Selling Services Via Sales Funnels? Anyone Doing This?

You're assuming a lot of things here.

First of all, the wordpress template I use is an extremely powerful one - it cuts costs in many ways by being mobile responsive, can create beautiful content pages, landing pages, sales pages, membership pages and a whole lot more (the sales funnel itself knocks out $35-99+ a month from competing services like Clickfunnels and Leadpages).

And my content by the way - is good.

4 pages of content for a local business that is good, high quality content = money.

Further more, the vast majority of local businesses have websites that are incredibly shitty. You think a nice, good looking web design that has been proven to convert won't affect their business?

If you do... well maybe you need to invest more time in how web conversion works lol.

A website from start to build (minus any possible revisions) should take about 4 hours of my time.

Also, if you believe SEO is just about H tags, you are incredibly, sorely mistaken

SEO is and should be an expensive service if the search volume for their market exists. It's incredibly powerful and converts higher than just about anything else out there. I didn't list anything about my SEO service here, other than it was a planned upsell in the funnel for paying customers (mainly because I only want to deal clients using wordpress for several reasons, such as me being familiar with how good the platform is)

The lack of effort or customization line on the web design comes from the fact that I will not be designing complicated websites for these people. No ecommerce (at least not right away), no super complex code, nothing along those lines.

And the type of businesses I am targeting don't need it, they just need a clean, simple site to drive traffic to, and these are clients that routinely pay an SEO $1,000-$2,000 or more a month.

Web design isn't a huge interest of mine, but I feel I can offer a lot of value through this service for small businesses.

It is a personal insult when you say I am defrauding someone by giving them something of immense value. Where in a week they have a website that won't convert at all no matter how much traffic they have to a website that will get calls and actually be able to be found in Google when they start sending traffic to it.

I have turned down many copywriting and SEO clients that do not fit my criteria (either business model wise where it wouldn't make sense for them to invest the money, or personality wise clashing)

I believe in only selling something that will help someone, and I prefer to charge a retainer on most of my services that if they earn 1 sale they either break even or gain a profit from me (it's why I target high end local businesses).

One final point to be made here - 4 pages of content from a copywriting standpoint can cost between $4,000-$10,000+ per a page done by a professional copywriter. Those words on that page can be the most important aspect of the entire website.

Also, I read through my threads and maybe I'm missing where I said it, but the website content is included in the price, which is what I write during the setup of the website. I take my writer fees out of the profit (charging myself content mill wage on that), to make sure the endeavor can be profitable once I do outsource the whole process.

In a true systematized business, the less time you need to spend with a client the more you will grow as a business or have the ability to grow - as long as what you offer is valuable and delivers on the promise.

It allows you to continually go out there to expand, grow a team that delivers the service, and build an asset instead of a freelancing brand.

Thanks for your words anyhow
-Gregory

I use paypal or certified check for payments received.

For your check by phone, do you have a secure online form to accept the payment or you just take the info over the phone? I used to ask people to fill out their checks and simply snap a picture of it with their smartphone and either email it to me or send it as a message to my phone. Unfortunately, neither method is very secure... How do you handle it?