ATTN Offline Gold Warrior's

[mr bungy]

What is your most profitable activity and if you had to start from scratch next week what method would you take to create a 3k -4k monthly income in the fastest time frame offline? Also, if you have any resources please feel free to put them out there. Thanks alot for all the responses, reading this forum is like an education in all things that make people money.

[GoGetta]

In all honesty it depends on your skill set. For example someone that is a whizz with SEO would find this the fastest way while the designers out there would find the web design route the quickest way.

The best thing you can do is work out what you are good at and what you can deliver, put a price on it that you are happy with which is competitive and hit the streets, pick the phone up, send emails, you name it do it! That figure doesn't take many clients if done properly.

But you need to retain them so working on what you know best will help you do this! Getting to that figure quickly doesn't necessarily depend on what service to offer, its more so on how many businesses you are will ing to speal too!

HTH

GoGetta

[mr bungy]

Ok thanks GoGetta, much appreciated. So if I was an SEO and Web Design dummy would I be better off learning some basic SEO first and then market myself that way, is that a more streamlined route to tr opinion ake in you as my tech skills in general are lacking, any resources I should look at, like maybe a local seo magic formula Thanks again

[GoGetta]

Yes for an SEO newb my book will certainly help! But if you were to offer SEO or Web Design or IM as a whole to a business owner I would suggest you are fully confident with your skills.

Its a different world out there and if you don't know what your doing you will struggle to sell it. But it all depends on your ability. I dont know what your IM experience is, only you know that but to sell a high ticket service you have to have high ticket experience in my honest opinion!

HTH

GoGetta

[Brad Simmons]

GoGetta's got it right. Whatever you are confident in, and can sale the business owner on is what you need to do. If you understand email marketing, I would recommend that. If you understand how to use social networking (on and offline) I would do that. If you understand good webdesign, sale that.

You not only have to sale the business owner on your skills, but on yourself as well!

[SusanneUK]

If you are really interested in working offline and you seem to imply by your posts that you may have a wee bit of learning to do, then why not go hang out on Keith Boisvert's LocalBizBuilders forum, there is a minefield of information there, also lots of help from the community and "GoGetta" is extremely helpful over there as well as here

Cheers
Sue

[mr bungy]

Thanks folks for you great advise, am heading to Local Biz Builders right now, thanks again

[Vikuna2009+]

There is also a new forum, offlineisagoldmine.com. I'm new to offline as well and today I will start my new venture by going to businesses and taking photos of their stores.

I've made lots of slide shows for my real estate business but since r.e. is kind of dead right now, got to do something else. You can use Photo Story 3 by Microsoft for FREE or try toufee.com. Then download yor slides to Youtube.

I will do a few for free to use as samples and hopefully that will work !

[Riz]

My strong suggeston - Get GoGettas Local SEO Formula.

To be honest from my experience thats all u need to know to get 99% of local clients onto page 1 of google for local terms and long tail keywords.

As u will mostly be dealing with local and long tail keywords this is just simple with the guide.

My experience - i suck at web design but have a friend who does it for me - easy to outsource.

I sucked at seo, now know from Jamies little book.

You actually do not need to know how to do the technical things for business owners - you only need to know the benefits the services will provide to business owners and find good outsourcers.

RA123

[JJOrana]

Great advice there by Gogetta. Now, go ahead and take action.

[GoGetta]

Hey no problem guys and Thanks Baal for your kind words! Its true though, the guide ROCKS! HEHE!

No seriously, find what your good at and sell that well!

GoGetta