$1,300 in 2 hours (You can do it too!)

Alex Sol · 01-07-2009, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by estudent

Alex,

Your story is sensational , a real inspiration - i am working right now on 'modeling' your strategy

thanks for posting your story

To be honest, it is not sensational

It seems like many people have been doing this for a loooooooong time. After I did it for a client I started doing more research and even found few threads and WSO's right on this forum.
I learned some more great stuff

DBofBES · 01-08-2009, 09:04 PM

Thanks for the information. It reinforces that there are many diamonds in ones backyard . . . one only has to look (and move to pick them up).

jay68 · 01-12-2009, 04:12 PM

Great Job Alex. This is a great thread and have learned a lot already.

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Originally Posted by crazyinternetdude

Pay the SEO person, say, $100/customer and the WP person $200/site.
Charge your customer $1000.00 and you've made $700 per customer w/ no work at all (besides the initial visit). Now you're free to more customers with less work. So let say you get 10 customers for the first week. Now you've made $7,000 and didn't have to do any of the grunt work. You've made $2,000 more with less work.

Charge $1,300.00 and you've made $10,000 that week with no grunt work.

So - main point: if you can't do something, pay someone else to do it for you!

Along the same lines here, if you are going to charge a customer $1,000 for everything that you 'll be doing, is this amount just for the 1st year? How much more will you charge the owner for the upcoming years? He will not want to let go of the site if it's bringing him in good business. This is something that just came to mind now.

rhclemmons · 01-12-2009, 04:25 PM

That was a great story and the best part,(in my mind anyway) was that you were helping some one with your advice and expertise.

jay68 · 01-12-2009, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Sol

How do you make a listing rank higher?

- If possible, add the keyword in/as a Business Name
- Make sure to fill out all of the fields (yes, even the optional ones)
- Add a keyword rich description of the business
- Add as many photos of the company (their products)
- Make a simple Youtube video - add it to the listing as well.
- Add a coupon if possible
- Build backlinks to the listing
- Link to the listing from the site you built for the client...

BOOM BABY! With this you can make even MORE money!

How do you go through the verification process when it's asking for that business's phone number to complete the process? If you are going to use your phone number, that's the number that will show up on the ad and you don't want that happened. How do you work around submitting more than one businesses to the local business search listing when verifying with a phone number?

mfurlong · 01-12-2009, 05:13 PM

Seems like this might be a good place to partner up too. If you're not comfortable with the techno-nerd aspects, but you can make the sales call and discuss the service, you could join up with a geek (meant in the flattering sense, of course) who could whip out the website. Or you could outsource via the usual suspects such elance, guru, etc.) Split the revenue, but you know, 1/2 of $1300 is better than 1/2 of $0 right?

>>> Mike

Nick Militarescu · 01-19-2009, 05:23 PM

great post!

Craig McPherson · 01-19-2009, 08:56 PM

Hey Alex,

So you recommend putting the 5 pages in as "pages" or as "posts" on the blog?

Alex Sol · 01-19-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig McPherson

Hey Alex,

So you recommend putting the 5 pages in as "pages" or as "posts" on the blog?

I did 2 posts on the home page, and added other pages. 1 page per product (or line of products). It also could be pages for services - but I would say pages, not posts! Also do not forget to create relevant tags - since each tag will most likely add another page in search engine results

Alex

Conference-TV · 01-20-2009, 12:23 AM

Very great idea, I'm so interested about it. Hope I can do it too.

KevinDasilva · 01-20-2009, 12:38 AM

Great Job Dude...

Here's a suggestion for anyone thinking of implementing this or any technique that involves "offline" businesses...

Bring along your "flip" camera or any camera and ask for video testimonials...

And do a "before & after"...

First record them being suspicious of the whole thing (that will for sure be original) and then record them a couple days later when you got them the results you promised.

This will be perfect to "fight major objections" by showing them "3rd parties" who were proved DEAD WRONG.

Either way, this was a GREAT POST, GREAT JOB & GREAT "INSPIRING" STORY FOR US ALL SHOWING HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT WE DO!

Kevin D

residnt · 01-20-2009, 03:34 AM

Congratulations,

Now that you have the first one out of the way they will only get easier.

residnt

uyanna · 01-20-2009, 05:05 AM

Thank you Alex for this really great post.

But i wanna ask you a favour. Please could you mention the
free WP themes you used?

Thanks in anticipation of your reply.

Uyanna

Alex Sol · 01-20-2009, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uyanna

Thank you Alex for this really great post.

But i wanna ask you a favour. Please could you mention the
free WP themes you used?

Thanks in anticipation of your reply.

Uyanna

I've actually did this for 7 clients since I posted this thread. Every time I used a different template, sometimes free sometimes a paid one

There are 1,000,000's to chose from.

BrandonCampbell · 02-17-2009, 05:21 PM

Great Story! I have often wondered how I could go about building sites for local businesses that I know need them. Guess it's as simple as just taking that first step and making a move.

Thanks!

w123 · 02-24-2009, 04:19 PM

An inspiring post, good job.

shane_k · 02-24-2009, 07:08 PM

I don't get it.

You made his site from Wordpress so it was a blog. but don't the front pages of blogs always change when you enter in a post?

How do you stop that from happening?

Thanks

Shane_K

Alex Sol · 02-24-2009, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shane_k

I don't get it.

You made his site from Wordpress so it was a blog. but don't the front pages of blogs always change when you enter in a post?

How do you stop that from happening?

Thanks

Shane_K

I don't add posts to the main page.
I add new pages to the blog, that's it

doctorjay · 02-24-2009, 09:52 PM

I like the idea. Actually I bought some local domains to develop for real estate and farm the leads. As soon as I get more SEO experience on my blogs I plan to do that and then I can sell my services to others.

Thanks Alex.

Alex Sol · 02-24-2009, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doctorjay

I like the idea. Actually I bought some local domains to develop for real estate and farm the leads. As soon as I get more SEO experience on my blogs I plan to do that and then I can sell my services to others.

Thanks Alex.

There was a WSO here by Michael (sorry I don't remember his last name) it was called One Hour Google. Really good materials for those who want to learn SEO... I am not sure is the WSO is still there though.

Alex

multimastery · 02-24-2009, 10:36 PM

Way ta go Alex! Now that's what I call creative 'Profitable' thinking.

twannahiga · 02-25-2009, 12:19 AM

Great post Alex! There is always heaps of money to be made in local businesses. I think its fair to say that lots of small businesses are really behind in terms of technology, and don't have a clear picture on how simple it is to improve their general productivity. Local businesses should be aware of having a more profitable and bigger size of customers through the internet. Good one!

Alex Sol · 02-25-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by twannahiga

Great post Alex! There is always heaps of money to be made in local businesses. I think its fair to say that lots of small businesses are really behind in terms of technology, and don't have a clear picture on how simple it is to improve their general productivity. Local businesses should be aware of having a more profitable and bigger size of customers through the internet. Good one!

"really behind in terms of technology" as you say is not even the right way to describe it. I started going through local restaurants trying to get some business going - I'd say a good 50% of the owners didn't want to hear ANYTHING about it... They all said "I don't want to be associated with SCAM"... So I asked, "Sir, Why Do You Say This is Scam?" and they all reply: "Well, the InternetZ - isn't it a big scam? I read in the paper the other day, people get some diseases from it, or visrus... and they lose money there.."

Wow, honestly I couldn't even imagine that many people in a developed country have no idea what internet is...

Talk about being "really behind in terms of technology"

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twannahiga HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Orlando, USA Posts: 109 Thanks: 34 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: $1,300 in 2 hours (You can do it too!) Great post Alex! There is always heaps of money to be made in local businesses. I think its fair to say that lots of small businesses are really behind in terms of technology, and don't have a clear picture on how simple it is to improve their general productivity. Local businesses should be aware of having a more profitable and bigger size of customers through the internet. Good one!