FORT WORTH -- June 25, 2004 -- C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting that has been “built for resellers” from the ground up, has revamped its reseller program to make it even more powerful.
Calling the company’s resellers “mini-C I Hosts,” CEO Christopher Faulkner today announced the new reseller program and set a goal of bringing $4 million in new revenue into the company through new resellers over the next 12 to 18 months.
“No other hosting company was built for resellers like we were,” Faulkner said. “We focus on their needs and the needs of their customers and it becomes a win-win situation. We put money in their pockets and they bring us new customers at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing.”
Faulkner started a reseller program in 1996 when the company was still operating under the brand Creative Innovations. Since then the reseller program has gone through a number of upgrades and remains an industry leader in providing robust and anonymous service to its resellers and their customers.
The entire range of C I Host services and products is open to resellers, including hosting, dedicated servers, dial-up, Web design, dedicated connectivity, colocation, load balancing and enterprise services, marketing and SEO services.
C I Host gives its resellers complete, anonymous and transparent customer service and technical support. Calls are answered in the reseller’s name with no indication that C I Host is involved. Few other reseller programs have the capability to offer this kind of anonymous support.
For example, C I Host has built a completely anonymous online support site that resellers can use as a support portal for their hosting companies. Every aspect of the portal is anonymous. More than 50,000 customers use it every day and never discover that C I Host maintains it.
“Regarding resellers, our motto is ‘One Company. One Team,’” Faulkner said. “We are all in this together.”
The new reseller program is expected to help companies throughout the industry boost their bottom lines while bringing more customers to C I Host.
“Web Hosting revenues will reach $35.9 billion by 2006, up from $1.4 billion in 1999, according to a recent International Data Corp. report,” Faulkner said. “I have told my entire staff: ‘Let’s get ready to help the world of resellers take advantage of this money tree!’”
About C I Host
C I Host (www.cihost.com), based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 210,000 individual consumers and businesses in 182 countries worldwide.
C I Host creates business-class Web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names.
