Offline Marketing - Question Re Setting Up Hosting/Aweber for Clients - Cash Cow Method

I think it's best for your clients to set up their own accounts. You certainly can help them. And you would need their sign-up names and p'words so you could work with them/for them.

Some folks have said it is okay to use your own account - especially regarding AWeber. Certainly AWeber has unlimited number of lists you can do, but... to me, this is rather unprofessional. I'd consider doing it for friends and family only. And same for website-hosting, if not more so.

This is how I approach things.

Hope this helps,
Dot

I would create an aWeber account for them, or have them do it through your affiliate link. It's more prefessional to be able to turn it over to them when/if your relationship ends.

I would create a reseller account at Hostgator and set their account up on that. You get annual commissions for domain and hosting for their account.

I charge $100 for email prep, then $100 for actual transmission and I provide tracking report as part of that. They get a report of the success of the campaign.

Hope this helps. Good luck out there.

Thanks to both of you for the input! Helpful indeed. Marcus, are you charging $200 per e-mail then? Or is that per month?

aekaplan,

I charge $200 per email and I give them a complete tracking report of that campaign and a consultation with it. I haven't had complaints about that price point (as long as they get some results

DO NOT USE THEIR LIST - Resist this temptation at all costs. This is a surefire way to kill your own business. Those customers have optin with your client not you.
Using your account or setting up one for them - it can go either way - I look at the size of their list and its potential growth. If I think its going to stay small <2,000 then I'll put them on my account. If its big or has the potential to be large then they should go on their own account. It also depends on if I think there is going to be a long term relationship. If they look like they just want it set up so they or their brother in law can run it then you need to get them their own account.

Personally I have a dedicated server which means its very easy for me to host outside accounts - but I typically don't. The majority of the outside accounts I host are people who I do work for on a regular basis. People who have specialty websites.
Hosting is so cheap its not worth my time to collect the $9 per month (or less) and then still provide customer support.
I usually recommend people host with a 3rd party like hostgator - they will handle all the customer support questions. Besides at some point your customer will use someone else to work their site and having the site hosted with a neutral 3rd party will eliminate any awkwardness of them having to deal with you for hosting and someone else for their site.

Flat monthly fee based on X number of emails per month and then $xxx.xx per mailing over the base number. They can provide copy or you can do it - for the most part they need to provide you with enough copy that you can tweak it to get the best response.