Google Apps Reseller Program Open for all lets make money for Google
Posted by Carol on January 19th, 2009 Comment »Google is now offering “Google Apps Reseller program” enabling technology solution providers to sell Google Apps to business around the world. According to Dave Girouard President of Enterprise Google “This program gives IT solution providers an easy way to introduce cloud computing to their service offerings, while helping more businesses make the transition to this new era of technology.”
So far more then 1 million business & 10 million users benefit from Google Apps, using Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Docs™, Google Sites™, Google Talk™, and Google Video™ for their business.
What are Google Apps
Google Apps is a business service from Google that enables business to use custom domain for using Google products. It provides features to use Gmail, Google Calendar, Gtalk, Google Docs & Google Sites on your own domain name with your own branding option. Though they still don’t allow you to customize its themes as per your preferences but i hope to see that feature soon.
The Standard edition is free and offers some amount of storage while the Premier edition offer a 25Gb of e-mail and documents storage for $50 USD. The service is also free for Education and Organizations if you have a .edu or .org domain names. Many web hosts have already started to offer Google Apps to take the load off there servers and convince users to switch to Google Apps that offer 99% up time.
What is Google Apps Reseller Program
Google Apps Resellers Program, will offers resellers with training, support & tools for sales and marketing of Google Apps. Along with that they will also provide access to tools for integrating Google Apps into their customers business operations. Resellers who sign up will bill their customers directly and can also bundle additional services and support with Google Apps. Seems like a great way to make sales for Google while making a cut for your self as well.
So far many local & small business have already shifted to Google Apps free edition but convincing them to shift to a Premier edition wont be difficult due to the quality of services.
Who can use this program
The Google Apps Reseller Program is open for all firms around the world, you can simply sign up but the approval of your application will depend on relevant experience & credit worthiness. If you run on are an SaaS orientated business model and would like to build around providing value added services & solutions then the program is for you.
According to Google Authorized resellers will be able to begin selling Apps by the end of March.
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