What is White Label Reselling?

 

A lot of people who are first getting into the mobile marketing industry ask: What exactly IS white label reselling? It’s a fairly common mobile marketing practice that has been around for awhile now, so we want to help newcomers learn about the concept of white label reselling and how it can benefit them. To do this, we’ve put together this article to give you a basic rundown of the primary elements of any white label reseller. White label reselling can be a very profitable way to go about mobile marketing, so we want to show you what it is and how you can use it.

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Simply speaking, white label reselling is turning around someone else’s products and services and offering those same products and services as your own, with your company’s brand, logo, and labeling. You would be paying a white label reseller host (the company who owns all of the products and/or services you will be offering), and relabeling all of it with your company’s logos and colors. The term “white label” derives from the image of an unmarked white label being turned around and placed on your company’s products and/or services so that the purchasers recognizes the product and/or service as your company’s, not the white label reselling host’s.

White label reselling initially started as a practice by grocery stores and supermarkets and has grown in popularity ever since. A lot of the more popular producers will offer their products and services absent of their labeling, so supermarkets can pick up those same products and services and resell them as their own. In fact, a lot of the popular brands you see at supermarkets today are white label resellers.

The best thing about white label reselling is that it allows the marketer to offer a wide-ranging array of products and services to clients without suffering the additional cost of the infrastructure associated with creating and then distributing the products and services. It essentially makes the whole process much easier and cheaper for the reseller.

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Using a white label web hos, you will actually have the opportunity to start and run your own business. In fact, it will be much cheaper to act as a white label reseller than to buy all of your own products and services yourself since you will not have to pay near as much buying the same products and services from an established white label provider. Using white label reselling, you won’t have to concern yourself with things such as web servers, data center staff, server administrators, network connections, server support techinicians, and system and web server software licenses. This allows costs to be keep at a minimum while the reseller can make significant profit margins on the products and/or services they will be offering.

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Here at Anchor, we already serve over 500 white label resellers, so we have extensive experience when it comes to white label reselling. With our easy to use software, expertise, unlimited support, unlimited training, and years of experience with the concept, we try to make it as easy as possible on the white label reseller to get their services and/or products up and running. We understand the hard work and dedication it takes to get your own company up off the ground, or introduce new services or products to an already existing company’s offering, so we value the fact that we can offer a service that can make the entire process much easier.

Mobile Marketing Expert or Mobile Marketing Ninja

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Expert is defined as having authoritative knowledge or skill in a particular area.  Ninja is loosely defined as a skilled warrior, simply the best of the best.  It is said that bullets dodge ninjas and that in an average living room there are 1,242 objects ninjas could use to kill you, including the room itself.

I digress.  The question is which would you rather be considered; A Mobile Marketing Expert or A Mobile Marketing Ninja?

I prefer the latter but either way, I can help you with this.  The world of mobile is rapidly expanding at a rate almost equal to that of the known universe.  For this reason, the simple change velocity makes things like becoming an expert or ninja seem unattainable.  If you feel this way STOP.  The speed at which technology is evolving is creating niche expertise demand in many sectors, especially mobile!  We are talking about an industry that for all intensive purposes began in the US in 2007.  That means the playing field is pretty level.  At best the guy with more experience than you has 5 years on you.

Every major market in America has room for at least 10 mobile marketing experts.  Smaller markets outside the Nielson top 20 probably have room for 3-5 mobile marketing ninjas and itsy bitsy towns across the USA need at least two mobile marketing experts to create competition.  Kinda like having a Lowes and Home Depot across the street from one another, they create market and feed off each other.

So know you know there is room for you to do this and the best competition is only 5 years ahead of you, now how do you become an expert?

Start by interviewing vendors and asking lots of questions.  SMS providers, SMS aggregators, Mobile Ad Networks, Mobile Site Tools providers etc.  They have a ton of knowledge that they love to share with anyone that will listen and potentially buy from them.  Take notes, it will be like drinking from a fire hose.  You can go back and sift through it later.

Secondly subscribe to, participate in, and read the industry authority blogs and forums.  I recommend Mobile Marketer DailyMMA SmartbriefMobile Marketing Watch and if I am going to recommend a Mobile Marketing Ninja to follow it would be Derek Johnson at the Tatango Blog, the kid knows his stuff and does a great job in sharing his knowledge and positioning himself as a thought leading ninja.

Then set up some Google Alerts for keywords like: “Mobile Marketing” “SMS Marketing” and “Mobile Friendly”.  This way, each day your email inbox is filled with the latest that Google finds regarding these topics.

Finally take Kim Dushanski’s Mobile Marketing Boot Camp course.  This will be several hundred dollars very well spent.  Kim has courses for those who are considering getting into mobile marketing and advanced courses for selling mobile marketing as a service.

Learn from doing.  Get out and find some businesses that need help and don’t know where to start.  Remember, some definitions of expert is merely knowing more about a topic than I. Implement mobile strategies for your customers.  Measure the ROI and the response.  Create mobile marketing case studies to show your new prospects.  Rinse and repeat.

Most importantly be passionate.  Become knowledgeable and proclaim the Gospel of Mobile every where you go.  I use the term Gospel because Gospel means “Good News” and there has never been better news to marketers than the ability to engage their customers one on one 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

If you want to become a ninja, then begin by downloading some of our white papers.  Register for our Wisdom Center and get on the phone with one of our mobile marketing ninja masters today.

Getting Maximum Profits out of your SMS Package

If you’re looking for ways to maximize profits on your SMS packages, it’s vital that you price them adequately.

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With our SMS Reseller web-based Platform, we give our resellers access to grow their own SMS marketing business for long-term success. Our private White Label Resellers are able to offer outstanding benefits to their customers with unlimited keyword access, multiple SMS billing options and numerous mobile marketing services. Our billing model has proved time and time again that doubling SMS rates isn’t the way to go.

Following a few of our CEO’s simple tips, you can easily learn how to price SMS Packages for Maximum Profit effectively. By taking this advice and applying it to your SMS packages, you could be earning up to a 400% profit! Give it a try, we dare you!

Should You Become an SMS Reseller??

If you’re an individual or company with core marketing skills, a strong client base and a steady flow of income, then you should look into becoming an SMS Reseller.

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First of all, you need to be fairly tech-savvy. If you don’t know the basics of sending emails and uploading files, you are going to have a harder time making it in the SMS reseller world.

Becoming an SMS reseller allows your company to reach your client base through SMS mobile marketing. It’s important that you know and understand the basics of mobile marketing before you try to sell it to your clients. If you already have a client base that comes to you with advertising and marketing help, then you’re halfway there.