How to start a side hustle with netnerd.com

A side hustle with netnerd.com can be used to make money online. This post covers three money making options that you can use to gain extra income when using our services:

• Affiliate marketing scheme
• Providing web hosting services
• Website creation and development services

The netnerd.com affiliate shceme is by far the easiest way to be able to make money online with netnerd.com.

Affiliate schemes tend to work in roughly the same way. When you refer someone to a provider of a product or service, you earn a commission if they buy something. Our affiliate scheme works in the same way.

To become a netnerd.com affiliate, you’s simply sign up for an account with us:
Click here to see the netnerd.com sign up page

Then log in, and click on
Affiliates > Activate Affiliate Account

You’ll then be presented with “your unique affiliate link”:

When referring a potential customer to us, you’d give them your affiliate link and ask them to click it. When they click the link, the system places a cookie on their computer. When someone places an order, this cookie tells our billing system. It ensures the commission for that order goes to your affiliate account.

The “request a withdrawal” button on the affiliate page of your netnerd.com account is used to withdraw commission that’s assigned to you account.

The commission amounts that we pay out vary according to the purchased product:

• Financial outlay: None
• Dificulty level: Easy
• Skills required: Typing, being able to send a link, maybe speaking
• Additional effort: Locating people looking to purchase web hosting

You can use our services to offer web hosting to people or organizations. This helps them create their own websites and email addresses.

The best way to offer a web hosting services is to use our reseller hosting package. This lets you create cPanel hosting accounts for your clients. You can provide them with login details. They can then log in to create websites and email addresses. You don’t have to administer a web server yourself, we do that part for you.

As each client has their own cPanel account, you don’t risk your clients accessing each other’s data.

You can use different tools to create websites in cPanel accounts. One option is Weebly, which is a simple drag-and-drop website builder. Another option is the Softaculous app installer. This tool lets you install scripts like WordPress with just a few clicks. You’re simply providing hosting in which a website can be deployed, just like we do.

You can limit the resources of the cPanel hosting accounts you offer. This includes disk space, bandwidth, and the number of email accounts.

You may want to limit resources because your reseller hosting account costs go up. This happens as the cPanel accounts use more disk space, and as you add more cPanel accounts.

Our reseller hosting costs £10 plus VAT per month, each cPanel account costs 50p plus VAT per month, and each GB of disk space used costs 50p per month. This post explains our reseller hosting and how it works.

If you charge each client £6 plus VAT per month for a 1GB hosting account, then:

• If you gain two clients, this covers the cost of your reseller hosting account.
• At 3 clients, you make £5 profit per month.
• At 4 clients you make £10 profit per month.

You can also charge your clients more, should they want to upgrade to obtain more disk space.

Obviously the £6 per month figure I’ve used is just an example. You can change clients more or less as you see fit.

One thing that makes our reseller hosting special is its optimization for WordPress performance. We use the Litespeed web server and allow it’s crawler. Not many hosting providers offer this feature. We also use object caching and opcache to improve speed. This gives blazing page load times for WordPress.

• Financial outlay: £10 per month plus VAT
• Dificulty level: Medium
• Skills required: Financial organisation, client management, hosting package resource management, some sales and marketing
• Additional effort: Locating people looking to purchase web hosting

A lot of our existing customers use our services to provide website creation and development services, to their customers.

To be able to make use of this option you do need to know how to make websites in some capacity. We offer the weebly website builder to help you create websites easily. However, many people ask about using WordPress. They often choose WordPress because it is well-known and widely used.

Creating websites involves several skills and knowledge. You may need to be good at the following to offer website creation and development services:

• Graphic design and presentation
• WordPress usage and administration
• Search engine optimisation

We do offer a website creation service, which you could potentially back off to us, and mark up for your customer. Your role in this situation would mostly be communicative, liaising between us and your customer.

It is also completely possible for you to provide these services on your own, and scale as you go when doing so.

1. Get an Unlimited hosting package for £4.99 plus VAT each month. This package can hold up to two websites. Then, create your own website to promote your services.
2. When you obtain your first client, you charge them for your site, and (for example) £10 per month for hosting. You earn money from creating the website. Plus, your client’s monthly fee pays for your hosting costs. You also make £4 profit per month in an ongoing manner.
3. When you need to deploy a site for your third client, you then upgrade to Multisite hosting (£8.99 plus VAT per month). Again you make money from the site creation and and additional £10 per month from hosting fees. You’re now making £20 per month from hosting fees, and you’re making £9.21 in profit.
4. A fourth client is then 100% profit.

The downside of using multisite and unlimited hosting accounts is that you cannot give customers cPanel access. The cPanel account holds all customer data.

You can choose upgrade options like the reseller hosting mentioned earlier. You can also split domains into separate accounts. Another option is to get your own server as your client base grows. You can scale your serivce with us as and when you client base grows, inline with your cashflow.

We serve many customers who have grown from a side hustle to a full business over time, using the model above. It’s a tried and tested formula for becoming your own boss!

• Financial outlay: £4.99 plus VAT per month (increases inline with your client base)
• Difficulty level: Tricky
• Skills required: Graphic design, website creation and administration, search engine optimisation, online marketing, anything else you’d like to upsell to your client
• Additional effort: Locating people looking to obtain a websites