{"id":4408,"date":"2020-05-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/featured-listing-boxhosting\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:59:00","slug":"featured-listing-boxhosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/featured-listing-boxhosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Listing: BoxHosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/flippa.com\/10535768-services-internet?buy_sell=blog\">Visit The Listing Live On Flippa!<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BoxHosting is a web hosting resale site based in the UK, but doing business across the globe. They were able to kick things off with a burst of energy due to some fantastic affiliate connections and it doesn&#8217;t show any real signs of slowing down now that the platform has been optimized by the founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Featuring Listing - BoxHosting\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ez5zbRZ-LN8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us a little about yourself, how did you start with boxhosting? Do you have a history developing these sorts of businesses?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BoxHosting was set up by myself and my business partner.&nbsp; We were both into building websites and had been asked by both sets of clients if we had hosting provider recommendations.&nbsp; We decided to create BoxHosting to offer small businesses an affordable hosting option that allowed them to scale without being cost prohibitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first proper technology based business i\u2019ve started but have always been interested in tech so creating a business that allows me to channel that interest and drive revenue was always attractive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How have you marketed the product and where are your customers originating from? Is it primarily SEO based? Referrals? Targetted ads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We have built an incredibly profitable partnership with our affiliate provider to drive paid on performance sales to our site.&nbsp; Using their expertise we\u2019ve extended the reach of BoxHosting across 200 high traffic sites with large customer databases with our LTD offering.&nbsp; We\u2019ve held off investing heavily into targeting ads with only incredibly small scale test bursts of activity with competitions to help database growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Continuing on the above question, are there any marketing efforts that you would recommend a new owner to prioritize? Any you\u2019d steer away from that haven\u2019t produced a good ROI?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I would recommend pushing a great offer on the custom backup solution and building the database even more.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your site traffic seems relatively stable, but your financials show a decline over the past 12 months. What is causing this disruption in monetization?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The decline can be attributed to our push on custom development.&nbsp; We\u2019ve brought over 700 customers into the business and we have focused our efforts on building a better solution for these customers.&nbsp; We developed our backup solution which allows daily backups for customers signed up to the service and easy restore functions from the support area.&nbsp; This is part of the strategy to bring in additional Monthly revenue streams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What isn\u2019t reflected in the figures is domain name re-registrations.&nbsp; As the business is 11 months old we will have a great deal of domain name re-registrations from the customer base which are due on an annual occurrence.&nbsp; This will filter through in the coming months automatically which will be reflected in the future profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is a technology based business. How much engineering knowledge would a new owner need to run the business as is? Do you manage the software and updates yourself or are you outsourcing that work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no requirement for engineering knowledge.&nbsp; We have a support function within our reseller account which means for any questions not covered off by our extension knowledge base we can get a bespoke answer directly from the hosting service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates to the service are all automatic and so this is the perfect business for the entrepreneur looking for a good steady passive income with minimal time investment (we currently do 1-2 hours per week).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is a young business, why are you selling now? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are both working on multiple projects (outside of web hosting) and are going to be focusing on those moving forwards.&nbsp; I am building a number of e-commerce stores and running a cosmetics brand.&nbsp; Upon sale we will not be re-entering the hosting market place in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/flippa.com\/10535768-services-internet?buy_sell=blog\">Visit The Listing Live On Flippa!<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoxHosting is a web hosting resale site based in the UK, but doing business across the globe. 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