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Partnership / Reseller Programs - High quality service, maximize revenue; no money-losing cheap services
Many small businesses don't have the expertise / budget to setup a reliable remote offsite backup system, or an FTP/ email / file server.
The market for cloud based Online Storage, Online Backup, FTP / Email Hosting services are exploding. Founded in 2003, DriveHQ has become one of the largest
solution providers in this market. We have developed the best quality software and technologies. Through DriveHQ.com website,
our advanced client software and many co-branded, private label and group resellers, DriveHQ software and services have powered more than
1 million happy users and 10s of thousands of businesses.
Make no mistake, partner with DriveHQ, the leading Online Storage & Backup solution provider since 2003 and
a company you can count on for many years to come! There are cheaper services, but they are usually money-losing and
they don't deliver the same value for their customers and partners.
Why Partner with DriveHQ?
In short, because DriveHQ offers high-end enterprise-class service that customers are more willing to pay.
It is a fast growing market, and you could partner with cheap / free service providers;
however, such cheap services have a very low profit margin (if there is any profit at all).
Remember, users are many times more willing to pay for high-end services like DriveHQ. Partnering with us can:
- - Increase your service offering, differentiate from your competitors:
- DriveHQ can help you offer a comprehensive range of services that are essential to your business customers.
- - Improve your service quality:
- DriveHQ offers high-quality high-end services that have a very high customer satisfaction ratio;
- - Save your cost; lower your risk:
- If you offer similar services yourself, the cost is generally more than 20 times higher.
- - Boost your service revenue:
- You can get into the fast-growing lucrative online backup, online storage and FTP hosting service business with a proven profit model. This compares sharply with many other companies that offer free/cheap services with no profit model.
- - Connect customers more closely with an online service, sell more software, hardware or services;
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Who should partner with DriveHQ?
- - Online Service Providers:
- ISPs; telecom and network service providers;
- - Service providers in vertical markets serving:
- Accounting Firms;
- Law firms;
- Medical clinics;
- Real estate agents and appraisers;
- Photographers and design firms;
- Non-profit organizations and educational institutes, etc.
- - Service providers for specific regions or languages;
- - Software developers or publishers;
- - Digital device manufacturers, vendors, OEMs, etc.
- - IT consulting firms and solution providers;
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Success Stories
DriveHQ has over 1 million registered users, incl. 10s of thousands of businesses. By using our services, these businesses
have achieved big cost saving in hardware, software and system maintenance costs. DriveHQ has some very large companies using our services
or reselling our services. We also have a lot more users selling our group account / enterprise service. For more info, please
visit our Customer Testimonials page, or contact bizdev@drivehq.com.
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Partership / Reseller Models
DriveHQ has different partnership programs for different companies and individuals. These programs make it extremely easy to partner with DriveHQ, while offering great flexibility and extensibility.
- - Co-branded or Private-label Service
- - Quick Business Partnership Program
- - OEM Partnership - It pays to bundle DriveHQ software and services
- - Group Service Reseller Program (Recommended!)
- - Regular Affiliate Program
Co-branded or Private-label Service
DriveHQ Co-branded or Private-label Service is designed for companies with large existing user base or big marketing channels. Potential companies include:
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- Internet service companies;
- Broadband ISPs, telecom and network service providers;
- Service providers in vertical markets; (e.g. accounting, legal, medical, IT, real estates, education, etc.)
- Service providers for specific regions or languages;
- Software developers, publishers, digital device vendors, etc.
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Business model:
Co-branded or Private-label customer will pay DriveHQ an initial setup fee plus one-time customization charge. After the service is launched, customer shall pay DriveHQ based on storage usage and number of users. Customer can customize the service logo, pricing, UI themes, email templates, client software UI; hide certain features, etc. Customer can leverage on DriveHQ's transaction and billing system, or use their own existing billing systems. Customer owns the users unless the service is discontinued.
DriveHQ also offers system integration service and on-demand consulting service at a very low rate. We have standardized the service. Usually a co-branded or private-label service can be launched in 4 to 10 weeks, dependent on the amount of customization.
Quick Business Partnership Program(Freely bundle DriveHQ software / services at no charge)
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Quick Business Partnership Program is designed for small businesses. Small businesses can bundle the free version of DriveHQ's client applications and online services. No contract is required. You can freely distribute / bundle DriveHQ client software with your own software, hardware, CDs/DVDs/Books/Magazines or services; you can integrate with DriveHQ online storage, backup and sharing services and FTP / Email hosting services. There are no setup fees and service charges. You can start offering high-end DriveHQ software and services to your customers in no time. |
Business Model:
The partnership will be win-win and is open to discussions. DriveHQ can supply necessary API documentations to partners so that partners can integrate or offer DriveHQ service from their software, service, website or hardware device, etc. DriveHQ also supports many standard APIs / Protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/SMTP, etc.
If the partner requires no customization from DriveHQ, then partner is entitled to the standard affiliate commission, which pays up to 30% of net revenue;
If the partner requires DriveHQ to customize any web pages or logos, then the affiliate commission will be deducted with DriveHQ service charges.
Partners have the right to upgrade the partnership to Co-branded or Private-label Service at any time.
OEM Partnership - It pays to bundle DriveHQ software and services
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If you are a hardware device manufacturer, you will find DriveHQ software and services can dramatically enhance your product value. DriveHQ service can closely connect your customers with your hardware, and thus connect your company with your customers, which increases your customer loyalty to your products and help you generate more sales. You could also get revenue share from DriveHQ.
In the past, most digital devices (digital cameras, camcorders, webcams) have bundled desktop photo or video software. In the rapidly changing digital media industry, most consumers now demand for online sharing and publishing digital contents. The future of digital devices and multimedia software is to connect people. DriveHQ offers great online storage and sharing services; we also have high-quality web-based client software that delivers much higher value than traditional desktop software. |
Business Model:
Most software companies charge OEMs for bundling their software with OEM's hardware devices. DriveHQ offers high-quality, high-end software for free bundling. Moreover, we might pay OEMs for bundling our software!
For Digital Camera, Camcorder, WebCam and Digital Frames manufacturers:
Photo or video applications are less useful today as the operating system has already provided very good support for multimedia files. Bundling DriveHQ software and services can create a lot of new values:
- Sharing large multimedia files online with friends and relatives remotely. DriveHQ FileManager is a great application for sharing digital contents online. Users can drag and drop files, preview files; share and publish files online.
- Many consumers also need a secure backup solution to backup their digital files online. DriveHQ Online Backup can automatically backup files in real-time or in scheduled time.
- Many consumers and businesses also need FTP service to share digital contents with their friends or customers;
For USB storage device manufacturers:
While extremely portable and is much faster than online storage, USB storage has inherent drawbacks of:
- Cannot access files remotely;
- Can only be accessed from one PC at one time;
- Cannot share or collaborate with other people;
- Is less reliable and less secure than Online storage. If you lose a USB key, other people could get access to all your data.
- Requires plug and un-plug which is not convenient.
DriveHQ FileManager or Desktop Express client software extends the USB storage feature to the Internet. You can access your files from anywhere at any time without needing to carry the USB storage. You can share your files and set access rights so that different people can access different folders only. Online Storage and Local USB storage can be combined to deliver much higher value to consumers.
For PC manufacturers:
The industry trend is online storage will become more and more popular and important. Many users now have a strong need to upload files to online storage, share files with remote friends, colleagues or clients. CD/DVD drives have become less important from this perspective.
DriveHQ FileManager and DriveHQ Desktop Express makes remote online storage as easy as local drives; it is also as reliable and secure as your local drives. Bundling DriveHQ FileManager not only offers extra storage to your customers, but also offers them a remote file server so that they can easily share and collaborate with other people.
Users can automatically synchronize local folders with remote folders on DriveHQ server; they can also schedule automatic backup tasks to protect their important files.
For PDA and Smart Phone manufacturers:
Consider bundling DriveHQ FTP service, SMTP / POP3 / IMAP email service.
Group Service Reseller Program (Buy large amount of storage at whole-sale price;
resell at a much higher retail price)
Group Service Reseller Program is designed for IT Consultants, solution providers, system integrators and small resellers.
It is extremely easy to start with little up-front cost. Basically, you can order DriveHQ storage space and user licenses online,
then resell sub-user accounts / sub-groups and storage space to your customers. You can resell the service at the same DriveHQ service price,
or at a lower price to better attract your customers.
To help resellers to sell more services, DriveHQ offers "Custom Logo and Landing Page" service to
Group Service Resellers for free (A value of $149.99/year). Resellers can have a custom logon (or landing) page as: http://USERNAME.drivehq.com/.
After login, the DriveHQ website logo will be changed to the reseller's logo.
Resellers usually bill their customers directly. A lot of resellers already offer other services to their customers.
So DriveHQ services can be bundled with their existing services. This offers the best flexibility in service pricing.
Resellers are free to price the service at a lower or higher price than DriveHQ. DriveHQ transaction / billing service
can also be used if the reseller cannot bill its customers directly.
By ordering large amount of storage space at the whole-sale price, you can resell our service to individual users or small business users
with a very good profit margin, e.g:
If you order 100GB, 20-user group account service, you pay:
$699.99 + 119.99 = $819.98.
If you resell the service to 20 users for 5GB each, then you can make:
$79.99 x 20 = $1599.8
You can start with a low subscription and upgrade your max storage / group user licenses at any time later without losing un-used service credit.
If you can resell our service to a lot of customers, please contact DriveHQ sales for more discount. In general,
- If you can resell to 3 customers or 100GB, we will offer you 10% off.
- If you can resell 200GB, we will offer you 20% off;
- If you can resell 300GB, we will offer you 25% off;
- If you can resell 500GB or more, we will offer you 30% off.
As you can see, if you resell to a lot of users, then your net profit margin can reach as much as 70%,
which is much higher than DriveHQ, and certainly much higher than if you setup your own service.
Regular Affiliate Program
DriveHQ affiliate program is designed for any individuals or companies who can refer or promote DriveHQ services. DriveHQ designed sophisticated affiliate tracking algorithms. If anybody visits DriveHQ.com with your referalID, then if the user signs up DriveHQ.com in 4 months, this user is marked as referred by you. You will receive a generous up to 30% commission payment. For more info about DriveHQ affiliate program, please visit here.
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DriveHQ server / client software licensing, service APIs / SDKs and customation service
Since 2003, DriveHQ has developed great technologies and products; we have also built a very strong product development team.
We are committed to help other companies develop customized solutions, products or services that are tailored for the specific company or market.
DriveHQ software / website is designed with easily customizable and localizable GUI skins and resource files. It is also built with independent
components such that you can easily choose a sub-set of features.
DriveHQ has a complete set of software development kits (SDKs), APIs and documentations. We have developed highly efficient proprietary upload/download APIs; we also supports open APIs based on FTP, SMTP and POP3. If you are interested in our APIs, please send an email to DriveHQ BizDev. You can also use the standard FTP API to integrate with DriveHQ online storage.
DriveHQ service can be deployed in-house. Our client software / service can be tailored, integrated, bundled or customized to meet your business needs.
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How to partner with DriveHQ
For Co-branded, Private-label or Enterprise Services, or Quick Business Partnership Program, please contact DriveHQ sales.
For Group Account Reseller Program and Regular Affiliate/Referal Program, please sign up online directly;
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact DriveHQ Customer Support.
Timeline:
Regular group account service can be setup online instantly; enterprise service usually can be setup in 1 day. Co-branded / private label service usually takes 1 - 8 weeks dependent on the amount of customization.
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