Increase Your Web Design Business Revenue & Customer Loyalty Reselling Hosting.

Increase Your Web Design Business Revenue & Customer Loyalty Reselling Hosting.
Web designers and developers are the heart and soul of the
Internet. If you have skills in web design or web
development you can make a growing income on the Internet.
The secret to making money with your web design and
development skills is to include web hosting in your web
design or web development quotes or standard packages.

You can make up to $50 per month per site, hosting your
client sites. And this is much easier than you think. You
don't need to get a dedicated server and you don't need to
worry about trying to compete with web hosting companies.
Most people think about just getting a web site up, and the
first people they think of is web designers. Terms with
"web designer"get more searches per day than terms with
"hosting". People are looking for web designers to get
their sites on the Internet.

Web designers and developers can incorporate the sale of
hosting into their web development and design projects. As
a web designer you can bill your customers for the hosting
fees within the design and then host the account for a year
or on a month to month basis. You will be surprised at how
much extra income you can generate from your web design
customers.

Providing hosting for your web design clients will give you
greater assurance that your customers will come back to you
to make changes or update their site. This allows you to
keep generating income from your work and customer base.
Let's look at some numbers, and how billing for hosting on
top of your web design work can make you some serious
money. Let's assume you get paid $500 - $1000+ for a site
design. If you charge your client for hosting as well you
could generate up to $50 extra per site, per month in
hosting fees. You could make up to $1100 to $1600 per site,
per year instead of just $500 or $1000 per site. With 100
clients this could equate to $110,000 or $160,000 per year
instead of $50,000 - $100,000 per year. On top of this,
remember your client is more likely to come back to you to
update and maintain your site which means more money for
you, for easy work.

With a little effort and focus you could generate a very
healthy income in your web design business. With tools like
Joomla, WordPress and other highly customizable content
management systems you can make the hard work incredibly
efficient so you can focus solely on the design. Right now
there are a myriad of powerful web applications, content
management systems and shopping carts you can quickly
install in your reseller web hosting account and produce a
design for very quickly. There are also a myriad of ready
to run, specialist applications written in ASP, ASP.Net and
PHP that you can bolt on to your customers site, customize
the design for and really impress your them. With these
easily installable web applications you can very quickly
impress your customers and raise the value of your web
design fees - and the fact that they are specialist
customized web applications you have put together, your web
design customer will be happy to pay your hosting fees.

For your design business you don't need anything fancy, you
don't need dedicated servers or specialists billing or
server management systems. You can utilize the cost
efficiencies of shared hosting to maximize your profit. One
way to do it and a lot of designers do this, is get a new
shared hosting account for each site they design and charge
the customer more than they pay.

The better way to do it and really maximize your profit is
to get a reseller hosting account where you can host all
your customer sites in the one hosting account. This works
out much cheaper than getting a separate account for each
customer site. A good reseller account will give you far
more room to move and even greater cost effectiveness which
means even more profit and less effort.

Getting up and running with a good reseller hosting account
is easy and incredibly affordable. For just a few hundred
dollars per year you can host 50 or more sites. A quick
search on reseller hosting will give you plenty to choose
from. In our experience Windows hosting reseller packages
are a good idea as a Windows reseller hosting account will
give you the freedom and choice to run ASP, ASP.Net as well
as PHP sites with MySQL or SQL Server databases. Linux
hosting is incredibly efficient and gives you some of the
cheap hosting options available but does not support ASP or
ASP.Net applications. For an extra few dollars a month you
can get Windows hosting and dramatically increase your
options for your web design customers from a wider array of
available web applications and freely available code in ASP
and ASP.Net.

With Windows hosting you can use all your favorite web
design tools and you'll have the vast resources of
Microsoft development products like Visual Studio at your
disposal. As a reseller looking at Windows hosting accounts
make sure the host offers Multiple IIS sites and not just
unlimited domains. To properly host multiple sites on
Windows each site needs to have it's own entry in IIS
(Internet Information Server - the Windows web server).
Many hosts say unlimited domains and what they really mean
is running unlimited domains on one site. All you get with
unlimited domains on one site, is your multiple domains
show the same site or requires you to write code to detect
the domain and redirect to a directory. This is not a great
way to run your customer sites.

With each site having it's own entry IIS means you can have
separate application settings, assign it to different
application pools and maintain separate log files. This
means you can have more control, more flexibility and
produce a much better solution for your client. Being able
to put your customer sites in separate application pools
means that if one of your customer sites get's busy or some
crazy bug causes a problem it will isolate it to just that
site and you wont end up with all your customers screaming
at you that their sites are down.

After 12 years working on the internet. Through booms,
through busts, good times and bad times web designers and
developers quietly rule the web. Businesses of all sizes
look for web designers first and in our experience they
really don't want to know too much about hosting. As a
designer you can save your clients from the complexity and
confusion of hosting and make money from it. To make money
from hosting your client work you really don't need to leap
out and set yourself up as a web hosting provider with
billing systems, hosting plans and support systems and
processes. Start off by hosting all your sites in one
reseller hosting package and you'll be surprised at just
how much extra money you can make for very little effort.
The best thing of all you can keep your focus on why you
became a web designer - designing web sites!

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