Hi, I have a free hosting business with over 2k unique visitors per day to the control panel, which means all of them are interested in web hosting. What could I sell on my control panel? I was thinking of some hosting company affiliate, but still wondering for some other ideas?
Well, as what you seem to be offering is essentially free hosting, I don't really think any of your visitors would be willing to pay for some ebook or such, since they're already doing a lot of saving work on web hosting. If they can't pay for web hosting, they won't pay for something you're trying to sell. There's one thing you can do. Offer a paid hosting plan alongside your free hosting plan. That's the only thing you can do to make profits from there. And selling an ebook on web hosting would be a bad idea. There are hundreds of forums for webmasters, which are available 'free', so why would anyone want to buy a static ebook?
How about doing what some companies already do and setting up your own hosting company? Then simply up selling your service by allowing them to get their sites transferred?
But he is saying that the hosting is free, so therefore I would assume it is ad supported or there are some sort of limits. That's why I was suggesting a premium service, sorry if I misunderstood.
That's a great idea I think. eBook is a good products to earn a good amount from online I believe. But need to be unique and original topic
Sell a ebook, advertisement space, private consulting, affiliate products, re-selling hosting, software.
Totally agree with this guy, why would people want to buy an eBook about hosting? It would be hard to include anything of any true value. The best thing to do would be to offer basic services for free users and then a premium package which can include more web space, MySQL, More FTP accounts... etc.. for paid members.
I should suggest that you pick a couple of good affiliate programs since you have already a good traffic to your site. If the affiliate programs work well then you might consider setting up reselling program involving a very reputed hosting service provider. Thank you and wish you all a very happy New Year!
I agreed with mobile money and sensei Design their advices are sensible. If your costs are not to high comensurate wth good services, you will definitly make waves. I for one tumb up for them. Cheers. Cheers.
You can think about what people need after they have web hosting. Assuming they have websites up and running, they probably want to make some money right? Promoting your affiliate program is a good way, and more ideas may surround materials teaching them how to get traffic to their site.