how many of you?

This question always kills me, and i can't help but ask!

You know how there are lot of companies who sell hosting, by being a reseller on other companies servers?

Would you ever be willing to do that same business model for web designing?, i might get beat up but i would love to know the straight answer! ;-)

I don't think web design would work with the model of affiliates and resellers.

Designers don't like to offer their work on a white label basis, and that is reasonable as a designer always try to increase his/her reputation(to get bigger projects).

I am not sure I understand the question correctly ...

I partly agree with Nikolas but I also think having affiliates sending you clients (you do the job) and them getting a commision (a % of the money you get) can work for any business (it does work for a variety of business online/offline already) ...

Of course it works offline with the sales persons, but in the web it would be really hard, because in the web you need automated production in order to keep up with the growth of your company.

In the web sites with no custom work, work better like template monster.

I see Nikolas, I never thought about an explosive growth and how to cope with it .... but I suppose you could get more talented people in your company helping out, when that happens ...

Outsourcing is quite a normal and natural process I think thats what original question was I have on numerous times quoted for a job, then hired a designer and then a xhtml slicer company. I then check it over and optimise the code tweak it as I see fit, comment and tidy the code and move on to the marketing or backend.

This is part of a reasonable business model I cost in the costs related to outsourcing the certain amount of the work.

Thanks guys, I am revolving around the idea of private label reseller offering to web design companies. Just to help some companies with their jobs and reduce expenses. :-) Thats where my question came from.

It would be interesting to see how this project will work. I mean it is something new and new things work great or don't work at all, right?

heee i see where ur coming from Nicholas, my niche is the price, and i believe in the philosophy that competetors can help each others to make money in a good partnership, i know there are some sore movements too ;-), i cross my fingers and try my best to keep them sweet :-)

Good luck man, and keep us posted on this ;)

Could be an interesting business model. It would allow professional designers to off-load unclaimed designs (not paid for), ideas the customers didn't like and make stuff on spec without attaching their name to them. I know many writers who write general web content under a different name/company than they do their more lucrative sales letters and press releases in order to protect their brand names.

I think the problem with many of the affiliate template sites is that while the prices are good for sharing, the unique prices are on the high side for what are often templates with very little original work on them. A picture change and some color changes and suddenly it's a new template?

At the same time, the reseller would have to have something to make their offerings worth while for both designers and customers and to differentiate themselves from the template affiliates.

WEll you can always take web design/development projects and give them to subcontractors :)