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Make More Money Reselling Your Favorite Brands – Partner, Reseller and Affiliate programs
Most Computer Technicians sell 3rd party products to their clients in some way. This may be installing your favorite antivirus product or setting up offsite backup program for your clients. Did you know that the most common products all have partner, reseller or affiliate programs? If you are already selling it, you might as well make more money doing it. Some of these programs will just give you the product at a discounted rate so you can charge the full price to your client while others will give you a commission percent for every item that you sell.
Here are links to some of the partner, reseller and affiliate programs of some of the well known brands:
Note: Reseller accounts are generally designed for you to sell directly to your client via an onsite visit or in your shop. Affiliate accounts usually require a website and you sell the product through there.
For those of you not in the US, most sites have a “Change location” option somewhere on the site where you can get country specific information.
Antivirus Products
| Product | Information and URL | Discount or Commission |
| Avast | Reseller / Affiliate | Up to 50% for Resellers, 25-30% for Affiliates |
| AVG | Reseller / Affiliate | 25% for Resellers |
| Avira | Partner / Affiliate | 15% for Affiliates |
| BitDefender | Partner / Affiliate | 25-40% for Affiliates |
| ESET Nod 32 | Partner / Affiliate | 18% for Affiliates |
| F-Secure | Partner / Affiliate | 20-45% for Affiliates |
| Kaspersky | Partner / Affiliate | 20-30% for Affiliates |
| Malwarebytes | Affiliate and Reseller | 30% for Affiliates, 30% off for Resellers |
| McAfee | Partner / Affiliate | Up to 15% |
| Panda Security | Partner / Affiliate | Up to 35% |
| SUPERAntiSpyware | Reseller and Affiliate | 30-50% |
| ZoneAlarm | Affiliate | 18-50% |
Data Recovery
| Product | Information and URL | Discount or Commission |
| Drive Savers | Refer or Resell | 10% for you, or 10% off for your clients |
| Ontrack | Refer or Resell |
Offsite Backup
| Product | Information and URL | Discount or Commission |
| Carbonite | Affiliate | At least 55% |
| Clickfree | Affiliate | |
| Gillware | Partner | |
| Mozy | Affiliate | $1 for free version, $15 for paid home user |
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Awesome post :O
If possible, could you add more links to other software and even hardware?
Thanks:)
I have a bit of a problem with this list. All of these I would not recommend to my clients. The main reason is I don’t want them calling me back for support on these. Most of these are not “install and forget. The list of Antivirus programs or for people that have an above average knowledge of computers, Especially zone alarm. I know most people do not like recommending Nortons but it works and it is a “Install and forget”. It does everything on its own including update and scans and will not take over the computer to do its scans. I’m not trying to sell you on the software but from a tech to client situation. its the easiest for both parties and the safest.
RE: data backup reselling
How are they billed? Do they bill your client or do you? I’d much prefer the later as the last thing I would want is for my customers to be getting a handful of invoices each month. 1 invoice from me covering everything would be a lot more convenient for them and me.
I absolutely recommend against both Norton and MacAfee. They are both resource hogs. In a server-based situration they seem ok. Personally I think they are living on their names.
I recommend and sell AVG. I have not had problems.
Also, Gillware does Data Recovery as well. I have also used Drive Savers but you must be aware that they have Rolls Royce pricing.
+1 Mike
agreed
often the first thing i do is uninst Norton/McAfee
I use the free version of Avast! 5 and it’s the best AV I’ve ever used. It’s got a top notch interface and I’ve never been infected since using it.
It and Avira are considered to be among the best according to AV Comparatives.
I wouldn’t use Microsoft Security Essentials because it’s very new to the game. I prefer something more mature because it’s more likely to be less buggy and more effective.
AVG 10 increased the install file from ~80 MB (AVG 9)to ~137 MB…. that is ridiculous!
And, now it won’t stop nagging to run an initial full scan. Well, a lot of times I install an AV after a fresh install of Windows or I remove something like Norton and replace it with another AV, so I don’t see a need to do a full scan in those situations.
As soon as I get my domain straightened out and get Google apps working (need an email at my domain) I will be asking Avast if I can become a reseller so that I can offer their product to clients that wish to have better security than the basic free version.
Im not fond of McAfee or Norton either, but some techs do like it. Many of them hate AVG too. Just giving the Technibble readers the option.
Many techs on Spiceworks recommend Vipre. I have had excellent experiences with Kaspersky. And Malwarebytes is the best antispyware I have come across. ESet can be great is set up correctly. If a person doesn’t want to pay for antivirus I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials, but let them know the scan is very slow.
I don’t like Norton nor McAfee, I have found virus’ when scanned with other antivirus, I just don’t trust them.
My concience won’t allow me to suggest antivirus I would never use myself. It would be even worse to sell it to a customer just to put a few bucks in my pocket.
“My concience won’t allow me to suggest antivirus I would never use myself.”
Definitely dont recommend something you dont use yourself. I use Kaspersky myself and sell it to my clients.
Thats why the article is says “selling YOUR favorite brands”. If you are already selling something because you like it and use it, might as well make a bit more.
Kaspersky 2011 is a resource hog and on some of my older machines it uses up to 100% CPU. i have sold only Kaspersky for 3 years, but that might come to a stop now.
I have been reselling ESET security software for a few years now and love it. It does an amazing job of protecting the computers, great for homes and businesses, and doesn’t annoy the customers with lots of confusing questions and popups. Also is really light on the system, so you hardly notice it’s there. Only downside is it can be a bit expensive, especially for home users. I think it is money well spend though.
For free ones, had decent luck with both Microsoft Security Essentials and AVG. AVG has frustrated me a bit though because when the do a major version change, like from 9 to 10, you have to do it manually, and most of my home customers just ignore the reminders then end up infected. Also found the paid version of AVG to trouble while the free version works fine.
Just my 2 cents.
I personally prefer Eset Paid products Over the latter ,very low on resources. Also Avast Avg or comodo and MSE for the free protection , Avast is good on resources very light same with comodo, there firewall is decent too running along with eset anti-virus, Avg for the more powerful machines as this can hog resources, kasperky, norton , mcaffe no go , totaly slow the machine down, Bloat Ware malware bytes and sas for winners
I used to recommend AVAST for those wanting a free version but I found viruses it let slip through a few times. I also found end users were confused when they had to reregister after a year – they thought they had to pay.
For free AV I now recommend MS Security Essentials and for paid Trend Micro WFBS.
The facts are that all AV programs can let malware slip through. I think it’s unfair to stop using Avast just because it allowed some malware to come through. I did malware removal yesterday on a system that has AVG and it’s up-to-date and it was infected!
Thanks for the post Bryce I’ve become a partner with Lenovo and one of their distributor’s (D and H)I was expecting to get close to $50 (USD) off retail but am hardly getting $20 in most cases. What do you suggest for computers and other hardware?
One that was not mentioned but is a great online scanner is Hitman Pro, it found virus’s and trojans and deleted them when my best av’s did not even see.
We built our own offsite backup system which obviously comes with a lot more responsibility than reselling someone else’s services but gives us complete control over our clients data, guarantees that it stays safe and redundant in case of disaster. Most major cities have distributors of parts, batteries for notebooks etc that will be happy to provide you with a reseller account, most just require a State Tax ID here in the USA. Watchguard.com is a good one for hardware firewall, AV, anti-spam, VPN appliances too.