How to succeed as a Reseller on the Net

By Harvey Segal

What is a Reseller ?

When a company has a product or a service that they wish to sell
they will often enlist 'resellers' to do the job of finding
customers for them.

You may know a reseller by another name, for example:
agent, associate, communicator, affiliate.

Once the reseller has managed to get the customer to make an
order his job ends. The whole process of handling the order, the
collection of payment, the shipping of goods, is done by the
company (or distributor).

Who benefits ?

This is a tremendous arrangement for both sides.

The distributor simply waits for orders to arrive and has no
involvement in the marketing phase. The reseller simply gets a
customer, for example, to visit a web site and takes no further
part.

Commission is paid to the reseller on the value of orders made.

It is the power of the Internet with the possibility of cheap
or free advertising for a vast audience which makes reselling
such an outstanding business opportunity.

And if you have your own website, where you have the luxury of
posting your own ads for free, then you have an effortless
income-producing system.

Two things which make reselling even more exciting

* If the product can earn you residual income, for example a
monthly commission all the while that the customer continues
to renew it.

* If you can recruit your own resellers and collect commission
either for each reseller or for the products that they sell

What should you look out for ?

Here are some rules for checking out reseller opportunities:

1. The company

First, there would be no point in generating massive
commission on 'paper' only to find that the company are
unreliable, don't pay up on time, or eventually fold.

Test out the company first.
Make an inquiry as if you were a potential customer. Study the
quality of their reply and of their literature or website.

How quickly do they respond ? If their customer service is
poor this does not give much hope for the way they will handle
their resellers.

Are they an ethical company, what guarantees do they provide
for refunds ?

2. The product

Is the product an item which is in good demand ?
What is the rate of commission ?

These two factors will determine your potential earnings.

As a guide commission should range from 25 to 50%.

3. Assistance with promotion

Does the company provide advertising material for their
resellers ?
In particular do they provide a personalised web site ?

4. The cost

What is the cost of becoming a reseller ?

This can vary from
- completely free
- paying an initial one off payment
- paying a monthly subscription

You don't have to be deterred by reselling opportunities where
payment is involved. These may offer greater benefits such as
advanced promotion techniques and commission which will
quickly outweigh the payments.

For example $30 per month may seem a high figure but if you
regard it as one dollar a day to have the company's products
displayed 24 hours a day to the whole world on your own
personalised web site it could be viewed as the bargain of the
century.

Can anyone become a reseller ?

Reseller opportunities are ideal for both experienced
online marketeers and for newcomers to the Internet. Here's
why:

1) Experienced online marketeers

If you have an established web site the minimum that you need
to do is post an ad on your own site.

And there's no need to stop at one product.
Providing that you don't overload your web site with ads you
could have many - and you can monitor how they perform so that
you can judge which ones to give prominence to.

2) Newcomers

One of the first and most important skills you will need to
use for any online business is how to place adverts.

Here are some of the things that you start to learn when you
submit ads:

* The various locations where you can place an ad such
as newsgroups, forums, ezines, web sites: and the
different rules and methods used for each one such
as frequency of posting and size of ads.

* How to post information to a mailing list or newsgroup
for free but using a signature file to promote your
products.

* How to code your adverts so that you can identify
where the response originates.

* How to organise your mail files to handle responses.

* How to simplify your own systems so that you have
standard replies to common questions.

* How to set up autoresponders if necessary to take
away the chore of responding manually.

* How to deal with the unexpected (for example, even
though you may clearly spell out in your ad that a
reply should be made to an autoresponder many
people will still reply directly to you).

By taking on a reseller operation you have an ideal
opportunity to practise these methods. This will provide the
experience for whatever online venture you plan as
well as an excellent source of additional income.

For more great reports, ideas and tips from Harvey Segal read
his FREE BOOK - "The SuperTips Book of Internet Marketing"
At: http://www.supertips.com

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