Selling Managed Services: Increasing Your ARPU

The "Commodity Trap"

If you only sell "1GB Storage," you are competing on price. There is always someone cheaper. But if you sell "Worry-Free WordPress Management," you are competing on value. Your clients will pay more for the peace of mind.

5 Managed Services You Can Sell Today

1. Active Malware Monitoring: Use AmanaFlow’s Imunify360 to provide monthly security reports to your clients.
2. Speed Optimization: Guarantee a certain PageSpeed score using our LiteSpeed infrastructure.
3. Weekly Site Maintenance: Handling theme and plugin updates manually to ensure nothing breaks.
4. Off-site Priority Backups: Providing an extra layer of data security beyond standard hosting backups.
5. SEO Monitoring: Sending a monthly report of keyword rankings and traffic growth.

The Economics of Managed Services

• Standard Hosting: $10/mo (Profit: $4/mo)
• Managed Hosting Bundle: $99/mo (Profit: $75/mo) With only 50 clients on a managed plan, you can generate a full-time income while doing less work than having 1,000 "standard" hosting clients.

Automating Through WHMCS

Use WHMCS's "Addons" and "Configurable Options" to allow clients to add these services during checkout. You can also use Billable Items for one-off tasks like "Emergency Site Recovery."

Scale Your Agency with AmanaFlow

FAQ

Q: Do I need to be a coding expert to provide managed services?
A: Not necessarily. Using our Managed VPS tools and AI agent (Kodee), much of the technical work is automated for you.

Q: How do I justify the higher price?
A: Focus on the "Cost of Failure." Ask the client: "How much money would you lose if your site was down for 2 days?" Your service is the insurance policy that prevents that.