E-commerce: Web Templates As An E-commerce Resource

Summary : Even if you can't design a web template yourself, they can be a profitable E-commerce business.

Web templates are the latest trend. Most sell like hotcakes, resulting into huge profits for web template providers. You too can take advantage of the web template craze, and generate a healthy E-commerce business. Below are five effective ways to make money from the trend.

1. Create 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 ready-made web templates.

    

   What are turnkey websites?

   Turnkey websites are completely functional websites containing 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 purchase the website, and he is ready to do business.

    

   What you need to do?

   In order to set up a turnkey website business, you need to do the following:

   1. Purchase professional looking web templates with resell rights, or join a template membership program
   2. Modify the web templates by adding relevant content, links, images and graphics
   3. Purchase domain names and hosting accounts
   4. Host the completed web templates as websites
   5. Advertise/promote your websites for sale/rent by SEO and email marketing

   What About ROI?

   Your ROI from web template E-commerce will surely be very high. The retail value of turnkey websites is around 0 - 0 per site, and possibly higher based on the website quality. You can also rent your websites instead of selling them. By purchasing web templates for a cheaper cost, your ROI will be higher. The best way to go about it is to join membership programs that grant access to a host of web templates at a low one time cost, such as www.buytemplates.net. Also, make sure to host your sites with hosting service providers offering unlimited domain name hosting. One good example of a turnkey website service is ready-set-web.com.

    

2. Join an affiliate program.

   Affiliate programs are quite popular over the net. If you have a well ranked website with a good traffic margin, you can easily join an affiliate program offered by many, if not all, web template providers. All that you need to do is promote their templates on your site, 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 for the program. As soon as the process is complete, you will receive a link or banner ad to place on your website. When your website visitor clicks the banner and makes the purchase, you earn 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 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. Resell/redistribute web templates.

   If you own a website that attracts good traffic, or is likely to attract traffic in the future, you can purchase templates in bulk and resell them. To get redistribution rights, all that you need to do is purchase reseller templates that many web template providers offer today. Some good web template vendors offering reseller templates are http://www.buytemplates.net, http://www.templatemagic.net and freewebsitetemplates.com. Purchasing reseller templates on your own can fetch more returns than 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. Join referral-based programs.

   Referral programs are unlike affiliate programs in the sense that they do not require 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. When a customer referred by you joins a membership program, or buys a web template and cites your name in the referral section, you get a commission. Unfortunately, such referral programs are offered by very few template vendors today.

    

5. Web design with web templates

   If you are a professional web designer, you can earn generate returns by making use of web templates. Firstly, you can satisfy your clients with the speed at which you complete the work, and generate a greater ROI as the ready made website templates are inexpensive. All that you need to do is buy exclusive templates and resell them after making modifications. One way to go about it is to join 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.

Even if you can't make web templates on your own, you can still cash in with these E-commerce techniques.