Web Hosting, Email Hosting and Virtual/Dedicated Servers is a large market. However, the market has also been inundated with crazy offers. From the very aggressive reseller packages, to the unbelievable ‘unlimited space / unlimited bandwidth’ all are out there.
So why a need for a new entrant?
Truth be told – in any given market, there are new entrants while at the same time, many are exiting (due to various reasons).
The market still holds potential, if the following conditions are looked into (in our opinion):
- Cost Arbitrage – the cost of provisioning and maintaining a service that has been provisioned should be low
- Quality of Service – the quality of the service needs to uphold to the sales pitch being delivered
- Consolidation of Resources – if resources back-office especially can be consolidated – more time can be devoted to Sales & Marketing
- Front Office Time Utilization – maximizing front-office’s time towards business development
- Business Processes – should be seasoned, and adaptive to the changing market
- Customer Concentric Approach – Customer satisfaction, in particular two words – loyalty and retention should always be the core objective
These are not mere buzzwords, but instead should be looked at multi-spoke elements on which a successful company should run.
So, coming back the main question, what is it different that we are proposing that will guarantee success? The answer in its short form is – nothing new, just rearranging proven methodologies and packaging it.
Our model is to be able to have committed ‘Partners’ who are true business owners, without having to invest money. Commitment can be full-time or part-time. Rewards are equal in both cases – making it simple. If you would like to partner up with us, here is what we have to offer:
To summarize in a bullet-point format, (and in no particular order) here is what we are proposing. These points will also help you answer some of your frequently asked questions:
- To enable you to start your own Web Hosting & Designing Business
- We will own the domain for your business (in your country)
- You will register your business under your own name / company (you can go solo, partnership or incorporated, your choice entirely)
- We will provide a completely built website for you – with a logo for you
- The website will be hosted on the domain you wish to choose for your business
- The website will offer the following services:
- Cloud Based Web Hosting (Linux & Windows) – various packages, you can name them as per your liking and modify the packages as per your locale
- Blog Hosting – various packages
- Web Site Designing (Template Based Designing) – various packages
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Services – various packages
- Audio / Video Streaming
- Business Email – various packages
- Backup MX (Mail) Services
- Virtual Servers – various packages
- DNS Hosting
- The website will offer the following services:
- Domain Name Registration
- Dedicated Servers – various packages
- Spam Filtering Solutions
- SSL Certificates
- Application Hosting – this will be added later as and when you have developed a base clientele as this is slightly more advance
- We will be adding Logo Designing to the portfolio of services
- We will also make a blog for you and provide you with timely articles to populate on your blog with unique content
- We will provide a Twitter Account to you as well
- We will provide a Posterous Account to you as well
- We will provide a Facebook Fan page Account to you as well
- We will provide all the content for the website – the website would be complete in all aspects
- We will even SEO your website
- We will provide a Server / Network Status page to you as well – which will be generic in nature. For example your domain could be bostonhosting.com – the server status page would be status.yourhostingsupport.com – the reason it is generic, is because this generic page is shared amongst all the partners, regardless wherever they are
- We will provide a Customer Support Service URL for you – this again will be generic. It will be something like yourhostingsupport.com
- We will provide a complete support ticket based system
- We will provide all the clients with Flash-based Tutorials for the Control Panel, etc.
- We will provide real-time support chat
- We provide the hosting on a very reliable cloud hosting infrastructure (no single point of failure)
- You are free to bill whatever amount you may wish to your clients depending on the prevailing rates in your locale, we will charge you our low base rates. The ‘buy’ rates from us, will be the same for everyone we partner with. Whether you are a partner in Pakistan, New Zealand, US, Canada, Middle East, Europe, etc. your buy rates are low and same price.
- Everyone gets treated equally. Same price – no regional differences
- We will provide the backend Paypal, Credit Card billing, etc.
- The funds are deposited directly into our account
- We provision the account on your behalf
- We will even provide a local number (in-bound call center) — but this is schedule for 2nd Quarter 2010
- You only have to ‘sell’ (we will also help you in that – more on that later)
- We handle everything – billing, customer support, provisioning, etc.
- We will provide a COMPLETE Billing & Support Management Portal for your clients
- All support will be generic. If your client calls us – we will say “Hosting Support” or “Technical Support” – if they email us, the emails are from support@yourhostingsupport.com
- If someone technical enough were to check who is the registrant of the domain – it will not show (that URL by the way is not the URL, so if you tried looking it up – it will show my name – Faisal Khan)
- The client belongs to you
- When you sign-up a client, he/she/they buy the hosting plan or web-designing plan from your website
- The buy process is taken on the generic URL which is yourhostingsupport.com
- The name on the credit card bill, would be ours (again it is generic in nature)
- Transaction fees is borne by both parties – equally divided
- You will be provided with a business account email
- We will even ship you your business cards from Pakistan
- You would be responsible to meet a very minimum of sales quota – very minimum indeed
- To be sure you are serious, you will be required to pay US$ 100 (because we are throwing everything at you for free), however, we do provide over $500 worth of free hosting coupons to you in return – (more on this later)
- We settle our accounts with you every 15 days
- We will retain a reserve – for refunds (in case there are any)
- If refunds are made, they will be pro-rated from your account as well
- You will be liable for taxes at your end
- Other than what is listed above, no investment from your end is required. Your main goal would be now to propagate and flourish your business. With your identity – your brand and the plans and pricing of your choosing.
If you are serious about opening up a Hosting / Designing business in your geographic city (outside of Pakistan), please use the Contact Us form and send us an email.