how do i start as a reseller?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

I. BUSINESS PLAN:

You make your business plan and decide exactly what you can do and what you want to do. Be realistic. Evaluate your capabilities and capacity pragmatically. Allocate funding and source of the funds. Remember that you pay dearly with your money for every mistake you make in planning.

II. CHOOSE YOUR RESELLER PLAN:

Decide whether you want to be an Affiliate or a Reseller based on your business plan.

An Affiliate refers customers to Aplus.Net and gets paid commission for each referral. Being an Affiliate is ideal as an ancillary business to your core business. It does not require significant industry knowledge, in-house personnel or funding. Of course, more marketing efforts and resources will yield more commission.

A Reseller buys services from Aplus.Net at a wholesale rate and re-sells these services for a profit. This typically requires more knowledge and more resources.

Refer to: http://www.aplus.net/resellers.html for technical and pricing information. You can also contact Aplus.Net’s 24/7 Sales Department by phone at 877-275-8763 (toll-free) or 1-858-410-6929 (for international callers).

III. INFRASTRUCTURE:

Prepare your own infrastructure - your own website, branded subscription forms, provisioning, de-provisioning, billing, customer support. You can get all this from Aplus.Net with one of the advanced Reseller plans, or you can get it from Rodopi Software OSS (Operations Support System) www.rodopi.com, which is completely integrated with Aplus.Net operations. You can use a third party billing system, in which case you will need integration with Aplus.Net through its open interfaces PIRIN DN (for domain names) and/or PIRIN XR (for web hosting, web design, data center and connectivity services).