hosting charges, page development cost and bandwidth are all on the house, while most of the firms do not charge anything for the basic service. It is possible to create targeted traffic to other web sites by using this excellent service.


Most of the domain parking services offers a number of facilities and features to any expired domain trader who wishes to opt for the service. Here are some of the basic features offered to users:


a) Ultra quick and fast loading pages

b) You can choose a number of special landing pages

c) You can also opt for an One Click type of landing page for creating highly targeted traffic

d) As a user, you can also ass a paragraph or two of text or a small image to make the page more relevant and convenient.

e) Create landing page that are SEO friendly

f) Create friendly meta tags to focus at SEO capabilities

g) Choose from an attractive pay package options.


Apart from domain parking, expired domain traders can also choose a convenient affiliate service to create opportunities for making money online in the form of handsome commission. If a visitor makes a decision to purchase a product or service from a web portal, the owner of expired domain will get a percentage of commission. A number of expired domain traders use a popular affiliate web portal like Commission Junction to provide hundreds of sponsors. This wonderful method works profitably with the right type of targeting of site visitors. Expired domains offer you a number choices and methods to monetize your expired domains.

Revenue Domains Exposed – Make Money With Expired Domains.

July 12, 2010 by admin  
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Unlock The Money Making Secrets With Domain Names.

June 22, 2010 by admin  
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Making money from expired domain registration

May 28, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Domain Name

Expired domain names are those that had previously been
registered to another owner. These domain name registration are
available to the open market because of non-payment of the
domain name renewal fees. These domain names are returned to the
open market approximately forty-five days after the domain
registration expiration date.

Subsequent to the dot com crash, expired domain names and
expired domain name traffic have been a source of profits for
many. It is critical to obtain, at a low cost, the automated
tools required to track the thousands of domain registration and
abandoned websites that are removed from the registry and become
available for purchase.

Now, many automated tools and resources are available for
identifying, appraising and even buying these domain
registration on an automated basis.

Expired domain names and the expired domain name traffic
associated with them have been only available to those who had
an automated system and tools.

Numerous domain names are registered for website development,
but do not appear online. In a number of these cases, the domain
name owners do not follow through with respect to the website
development and allow the domain registration to expire.

Also, many domain names even point to fully functioning websites
while many are registered for speculation. Such names are
registered by speculators in the hope of obtaining a profit on
the resale of the domain name registration.

However, there are a number of expired domain names with fully
functioning websites, receiving daily traffic from the search
engines, links and banner ads. The expired domain names that get
this daily traffic can earn revenues if these are redirected to
another website or marketed with affiliate programs.

How To Earn Profits from Expired Domain Names & Expired Domain
Name Traffic:

1. Buying for speculation – There is a large and highly
profitable market for reselling domain names at present, and
speculators are constantly looking out for developing
technologies and trends. Evolution is constantly taking place in
technology and trends. There are markets, being watched closely
right now, that are expected to grow exponentially within a
short span of time. It should be a good idea to locate and
register expiring domain names that are related to new trends,
technology and markets in order to earn substantial profits.

2. Buying expiring domain registration and redirecting the
targeted traffic – Targeted keyword domain names can help to get
traffic from those simply typing in keyword rich domain names
into the address bar and hitting the enter key.

3. Buying expired domain name registration and putting up
generic websites – Using tools like easy website building
software, third party payment processors, auto responders and
other applications, even a novice could put generic websites
online with keyword rich domain names that should appear in the
search engine rankings. These websites can be built using
expired domain names to drive traffic to them and the domain
name registration and the developed website could then be sold
together with the domain name, as a value added commodity.

4. Buying expiring domain names of websites that are already
online – A number of expiring domain names are, actually,
already functioning websites. The owners of these websites
either did not renew their domain registration for some reason
or simply stopped operating the website. In fact, quite often,
these websites already have traffic from links to other
websites, search engine rankings and even directory listings.

5. Buying expired domain names and using them for marketing
affiliate programs – Affiliate programs are a good way to
acquire an online business without even having a product.
Affiliate marketers redirect traffic from the affiliate website
to the website of the actual product or service and charge a
commission or a fee when any of the redirected traffic results
in sales. Affiliate programs have become an automated turnkey
solution for a number of entrepreneurs, especially novices.

One can locate and register expired domain name registration
that closely target the market of the affiliate programs and
then draw that targeted traffic into the website with expired
keyword rich domain names with content that satisfies the
informational needs. Then the users can be led onto the sales
page of the product.

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Buying and Selling Expired Domain Traffic – Tips and Methods to Make Money

January 8, 2010 by admin  
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Expired traffic plays an important role in expired domain business. It is a critical element that can create immense value to your domains. All famous domains invariably had tons of incoming traffic attached to it. People are very eager to buy it if it has traffic and links attached to it. Buying and selling domain traffic is a profitable idea that can result in an ongoing online income to your business. Before you wish to sell it to other people, you may need to acquire domain traffic on a consistent basis. There are actually two different modes of acquiring it to your domain. One method is to purchase the traffic from a reseller by paying a price while the other is to accumulate it by redirecting the traffic to your domain. Purchasing and using expired traffic involves lots of effort, investing time and money.

This method is also a mode of flipping your domains by adding commercial value to the web pages. While flipping your domain, you may need to collect organic type of traffic that is real and well recognized by major search engines. Once you purchase them, you will need to create a redirection mechanism on them so that anyone who makes a visit to your defunct sites will be redirected to your main site.

Selling expired traffic through your expired domains require lot of patience and effort as building quality links will always take lot of time. Domain flipping to add traffic is a value based activity that will eventually end up in selling an expired domain for a very high price. Some of the well-known methods that can bring in lots of traffic are:

a) Affiliate a program that not only provides you an ongoing type of income, but also brings a considerable amount of traffic.

b) Flipped domains with a catchy web site and keyword enriched content will provide you an opportunity to sell them at premium prices. Such domains are very good candidates for PPC campaigns and Google AdSense programs. When you use these innovative methods to promote your expired domains, you are adding quality traffic and inbound links.

c) Placing individual web pages based on defunct and non-functional domains over the internet and insert outgoing links to your main websites. This simple action may result in redirecting traffic to your other web sites. In the meantime, all defunct domains will add invisible value to themselves resulting in increased domain gains.

In essence, expired domain traffic helps you in two distinctive ways:

a) Inflating the inherent value of the domain. Traffic enriched domains can yield you better profits as well.

b)You can also act as an domain traffic reseller by selling traffic to other people. However, collecting such traffic is a dicey affair and a difficult task.

In the end, you may need to search for an effective domain flipping system to add commercial value to your domains. Traffic enriched expired web domains can help you set up a strong and highly profitable domain trading business.

John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is the owner of the path breaking web sites called http://www.expireddomaingains.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.

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