Have you heard of webhosting franchise?

I haven’t until Kiosk Webhosting company introduced this new concept to me (if you have heard about it before, let me know. I don’t want to claim this company to be the first).

For your knowledge, Kiosk Webhosting is a multi-level affiliate program, which when you refer new customers to their webhosting service, you get commission up to 10 levels. I host this blog on Kiosk Webhosting server and the only problem I had was when lots of webhosting companies got hacked by some irresponsible people some time last year (and Kiosk was one of the unlucky ones too). It was bad but they fixed the problem within a reasonable time frame.

And, yeah… some top marketers are using and recommending Kiosk too - marketers like Mike Filsaime, Michael Cheney and Paulie Sabol. Needles to say, I’ve been with Kiosk since 2006 (if I remember it well) and have been making some good commissions recommending this service to others too. :)

Recently, when Kiosk Webhosting announced that they were going to have a VIP franchise plan, I was curious to know. Of course, most of the time I don’t bother with opportunity meetings and such. But, franchising a hosting account? I have to know…

After listening to the call for an hour at my 1:30am (huge time difference between Penang and Houston - their Kiosk Webhosting office), I finally got it.

Kiosk Webhosting franchise is simply a concept where it works like other franchises such as McDonald’s, Pizza Hut or Burger King. Everything is the same, including the system, only that the location is different.

In the case of Kiosk Webhosting franchise, you have a webhosting website run and supported by the franchisor (Kiosk Webhosting main office) in an exact replica of the system the main Kiosk Webhosting website has. The only difference is that the domain name is yours and the website design is configured to your own like (they have 5 templates to choose). So, when people go to your domain name, they will see Kiosk Hosting website but everything else inside the website is coded with your affiliate tracking link. That means, when someone buys a hosting account from your franchisee website, you will get the commissions from Kiosk. And your client might not even realized that it was a franchisee website.

Another great feature that this franchise webhosting concept has is that whenever there is a question from potential client, Kiosk Webhosting main office will answer and support you as if they are your staff. So, it is really like running a webhosting company of your own with less interaction from your site.

With this approach, you don’t have to promote your regular Kiosk replicated website anymore. A simple promotion of your domain name of your franchisee account will do.

Obviously there is much more details that I can tell you about the franchise concept of Kiosk Webhosting but I hope this brief explanation will do just fine. If you want to see how it differs, go to these two links:

www.Kiosk-Webhosting.com

www.wwkiosk.com/members/specialoffer

www.Kiosk-Webhosting.com is my franchise domain name (or franchise webhosting) and www.wwkiosk.com/members/specialoffer is my direct Kiosk Webhosting affiliate link. Can you see the difference?

And no… www.Kiosk-Webhosting.com is not a masked-redirect or redirect domain. And the good news is that Kiosk is charging a ONE-TIME fee for franchise webhosting setup but you have to be a member of Kiosk Webhosting as a condition.

It is a good concept if you want to run a webhosting company under your own domain name but hate to do all the support on your own.