Portal Mart Virtual Franchise FAQ’s

Getting to Know Portal-mart.com Virtual Franchise: What is portal-mart virtual franchise?; How much does virtual franchise cost?; What will I be selling once I acquire a virtual franchise?

Benefits of owning a portal-mart virtual Franchise: How would a portal-mart virtual franchise boost my affiliate income?; How would a portal-mart virtual franchise make me money?; Would a portal-mart virtual franchise help me in generating leads?; Do I have to install portals for my clients?

Installing a portal-mart Virtual Franchise: What are the system requirements?; Do I need a hosting account?; Can I get help to have my virtual franchise installed?; How long does it take to have my virtual franchise up and running?

Features of a Portal-Mart Virtual Franchise: What are featured products?; Do I have a limit on featured products entries?; What is the use of Opt-in feature on my portal-mart virtual franchise?; Can I edit my portal-mart virtual franchise sales letter?; What is portal-mart autoresponder system?; Who receives my autoresponder emails?; Who wrote these autoresponder emails?; Can I edit these autoresponder emails?

Selling Portals from your portal-mart virtual franchise: How much should I sell one portal?; There is a one time offer that appears when one sign up for a portal. Why is it one time offer?; How can I market my portal-mart virtual franchise?; Can I use other means to receive payments other than athorize.net and paypal?

Terminating a portal-mart virtual franchise: How do I cancel my virtual Franchise Account?; Can I continue selling portals after I cancel my franchise account?; What happens to my virtual franchise website after I cancel?; What is the right procedure of canceling virtual franchise account?

Miscellaneous: Is a portal-mart partner with participating affiliate programs and networks?; Do the participating programs require a fee to join?; Do I need experience to own a portal mart virtual franchise?; Are there price restrictions for how much I should sell a portal?

Getting to Know Portal-mart.com Virtual Franchise Top

What is portal-mart virtual franchise?

The word "Virtual" according to dictionary means "Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination." or a computer created environment that simulates a real event... Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network. The word "Franchise" according to dictionary means authorization granted to someone to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a certain area.
Portal-mart.com virtual franchise is a computer generated environment that simulates a real Franchise where franchisers are allowed to sell our company services on the internet.

How much does virtual franchise cost?

We do not have fixed permanent price for virtual franchise. Our current price is $\29.99 a month or one time fee of $297.00

What will I be selling once I acquire a virtual franchise?

Virtual franchise owners sell affiliate portals to end users. The greatest advantage of selling these portals is because all free and paid members must sign up under you in world most lucrative affiliate programs. Only 100 sign-ups are enough to earn you over $2,000.00 a month.

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How would a portal-mart virtual franchise boost my affiliate income?

We tend to join thousands of affiliate programs but we hardly earn a dime from all of them. Portal mart hand picked affiliate programs will help you recurring residual income from reliable affiliate programs. You not only earn commission when you make a sale but also when you refer new people to join you.

How would a portal-mart virtual franchise make me money?

This system have been designed with lots of precision and thought in a way that virtual franchise members has a high probability of earning good income. First, it is designed that virtual franchise members will make money by recruiting new free members. Once the new members join, the system has automatic follow-up system that encourages them to upgrade to paid membership. Once they upgrade, they pay virtual franchise members directly. Secondly, those free or paid members join under virtual franchise members down line earning them an automatic commission per every sale they make and also for joining.

Would a portal-mart virtual franchise help me in generating leads?

You will realize that majority of those who would sign up for free portals are actually Internet business opportunity seekers. These are high quality qualified leads to sell Internet business opportunities like resell rights products, affiliate programs etc.

Do I have to install portals for my clients?

No. You do not have to Install portals for your customers in the servers. We do it for your customers. However, we have hosting service restrictions to one service that we have qualified as reliable, has all system requirements and offers 1,000 MB (1 Gig) for what other hosting services charges for 300 MB. You will be earning an additional $10.00 per every paid member who sign up for a hosting account.

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What are the system requirements?

We recommend you let us install the system for you as we do not guarantee anything if you do it yourself. You will need to have a Linux server with PHP and MySQL installed. Minimum PHP version: 4.2.3, minimum MySQL version: 4.0.1. Without the minimum requirements, you site will NOT function properly.

Do I need a hosting account?

Yes. All virtual franchise accounts will need a hosting account as they require being installed in the root folder of your server. This requires a hosting account. Due to follow-up emails that will be coming from your system, we recommend your own IP address (not shared) to maximize email derivability.

Can I get help to have my virtual franchise installed?

Sure. Once you become a virtual franchise member, we will install your system as soon as possible. Once installed and tested to be functional, you will be notified to start promoting your business.

How long does it take to have my virtual franchise up and running?

We try the best to have your system as soon as possible but allow up to 48 hours. We are off during weekends and public holidays in USA. Our business hours are Mon-Fri 0800 - 1700 central standard time.

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What are featured products?

We understand that you might have other products you promote that are not covered by our participating affiliate programs. In featured products page, you can add as many of these products as you can from your members area. This will help you to market all your affiliates programs from one site.

Do I have a limit on featured products entries?

NO. You can add as many featured products as you wish. The only limit is that we do not allow illegal and pornographic materials.

What is the use of Opt-in feature on my portal-mart virtual franchise?

As they say, money is in the list!. This opt-in feature dramatically build an opt-in list that you can use to market your website or other products that you may have.

Can I edit my portal-mart virtual franchise sales letter?

Sure. You can edit your sales letter to the way you want. However, we do not offer any assistance in such editing. If you would like to get a professional copywriter do it for you, the better.

What is portal-mart autoresponder system?

The autoresponder system is a series of pre-written follow-up emails that are sent to your prospects educating them and encouraging them to become members of your website and eventually become paid members.

Who receives my autoresponder emails?

There are 3 types of follow up emails that are sent out.

Those who subscribes to your newsletter. They receive quality information about your website and about internet marketing witth an intention of converting them to subscribers or buyers.
Free members receives a series of emails informing them about your program and how they would benefit from it if they upgrade. This gives you cutting-edge automatic follow-up.
Your imported leads to your autoresponder system receives a series of introductory letters, informing them why they are receiving your emails and eventually attempt to make them sign up as members of your website as free or paid members. Remember they will pay you directly in your paypal account.

Who wrote these autoresponder emails?

We do write the autoresponder emails.

Can I edit these autoresponder emails?

No. But in the back-end admin panel you have an option to manually send your own emails to the groups of users described above. Just like having your own autoresponder emails system.

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How much should I sell one portal account?

You will pocket $97.00 per every paid account. You do not have limits of how many paid memberships you can sell.

There is a one time offer that appears when one sign up for a portal. Why is it one time offer?

Statistically, we have realized that you will make more money and sell easily on the first day when a prospect signs-up for a portal. This is the best time to make a sale. The one time offer is made in a so complelling way that your prospects will not want to leave that page until they pay you.

How can I market my portal-mart virtual franchise?

The best way to market is opt-in emails through in-house mailing lists, JV partners and search engines. Please note that you can not use SPAM to market your website.

Can I use other means to receive payments other than athorize.net and paypal?

There are many payment processors on the web. Your virtual franchise comes with PayPal as the “default” payment processor. If you wish to implement a different payment processor, you can do that or hire a team of programmers to do it, if you don't have the necessary programming knowledge. We also offer you the services of the programmers that actually coded the system. Please send a request for a quote at support@portal-mart.com.

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How do I cancel my virtual Franchise Account?

Success is always as a result of hard work. Portal mart virtual franchise is not a get rich magic pill and we recommend potential members join only when they are comfortable about their potentials. If you would like to cancel your virtual franchise account, please communicate to us 7 days before the starting of the next billing cycle. We will assist you on how to cancel the account.

Can I continue selling portals after I cancel my franchise account?

NO. You will not be able to sell portals after you cancel your membership. You can keep your website but some backend functionalities will be disabled.

What happens to my virtual franchise web site after I cancel?

You can keep your website but vital functions of the system will not work anymore. You will not be able to sell portals or use any data from our network. There is a very special offer that is only presented once after you log in for the first time. If you buy your virtual franchise this time, you can own the service for ever and your account cannot be suspended.

What is the right procedure of canceling virtual franchise account?

As stated above, you need to communicate to us 7 days before the start of the next billing cycle. Failure to do this might cause unnecessary billing and/or interruption of service. Please read Terms Of Use for more details.

Miscellaneous Top

Is a portal-mart partner with participating affiliate programs and networks?

No. Portal-mart.com is an independent service owned by portalshops LLC.

Do the participating programs require a fee to join?

Your members are most likely to do as you do and so we recommend you join the paid options of these programs. Remember when you join the paid options, you have more earning potential. However, these programs are free to join except empowerism that we require you to join as a paid member. This is a MUST have.

Do I need experience to own a portal mart virtual franchise?

The virtual franchise is an automated system. You don't need web programming or database knowledge. The admin panel is easy to use and very user friendly. However, you need little knowledge on how to market your website. This is quite minimal knowledge that a anyone who can read and write can do

Are there price restrictions for how much I should sell a portal?

YES. You can only sell the portals for $97.00. We do monitor all virtual franchse accounts for sales activities.