Part 2: Private Label
- 2.1. Quick Controls
- 2.2. Store Settings
- 2.3. Domain Manager
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- 2.4. Website Template
2.5. Marketing Tools
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- 2.6. E-mails & News
2.7. Account Profile
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2.1.1 Quick Store Set-up - Reseller Store Settings
Fundamental Settings:
Store Name & Store Brand - Define a name of your web store, as well as a recognizable brand name, which will best represent your personal (or web store’s) hosting business concept.
Store Default Currency - Select a currency that would match most of your potential customers' wallets.
Commission Settings – Make basic free reseller hosting commission settings, such as payment method (paper cheque, PayPal, bank wire, wallet) and current release level in a preferred reseller commission currency.
Front Store Settings:
Website Template - Select one of our ready-made, highly customisable website turn-key templates for your online web hosting store.
Remote Domain Search Form - Choose one of our user-friendly remote Domain Search forms if you have a custom-made online store with its own web design. The forms differ in size and functionality, and can be modified up to your layout requirements with the help of a CSS file.
Remote Direct Order Form - Choose one of our user-friendly remote Order forms if you have a custom-made online store with its own web design. The forms differ in size and functionality, and can be modified up to your layout requirements with the help of a CSS file.
Default Data Centre - Choose a Data Center to be set as a default one on your web hosting store's Order Page.
Error Page Trap - Select this option to enable your web hosting offers to be displayed by default on the Error Pages of your customers' websites. This way you use the traffic generated by 400, 401, 403 or 404 error pages to attract new customers to your reseller web store.
Marketing Settings
Boost My Sales - Select this option if you wish to activate our new customer service, aimed at increasing the number of new sign-ups through your web hosting store.
Boost My Renewals – Select this option if you wish to activate our new customer service, aimed at increasing the number of renewed accounts from your existing customers.
Clients' Control Panel Settings
Upgrades Table Options – You have full control over the Upgrades section of your clients' Web Hosting Control Panel. You can, for example, hide (deactivate) the Upgrades section (Add Services, Change Plan, Renew Plan) in cases when you manage the accounts of your customers yourself and do not want to give them access to these upgrade order options.
Set up New Account and Visit Store options - Choose whether to activate the ‘Set Up New Account’ section and the ‘Visit Store’ link in your customers' Web Hosting Control Panel. The first option allows your customers to order new web hosting plans directly from their Web Hosting Control Panel, the second one ensures quick access to your reseller web hosting store offerings.
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2.1.2 Quick Service Set-up - Reseller Services Settings
Optional private label reseller services:
Reseller Wallet - The wallet option gives you the possibility to deposit funds, opening a ‘fee-free checking account’ with us. As soon as you have credited your account, you are able to spend the funds at any time on various reseller services, such as domain registrations/transfers, Private DNS Cluster packages and wholesale-priced web hosting plans.
Reseller Domain Name – Picking a recognisable domain name for your web store is a hugely important factor for the development of unique brand awareness amongst customers. If you are planning to establish a serious, long-term web hosting online business, you definitely have to choose a well recognisable domain name – one that speaks of your web store offerings’ overall concept in a concise and informative way.
* Please, mind that if you do not select a domain name action, your web store template will remain associated with the URL assigned to your reseller account by default.
Private DNS Cluster - It is highly advisable that you use the Private DNS Cluster service, since it will let you register your own private brand name servers allocated to the DNS records of both your reseller domain and the domains of your customers. This will guarantee your anonymity as a web hosting reseller and fully synchronize your web hosting presence with your private brand name.
Front Store Web Hosting Services:
Create Web Hosting Plans - This section allows you to set up custom packages that fully match your customers' current or potential requirements. Use our advanced plan-building software tool – Liquid Plan Builder – to configure up to 18 web hosting packages of your own.
Offered Hosting Services – Time has come to organize your web store offerings. In this section you can select the plans that you wish to include in your list of offered hosting services. You can offer either pre-defined plans, or custom-made ones, as well as both alternatives. You can have a total of 20 different packages and a maximum of 4 of them displayed on your web store template.
Domain Name Offering/Pricing - The domain name registration/transfer service is a very important part of the web hosting service. We would advise you to set up your domain name offerings and define their pricing with utmost care and marketability.
Upgrade Services - Now is the time to set the prices for the service upgrades that your customers are to be able to purchase directly from their Web Hosting Control Panel (extra storage, traffic, hosted domains, subdomains, IP address, MySQL, MySQL Storage, FTP accounts, SSH, mailboxes, mailing lists, cron jobs) in case you have activated for them this order option. The prices are defined per month and the total amount due per ordered upgrade is calculated with respect to the months/days left until the hosting account's date of expiration.
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2.2.1 My Store Name
Store Name & Store Brand
Define Store Name – In this field you have to define a short name (a-z, 0-9, -, 3-32 symbols), which will identify your store in our system. Please, bear in mind that your store name will be used for the creating of your vhost (default free URL), e.g. http://duoservers.com/?s=store-name.
DefineStore Brand – This is your brand or ‘Doing Business As’ name (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, ., 3-64 symbols). It represents your company and your individual web hosting business concept. Our latest estimates have shown that, for best marketing results, you should better keep your Store Brand short and easy to remember, and similar to your default free URL or domain name. Please note that your Store Brand will be displayed on all documents and pages related to your web store.
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Store Default Domain
Specify a Store Default Domain – In cases when you have more than one domain name assigned to an online store of yours, you need to define a store default domain name that is to be associated with your store amongst customers. Please note that this action is not a domain registration procedure. The domain name that you specify here will be used to refer new customers to your web store through the ‘Invite a Friend’ section and the ‘Visit Store’ icon in your clients' Web Hosting Control Panel. If you leave this field empty, your default store URL will be utilized.
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2.2.2 Store Currency
This is an entirely marketing-focused section of your Reseller Control Panel. Here you can select the currency that you consider most marketable for your web hosting business (USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD). Furthermore, our Multiple Stores functionality allows you to set a separate currency for each hosting store of yours with regard to the audience of users you have particularly targeted. Once you have changed the default currency of a certain store of yours, the thorough web hosting services pricing of this store (plans, domains and upgrade prices) will be automatically converted into the new currency.
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2.2.3 Clients CP
This section gives you full control over your customers' Web Hosting Control Panel.
Control Panel Header/Footer
Here you can view how your Store Brand (‘Doing Business As’ name) is positioned at the header and footer sections of your private-branded clients’ Web Hosting Control Panel. Tip: Always pick a name that can be easily remembered!
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Upgrades Table
From this sub-section you can activate/deactivate and manage the Upgrades table of your clients’ Web Hosting Control Panel. You can specify which services (Add Services, Change Plan, Renew Plan, Register Domain) are to be available for your customers as upgrade option and define particular hosting plan type customers or all customers’ accounts to reflect the selection. The possibility to show/hide various links or set up different combinations of upgrade options is quite useful in cases when you bill your clients (or certain groups of clients) yourself and do not want them to have access to some order options.
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Invite A Friend
This sub-section displays a preview of the e-mail invitation your existing customers can send to a friend of theirs if they wish to recommend your hosting service. The default domain that you set for each store of yours will be featuring in that store’s letter of invitation.
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Invoices/Credit Notes
Here you can see a preview of all payment documents, featuring your Store Brand (‘Doing Business As’ name), which you – as a web hosting reseller (Info Note type-c, self-billing tax invoice), and your customers (invoice type-a) will receive upon order or renewal of a web hosting account, or purchase of an upgrade service. For your reseller records you will also receive a copy of each type-a invoice issued to a client of yours from our reseller hosting network on behalf of your private brand company name.
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Legal Documents/TOS
This subsection allows you to preview all legal documents associated with your hosting business and displayed on your hosting store’s website under the Terms & Conditions section. They are an integral part of every business transaction and determine the relationship between the web hosting customer and the service provider. All legal documents are presented under your Store Brand (Doing Business As name) and are not editable.
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Error Pages
Here you can select the default Error Page that is to appear in place of your customers’ websites each time a problem with their URL, host or server occurs (400, 401, 403 or 404 errors). We highly recommend that you select the Error Page Trap type, which will display your web hosting offerings on the Error Pages of your customers' websites. This way you use the generated traffic to attract new clients to your web store.
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Sign Up Table/Visit Store
The Sign Up table enables your clients to sign up for new web hosting accounts directly from their Web Hosting Control Panel. Activating the Sign Up table in your clients’ Control Panel, you can increase enormously the sales volumes of your web store.
Similar is the purpose of the Visit Store icon link – a shortcut to your web store, allowing customers to quickly view contact information, use the LiveChat option or catch up with your latest offers.
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2.2.4 Miscellaneous
Boost-My-Sales
Select this option to activate our new customer service, aimed at increasing the number of new sign-ups through your web store. Our latest statistics reports have shown that there is a big number of unsuccessful account set-up attempts registering daily in the system. An activation of the Boost-My-Sales service enables us to send e-mail massages to those potential customers of yours with information of the products they have tried to order and a direct access shortcut to the billing page.
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Boost-My-Renewals
Select this option to activate our new customer service, aimed at increasing the number of renewed accounts from your existing customers. Our latest statistics reports have shown that many clients fail to renew their expiring accounts due to accidental reasons. Some customers for example have no longer access to their contact e-mails, others simply have not paid attention to our system’s expiration warning messages. An activation of this service enables us to inform your existing clients about the expiration of their hosting accounts via e-mail messages or phone calls. In order to assist in the renewal process, we also provide for them an easy several-click navigation route to the successful renewal of the services.
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Default Data Center
In this subsection you need to select the Data Center that is to be set as default on your web hosting store's Order page. Taking into consideration the predominating residential location of your potential clientele, you may choose either our Data Center in CA, USA, or our close-to-London UK Data Center – to appear first on your web store's Order page. We believe that if your default store currency is USD, CAD or AUD - your default Data Center should be our USA-based one, and if your default store currency is GBP or EUR - then our UK-based Data Center might appear to be more appropriate. Both Data Centers are top-class state-of-the-art facilities equipped with hardware and software of the highest administration quality requirements.
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2.3.1 Domain Manager - Register/ Transfer
Get a unique reseller store domain name through our ResellersPanel’s domain registration/transfer wizard. You can register a new or transfer an existing .COM, .NET, .INFO, .BIZ, .ORG or .US domain name for your reseller purposes for the exclusive price of $9.00 USD per year and host it for FREE with us! Consider also the big variety of country TLDs offered. The domain registration/transfer procedure includes also setting of an email password for your default sales@my-private-domain.com mailbox and specifying of the WHOIS details of your reseller store domain name.
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2.3.2 Domain Manager - My Domains
This is the place where you can manage all your reseller domains from! The domains will be listed in a table and categorized by the web store they belong to (NOTE: You can have more than one store per reseller account, and more than one domain per web store). Each domain is to have a list of modification options available, such as Lock/Unlock, EPP key, Multi-year renewal, Edit WHOIS details, Edit DNS settings, Create E-mails, Get Private DNS and Change Store.
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2.3.3 Private DNS
Get a Private DNS Cluster service for your domain name and have uniquely branded name servers allocated to your reseller domain and the domain names of your customers!
Example:
dns1.my-private-brand.com / dns2.my-private-brand.com
OR
ns1.my-private-brand.com / ns2.my-private-brand.com
You can order up to 4 separate Private DNS Cluster packages (one per web store) within one reseller account. Gain 100% anonymity and private branding for all your reseller stores, and thence - for your overall online hosting business appearance!
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2.3.4 Domain Manager - Use Existing
In this subsection you can add an existing domain name - one that you have already registered with another registrar - to your reseller account. With this option you have the possibility to only host the domain name with us, free from any registration/transfer fees required otherwise. All you need to do is, enter the domain name in the corresponding field and assign to it a global mailbox password that is to be used for accessing your default sales@my-private-domain.com e-mail account and all e-mail accounts that you create later.
NOTE: In order to get this domain operational on our server, you’ll have to set our DNS settings at the domain’s registrar:
dns1.supremecenter.com
dns2.supremecenter.com
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2.4 Website Template
2.4.1 My Template
Select to use our advanced turn-key website templates for your online stores absolutely free of charge! The palette of our professional and highly customisable templates is growing continually. We have presented a screenshot of each template in our gallery so that it's easier for you to make your store layout choice up to your unique marketing taste and requirements. With our Multi-store functionality, you are able to select four different templates for your web hosting stores within one reseller account. Furthermore, you can change the template of each store at any time and without this affecting in any way your store's parameter settings, such as plans offered, pricing, company details, etc.
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2.4.2 Tour Pages
If you decide to use the 3Box (or BlueBasic) template for a web store of yours you can avail of the opportunity to set a ‘Service Tour’ option appearing on your index page. You can also choose which pages to come up in the steps of the tour. The ‘Best Deal Plan’ marketing option even allows you to recommend a particular web hosting plan of yours on the last page of the tour!
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2.4.3 About Us
One of the most representative sections on your online store’s website. This would be the place to present more details about your company to your potential and existing customers. Simply replace our default descriptions with your own carefully designed texts. Keep in mind that the more information you provide, the more likely it is potential clients to become real customers! There are three basic ‘About Us’ sections (‘Who Are We?’, ‘Our Mission’ and ‘Our Customer Base’) in which you can include your company or business name, current address, heads of departments (if any), current projects, successful investments, etc.
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2.4.4 Contact Us
The contact information (e-mail, ICQ number, phone number) you specify here will be displayed on the ‘Contact Us’ page of your online store template along with our default customer support service contacts. Make sure that you have filled in all details correctly. If you do not wish to give your e-mail address, ICQ or phone number, just leave those fields unfilled.
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2.4.5 Edit Boxes
This section, applicable with our 3Box, FlipView and SmartZone templates, allows you to customize the appearance of your online store in accordance with your marketing conception. Enjoy the opportunity to choose content for your template's body and side-bar promotion areas, as well as set a desired layout and box arrangement, set-up your product boxes and select a killer colour theme for the menu bar, text links and offered frontstore hosting packages.
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2.5 Marketing Tools
2.5.1 Header
Customize the header of your template uploading there a custom text, banner or even a flash animation. Add private label touch to the overall appearance of your website and make your store most representative online! If you do not select a header upload action, your Store Brand (‘Doing Business As’ name) will be automatically displayed at the top field of your hosting store’s website.
2.5.2 Footer
You can execute the same custom content upload operation for the footer area of your template. By uploading there a text, banner or even a flash animation, you can add enormously to the private label looks of your web store and make it much more representative online. If you do not select a footer upload action, your Store Brand ('Doing Business As' name) name will be automatically displayed in the bottom field of your hosting store's website.
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2.5.3 Metatags
Grab now the exceptional opportunity to boost your site's ranking! Set here metatags for your online store to attract the attention of search engines. Although the rating formula leading search engines use is kept highly confidential, is periodically changing, and the ranking position can be hardly guaranteed, there's a high chance that, the more targeted keywords you specify in this subsection, the higher ranking your store might get. You can also edit your metatags description at any time in line with the latest SEO (Search Engines Optimization) tendencies.
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2.5.4 Menu Links
The Menu Links section gives you the possibility to apply one of the most advisable SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques - links exchange. By adding up to 3 links (depending on the template that you use) to the title or sidebar menu of your store's website, you can extend the navigational options of your online store and boost your SEO image. If you are a web designer, for example, or co-operate with such studio, you can place a link to your designer's portfolio site, as well as any other website, the content of which you find in some aspect relevant to your web store. For better results, don't forget to set valuable keywords in the links titles!
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2.6 E-mails & News
2.6.1 My E-mails
From this section you can exert full control over your reseller store e-mail settings. Once you have registered, transferred or simply added a domain name to your reseller account, a default e-mail address is created - sales@your-private-brand.com. Whenever you wish, later on, you are able to create additional mailboxes (such as ceo@your-private-brand.com, etc.), delete mailboxes or change password. All mailboxes can be accessed via any e-mail client (e.g. Outlook) or webmail client (e.g. RoundCube).
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2.6.2 RSS News
2.7 Account Details
2.7.1 My Details
In this section are listed all personal account details you have presented at Sign Up. You should always keep your account profile information up-to-date, since it guarantees hassle-free communication between you and us at all times. Please mind that, the contact address information you provide in this section is to be used for sending your monthly reseller commission in case you’ve chosen the paper check option as payment method. Don’t forget to subscribe for our periodical newsletter, which will keep you informed about all new introductions and latest updates to our revolutionary reseller hosting system.
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2.7.2 Commission Payment Options
In this section you can select the currency (USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD) in which you wish to receive your reseller commission payments and the preferred method for sending those payments (paper cheque, PayPal, bank wire, wallet). Point a commission release payment level that you find suiting your individual management idea. The minimum release level for paper cheque, PayPal and wallet payments is 50.00 (in the currency you have chosen), for bank wire: 500.00. The settings you make here will be applicable to all web stores you have set up within particular reseller account of yours.
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2.7.3 Payment History
This section tracks the history of all reseller commissions generated throughout your reseller web hosting business activity. All paid reseller commissions will be chronologically listed in a table within the section, as well as the latest pending-release commission. Each commission payment field will be presenting the following details: commission accumulation period, number of retail sales, commission amount, payment method (paper cheque, PayPal, bank wire, wallet) and payment status (paid/upcoming). Note that, the total amount of your reseller commission is summed of the profits you have made from your retail sales and the profits brought to you by your affiliates.
View the payment schedule according to which we send you your profits.
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Part 2: Private Label
