SEO Resellers

Great info for those trying to resell SEO

Hi there. I hope you are firing up the BBQ like we are this weekend. Here in the US, it will be a great weekend. And it’s family time. Time to leave the computer and Google inside as you escape for some much-needed respite with the family. Sure, your brain may wonder to that SEO reseller program you have been dieing to sign-up with. But there is time for search engine optimization on Monday.  This weekend is about family and taking some time off. Remember that time, not a page 1 ranking in Google, is the most precious commodity. It may not seem that way always, but it’s true. So kick-back, relax and enjoy. If you are working with the right SEO reseller partner, then you know that this is fairly easy to do because you know that your outsource SEO team has the bases covered for you while you are away enjoying the official beginning of summer.

So you have decided to build a small business selling SEO because you have seen the awesome potential of the search engine optimization space. Great. I agree with you. It is an amazing world out there right now. Google is dominant and there is a bunch of money to be made helping people be well placed. So you start reading about SEO and think you can build a little product yourself. Do you really have time for that? I say no. You should be thinking of joining an leading SEO reseller program instead.

My reasons for support an SEO reseller strategy are simply. You simply don’t have time not to. You need to be out there figuring out how to make sales in this competitive market. And that is a full-time job. When you sign up as an SEO reseller, the reseller organization is going to take care of all the product delivery. If you sign up with the right one (such as HubShout.com), they will even help with the sales side as well as customer service. These guys also send out your monthly reports and daily keyword alerts and your newsletter. Sure, you are sharing the profit with them in return, but it’s a good deal. Your customers will get a much better SEO product than if you build something yourself. And anyway, you SIMPLY DON’T HAVE TIME to build an SEO product. You need to be out doing sales or your business will not make it. End of story!

As you know, I am on a daily crusade to find and pull together in one place all the best articles and blog posts on the topic of SEO reseller programs. If you read through everything I have here, you will see that it’s becoming quite a volume. I am working up to some MEGA SEO RESELLER LIST that I can publish that will outline what I think are the critical aspects of each program. But I am not there yet. More work to so. Until then, you can visit today’s article find. This is a well-written piece that talks about how to search for a great reselling partnership for your business. As always – Let me know what you think.

As always, I am watching the airways for new SEO reseller material that you might find interesting. This article floated by today and I thought it was worth a read.  They make the case that joining an SEO reseller program is actually the conservative thing to do when you are just launching. As I think about all the risks involved with starting your own business, I have to say that I agree. There is just so much emphasis needed on sales and marketing that you can easily lose yourself in the depths of product development. In this SEO Reseller article, they basically say that you should not take your eye off the ball. Sales and marketing are key to any business, especially in the SEO space. So let someone else do the delivery work for you while you work out your sales process. On other words – Outsource first. Sell. Then you can consider bringing the SEO services back in-house if you are not happy with the quality or think you can do it cheaper. All in all, good advice for those headed into the SEO reseller maze. Give it a read and see if you agree.

Finding new news in the SEO reseller space is harder than you’d think. There is a bunch of stuff put out all the time, but it is not really new. There are actually only a few big players doing reseller programs. You can find most of the big SEO resellers on page 1 in Google. Beyond page 1, you have only small fish. I monitor most of the activity to see what is going on. I also try to catch as much of the new stuff as possible as it flies out. Here is a new press release on the topic of SEO resellers. It just came out today and I caught it on Google news. Give it a read and let me know what you think. I think there is a point here about transparency. It seems that SEO is so secretive. I know why this has evolved this way, but am ready to see it change. The Internet is  a MAJOR marketing platform. There is just too much business at stake to be running around whispering about it. Google is a major source of traffic for many many businesses – this is just a reality. I like the approach described in this press release and think more resellers will go this way in the future as we let our hair down in regard to SEO.

So many people ask us “can I make money reselling SEO?” And the real answer is, it depends… I mean, can you make money selling cars? Perhaps. Are you a good car sales person? This same line of thinking applies to search engine optimization as well. When people shop for an SEO reseller partner, they focus a great deal of attention on who they are going to partner with. And understandably so. But how much introspection are they really doing on themselves to determine if they are really ready and able to sell SEO? This may be where the real answer lies.

Starting any business is a very difficult thing. You have to have a long-term view. And you need to be ready for set-backs along the way. There really is no such thing as an “easy” start-up. Even guys who have done many start-up businesses know this. So when people head into the SEO reseller space and think they can just sign up for with a reselling organization and sell search engine optimization, I laugh. Why in the world would it be this easy? If it were, wouldn’t everyone be doing it? Seriously folks. Think that through.

So the real search strategy when you are trying to find the perfect search engine optimization to resell is to look both within and around. You need to be ready to sell. Sell, sell, sell. You need to know that this will be hard and that you have what it takes – both financially and emotionally – to stay with it. Then you also need a great SEO reseller partnership with an organization that delivers high quality search engine optimization you can rely on. These two things together will get you where you need to be.

Today’s post is about the HubShout SEO reseller program. We’ve done some digging to understand exactly who HubShout is and what is involved in their SEO reseller program. Specifically, we wanted to know the background of the founders, client results, and the typical search engine optimization tactics used by the firm. We were also interested in the overall SEO reseller approach they use. In short, is the SEO reseller program any good?

In summary, it is fantastic. The HubShout co-founders have extensive Fortune 100 experience and it shows. As you read about their backgrounds, which are extensively outlined on their website, you will see big Fortune 100 companies like General Electric, AOL, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Ford, Nissan Motors, Chevron Texaco, etc, etc. In other words, these guys have been around the corporate block. They are not some basement operation or an off-shore outfit.

In terms of the substance of their SEO reseller offering, it is rock solid. They say their two founding principles are transparency and business results. And as you learn about their SEO reseller technology you see that they put their money where their mouth is. Their SEO technology is not some download / install junk like you see around the Internet. It is a business-to-business platform specifically designed to help clients see the value you are bringing them as well as openly show the work being done on their behalf. In short, HubShout has designed their SEO reseller white labeled portal to match their corporate philosophy: Transparency and Accountability for business results.

I don’t know any other programs that have this type of approach. I certainly don’t know of any other serious technology platforms that an agency or business can use so easily to jump-start or augment a SEO delivery. I think I mentioned that their offering is completely white labeled.

What is white label SEO? This is when one organization does the reselling of the search engine optimization and another does the delivery work. In this sense, it is a partnership between two organizations. If they work well together this can result in a great business arrangement. A private label SEO program allows the sales team to really focus on selling while the SEO delivery team does the work associated with good, white-hat SEO. This is good for both groups – when they are a good fit. But you need to be sure you have found a good fit before you make a long-term commitment.

So we have a bunch of SEO resellers that work with us. Many of them don’t really do too much to generate income. I think that this works much like an affiliate program. About 95% of the people who join will really not do anything. It is not that they don’t want to make money or have good intentions. I believe that 95% of the folks out looking for SEO reseller deals just don’t want to put in the work required to make money.

But for the few that do, there is a real opportunity that SEO resellers have. The opportunity is to get involved in your local business community and sell through old-fashioned networking. I have seen some of our SEO resellers do this very well. They go to the local chamber of commerce or other business association and find out when the networking happy hours are happening. They show up and start talking to people. They learn about local businesses and the troubles they are having with online marketing.

It does not take long to start getting asked to help people if you are halfway intelligence about SEO. And if you have research SEO resellers and have a deal in place, when someone asked you to bid on some work, you are ready to go… I have seen this done very well by a bunch of our guys. You should think about it. Almost every local paper has networking events listed…

Welcome to SEO Resellers. This blog is devoted to all issues surrounding becoming an SEO reseller or learning how to resell SEO. There are many many factors involved in picking a business partner. In a way, becoming a reselling agent is a form of partnership. It doesn’t matter if you are doing this in the web hosting space or search engine optimization space. The business dynamics are just the same.

When you are selling someone elses product to your customer, you need to have confidence in their delivery. Your reputation is on the line. And the long-term success of the reselling arrangement depends on many factors. At this SEO reseller blog, we are going to dive deep into the issue. Give you some advice from what we have seen around the SEO resellers community. And I hope we also share ideas that help you bring in income in a meaningful and fulfilling way.