I Desperately Need Your Help?

Advertise in other places?
Classified ad sites, your own site ( if you have one) other forums, Facebook and many other places.
You have to try everything possible.

Have you considered PPC and offline advertising, too?

Yup, "getting clients" is definitely the biggest challenge for any business.

The Warriors for Hire section is a good place to post services, but to be brutally honest after taking a look at what you offer I don't think you'll blow up there, or anywhere.

If you want to make some serious money in the backlink providing arena I'd either study what successful providers are offering in the WSO section (and outside the forum) or consider targeting a different clientele, for example 'ranking' business owner's websites instead of providing backlink options to marketers.

The backlinks to marketers market is very saturated and to break into there with huge success you'll have to offer more than multiple backlinks from one article directory. One thing that will make your service instantly more attractive, though, is 3-4 backlinks from 10 article directories vs. 30-40 from one (Article Base, right?)

Also, if you're sold on providing backlink services to marketers, article backlinks aren't the most attractive... you'd do much better offering forum / profile high PR links, which is more in line with the 'craze' at the moment.

Well as a few posters have mentioned above it will take you some time to see traction if any at all were to come through. Everyone and their brother is offering backlinking services so you either need to find something to stick out from the crowd or try a supplemental service until you find a way to take off. Do you have any other skills specific to the online arena?

Hi,

You also mention that you write. You could offer an article writing service on places like fiverr and then upsell them your backlink service

Jay

Ever consider putting together a case study? Use your service to build up a profitable campaign, document the process and then share your results. Tell folks about it over here and other places IMers congregate. Shamelessly plug your services and you're good to go.

The proof is in the pudding. If you can show real results using your linking strategy, you'll have to beat clients away with a stick. Good luck!

Perhaps change you ad up a bit too... how about saying something like "Get 30 to 4 permanent links from Squidoo and Hubpages" Most marketers know the value of those links so they may be more interested in doing that than just saying Popular Article directory... because after Panda most IM don't want to be associated with Article Directories, now Squidoo and Hubpages, those links carry significant value... (might even add Weebly, Blogger, and Wordpress there if you can make some kind of a systematic approach to that.)

Hi John and ibacklinkpro,

Thanks so much for your input.

Great ideas that you have given me, just like the warriors before you.

I will be sure to re-think the service and implement what you are suggesting

I completely agree with putting together a case study of past result or even one result. The benefit you offer is higher search engine rankings.

Even if you have to create your own site and rank it highly in the search engines with your backlinking method, do so. Then profile what you did and the result.

If you operate in a non-English speaking country then you have many valuable services given you speak English and the language in your country. You can communicate with local customers and give them access to predominantly English resources such as article directories. Many small businesses will be interested, but again a success case study illustrating success will be a strong selling point.

With internet marketing skills, you can carve out a business. Be persistent and willing to change it up if necessary - such as obtaining backlinks for clients from a variety of sources.

Is a service like seolinkvine with article blog posts bad after panda?

There are several pieces to a successful advertising campaign, including:

• Attractive product or service;
• Decent price (and I don't mean the lowest price);
• Advertising to the right audience;
• Your advertising being seen by the best target audience;
• Sales copy focuses on benefits more than features;
• Turn around time;
• Perceived value of offer;
• Credibility of seller;
• And more....

If you have any one of these factors wrong, your offer won't sell.

Get them all right, then the sky is the limit.

Have you tried a WSO? That usually creates some buzz.

When you say you placed an ad in the advertising section are you referring to the WSO section? The only advice I can offer you is that there are tons of people offering the same service you are offering so be sure to make yourself stand out. Running a case study is a great idea and can get your rolling the right way.

You have raised some valid points.

@tpw - feels like i need to go back to the drawing board and seriously re-think

@friendlyrob - it is ecomeing more clearere to me that I need to come up with something more wow before I even think wso, but is definitely a great idea

@Osman - what kind of linking building would you think was well worth it to spend your money on?

Leads emerge from traffic and it can only be attained with money, time or both. With money to invest, go ahead and buy solo mail but if you only want to invest time, you can do article, and blog marketing.

When you get at least 100 on your list, you can begin to leverage it by doing swaps and most importantly, offering you list a chance to sell your product for 100% commission.

Your list will be built on nearly auto pilot as long as you create a great affiliate program.

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Offer some free tips, distribute some free ebooks & constantly post in this forum related to your niche will help.

Have you considered Twitter? If you carefully build a niche following and interact with your Followers daily, you will get sales. It's what I do and it works well for me.

All the very best with your venture.
Koolsteve

Making something interesting that will catch a searcher's attention is one of the best ways in earning money through the internet.

It's just like you have already millions of customers since we are dealing in an online world. You just have to be creative to catch them.

Actively searching and posting on freelance websites might help too.

For example Freelancer.com, Odesk and basically any freelance site, with IM related postings on it, that you can find.

Beeing pro-active is key. Don't just start websites and products offers but try to match your services to the needs of the market

never give up. Try advertising with 10 methods; articles, blogs, facebook, forums, classifieds, video. it will pay up in the end.