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Super Easy Offline Cash Machine... Make $500 A Week Easily!

by Shane N
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Think about how many business owners there are locally, in your town, that could greatly benefit from having a Facebook account, Twitter account, and even a blog; but don't have a clue about how to create one or get these things started...

This has potential to make YOU serious money!

You could charge anywhere from $50 for setting up a Facebook Fan Page for a local business to $500++ for setting up a whole "Social Network Marketing" package for your clients which would include a Facebook Fan Page, a Twitter account and a simple Blogger blog...

These are all things that most of us have a very easy time doing, but many business owners simply don't have the time to bother with this kind of thing -- Although they KNOW that they must get on the ball with social networking, Facebook marketing, etc.

How many of these do you think you can crank out in a week? Whether you make $500 a month or $500 a week doing this for local, offline businesses; it can be a nice source of some extra cash.

Now I know you can make a lot more money by giving seminars to local businesses and getting them to contract you for big $20,000 SEO deals, etc. But this is called "thinking outside the box" and can get many people started with things like communicating with offline businesses and getting paid for something that they are confident in doing...

Now go make some friggin' money!
#cash #easy #machine #offline #super
  • Profile picture of the author Louise Green
    It's a good idea.. I've found that setting up social media accounts and pages isn't enough for most offline businesses.. they want/need someone to run it for them too.

    So there's even more money to be made here.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shane N
      Originally Posted by Louise Evans View Post

      It's a good idea.. I've found that setting up social media accounts and pages isn't enough for most offline businesses.. they want/need someone to run it for them too.

      So there's even more money to be made here.
      Exactly Louise! If they don't have someone to run it for them, you can charge a monthly fee to do it for them and you can build up a nice residual income from a number of local offline businesses.

      Best,
      Shane
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    • Profile picture of the author Shane N
      Originally Posted by paulbarrs View Post

      Good idea mate -

      I got an eMail two days back from a 'friend of a friend' in business who wants me to put up a wordpress blog for him.

      It'll be the quickest $500 I'll earn next week.

      _ Paul
      There ya go, a real life example of exactly what I'm talking about. Congrats on the deal and think about how many more of those you can get if you were to put yourself out there in the offline business world...

      Best,
      Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author joshril
    Social media is hot right now! Twitter and Facebook have become popular topics of conversation for offline business owners and many business owners that haven't setup their social media presence know they need it (or they know that their competition has a Facebook fan page and they want one too).

    As mentioned above, if you can actually deliver results with fan pages, blogs, and Twitter you can offer monthly services that include blog posting, tweets, and status updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Jacobson
    Hi Shane,

    What a great idea you have! I've never thought about doing that. Thank you for sharing the great tip!

    All the best,
    Karen Jacobson
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    • Profile picture of the author Shane N
      Originally Posted by Karen Jacobson View Post

      Hi Shane,

      What a great idea you have! I've never thought about doing that. Thank you for sharing the great tip!

      All the best,
      Karen Jacobson
      Thanks Karen. I hope you do something with it because it can make you a small fortune! Good luck.

      Best,
      Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisnegro
    There is so much money to be made out there its sickening. Personally, I'm in the process of creating a sales staff to sell for me....and outsource EVERYTHING !

    Success to you,

    Chris Negro
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  • Profile picture of the author Imran Naseem
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    The Offline Niche is very lucrative.

    It cannot be saturated as much as the online one. The potential is huge
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    • Profile picture of the author Nic Lynn
      Here's my favorite offline "social networking" tip. It literally blows business owners minds!

      Link a business twitter account to a business facebook fan page and to the front page (above the fold) of their website.

      Explain to them how they can type a sinlge update on their phone and it will hit twitter, facebook and their site instantly. Then explain to them how they are in full control of a big piece of their marketing now and can do this all day long about short-term specials, sale reminders, schedule updates, and a thousand other things.

      All I hear is "Wow... here is $1000! Thank you!"
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      • Profile picture of the author Shane N
        Originally Posted by Nic Lynn View Post

        Here's my favorite offline "social networking" tip. It literally blows business owners minds!

        Link a business twitter account to a business facebook fan page and to the front page (above the fold) of their website.

        Explain to them how they can type a sinlge update on their phone and it will hit twitter, facebook and their site instantly. Then explain to them how they are in full control of a big piece of their marketing now and can do this all day long about short-term specials, sale reminders, schedule updates, and a thousand other things.

        All I hear is "Wow... here is $1000! Thank you!"
        Precisely. And whether you charge $250, $500 or even the $1,000 -- They are getting value and you are making profit! It's all about taking action though... If you never go pitch it to offline businesses, you'll never make a dime!
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        • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
          It doesn't matter much which service you provide a local business as long as you focus on:

          # Helping them make real sales and profits.

          If you charge them $50 for a facebook page and it never brings in an extra cent of business for them then you just ripped them off for $50.

          On the other hand if you charge them $10,000 for a social networking marketing package and it makes them $50,000 in real profits then that's a bargain for them.


          # Realize that regardless of the service you provide the real work in this business model is getting in touch with the business owner in the first place and going through the process of getting hired.

          You could be using email, direct mail, telephone, direct person to person contact, referrals, going to business networking meetings etc etc.

          But the bottom line is that the people who make the most money in this business are those who focus on getting really good at contacting business owners and at the process of converting those business owners to paying clients.

          In most cases that requires talking to them and the better your skills the more money you're likely to make.



          Putting up facebook pages and other pages on social networking sites certainly could be a valuable service you could provide to businesses.

          If you can already do that then you have a skill that's valuable to businesses and you could be selling that skill right now.

          That also goes for many other skills you might have like SEO, article writing, copywriting, pay per click, online video marketing etc etc.

          Kindest regards,
          Andrew Cavanagh
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          • Profile picture of the author Shane N
            Originally Posted by AndrewCavanagh View Post

            It doesn't matter much which service you provide a local business as long as you focus on:

            # Helping them make real sales and profits.

            If you charge them $50 for a facebook page and it never brings in an extra cent of business for them then you just ripped them off for $50.

            On the other hand if you charge them $10,000 for a social networking marketing package and it makes them $50,000 in real profits then that's a bargain for them.


            # Realize that regardless of the service you provide the real work in this business model is getting in touch with the business owner in the first place and going through the process of getting hired.

            You could be using email, direct mail, telephone, direct person to person contact, referrals, going to business networking meetings etc etc.

            But the bottom line is that the people who make the most money in this business are those who focus on getting really good at contacting business owners and at the process of converting those business owners to paying clients.

            In most cases that requires talking to them and the better your skills the more money you're likely to make.



            Putting up facebook pages and other pages on social networking sites certainly could be a valuable service you could provide to businesses.

            If you can already do that then you have a skill that's valuable to businesses and you could be selling that skill right now.

            That also goes for many other skills you might have like SEO, article writing, copywriting, pay per click, online video marketing etc etc.

            Kindest regards,
            Andrew Cavanagh
            Spot on Andrew, spot on. However, I disagree slightly about the $50 Facebook setup being a ripoff because if the business owner pays you to "set up" a Facebook page for them for $50 and then never bothers hiring someone to update it or even ask you what you would charge to run it for them... That doesn't mean you ripped them off.

            Think about it. If I business pays $5,000 for a complex website with tons of bells and whistles but then they never do anything with the site, it doesn't mean they were ripped off. They paid for the "labor" involved in setting up a website or in this case a Facebook page...

            Best,
            Shane

            Originally Posted by RandallKowalenko View Post

            I have also attended local networking events, and have found numerous people approaching me to administer a newsletter program for them as well. The key is that you want to brand yourself as someone who offers these types of services right from the beginning if you are using networking events or other similar sources of clients & prospects.

            Great thread - excellent topic.

            Randy
            Hey Randy, yes exactly... If you brand yourself from the start you can become the local "star" so-to-speak when it comes to handling internet marketing related services.

            The thing is: NOW is the time! Before big corporations start having a monopoly on these services and start pimping them out for $20/month or something like that, people here have a chance to make a fortune performing these services for offline businesses that they already know how to do and already do everyday for their own websites!

            Thanks for your response.

            Best,
            Shane
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            • Profile picture of the author ActionToCash
              Another idea I was toying with was to offer an evening 'Boot Camp' session by renting a local college classroom with computers, where you charge like $30 a head. You would bring a projector (or rent one from the college), and go through the process of setting up a LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter accout to the attendees. In the training seminar you go through setting up an account while your attendee's setup an account with you step by step. You can promote it by telling them they will have their own functional account by the end of the presentation.

              If the seminar is a success you can offer other similar training courses for other services (i.e. if you explain LinkedIn in the first seminar you can offer one for Twitter the following month etc).

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  • Profile picture of the author TCrosby
    Even better, convince them to buy a hosting plan, and sign them up thru your affiliate link, and earn even more money from that
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  • Profile picture of the author ActionToCash
    I have also attended local networking events, and have found numerous people approaching me to administer a newsletter program for them as well. The key is that you want to brand yourself as someone who offers these types of services right from the beginning if you are using networking events or other similar sources of clients & prospects.

    Great thread - excellent topic.

    Randy
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    Happy Marketing!!!

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  • Profile picture of the author coach
    >>Another idea I was toying with was to offer an evening 'Boot Camp' session by renting a local college classroom with computers<<

    Yes, this works great. Get your local chamber of commerce to co-sponsor it (ie put an ad in their monthly newsletter and email their members, offer a deal to them). Video tape the event and put it on your site as a product.
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