We've assembled together the best pieces of software, systems, and procedures, to give you a Webmaster Platform that allows you to earn well, and to increase your income as far as you choose to work it.
Firelight Web Studio is a pioneer in Small Business Website Services. We realized early on that small businesses didn't need many things that most webmasters were giving them - the webmasters assumed they needed them because corporations need them, and nobody had really done the math. We also realized that Small Businesses DID need many things that most webmasters did not include - because they did not realize that Small Business Owners don't KNOW all the things they need. So the whole Small Business Website world was full of websites that didn't work to earn money for their owners - and it was full of a LOT of angry owners, and a lot of webmasters who thought they were doing a good job, but who were perceived as being unethical by site owners.
We did it differently. New systems and procedures and policies that fit Small Business Owners specifically. The result?
More satisfied clients. More earning potential for us. We've trained other Webmasters using our procedures, and they are successfully operating Web Development businesses and earning well. So we know it works.
Webmaster Wannabe combines all of those tools, and gives you access to instructions that tell you how we did it. We have your site pre-configured using the prices we successfully use ourselves. We give you software that we developed ourselves to speed up development time (and increase profits). And then we put it all into a hosting account that delivers stable performance, and which is configured to save you time.
You'll be ready to market your business within a matter of days, not months. You won't have to test out different pricing or packages, because we already did that for you. You won't have to develop your own software to speed up repetitive tasks, because we already did that.
Reseller Hosting Account - Web hosting that just works. Complete with Cpanel, and Fantastico, and our tips on how to save time using these tools. Our hosting is provided through a backbone that is the same as that for three of the largest and most profitable web hosts in the US. Our hosting configuration settings are set to save time for you, and to help you avoid having to troubleshoot common scripts. With generous "hidden specs", on a "no oversell" server, you know you'll get the best performance possible in a shared hosting environment. We know you stake your reputation on our service, so we make sure it is good.
WHMCS - The best billing manager out there for small hosting retailers. Automatically handles billing, notifications, suspensions of hosting accounts, and much more. Allows setup of products other than just hosting, so you can set up billing for services or anything else you want to sell with your hosting accounts. Full feaured, and very flexible. We pre-configure it so it is ready to roll when you are.
WildFire DSI (Lighter is provided with Basic, Full is provided with Pro) - A great little script that just opened up ALL KINDS of doors for you! This is the same script we use to install your reseller account software! It can install just about anything, and do a lot more than that if you have the Full version (Lighter does only simple installs). This allows you to have sites automatically installed for your clients, as soon as they pay for the site. It can even put their name, email address, or other personal information into the site, or set up an email address for them.
WildFire Flame - Allows you to quickly turn a Master Site into an Installer Pack. Don't worry if you don't know what that means, what you do need to know is that this little gem will save you a great deal of maintenance time by automating a repetitive task.
WildFire Heat - Automates the site software update process. When you have lots of client sites, it can be a hassle keeping the software up to date. Heat helps with that. You still have to do some configuration for each update, but it will then go through every site that you have, and update every site that uses that particular piece of software. Smart software, that saves you about 1 hour or more per month per site that you maintain.
Sales and Help Site - This is YOUR sales site, with a Help login for your clients. Pre-populated with helpful videos, tutorials, manuals, and marketing instructions. You'll get updates as we release them also. Your sales site has sales pages already in it - and you can change them as much as you like so they'll be indexed by search engines. Newsletter Manager is also included.
4 Joomla Install Packs - Four different Joomla installs, pre-loaded with custom templates. All templates have YOUR branding on them. You get Joomla Basic for brochure sites, Joomla Business with a Directory added, Joomla Member with a Profile manager installed, and Joomla Cart with VirtueMart installed. Each install pack has additional extensions added to make life easier for your clients, and to make Joomla function well. Ours is also the ONLY VirtueMart install with a PCI compliant payment module for Authorize.net, Eprocessing Network, and InternetSecure, and with tax computations that are accurate for Canadian taxes, as well as Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Chicago taxes.
2 WordPress Install Packs - Two different WordPress installs, preloaded with custom templates (with your branding on the templates). You get WordPress Basic for blog sites, and WordPress Plus for blog based websites. Each install has the SEO pack installed, and a contact form.
Custom Templates - We've created custom templates for your installs. Each contains 50 custom templates. We release new templates each month so you can rotate out templates that are used frequently and keep the templates fresh, or you can provide additional template options for your clients (manual or auto installed). These templates can be rebranded with YOUR site credits on them. All templates share common coding, so you only have to learn ONE template structure to edit any template.
Support and Help Site Access - for you! We're sure that at some point you are going to need help. Most of you will need quite a bit of help getting going, you'll have all kinds of questions, about how to do things in your billing manager, or how to work with the site structures, or even why we set the account sizes with the settings we used. So we provide a help site that you can access to learn about your systems, and we provide phone, email, and forum support to help you when you get stuck. Support is comprehensive - it covers all aspects of providing good service to your clients, so there won't ever be a time when you call us and ask for help and we tell you it isn't our job to help you with that. We have to limit phone and email support some, just to stay in business, but forum support is unlimited, and we make sure all forum posts are answered.
Marketing Instructional Newsletter - This teaches you how to market successfully on a shoestring. Not only that, you get REPRINT RIGHTS. You can reprint this to offer another benefit to YOUR clients. We have been offering this to our clients for the last year and a half, and an amazing thing happened when we did - our clients became more profitable! Measurably so! When you can help your clients EARN more, you have a great advantage as a webmaster!
Webmaster Certification Training (Pro Only) - You'll have access to our online Small Business Webmaster Certification Training through an online Learning System. You can learn at your own pace, and we'll issue a certificate on completion.
We know our stuff. And with all the help and tools you get, you'll know your stuff too. Your earning potentials will be unlimited.
