Getting hosting commissions from my office location?

I also have a small SEO firm and digital marketing agency in my local area. Honestly, instead of charging $97 for this service, you could charge $899 or more to set-up their site and $59/mo or more to host it yourself. And then upsell them your SEO services.

But if you really want to do it for free then sign up as an affiliate with the hosting companies and have your client use the affiliate link to sign-up. Most of the major hosting companies have affiliate programs. If they use your affiliate link then you will get paid the commission. Hope this helps.

Ill say it.. just not the best business plan in the world.. what is an affiliate hosting commission? $100? just charge the $100, and then set them up on a hosting plan ( you being the host ) for $50.00 a month or whatever.

Think for a moment.. $50.00 a month from 20 clients... that's $1000.00 every month vs the what $2000.00 one time that you would be getting if they got their own hosting. Those same $2000.00 one time clients could be $12,000.00 a year clients.

Lets go a step beyond the initial concept you have.. doing sites for free basically. You are an SEO specialist correct? So you start building sites.. I'm good with that.. I do the same thing.. but what separates you from every other site builder? Could be the fact that the sites you build are designed with SEO in mind. from the ground up, the sites you would build are SEO ready.

You wouldn't have to go back in and restructure and fix issues.. they would be done right from the beginning. As you add the SEO service to their hosting package, you don't have to wonder what has been done.. has the site been penalized in the past.. is it sandboxed etc.. you would obviously know the history right?

You don't know it.. but you are in a position to charge.. you obviously have made a name for yourself with the SEO aspect of your business - the fact that 20 or so clients are in line to have you build a site says that. and you want to "give it away"?

Don't charge them for building the site then... call it proper SEO structure development. open and shut the door on bringing in these clients as SEO clients all in one step.

20 clients at $50.00 a month isn't so bad... $12k a year.. but 20 clients at $300 ( $50 for hosting $250 for SEO ) a month is $72k a year. Pull your head out of the sand and think like a business for a moment and not some guy that needs to figure out how to pay rent next month. Your chasing peanuts, when there is a better than decent living sitting right in front of you. 20 new clients a year. for 4 years puts you over 1/4 mill a year in re-occurring income.

Look into reseller hosting - I've used two HG reseller accts to host multiple sites but, in the past, I've also used them to provide hosting for a membership on a temporary basis.

Much better to have monthly hosting fees than one time "commission" - and you can put your own name/label on the hosting on a reseller acct. charge $25/month for hosting - and those checks will build as every client who BUYS a site from you will be paying YOU for hosting monthly into the future.

I think your site fees are low - especially considering the time to train someone to use the new site. You could also add a la carte services such as email management, updating the site FOR them monthly, etc.