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Setting people up with Email newsletters $$$

by CashDoctor
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Trying to figure out how to approach this. I have 3 prospects who want me to set them up with an email newsletter.

Seems foolish just to help people get set up with constant contact and then constact contact makes money every month. There resller is 15% (woop de doo).

I am in investigating fusemail which kind of seems like these host resellers. I can brand it myself and charge whatever I want and pay like $99 a month. SO I get 10 clients at $50 per each and I net $400 a month.

Anyone doing this? I have 3 people begging me to help them out but I am trying to figure out what is the best aproach. This is a good first step to my offline biz which will do SEO/BLogs and all the other jazz.

Not AWEBER. These are local businesses who will want to manually ad contacts from networking events customers etc..

Would love to be a reseller. Who is good out there for this?

any experiences on being a hosting reseller? I imagine this business model is very similar.

Thanks
#$$$ #email #newsletters #people #setting
  • Profile picture of the author CashDoctor
    anybody? Im sure some of the offliners have to be doing something like this.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    I use a HostGator reseller account and ListMail Pro autoresponder software, along with some other tweaks.

    The again, I'm not offering straight hosting or autoresponder service. Those, and more, are part of service bundles customized for the individual client. As I phrased it in another thread, "they pay me, I handle stuff..."

    If they want to manually collect email data and enter it themselves, I provide a custom form on a password-protected page so they don't have to access the autoresponder control panel itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Koop
    @CashDoctor --

    I am not involved in reselling autoresponder service but am involved with reseller hosting. I haven't heard of fusemail before so the only thing I would advise is to do some research on the company and make sure they are solid and have a great reputation.

    You certainly wouldn't want to set this up with a questionable company as that could come back to bite you.

    On that note, Aweber does offer private label autoresponder accounts and you can check that out here: Private Label Program - Resell AWeber As Your Own Email Marketing Software

    Good luck,
    Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author CashDoctor
    thanks for the info everyone. Fusemail looked good and then I found it was $99 a month to be a reseller and that just entitles you to save 20% on the packages and then charge your customer whatever it wants. I will have to do the math.

    Ideally I am looking for something that I pay a flat fee of $200 per month and then I just load as many clients as possible on there.

    I am still researching and will update this thread with anything I come accross.

    Any others know how to make some good money doing this? This email stuff is a good foot in the door for other business but still want to find a good way to make money here as I like the monthly autopilot of the revenue.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joeman
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Joeman View Post

      most reseller hosting packages have mailing lists as part of the package which will be fine for sending monthly news letter.

      Convince the clients to move hosting to your company and setup the mailing list for them.
      Joeman, this is an important point. Unless you plan to pre-load a sequence of timed messages to be sent to every subscriber, you don't need an autoresponder.

      All you need is a mailing list manager. Cpanel offers several, and there's always the original mailing list packages like Mailman that come with most hosting packages. Set it to an announcement list, where the owner is the only one who can mail the list, and you are set for newsletters.

      As far as volume mailing and throttling issues, most small businesses won't have lists large enough to make that a concern.
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