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Build successful hosting business - tips for small business and reseller |
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
My research shows that many of the web hosting companies fail every month and most of them are small sized or reseller business.
Owner of such company fail to realize many aspects of this wonderful business which makes him loose the interest in company.
Here are few tips which can makes your web hosting business a success!
1. Research
Start your company after doing a thorough research on web hosting and domain name business. Your research work should consist of subjects like :
a. what will be your company name and domain name?
b. whether you go for reseller account or virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated box
c. select or design a unique web site
d. content of your website
e. hosting plans, this is very important that you put your research more on this point.
2. Hosting Plan
Hosting Plans which you are going to offer to your customers are most important aspect of your business. You need to carefully design each hosting plan and the resources (web space, bandwidth, email etc.) which you are going to offer to them.
3. Price
Pricing of hosting plans has to be competitive. You need to keep in mind that you have to generate money as well because you will need to pay month recurring bills in the form of reseller account/server etc. The mode of payment and billing cycle is also very important.
4. Originality
Design your website content with original work only. Originality will always gets attention of your site visitors. The same applies to your web site's template. A site template should also be unique.
5. Promote your business
You need to keep in mind that your web hosting business is on the "dead end street". You need to put efforts to bring visitors to your shop. Once good flow of visitors start coming, the sale of your products and services starts too. For this to accomplish, you need to promote your website in search engines and directories. There are number of web hosting directories which can be a good start for your new business.
6. Treat your visitors
Offer live support and regularly check your visitors log. Offer them some free product or service so that they keep coming to your site or atleast put your site's url in their bookmark hub. If you can dedicate your time to offer live support, you will definitely get good response from your guests.
These are just few points which will help you to keep your business intact. You need to be self motivated in order to run web hosting business. You can say, "hosting business" is really a game of "patience". So, try to be a good “host” for your “guests”! |
