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My First Offline Marketing Success

by feedtherightwolf
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3 month ago I decided to try my hand at Offline Marketing. I figure I can take all of the knowledge that I gained in online marketing and use it to promote offline business.

At the same time my relative started a new business, and I decided to help him for free. He was one of those non-believers but allowed me to help him, since I was not charging him anything.

I asked him to invest some money, and he said he didn't think it was a good idea. So I did everything myself for free(crated site, backlinks, local listing etc) and let the business sit. I was able to get him on a first page of google for 7 competitive keywords.

Today, 3 month later, I got to talk to him again and his business have seen a lot of growth. I brought up a subject of investing some money in online advertising and he took out his check book and said, how much do you need?

This was very powerful. It not only showed him that marketing works, it showed me that my marketing works.

To a large extent I owe this to the Warrior forum. So I wanted to say Thank You!
#marketing #offline #success
  • Profile picture of the author MsMotivation1
    Great work... Congrats on your success!

    It's definitely a great feeling with the business owner sees proof for themselves.

    If you gain their trust, it's golden
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisnegro
      Awesome Job FeedtherightWolf ...it takes courage to jump ship and try the waters "offline". Best thing to do know is to go to start talking to more business owners now that your riding a hot wave.

      Go Gettem !

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  • Profile picture of the author Alfred Shelver
    This was very Inspiring .... I think that that is the best key to offline succes, sell an already successful site not just a promise.
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  • Profile picture of the author internetmarketer999
    Excellent, congratulations!! Might I suggest doing the same exact thing for other businesses in your location? Follow the same model and strategy for small businesses in your area, set up the sites market them and then approach the small business with an offer to sell them your optimized site, rinse, repeat. Better than trying to convince them to pay for services that they can't see an immediate benefit from.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Thanks for sharing, what you've related is actually a great way to get started in a low-key, non high-pressure way in offline marketing - build a site first that ranks in Google for key local terms, and only show it to local prospects after it is done. Not everyone will bite, but if you show it to 30+ prospects, I'm sure you'll have at least several interested enough to contact you back about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    Its good. Of course creating site and making powerful backlinks from high quality website and submitting the website in local listing and other ways that you used for making backlinks can help any website and fortunately it helped you too.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Nice job...

    That is a really good approach for moving offline businesses online... If you are really worth your salt as an online marketer, you will be able to put your money where your mouth is, and convert huge returns every time....

    By delivering the goods before you ask for payment, you are proving a confidence in your work that is more powerful than any fancy sales pitch...

    And when you deliver the goods before the client has spent any money, your client will know that you will be able to really deliver when they give you a budget to work with...
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  • Profile picture of the author Chloe Sloane
    Great job. I am learning about offline marketing now. I own an outsource administrative services company but I want to expand into marketing services for my clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarah Russell
    Very nice - great job!

    Now you can take that success and show other businesses. I'm sure you'll have a horde of hungry business owners knocking down your door soon
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Voss
    I love these types of stories!!

    You know, this is a little bit like finding a $20 bill in your pants. (OK, it is more like finding lots of $20 dollar bills, but you get the idea)

    You do this type of work either to get your foot in the door, get some experience or just plain help out friends or family. Then, like Ron Popeil said "set it and forget it".

    And like magic, weeks or months later there is another stream of income coming into the business.

    Congrats!!!

    -Scott Voss

    Originally Posted by feedtherightwolf View Post

    ...he took out his check book and said, how much do you need?

    This was very powerful. It not only showed him that marketing works, it showed me that my marketing works.!
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  • Profile picture of the author RioNomad
    Great work! I would take him to the cleaners the second time around though since he didn't believe you lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author lewernolan
    grats and I hope you continue to have more success
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  • Profile picture of the author LastBeatleBug
    A small question.
    I have set up a website for my chiropractor. Yes he is paying me for this but I can't get him motivated to let me know what else to add to the site in way of content. Consequently 3 months and very little traffic.

    I have done some keyword research but don't know how to relate it to my local area. Should I target KW's like "Back Pain" or "Gold coast Back pain". (Gold coast Australia).
    As you can probably see I am having trouble getting my head around local listing. Any suggestions
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    • Profile picture of the author Jean Clemens
      Great work.

      Thanks for sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author pethanks
    That is good for you. I congratulates you. Thank you for sharing.
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