| Web templates are the in-thing now-a-days
and most of them are selling like hot cakes resulting into huge profits for web template
providers. You too can cash-in on this web template craze and make money. Discussed in
this article are five effective ways of making money out of web templates.
Five effective ways to make money out of web templates
1. Creating turnkey pages from web templates
Turnkey websites are the hottest resource on the internet.
If you are a web designer, web hosting company or simply own a website you can make good
money by creating turnkey websites from readymade web templates.
What are turn key websites?
Turnkey websites are completely functional websites having
relevant content, domain names and hosting. Depending on the type, turnkey websites can
have shopping carts, interactive scripts, graphics forms, forums, live chats etc. All that
a buyer needs to do is buy the website and he is ready to do business.
What you need to do?
In order to set up a turn key website business, you need to
do the following;
- Purchase professional looking web templates with resell
rights or join a template membership program
- Modify the web templates by adding relevant content, links,
images and graphics
- Purchase domain names and hosting accounts
- Host the completed web templates as websites
- Advertise/promote your websites for sale/rent by SEO and
Email marketing
What will be your ROI?
You ROI Will surely be very high. This is because of the
fact that the retail value of turnkey websites is around $200 - $500 per website and can
also go higher based on the website quality. You can also go for renting your websites
instead of selling them. As you will be purchasing web-templates for a cheaper cost your
ROI will be higher. The best way to go about it is by joining membership programs that
will give you access to a host of web templates at a low one time cost. Also make sure to
host your sites with hosting service providers who offer unlimited domain name hosting.
One good example of a turnkey website service is ready-set-web.com.
2. Joining an affiliate program
Affiliate programs are quite popular over the net. If you
have a well ranking website with a good traffic margin then you can very well join an
affiliate program offered by many if not all web template providers. All that you need to
do is promote their templates and you can make easy money in the form of commissions. What
you need to do? In order to join an affiliate program you need to register yourself for
the program. As soon as the registration process is over you will receive a link or banner
advert that you can place on your website at strategic places. In case your website
visitor clicks the banner and makes the purchase you get a part of the commission.
Commissions can range from 2% to 10% of the actual sales proceeds. Most companies use
tracking software programs or individual services like clicksgalore, commission junction
etc. for tracking sales.
Some good web template providers who offer affiliate
programs are buytemplates.net, templatehunter.com, templatemagic.net and
webzonetemplates.com Before joining an affiliate program make sure that the template
provider offers allied/complimentary services like web hosting, search engine
optimization, content insertion, domain name registration, template customization etc. In
fact the more the complimentary services offered the better will be your returns.
3. Reselling/redistributing web templates
If you own a website that attracts good traffic or is
likely to attract traffic in the future, you can go for purchasing templates as a bulk and
reselling them. To get redistribution rights all that you need to do is purchase
http://www.templatemagic.net reseller templates that many web template providers offer
today. Some good web template vendors who offer reseller templates are
http://www.buytemplates.net , http://www.templatemagic.net and freewebsitetemplates.com.
Purchasing reseller templates on your own and reselling them can fetch you more returns
than by joining an affiliate program.
What you need to do?
All that you need to do is purchase web templates that come
with resell rights. You can then modify the templates and sell them to potential customers
with non-exclusive rights. You certainly need not be a html pro to start this business;
instead you can partner with template providers who offer related services like template
customization, hosting, SEO etc. and earn good commissions by referring your customers to
them.
4. Joining Referral based programs
Referral programs are very unlike affiliate programs in the
sense that they do not involve you to place links or banner ads on your site. This is
basically a word of mouth program and requires you to promote products by word-of-mouth.
In case a customer referred by you joins a membership program or buys a web template and
refers your name in the referral section, you get a commission. But such referral programs
are offered by very few template vendors today.
5. Web designing with web templates
If you are a professional web designer you can earn higher
returns by making use of web templates. Firstly you can satisfy your clients with the
speed at which you complete the work and at the same time get more ROI as the readymade
website templates are way cheap. All that you need to do is buy exclusive templates and
resell them after making modifications. One way to go about it is by joining membership
programs offered by web template providers. This will give you access to a host of web
templates at a one time cost. Most web designers can almost double their profits, take
care of multiple projects and also retain customers by making use of this technique. Also
web designers can attract new customers by lowering their service charges.
So what if you can't make web templates on your own, you
can still cash in on web templates by making use of these sales techniques.
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